I 3D printed a hexagon shelf for my game room and I love it

3D Hexagon Shelf
(Image credit: Beth Nicholls)

I've come a pretty long way with my 3D printer, now 3 months into using the beginner-friendly Anycubic Kobra 2, and with a much better understanding now of how it all works than I had during my first 3 weeks with a 3D printer initially. 

There are still a few areas of 3D printing that I have yet to experiment with, such as creating lithophanes or a HueForge print. But for the most part, I've managed to troubleshoot a fair amount of issues using YouTube. Even the best 3D printers will run into some trouble, for example, I learned that you can use hairspray as a quick fix to help with bed adhesion (a very frustrating problem) and that stringing can be minimised through tweaking your retraction settings in your slicer. 

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Beth Nicholls
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Beth is Creative Bloq’s Ecommerce Writer and has the fun job of finding you the very best prices and deals on creative tech. Beth kicked off her journalistic career writing for Digital Camera World, and has since earned bylines on TechRadar too. With a Masters degree in Photography, Beth loves getting to tinker with new cameras, especially camera phones, as the resident Samsung fan on the team. Her background working as a tester for CeX let her play around with all kinds of weird and wonderful products, including robots, and she’s recently gotten into 3D printing too. Outside of CB, you’ll find her gaming on her PS5, photographing local shows under the alias Bethshootsbands, and making TikToks of her dog, Tilly.