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[JustinG]

So I have always nerded out on 3D printing. I remember when JMU first got their 3D printer and we took a tour of the lab. It was a lot like the computers from back in the day it was huge. Now I'm pretty amazed that something so complex is now the size of a regular printer and won't cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I figured with my first NASA check from the season I would probably just go ahead and snag one. Spoke with Matt Leech who has a 3D printer and he gave me some recommendations with my price point. I decided to go with the Maker Select Plus from Monoprice.

But with an unexpected work reward in the form of a gift card and a coupon code, I decided to go ahead and pull the trigger.

Ideally I'd like to start getting into designing things to print, but for now I'll stick to what's already been designed on thingiverse.com.

Here's a few things that I've printed so far.

The elephant was my first test run, it was a test file included with the printer, everything else was found on Thingiverse.







Then I printed a lithographic Ariel pendant for the kid which turned out pretty cool.





Next up was a watch band slide designed to hold the puck from a Disney Magic Band (Far Left).

Last was the M keychain.



Next up I'm going to print off some parts that improve the printer (tool holders, fan shrouds, etc). Probably hook it up to a Raspberry Pi giving me the ability to print wirelessly versus always having to insert an SD card.