Tariffs Are Making Everything More Expensive. Here’s How I’m Using My Old 3D Printer to Offset the Cost

Like many nerds, I have a 3D printer (or two) sitting around that I picked up at the peak of the hobby’s popularity. Surely, I’ll use this thing all the time, I thought. I’d never again purchase something I could make at home for free. That turned out to be a lie, because buying something is almost always easier than making something. That is, until Trump’s tariff threats.

Specifically (though not exclusively), the end of the De Minimis tax exemption changed the math for me quite a…