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OMG OMG OMG open-source printer ‼️
https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

🖊️ Portable printer developed for fabrication of origami devices
#manufacturing

#OpenSource #inkjet #printer. I saw this on boing boing dot net. No idea how it’s supposed to work, but it sounds cool.

I picked my first 3D printer I ever bought based on the desire to print shoes that would fit my feet. (I never actually tried to 3D print shoes in the end.) Being able to 3D print a chair as one single print would be really cool.
#3dPrinting #IFA

The RPI Zero-based OpenPrinter looks very promising (600dpi color inkjet):
https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer
Also instant throwback to BERG's cute Little Printer (from 2012, much smaller and very different use cases):

This looks cool.
#Tech #Printer #OpenSource

It is hard to comprehend how screwed up is HP's "Instant Ink" program.
Although one can remove a printer from the program, one can not remove the printer - it hangs around on HP's webpages and it emits notifications (even if unplugged) like a zombie.
There seems to be no way to sign up a new printer (assuming I wanted to sign up) except via a smart phone.
(A set of new cartridges for the new printer costs more than I paid Amazon for the entire new printer,…

🖲️ This novel 3D printer kinematic system uses a mouse sensor for closed-loop control
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/12/this-novel-3d-printer-kinematic-system-uses-a-mouse-sensor-for-closed-loop-control/

Cool cool. So my printer STILL won't work, but at least *I'll* be the one who broke it? 🙃
https://machines.social/@trevorflowers/115273226628269138

So, uh, looks like I'm gonna try my hand at restoring a CRT TV. The Sony PVM-9044Q is in good shape, so it didn't really require any work. However, found a JVC TM-150CG and decided to take a stab at getting it up and running. I expect that there will be more than a bit of work needed and that the 3D printer is gonna be doing some work. I don't know the condition of the tube, but shouldn't be a huge issue to track down one. Also tracked down a IF-C01COMG RGB card for the …

The current printer stand will be retired. My wife wants it for her Christmas supplies. I will assemble the new stand. It will also force me to clear out the horde of stuff and keep only what I need and use.

I just love being tech support for my wife. Actually I don't mind... until it's about printers.
So yeah, Epson pushed out an update to her printer that made it stop working with third party ink cartridges. I'm not shocked that they would do that, but did have to explain that Epson considers this to be a feature, not a bug.
While in there, I had to troubleshoot why the printer was not on the network. Somewhere along the line the ip address got flipped from dhcp to manu…

@… @… Interesting… my (getting old now) 3D printer is loud and annoying. I’ll check into this when I have/make time (if it’s before I replace it with something of this generation…).

An Open-Sourced, Community-Driven Volumetric Additive Manufacturing Printer and Post-Processor
Taylor Waddell, Erik Broude, Tristan Bourgade, Natalia Fabiana De La Torre, Erfan Kohyarnejadfard, Tavleen Kaur, Scarlett Hao, Dylan Motley, Daniel Oslund, Evan Percival, Connor Vidmar, Hayden Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02865

@… Exactly - I originally set it up as an airprint server for my wife's mb air, since the printer was quite old, but it ended up becoming a general-purpose remote printing service for all devices. The rpizero runs a minimal raspbian install with cups, printer drivers, and avahi - it's been working flawlessly for years. Other clients …

What the fuck, printer?????
This is not even 24h since it’s been setup btw, its 12h at most

The #OpenPrinter Is a #RaspberryPi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible #Inkjet #Printer

I'm reading a book from a major university press that's printed on what seems to be standard printer paper. Call me unimpressed.

The latest #prusa blog post about organizing your workshop witha 3d printer had me exclaim „neat!“ no less than three times while reading it. Didn’t know of the model generators they described there - this‘ll be extremely helpful, especially the one for #IKEA

🌝 Solar powered moon brick factory could build future lunar cities
#space

Thought I would print something on the old Prusa MK4 while the H2D was doing something to try get both done quicker.
Turns out just doing both things linearly on the H2D was faster in the end.
This printer is amazing and I didn’t even try to make a fast profile yet for draft printing.

Not sure how we're supposed to get a robot apocalypse out of a tech industry that can't make a reliable printer.

Turning Hearsay into Discovery: Industrial 3D Printer Side Channel Information Translated to Stealing the Object Design
Aleksandr Dolgavin, Jacob Gatlin, Moti Yung, Mark Yampolskiy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18366

Absolutely the most fun device! A 3D printer !!

Feedback from the printer on my pamphlet layout: "that's not how people normally do things"
But I *was* taking into account the fold sample they gave me...

from my link log —
CandyFab: a DIY 3D sugar printer.
https://candyfab.org/
saved 2024-12-20 https://dotat.at/:/3D5SH.html

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

dot matrix printer head cut in half (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_matrix_printing#/media/File:Tally_Genicom_T2240_print_head_assembly_-_cross_section.jpg)

@… I glued a rpi zero to my printer, connected it via usb, and set it up as a print server on my lan - I don't have to deal with any of those issues ever again :D

Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/firestorm-hp-3d-printing-funding

This is a really good video about printing photos at home from Simon Baxter
even though I just own an A4 printer.
#printing

A New Ultrafast Printer for Large-Scale Assembly of Piezoelectric Biomaterials
Nan An, Mingtong Chen, Zhengbao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15167 https:…

Universal Print anywhere, a feature that enables users to print securely from any location & retrieve their documents at any printer (aka "pull print") has reached general availability.

✅ Pull print is now available in Universal Print
https://

Should I be surprised? We just replaced an aging HP ink jet printer with a newer version, also from HP.
About the first thing it did when powered on was to scream about how HP brand ink cartridges must be used, how other cartridges may not work and and that firmware updates may invalidate them in the future.
And that a nearly continuous internet connection is required to use the cartridges that are in the machine, else printing would cease.
This seems to me to be a clear ca…

Well, got a Bambu H2D, finally a printer i can more or less be in the office with while it prints.
It's quite a monster size printer though.

Got temporary access to a 3D-printer (Dupicator 4S), it is kinda fun

Trump's people left some paper on the printer 😆 , interestingly they even planned to give Putin a present.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

I printed the small footballs that I recently modelled. #airball #openscad #3dprinting

What else is new? We got a 3D printer! Printed this cassette holder.

Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

This fall, Texas requires public schools to display the 10 commandments in classrooms.
I’ve made a PDF that largely conforms to the specifications required by Texas SB10, and you can download a printable (I recommend a color printer) version you can print out, frame or laminate, and donate.
Get the PDF: https://p…

Well, fuck. That's not supposed to happen...
#3dprinting
#fail

Alright, time to fix the biggest issue with the Legion Go: the D-Pad. It was absolutely destroying me trying to play _Sea of Stars_ and with the power bestowed on me by my 3D printer, it _will_ be fixed.
#3dprinting #legionGo

u know whats good?
a working 3d printer

Making great progress on the Shenzhou spacecraft 3D print! Firing up the printer again and streaming the next phase of the build. Hope to see you there! #3dprintinglife #Maker #Space

Why is this not better known? Machines to convert our plastic waste into 3D printer filaments.: https://avatar42.social/2025/08/14/why-is-this-not-better.html

First 3D-Printed Home Made Primarily From Soil is Built in Japan–Ditching Unsustainable Concrete https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-3d-printed-home-made-primarily-from-soil-is-built-in-japan/

Apropos the leaving of Federal documents in a hotel printer ....
People tend to forget that many printers retain in their memory (which might be persistent across power cycles) that contains the contents of the most recent documents printed, scanned, or faxed.
It may not be obvious how to extract that data, but let's say that the powers that coerced all ink jet printers to print a unique printer-identifying pattern of small yellow dots and circles (hard to see with the human …

@… but not as many as want to fuck up a printer.

Invertible Syntax without the Tuples (Functional Pearl)
Mathieu Boespflug, Arnaud Spiwack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09856…

SIgh, looking for a replacement printer and the specs are less than helpful.
Wi-Fi Enabled - Yes
Well that is helpful (not). Is it just 2.4GHz, 5 GHz, dual-band? What level of 802.11? I want one that supports 802.11a or 802.11ac or 802.11ax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.…

Civility & common sense has truly gone to hell: Obnoxious audacity has become the norm worldwide.
And you can thank all the societal leeches that live by the philosophy of, "If you don't ask, you don't get".
☑️ Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafes into remote offices | Fortune

My recommendation for today:
Avoid the HP Instant Ink program as if it were the plague.
I have one printer on that program. They sent me a bad cartridge. I had to go through their awful "AI" system several times which merely told me to run test after test after test then clean the gold contacts than rub my belly while patting my head and reciting the Gettysburg Address... all of which ending up in them saying "we will send you a new cartridge in a couple of weeks…

Looks like it is time for a new printer. The old one just won't connect. Everything I do and it says it is connected, but when I check the Linux and WIN10 boxes say it isn't there. It is an older machine (over 10 years old) so it owes us nothing.
Looking at a machine that will hook into the 5Ghz part of the network, mega tanks and decent reviews and... NOT HP!

Tonight, we're not just printing—we're building a fleet! Firing up the 3D printer to create a massive Wasp-class amphibious assault ship (LHD). Get ready to see this miniature marvel come to life, layer by layer! #3DPrinting #WASPClass

🥡 3D printed food: Yuck or yes? Researchers ask South African consumers
#food

#NPR reports of #Drumpf admin operatives leaving 8 pages of sensitive internal eyes only 👀 #Putin feting itinerary notes behind in #Alaska hotel sparks ridi…