A lot of claims have been made about the purported benefits of adding chopped carbon fiber to FDM filaments, but how many of these claims are actually true? In the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/21/why-chopped-carbon-fiber-in-fdm-prints-is-a-contaminant/)

Pause Print, Add Hardware, and Enjoy Strength
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3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other technique you could use to make that part is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/21/pause-print-add-hardware-and-enjoy-strength/)