Also good for composting and making room in your recycling bin
STL files available on Thangs
I found this one online from last year
https://www.printables.com/model/356486-cat-scratcher-cardboard-cutter-v2
Awesome! Is that a real device that’s available for sale? Those would be good school or scout projects to donate to animal shelters.
I have the STL files on Thangs for 3D printing.
I’ve been thinking about getting a 3D printer. Well, yesterday I decided I need a 3D printer. I know nothing at all. What should I get?
I have a 3D printer buyer’s guide on my website that lists a few. I mostly use and would recommend any Bambu printer, there’s a few that can suit any price range. Elegoo also make good printers too which won’t break the bank
I have an AnkerMake M5 and it’s gloriously painless. There are intrinsic unavoidable challenges to 3D printing, but this thing has been incredible for casual creation.
Do I need the M5 or can I get away with the m5c? I really know nothing about it or how much material things need. I just want to make cool things. How much filament did your cardboard cutter require?
I’m not the OP but I went ahead and bought his file and sliced* it and with 20% infill, it will require about 77g of filament. So with one normal spool, you could print 12 of them.
I can only vouch directly for the M5, but looking into the differences, it looks like the M5C would be a solid option. I would miss the onboard camera and the ability to check my prints and get notifications of suspicious issues, but the printer itself is more or less the same otherwise.
Edit: and with the current sale, $200 is a STEAL
- Slicing is the process where a program takes the 3D model and turns it into layer by layer instructions for the printer and where you configure lots of settings such as infill, which is how much of the interior of the model is printed with a lattice for structural support. Prints are rarely 100% solid material but rather a hull with infill.
I ordered the m5c. I got the printer, 13 lb of material, and some accessories for $339. Can’t wait to make some Braille Play-Doh presses.
Nice! Congrats and I hope you enjoy it!
Ender 3 is pretty good introductory model and does nice prints with little effort.
If you’re a buy once, cry once sort of person, Prusa makes good stuff that has a lot of community support.
I own an Ender 3, 5, and a Prusa Mini. The mini is by far my most reliable printer, but both enders have had a lot of work done to them to get them where they are… and not quite click to print yet.
At one of my jobs I maintained some 35 Prusa Mk3s, about a dozen Elegoo’s, and witnessed their graveyard of Anycubics and some other brands. The Prusa’s generally only needed to be unclogged or have their nozzle changed less than once a month, with only a couple failures per week max, the room also was not temperature controlled and they had some… questionable engineering practices.
The elego’s were like pulling teeth, needing glue to keep it adhered, frequent clogs and skips, thermistors needing replacement after under 100 print hours, blobbing would get into the part coolig fans. Small leveling knobs. Prusa’s IMO were designed to be serviceable, but seem to need it way less.
Especially at a business, the premium on Prusa printers over say bambu labs is well worth their customer support. Ive never used a Bambu so I cant necessarily recommended or not, and I do wish I had an MMU on the cheap as you’d get with their mini, but Im most pleased with my Prusa mini
I looked at prusa and pretty quickly realized that I couldn’t afford them.
Check local sales, as much as I hate Facebook, marketplace around me sometimes has some nice steals, like my OG ender 5 for 100$, and that job was selling off their Prusa MK3s to afford MK4s about half off. You never know -_o_-
Oh that’s a good idea. I should have checked there. Bought the ankermake m5c for 339 including 15# of material and accessories.
A lot of libraries offer 3D printing for about the cost of materials.
It’s worth trying out before dropping huge cash if it’s possible near you.
Bambu Labs A1 Mini
Cheap, high quality device, high quality prints, out of the box and printing in 25 minutes with no fiddling required.
I love this! Free cat scratchers might not seem like they have much value, but has anyone seen the price of those ready-made things?! They’re pushing $20 for a large-ish flat scratcher at lower volume places like TSC, but Target isn’t much better, still $10 for a 10" x 18" flat cheapy.
Down with bougie cat cardboard!!!
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This is cool but my cat won’t touch cardboard scratchers.
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Reminder to avoid using Amazon boxes for this: Their boxes contain a rodenticide to keep rats/mice away from their products.
Reminder to check snopes before believing random internet factoids:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/amazon-spray-boxes-chemicals/
Thank you, I’m educated and savvy and I almost fell for that. Why oh WHY are there sooooo many trolls about?
in your defense Amazon would spray their boxes with poison if it didn’t add any extra costs.
PSA: Companies couldn’t give a shit about you or your packages. the sooner you realize that, the sooner you’ll realize how insignificant you are in the world.
This sounds like a Facebook fact.
Oh yep it is.
Is there a source on this? My initial fact check search suggests this was debunked.
You’ve designed a niche solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Use a box knife. Or, for a more versatile tool, get a Morakniv Companion.
This looks a lot like trolling. The community here certainly doesn’t seem to care for it.
I don’t like what you’ve said so you’re a troll. We don’t serve your kind around here.
SMRT.
