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You can, but 90% 3D printer buyers can't, and that's a good enough amount of people to spy on.
90%?
More like 99.999%
Including op.
There's a difference between building a pile of crap and actually building something that works effectively. It's a difficult hardware and software problem.
https://www.reprap.org/wiki/RepRap
The work has all been done long time ago.
The designs and software are all open source at this point.
exactly but that's also good fuel to defeat the bill.