On the weekend I received my first 3D printer. The Cube. I was probably a little bit excited to try it out, as I had seen some reviews and product demos that really demonstrated its capability to produce anything you can think of. Your imagination (and CAD skills) really are the only limit.

Now I’m a basketball coach and a teacher. On the basketball side, I cannot think of anything that these would be useful for (please let me know if you do) but as a teacher, I think it is important to keep up with the latest technology. Not just so you’re staying ahead of what the kids might be talking about, but to further yourself as an educator I think you need to know a bit about a lot, and not just what you teach (for me, that would be history).

Anyway I move to unboxing, wondering exactly how long it would take between getting this thing out of the box, to actually printing. Considering that setting up a games console can now take a couple of hours once you have to connect to the internet, update all the software, create accounts, etc. So I figured setting up a machine that can make a solid object out of nothing but stringy plastic might take me hours.

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