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What did you buy, an Ender, new or second hand? If it's the latter hopefully you'll get a good one that the previous donk owner gave up on so should be in decent nick. Start at the start though, buy a fresh roll of branded PLA/PLA+ such as Sunlu/Eryone/Jayo/eSun and get it dialled-in before...

Yes, time for an upgrade!

You should be able to buy a spare and swap out the defective extruder? What printer do you have?

Buy a cheaper printer and you will need to learn it mechanically inside and out and learn how to replace mechanical and electronic components when they clog/fail etc. This will put off the majority of users who don't have the time, inkling or skills. The Ender linked above is a prime example of...

The guy in post 53 doesn't want to spend £400-600. Given they are mechanical and involve hot filament something going wrong is only a matter of time.

Pressing a button on a £1000+ printer is not hobby 3DP,. When it goes wrong do you have to call the photocopy/technician guy to fix it for you? What does pressing a button teach you? Not how to 3D print. Or slice. Or how 3D printers work. Or how to calibrate them, replace parts then dial them...

But you can 'make' all the stuff shown above, jump in, buy one...

Either way, great you're getting in to the 3D design aspect, however don't underestimate the printer maintenance either, they have learning curves too.

I'm limiting myself to a printer of sub £200 Personally I wouldn't do that, you may well get a sub-optimal experience that will put you off 3DP, as mentioned support forums are very important, go with a known brand with support channels If you want to buy new then spend £300+ and/or look at...

Nuts, thanks for posting, the hybrid thing will surely come out at some point.

The Macbook Pro 15" Retina 16MB mid-2014 is actually more serviceable than most Apple products. I have had it in pieces more than once and have replaced the battery pack after is became so swollen that it was bulging case apart and stopped trackpad working. The iFixit battery worked great and...

Ha, don't complain too much, remember the days when to get any PC game running you had to mess with autoexec.bat and config.sys...disappointed kids everywhere when games wouldn't run on Christmas Day...

Ha, probably not an ebike ;) What odds would you give on a, lets say, a Telsa? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/10/huge-fire-breaks-out-at-luton-airport-car-park

Apple f3cked it pretty badly when they moved to M1/M2 chips from an agnostic pov, impossible to run Windows full stop on that architecture. Apparently they now 'support' Parallels VMs running Win11, 'haud me back'...I'll never buy another one as the SW I need is just not available on mac/linux...

Yes, sure as eggs is eggs, never really understood why they came out and said the instead of new OS releases they were going to do iterative codebase releases. But Win11 was a new release....and when that codebase needs updated as new chips come along....to Win<x>? Dunno, I gave up caring, I...

My Windows 10 gaming PC looks and behaves pretty much like Win7 by design. You need Classic Shell and a properly sized Win7 logo for Start menu (lots of vids on YT) Even my son (14 next week), has done this (on his way more powerful gaming PC than mine), as the UX on Win10/Office 10 etc. was a...

The main issue with Win7 these days is more and more websites no longer work, BBC iPlayer for example has issues and the download offline is not supported on Win7. Other websites such as Tinkercad don't behave as well as they used to and at some point the banks will render Win7 insecure etc...

Pics of my Honda Type-R rendered from pics in Mesh Room, hit and miss but enough to tart up if you have the skills (I don't) then resin print.

Apart from the Arduino Uno, the buck converter and BT gamepad I had rest of this in a Sunfounder kit I bought years ago. You can see the gamepad in top left in it's 3D printed housing to be screwed down inside the turntable, what happens is the servo activates and moves the flipper that...

I play with Arduinos too, this is a 3D printed photogrammetry turntable I made powered by Arduino with a external 9V power supply as the servo and stepper motors need way more power than an Arduino could ever supply (buck converter). It has three modes controlled by joystick. Mode 1 it rotates...