I'm going to rapid fire all the questions that I got from 3D printing since I shared my love of 3D printing and why every woman should have a 3D printer. First, which 3D printer do I have? I currently have two and I'm buying my third one this week. The first one I started with was the Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro, which is just a single color printer and I think a lot of people kind of start off with something a little bit less expensive, like about $300 when I got during Christmas time. And then when my friends gifted me her Bambu Lab A1, which is way better quality prints, it's faster and it also has an AMS, which is multicolor print. If I were to do it all over again, I would have started with the Bambu Lab A1 with the AMS. Two, how much do they cost? It really depends on your budget, but I got mine for about $300 when I started. I think most people on average spend about $500 to $1,500 on their 3D printers. And most people who have 3D printers usually have more than one. How much does the filament, which is the plastic that goes into the 3D printer, how much does that cost? On average, anywhere from $15 to $25 per roll. And how many things can you make with a roll of filament? Really depends on what you are creating, but if I were to say like a figurine that was like this size, you could probably get about 15 out of those. Do you have to learn to design to 3D print? Absolutely not. Most of anything that you can think of is probably already listed on a free website and it has a bunch of the files and all you do is take the file from the website, download it onto your computer, upload it into your slicer, which is the software that the 3D printer uses and print it. That's it. It is so easy, it is ridiculously easy. I was very surprised at just how easy this was because I really didn't think that I was going to need like a master's in mechanical engineering. You don't even need to know how to use a real printer to make your 3D printer work. Is 3D printing a cheap hobby? Absolutely not. I've never met a cheap hobby I've ever adopted has become expensive, whether starting expensive or I just made it that way. But you know, the start up cost is pretty pricey. I mean, a $300 or $400 printer plus the filament, you're going to need more than one roll to get started. Um, it's a pretty pricey hobby, but a lot of people don't use this as just a hobby, they do make money from it. I've only made a few hundred dollars since I started a few weeks ago, but people are making like thousands of dollars or their first month. Not me, but other people. And I think also really enjoyed about 3D printing is just how generous the community is. Like, these people share their designs and they design and they share them for free. So anybody can download them. So many free YouTube videos to learn how to do it. So many videos here on like TikTok to learn how to do it. So definitely a generous community that will answer your questions because if you post it, there's someone who has an answer. There are so many useful things that you can print. There are also so many useless things that you can print. And I find value in both those things. So if you are a woman and you want to learn how to print, please follow other pages that specialize in this, but also I'll be sharing a lot more of my 3D printing knowledge too.
