Best Use of Plastic Filament: 2023 3D Printing Awards

Awarding the most creative, most practical, and most utterly bizarre uses of plastic filament in the past year.

Grand Prix: "Infinite Print Loop"

A 3D printed spiral staircase that somehow printed itself while printing itself. We don't know how, we just do.

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Runner-up: "Glow-in-the-Dark Gnome Farming System"

A system for growing glow-in-the-dark gnomes in a controlled environment using 3D printed tubes and plastic filament.

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Special Mention: "Printed Plastic Puns 3000"

A 3D printed pun generator that prints an endless stream of terrible, yet somehow endearing, puns using only plastic filament.

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