@feditips@mstdn.social is a must follow for me.
Beyond that let finding people happen organically. Focus on finding hastags and groups to follow, then the interesting people will start to bubble up in your feed naturally. See also.
And if you're on a niche/topical server don't forget to get an eye on your local feed. It gets swamped on big instances but can be a great discovery tool on smaller ones.
A few years ago they started to wrap them in black plastic to slow thefts. And they found it lead to them getting mistreated by shipping companies a lot more - and fewer working printers were ultimately making it to people.
I've seen speculation in the 3d printer community that when people see a foreign origin package that just squeaked under the import duty cost and wrapped in black they assume it's something for some rich jerk and may treat the package accordingly. But when they see it's a tool frequently used for regular folks to set up a side hustle, they're nicer to it.
Assuming you're talking about FDM/FFF printing and not SLA or sintering:
There's a bit of a catch-22 when it comes to mating flat 3d printed surfaces: The face that's on the build plate will be the flattest and result in the smallest seam. It's also the face most likely to be dimensionally inaccurate because of elephant footing, which can result in a ridge at the seam. And the easy fix for having an elephant foot it adding a chamfer, which results in a big visible seam. So my actual advice is:
And if aesthetics are a high priority consider using an automotive filler primer (I buy it in spray cans) and then painting the piece after it's glued. Filler primer will help hide the seam and layer lines.
I dumped a cup of coffee in my laptop a month ago and was so bummed that it wasn't for sale yet.
An evil like this can only be destroyed in the heart of a volcano.
It's not a solid mass of plastic around your hotend. That's a small win at least.
Most of my PLA is Printed Solid Jesse. It's $20/kg filament that prints like $30/kg filament.
Well, at least we can all rest assured that all the driver monitoring cameras/tech that's being build by default into new consumer cars and trucks will only ever be used for safety.
But I learned Perl in the 00's and I don't want those neurons to go to waste!
They've been using cluster bombs since the first day of the war. He might as well have said they'll invade Ukraine "if they have to."
The only thing that will stop climate change is if we reduce the beef industry and eat billionaires instead. Every billionaire will chop 0.1° off the warming trend.
I've always enjoyed the cover flow of trackers that the duckduckgo extension shows