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11 articles
Cameras and drones
Choosing, protecting and getting usable footage out of small cameras and camera drones.
Choosing a camera or drone 3
The decisions that actually change your footage, and the specifications that only look like they do.
Water and housings 2
Depth ratings, seals and the maintenance routine that prevents almost every flood.
Mounting, storage and care 2
Getting the camera where it needs to be, and keeping it working between shoots.
Buying safely 1
How to tell genuine hardware from the counterfeits that flooded this category.
Background and reference 3
Where the category came from, and reference material for hardware people still own.
36 articles
Desktop 3D printing
Build logs, upgrade paths and failure diagnosis across a decade of budget FDM, resin, laser and CNC machines.
Start here 2
If you have never run a printer, read these first. They cover how the machines work and what the process actually demands of you before any specific model matters.
Creality 2
The machines that set the template for budget FDM. Both were cloned extensively, so the guidance transfers widely.
Anet 8
Cheap, kit-built and enormously popular. Strong community, uneven quality control — and one machine with a genuine safety problem.
Anycubic 3
More refined out of the box than the Anet range, at a higher price. Includes the delta-geometry Kossel.
Tevo 4
Aluminium-framed machines that borrowed heavily from the CR-10, in sizes from very small to very large.
Alfawise 3
Touchscreen-driven machines that were unusually easy to live with, held back by closed firmware.
JGAurora, Geeetech, Tronxy and Zonestar 7
The rest of the budget field — including two machines we would steer you away from.
Resin, laser and CNC 3
Everything that is not fused filament. Different processes, different mess, different safety requirements.
Filament and materials 4
What each material demands from the machine, and how to tell a filament problem from a printer problem.