For example, I’m sure the average joe doesn’t know just how expensive calligraphy pens can be, or how deep the rabbit hole goes on video game speedruns.

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    3D printing! You can start out cheap but you can get STUPID expensive, and it’s the biggest most meandering rabbit hole I know of

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      It’s expensive, but it’s also expensive in lots of different avenues. It’s not like you can just go “well I’ll never buy a big pre-built proprietary printer then I’ll just make it myself! Open source forever!” Because that’s the road to leads to sourcing and building your own voron from scratch and spending a thousand dollars on parts

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        Because that’s the road to leads to sourcing and building your own voron from scratch and spending a thousand dollars on parts

        Looks at my 2.4 sitting on my workbench.

        Can confirm, that’s exactly how it happened. 😬

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      I’ve been amazed at how cheap it’s become since I built my first few printers. I spent thousands building printers that aren’t half as good as a $300 printer today.

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      I just bought an elegoo neptune 4 pro and thought about buying more filament already. Hopefully it will only be filament and not more machines or something

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      And getting consistent prints at a decent speed can be challenging! (Slow and good vs fast and unreliable is a common choice.)

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        I can highly recommend the Klipper firmware if you haven’t already, I can print at much higher speeds than marlin firmware and the print quality is actually better

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      3D printing really isn’t expensive, especially since you can create a lot of stuff for cents. I’m considering a new extruder for my Ender 3 (Looking at the LDO orbiter v2) and that’s €70, which sounds expensive for the printer, but compared to any other hobby that’s peanuts

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        It can get expensive - especially if you start looking into high-end / commercial quality printers.

        …or if you burn through 3 reels of TPU just to get one goddamn wrist rest to print. 😩

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        Yeah, €70 is not much for an upgrade for a hobby. That’s the price of a mid-range chain for a mountain bike and chains are not upgrades, they’re consumables, which you buy at least once a year, lol.

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      3D printing can be expensive, but I disagree that it is stupid expensive.