Things I would like to 3D print
Funny story.<p>I bought a printer for my kids this year. An Anycubic Mega Zero with a magnetic base.<p>It stays pretty calibrated but I have struggled with base adhesion once a few prints have been through it. IPA and abrasives have not fixed it...maybe I will get around to some other things...there have been a few random failures, but not many.<p>We printed a few novelties items that came out OK. The real learning curve is about the options in the slicer,  the trade off between printing time and accuracy etc.<p>At some stage my kids printed some toy guns. Apparently one of those toys looked real to the phone engineer, the only person who had been in my house over lockdown. Later there was a knock on my door whereupon 4 police officers arrested me and began to search my house for &#x27;section 1 prohibited firearms&#x27;. Just as officer 1 finished telling me this,  the plastic gun was found. Officer 1 proceeded to give me a ticking off about the dangers of realistic models...while officers 2-4 marvelled at the 3d printer,  much to the annoyance of officer 1. Officer 2 asked me if I had tried realistic finishing like with rub n buff, and got chatting about Adam Savage. I had to get a steam punk top hat I made with foam to demonstrate rub n buff to the others.  This annoyed Officer 1 enough that he decided it was time to go! I am not quite sure whether I find the episode funny or not.  It was pretty scary to begin with.<p>I actually haven&#x27;t found anything I wanted to print for a while.  I make a lot of things but 3d printing is not always the best tool for the job.