3D print something you designed yourself

“I’m very proud of the progress I made early on. I had my first custom part designed and ready to go within the first week, and I had the first prototype printed on my eighth day. That first part may have only been a platform on top of a simple cylinder, but I was ridiculously excited about it. This was the first time ever that I created something on a computer, and a real-life object slowly appeared next to me. And even more exciting to me, that object fit perfectly and snugly inside another real-world object that I already had in my possession. This was the moment when I truly realized how revolutionary 3D printing is. With my extremely limited abilities, I was able to create a very precise object in the real world, and this was only the beginning!”

“I think this might be the most genius thing I ever came up with. I had a stick of incense and couldn’t find a little burner, so I 3D printed one I downloaded. The little stump of the stick got stuck in the hole, which made me think that there must be some way to design an incense burner to automatically eject the stump when it was done. I came up with an idea that used gravity and made almost 30 iterations. It now works perfectly and I use it regularly.”