3D Printing State of the Union

Since I got a new printer last week and I’ve been documenting my endeavours in this realm in a rather haphazard way, I thought it would be useful to do a sort of catch-up/snapshot of where things are (and have been) for a while now. Right now I have three 3D printers (down from four): The KP3S Pro, which is my “tiny”, near-silent printer The Two Trees SK1, my former workhorse A brand-new Flashforge Creator 5 Pro, which I am still getting to know and taking copious notes on However, this all started (as many 3D printing stories start) with a Prusa. Or, rather, a clone. The Prusa Connection The BQ Prusa MK2 over the years A few years back, when I was organising the first editions of the Lisbon Maker Faire, I got a BQ Prusa clone, which stood me in good stead for a long while–I printed many kilos of PLA/PETG with it, the vast majority of it going into functional parts of various descriptions (some, as you’d expect, were 3D printer parts), to the point where the nozzle wore out and…