{"id":872,"date":"2019-06-05T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=872"},"modified":"2019-06-05T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:41:10","slug":"about-to-enter-the-3d-printer-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"About to Enter the 3D Printer World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know you smoke breathers may find this hard to believe, but Ol&#8217; Sopwith is finally going to enter the universe of 3D printing. I have dragged my feet on this technology for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I did not want to spend the money. $300 USD 3D printers are cheap and temperamental, and $2500 USD printers are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>way<\/em><\/span> above what I am willing to pay.<\/li>\n<li>I was afraid it would not be useful. (I do not want to waste time printing toy objects.)<\/li>\n<li>I did not have the time to invest in learning a whole new technology from the ground up.<\/li>\n<li>I did not have space for it.<\/li>\n<li>I did now want a noisy, smelly device in my office or workshop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time have changed. I have a couple of projects I am working on that could really use the capabilities of a 3D printer. Plus the cost of really good printers has come down and the capabilities have gone up dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>After extensive research, I decided the best printer on the market for price\/performance is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prusa3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prusa i3 MKS3<\/a>. The are built in Czechoslovakia by a company founded by Josef Prusa, one of the innovators in the 3D early days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/prusa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-873 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/prusa-276x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/prusa-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/prusa.png 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>I ordered the kit version and am expecting it will take about 4 hours to assemble. It should arrive in a couple of days. I will post blog entries about my assembling, testing, and printing experiences so you can follow along.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sopwith<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you smoke breathers may find this hard to believe, but Ol&#8217; Sopwith is finally going to enter the universe of 3D printing. I have dragged my feet on this technology for a couple of reasons. I did not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-general","category-how-to","category-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}