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Stefan Hermann
Personal blog · cnckitchen.com/bloghardware
Stefan Hermann writes CNC Kitchen, a personal blog at cnckitchen.com about hardware. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CNC Kitchen, Stefan Hermann's site, for experiments on 3D printing temperatures, materials and part strength, such as brick-layer and transparent-print strength tests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
3D printing experiments, material tests, hardware reviews and maker projects by Stefan Hermann. New videos and articles every week.
Most-linked posts?
- Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-13
What Hacker News says?
Are you asking about best practices? Or the theory behind the printing process? I think there is a ton of this actually, because when 3D printing became affordable, the community did a huge amount of experimentation to figure out how to make their $250 Ender reliable. Stefan's CNC Kitchen is a good channel if you want to see experiments with things like temperatures and materials. https://www.cnckitchen.com/ Or you…
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on “Design for 3D-Printing”Submitted Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing as a story · 120 points
HN discussionCnc kitchen did some tests on brick layers: https://www.cnckitchen.com/blog/brick-layers-make-3d-prints-... He saw some strength gains, though not huge gains.
Comment linking /blog/brick-layers-make-3d-prints-stronger
on “Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing”Submitted Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPretty sure it was this one, describing the properties of the "transparent glass" printing method: https://www.cnckitchen.com/blog/transparent-fdm-3d-prints-ar... So higher than normal flow, high temp, slow feed rate, and very little cooling showed remarkable strength along layer lines, up to 93% of horizontally printed specimens.
Comment linking /blog/transparent-fdm-3d-prints-are-clearly-stronger
on “Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing”You can recycle PLA scraps yourself. The only problem is that devices for this are so expensive that it isn’t worthwhile economically and you likely do not have enough scraps. you also need to separate your prints properly so that other plastics are not contaminating the scraps. You also need to buy pellets in order to get a good color. And also the recycled PLA will probably end up being inferior to the stuff you w…
Comment linking /blog/recycling-old-3d-prints-into-new-filament
on “Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market”