Lot's of people recommend Glock clones, but to me they're really not the ideal starter project ...

• Relatively expensive. A quality slide and barrel and OEM parts kits cost as much or more than just buying a good used Glock.
• Obviously not an option in places that restrict the sale of gun parts.
• Too easy to slap all the parts together with zero understanding of how the thing actually works.
• You don't learn much. You're printing one part a…

u/potadoze · 2023-06-21 20:16:42 UTC · score 8

Tools exist already to ECM a 22lr barrel out of 16mm OD tubing, and development for 8mm OD tubing ECM tools is currently active.

u/monkeywaffles · 2024-07-28 21:28:07 UTC · score 12

Git has no tools for diffing steps, stls, or any 3d files, so pull requests are kinda pointless, and there's no real concept of a merge.

GitHub is also fairly antigun.

Dd2 uses git for development, but it's basically just a file dump with history