Discoveries in the Physics & Astronomy shop | Science, curiosities, and surprises
One of the key benefits of a 3D printer is the ability to create prototypes rapidly. Doesn’t quite fit? Adjust the model, re-slice, and set the new print to go. When you’re down to sub-millimeter tweaks with each iteration, it’s a relief to let the machine whir and ooze out the next version.
If at first you don’t succeed, try again and again and again and again…
Not the noodles, served with red sauce and meatballs. Not the Westerns. Not the squash. Not the -fication process of stretchy weirdness when one falls toward a black hole.
When the 3D printer makes a mistake, it doesn’t realize that anything is amiss. It just keeps on moving, extruding, dutifully squirting out warm plastic which twists and tangles into a sad little mess. PLA spaghetti.