{"id":5047,"date":"2016-07-24T01:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/24\/3d-printers-are-never-going-to-be-a-thing\/"},"modified":"2016-07-24T01:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T17:51:58","slug":"3d-printers-are-never-going-to-be-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/24\/3d-printers-are-never-going-to-be-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printers are never going to be a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I blame Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em><\/a> for the frustration that took a good chunk of my work week. Well, Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> and 3D printers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let me back up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday, my colleague Raymond Wong posted a story about a 3D-printed Pok\u00e9dex<\/a>. It\u2019s awesome. Maybe one of the most awesome things I\u2019ve ever seen. Because Mashable HQ<\/em> has a 3D printer, Ray and I thought it would be fun to print one for ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: A 3D-printed finger might unlock a phone and solve a murder mystery<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How wrong we were. Instead of getting a cool case for our iPhones, all we got was a lot of headache. So much headache, in fact, that I\u2019m now more convinced than ever that 3D printers for regular people will never become a thing.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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I blame Pok\u00e9mon Go for the frustration that took a good chunk of my work week. Well, Pok\u00e9mon Go and 3D printers.\u00a0 Let me back up.\u00a0 On Monday, my colleague Raymond Wong posted a story about a 3D-printed Pok\u00e9dex. It\u2019s … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3901,3902,1088,1202,725],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-3d-printed","tag-3d-printers","tag-3d-printing","tag-opinion","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}