In 2013 I built my own 3D printer. It was the $299 kit that Printrbot originally offered and it was basically constructed of zip ties & dental floss. It was a great little printer to learn about FFF but not so reliable to do any BIG prints.
When I first started my friend send me ~80 .stl files for objects he’d created using Mathematica. One of the first I found was a 3D celtic knot called ‘metatron.’ but it doesn’t look like Metatron’s cube
Metatron (Hebrew מטטרון; prob. derived from the Latin mētātor: “one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and fixer of boundaries”, “a measurer”,[1] although several other suggestions exist[2])
In the end, I needed a new printer, new software, & I needed to create the object with two different plastics. One plastic for the object, and the other with a dissolvable plastic for support structures. I’m pretty happy with the results.
