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Any advise for someone wanting to start 3d printing ?
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Do you have a microcenter near you? If so, go buy a creality ender 3 pro for $150. Then watch many hours of videos of upgrading it. Spend maybe $50 on parts to make it better. Print some accessories for it. It's a lot of fun. A lot of work, but, a lot of fun. You'll spend many hours figuring it all out.
On the opposite end you can just order a pre-built printer from prusa, plug it in and start printing. Much more expensive but that thing will just work all the time.
From what I've heard Microcenter frequently has a deal for "new customers" where you can get an Ender 3 Pro for $99. Though it's a pretty old printer by now, and while getting some mods would do a lot for it, I think I would rather get something like a Sovol SV06 unless $200 is a hard limit.