at least it is for YouTuber Mike Lake. Mike's spent three months making a video about "upgrading" his Porsche Boxter into a super-high-end GT3 RS using only PETG and his seemingly limitless patience. 681 hours of 3D printing went into the current status of his Boxter GT3 RS, with over 100 hours of print failures encountered too. As a Porsche lover with no hope of owning a Porsche, this brings a tear to my eye. Keep at it, Mike, keep at it. P.S: Is that an Integra Type R or a Silvia S15 in the background of the vid?

3D print it a better exhaust system out of stainless steel. The engineers at Graham Rahal Performance used their Markforged FX10 to fabricate a stainless steel exhaust component, because apparently, "factory-perfect" is for quitters. The same printer also handles their less glamorous work, like nylon fixtures and prototypes. Get a little peek inside Grahm Rahal at their Ferraris, McLarens, and Porsches in this Markforged video.

your unwanted/failed 3D prints might end up in your mouth. As food. According to reports from interestingengineering.com, via the efforts of a specialized, gooey type of fungus, Biophelion discovered plastic can be broken down into the edible polymer pullulan. I guess that means we'll be keeping our Bambu purges in the future. Oh, and we've plenty of benchys laying around. Anyone peckish?

And not just any clear out. The Portuguese manufacturer of high-performance printers is clearing out its custom in-house machines, meaning all sorts of weird, non-standard build volumes are up for grabs. The printers are all used, large area V-Core 4 designs, but in many cases have Z-heights topping out at 100-150 mm. Now's your chance to enact that functional printer-as-a-coffee-table dream.

and you’ll hear a mix of praise and frustration. At the latest TCT UK User Group, AM adopters agreed their printers are reliable and repeatable, but full integration is still held back by inconsistent material data, the absence of a trusted cost-modeling tool, and ongoing safety and training gaps. The result? A clear to-do list for the industry if 3D printing is to move from pockets of success to true company-wide adoption. Dive into the full report for the details.

The print doesn't stick to the plate, or it does, but only partially. Maybe the print finishes, but the filament isn't it the best shape, so you end up with stringing. There are a lot of irritating things that can go awry when printing. What's the one 3D printing problem you run into the most?

There are so many homes being printed across the U.S., it's hardly news anymore. Yet, this 32-home project, with some expected to hit the market by year’s end, is ambitious. Most will be 1,000-sq.ft, two-bedroom, two-bath houses, priced from $450K, yet this one pictured is already on Zillow for $685K. Developer VeroTouch told Denver's 5280 Magazine that printing cuts costs by up to 20%, reduces labor by 40%, and shaves timelines by 20%.