Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kbutler 4851 days ago
Heard a 3D printer enthusiast's description of his children making their own doll furniture, RPG miniatures, etc.

Toys.

Barbie? Probably not.

1 comments

Sure, I agree that 3D printers have a future as children's toys (I wrote that towards the end of my blog post). But the factory-at-home idea where you print cheap objects in order to save money/time is not realistic.
Sure, I agree that paper printers have a future as toys. The printer-at-home idea where you print cheap books in order to save money/time is not realistic.
Do the majority of people print books themselves at home? Not in my experience. And if they did, they'd waste both time and money and have an inferior product.
But everybody has a paper printer at home. They are ubiquitous even though they are not economical for a pre-existing use case.