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Getting Started with 3D Printing
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Getting Started with 3D Printing

by Liza Wallach Kloski, Nick Kloski
May 2016
Beginner
240 pages
4h 55m
English
Make: Community
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Chapter 12. Setting Up Your Personal Makerspace for 3D Printing

Whether you call it a makerspace or FabLab or hackerspace or community workshop, the names all refer to community spaces where creativity and exploration are valued over “getting it right the first time.” These community-operated physical spaces are where regular people with common interests can meet, socialize, and make.

The people who use makerspaces share one thing first and foremost: the desire to experiment, tinker, invent, and learn. The actual tools that exist in a makerspace come second to that inventive drive, and in fact, many makerspaces start out with nothing more than a group of people coming together to help each other learn. Often makerspaces will have 3D printers, ...

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