• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Has anyone figured out how to 3d print a 2d printer yet?

    Edit: actually, scratch that entirely. How difficult do you suppose it would be to create an aftermarket non-malicious logic board to drive the hardware in lieu of the malicious OEM board? After all, it’s not the cartridges refusing to print.

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      5 months ago

      There is a piece of software which will take a word document and convert it into an embossed 3D print file. So you could always just skip the middleman and 3D print yourself a plaque version of your document instead.

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      There are some projects out there that do the entire frame. Steppers, hotend, and control boards are out of reach. There’s some hypothetical ways you could do it, but it’d be far more expensive than buying off the shelf stuff and probably get worse results. Even the frames tend to take a lot of filament.

      It’s more of a nice idea than something practical.

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          OK, fair enough, but a lot of the issues are the same. In fact, 2d printers have much higher precision requirements than 3d printers. 300dpi is hard to achieve, and that’s not even particularly impressive by modern standards. Aligning color heads is even harder. I have my doubts about a FOSS project ever being able to do that, unless it’s somehow crowdfunded to bring in existing experts.

          Now, a FOSS plotter should be doable.