The Prusa i3 Mk3S 3D printer: When you just want to print

I chose my first 3D printer carefully. I lurked on r/3dprinting for months, reading all their guides, looking at what they were printing, finding people who were doing the sorts of things with their printer that I wanted to do, and finally ordered the best of the bunch: The Creality Ender 3 Pro. There was a lot of help for it and a lot of support, and I was so excited by it, that I ordered it the moment I had a couple hundred bucks I didn’t need. Because it was affordable, too. Budget printing for amazing results. ...

November 15, 2020 · 4 min · 829 words · Tipa

ABP -- Always Be Printing, Always Be Painting

We’re working as hard as we can to be able to play Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion the way we want to play it – by making a quick, easy to set up and play game an exercise in overcompensation. We play a lot of board games. One thing common to all the most popular games is how well they lend themselves to being modded. The pieces that come in the game are just the starting point. ...

June 29, 2020 · 3 min · 617 words · Tipa

Octomini Project Day 3: The $250 mini

I want to point out at the start that I did not buy a 3D printer to print miniatures. I bought it to print terrain and other parts for board games, and whatever other fun stuff I think of. My *boyfriend *is buying a 3D printer to print miniatures. He’s a chemist. He can safely use one of those resin printers with smelly chemicals and stuff. Super high resolution, and the minis will look fantastic. ...

June 2, 2020 · 3 min · 592 words · Tipa