“…and filament. Lots of filament.”
Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof:-)
"Give me a 3d printer and a place to plug it in and I will create the world." - *Archimedes*
Submitted 3 weeks ago by LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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OpenStars@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol imagine thinking you would print anything without youtube! Archimedes is such a noob
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well unless you like miniatures in which case you’re going to need resin
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Actually I printed a few decent ones with my Ender 3. A couple tests on my new A1 came out really nice.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The volume of Planet Earth is 108.321x10^10 km3.. Converted to std meters, that is 1.08321x10^21 m3.
A typical high flow 3d printer hotend (without getting insane) can hit around 25mm3/sec volumetric flow assuming no nozzle or acceleration restrictions. Converted to std meters, that is 2.5x10^-8 m3/sec.
If you ran that hotend continuously with no breaks, it would only take about 4.332x10^28 seconds to print the planet Earth… or 1.374x10^21 (1.4 sextillion!) years!
Gentlemen. We’re going to need a bigger printer.
falk1856@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Just set it to 5% infill in fast spaghetti mode and we can crank that baby out before the sun goes dark.
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean if you only print the side that is exposed to sun. Keep rotating that baby.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s why you start by printing more printers.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
A lot of us here aren’t actually mortal so that’s not a big deal
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah but it’s a little hard to power your printer past the heat death of the universe
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Every fucking century you just haaave to bring that up, don’t you.
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Might need to bump up to 0.8mm