Home 3D printing is not worth it for most people in the developed world, but in developing countries it can be. When I lived in the UK, I would default to tryi

Home 3D printing is not worth it for most people in the developed world, but in developing countries it can be. When I lived in the UK, I would default to trying to 3D print anything I needed around the house. But manufacturing is cheap enough, and availability of products so ubiquitous in the UK, that it was almost always cheaper to just buy the thing on Amazon instead of print it. The only thing I printed that I couldn't have bought cheaply was custom plumbing parts. Now I've moved to Kenya where Amazon doesn't deliver, import duty is extremely high, and availability of low throughput items is non-existent. I 3D print everything from spare parts for my truck to basic DIY supplies like rawl plugs and cable tidies - things I just cant get cheaply. Of course the fact that 3D printing is so useful in this environment is offset by the fact that hardly anyone here can afford it. I'm planning to set up a community makespace where people can print cheaply, but I don't expect it to cause a revolution.