How do you get the cheap shit here again?
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lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Why 3D print them? Isn’t that more ecologically wasteful than just getting any of the mass-produced ones? They aren’t exactly hard to come by. Fuck your wasteful printing.
bbuez@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not saying anyone’s doing this for whistles in particular, but you can make PET filament from salvaged bottles. And VHS tape, but I really doubt anyone is going to be able to print something that needs to be as precise as a whistle from VHS tape. From what I’ve seen it comes out… lumpy.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This is incorrect, the author says that he prints whistles for 5c a pop, which is cheaper than dropshipping from China. This also implies that 3D printing whistles at home in that fashion is more productive when one doesn’t live in China (or next to a whistle factory).
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
cheaper = ecologically friendlier? NOPE
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Most of the time cheaper products are better for the environment when they’re durable. A very simple whistle has hardly any parts that could fail easily and is therefore durable.
See the cost of veganism, prefab buildings or electric cars. If local production and local distribution of objects saves transport and handling expenses, which come from people expending time, keep in mind those people need to be fed and have to get to work somehow, then that is a fact.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d imagine the lack of being shipped many thousands of miles is what makes them ecologically friendlier.
mst@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
If you produce the filament in your area. AFAIK most is from China.