Building my 3D printer

Before I 3D print a house on a large scale, I need to do it on a small scale. Enter the Creality3d Ender 3 printer.

This is a cheap (about $200) printer that is apparently becoming a work horse for 3D printing hobbyists. What I love most about the printer is that it’s open to allow about as many adjustments as you can imagine. This will allow me to tweak the print settings to get the exactly right at a small scale and then test those settings at a larger scale when I get there.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This thing doesn’t come put together so I had to build it. Here’s the quick version of the build:

So the build is done. Next step… test prints!