Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks
Shadow@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Most of the stuff people print, is crap that will go in the garbage in a week. I get it, I went through that phase when I got my printer too.
If you learn how to design your own stuff, suddenly it becomes a really useful tool.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I got into 3D printing 7 years ago and I design most of the things I print myself, so I know what kind of useful tool it can be.
The reason I am posting this is because pretty much everyone I know who has a printer and kids prints toys all the time, and any time I’m at any event where someone can shoehorn a box of give-away low-poly-pokemon in, there is one there.
And all that is plastic waste and nothing else. These things often make a happy-meal-toy look like quality by comparison.