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salty-software-engineer · 3 months

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Yeah yeah 3d printing is cool and whatever, you can make little plastic trinkets and a few utilities or whatever, but what we really need for at home making is ways to print circuit boards and fabricate components, and open source communities trading designs for them.

Like, I don't give a fuck about creating a fancy new phone holder or whatever if you are still dependent on (relatively) few companies and foundries for your phone's components and PCBs.

#diy #3d printing #tbh from everything I've seen 3d printing is still mostly a gimmick #you can make some cool toys but home printers just aren't making stuff strong enough and the material is shit plastic #laser cutting looks way better to me #circuit design #also can we make a better toolchain than we have #because fuck the existing vhdl/verilog tools #at least the ones I've used #we need people learning digital and analog logic design #glad we have a good open source thing going for software now let's hit hardware

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