I am a hobbyist, and my job will probably never require me to design and print anything for work.

I do really enjoy the process of conceptualizing, designing, and printing, and have done so for myself and some close acquaintances.

I've spent many hours/days learning the tools of the trade and was wondering if there was an opportunity to make some money as a side gig. Has anyone been successful doing this, and how did you go about it?

Here are a couple of my early designs, I plan to upload more once I clean things up a bit.

https://www.thingiverse.com/landon8848/designs

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It is illegal to counterfeit money, and my printer is resin, not paper or metal. So... no.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Canada uses plastic money. Is it illegal to counterfeit another country's money? 🤔

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Happened before. I can't find the story though. I think it was someone who showed up in Europe claiming to be a government official for a South American country. They commissioned printers to make a lot of currency notes. They vanished and it was discovered they weren't part of this countries' government.

    Most US counterfeit US Bank Notes are printed in Colombia these days.

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