The era of DECENTRALIZED MANUFACTURING is upon us. The centralized systems of old will not be removed by violent struggle (violence is a psyop to turn everything into a police state) and can only be surpased by making them obsolete.
3D printing has moved long enough that a $250 printer can reliably print actual useful stuff and can be used in production. CNCs have followed the same trends. You can use a sub $200 CNC to etch fucking PCBs to create your own electronics. We are basically living in the future and we act like this is still the fucking 90s
Since robotics and manufacturing can now be decentralized, we can decentralize pretty much everything, from food production to consumer goods. The amount of middlemen and centalized behemothcorps that can be removed from the food chain is on a scale that was unimaginable until now and should be a goal to strive for.
Pic related is how I'll be carrying my neighborhood made beers to the picnic, after the decentralized revolution takes place and makes long commutes and work hours obsolete along with yuppie managers
Nice diggits, save up and buy one. Even the cheapest one nowdays can print actual useful shit
Chase Garcia
Hours of fucking with tons of factors to make the print come out proper and the effect is still goofy looking plastic crap.
Tyler Powell
the only downside really is that it takes about a day to print one of those things in your pic.
Colton Stewart
Because they're slow and fucking shit, everything they make are a very small fraction of the strength and quality of a moulded part.
Buy a lathe and a milling machine instead of wasting your time and money on that shit. Throw in a a AC/DC TIG while at it.
Luis Hall
Good point, but the future of agriculture is smaller scale, high output indoor farms. Most produce can be grown that way, removing the need for pesticides and transport and reducing fertilizers, water useage.
Easy to ship and store staples such as potatoes, wheat and hemp (cheapest and easiest protein source) can still be grown in fields, of which more will be available because the rest of the produce will be grown locally at the point of sale
Connor Rodriguez
if it weren’t such cheap brittle plastic meme quality then maybe most people would care. real fabrication uses strong materials
Jackson Rodriguez
The bright side is that you can use parallel manufacturing, since you can build more printers for way cheaper by using your first printer. You can also use the printer for creating molds and casts
Leo Russell
>If there were people to teach how everyone could decentralize that would be helpful to them. Nobody knows how to deal with crops cycles of weather or anything they need to know to actually decentralize.
this is the deleted post I replied to above
Daniel Edwards
It's actually pretty tough and you can use the prints to make casts and molds
Owen Roberts
>spent $2 worth of filament & 17 hours printing a drink holder from the Dollar Store. 3d printing is too weak for anything useful or long lasting, cool for prototyping but that's it.
Lincoln Torres
This. You can make that same exact thing for a fraction of the cost at a fraction of the time and actually have it be durable and useful. 3d priting sounds nice and neat but it's nowhere near superior then regular molding which is easy as fuck to do
Juan Morgan
hooray i can spend thousands of dollars for the right to churn out fragile plastic tchotchkes
Leo Reyes
Wow if I had a 3d printer I could hold six beer bottles instead of one without having to rely on the paperboard holder included for free with purchase of six beers.
Liam Wright
post some inforgraphics on what to buy and make this could be good.
Wyatt Garcia
Op is a fag. Probably has a tiny faggot printer
Get on my level 500x500x500 printer with auto bed leveling, Making big boy shit with nylonx carbon fiber.
Cooper Hughes
Dumbass. That concludes the effort I’m willing to spend on this post. Just know that you are retarded and if you don’t know why then its only proof I’m right
Austin Bennett
PPE is the big one these days, face shields specifically (the shield part is made of a piece of overhead projector transparency)
Levi Sanders
and then you realize that cheap trinket from a dollar store imports from china and china is kinda fugged
Im into traditional manufacturing. Milling, grinding, that sort of thing. 3D printing is pathetic.
Brody Sanders
Cast and molds for your bullshit action figures resin casting
Jordan Barnes
I don't have 6 gorillian dollars to get one worth a damn.
Camden Gomez
depends on the application
Joshua Price
Expensive and I don't need one.
Josiah Phillips
The real money is in 3D printing more 3D printers.
Henry Robinson
I hope you made those beers. Self-sufficient towns and supply chains are the future and I am doing my best to partake. Going to be getting a 3D printer and CNC stuff this year with some friends.
Kevin Powell
Give me a metal 3d printer with dimensions suitable enough to make things that are fucking useless.
Plastic 3d printing is a throwaway from the mass manufacturing markets who have moved onto metal and carbon printing.
