You Should Give 3D Printing Another Chance

Ruben Orduz
5 min readJan 23, 2021
Rudimentary 3D Model with Fusion 360

A mere 5–6 years ago 3D printing was a very expensive hobby. There was lots of hype around it and every nerd or curious maker enthusiast wanted one. The problem was two-fold: 3D printers were expensive, often in the thousands of dollars for an entry level model and secondly, it was ssssllllllooooooow. How slow? It would take 5–6 hours to make a 3cm x 1.5cm x 0.3cm monogram with one of my kid’s initials. In 2015 I…

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Ruben Orduz

Software, 3D Printing, product reviews, data, and all things AI/ML.