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3D printing! You can start out cheap but you can get STUPID expensive, and it’s the biggest most meandering rabbit hole I know of
It's expensive, but it's also expensive in lots of different avenues. It's not like you can just go "well I'll never buy a big pre-built proprietary printer then I'll just make it myself! Open source forever!" Because that's the road to leads to sourcing and building your own voron from scratch and spending a thousand dollars on parts
Looks at my 2.4 sitting on my workbench.
Can confirm, that's exactly how it happened. 😬
I've been amazed at how cheap it's become since I built my first few printers. I spent thousands building printers that aren't half as good as a $300 printer today.
And getting consistent prints at a decent speed can be challenging! (Slow and good vs fast and unreliable is a common choice.)
I can highly recommend the Klipper firmware if you haven't already, I can print at much higher speeds than marlin firmware and the print quality is actually better
I just bought an elegoo neptune 4 pro and thought about buying more filament already. Hopefully it will only be filament and not more machines or something
But I NEED all the different filament colors @___@
3D printing really isn't expensive, especially since you can create a lot of stuff for cents. I'm considering a new extruder for my Ender 3 (Looking at the LDO orbiter v2) and that's €70, which sounds expensive for the printer, but compared to any other hobby that's peanuts
It can get expensive - especially if you start looking into high-end / commercial quality printers.
...or if you burn through 3 reels of TPU just to get one goddamn wrist rest to print. 😩
A bambu x1 Carbon is like €1000 right? That sounds expensive, but with the amount of money spent on my car, I could have had multiple of those
Sure, but if you wanna get crazy, you can spend car-levels of money on something like this
Sure, but it's definitely not a hobby at that point
Yeah, €70 is not much for an upgrade for a hobby. That's the price of a mid-range chain for a mountain bike and chains are not upgrades, they're consumables, which you buy at least once a year, lol.
3D printing can be expensive, but I disagree that it is stupid expensive.