{"id":52,"date":"2026-02-28T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:26:13","slug":"in-the-beginning-there-was-the-anet-a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"In The Beginning There Was The Anet A8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I purchased my first 3d printer back in 2013, IIRC, from Gearbest. This was when they were only in Asia, and it took about 6 weeks to get here. The printer was the Anet A8 which is a DIY Prusa i3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/anet_a8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/anet_a8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/anet_a8-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/anet_a8-768x615.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anet A8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It came as a kit that had to be built. It took me about 2 1\/2 weeks to assemble it. Then I found that a couple of the parts were broken. The frame is made from laser cut ABS. Now I had to wait an additional 3 weeks for the replacements parts to be sent out. The parts did come and I was able to complete the kit and start printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next post will talk about various upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased my first 3d printer back in 2013, IIRC, from Gearbest. This was when they were only in Asia, and it took about 6 weeks to get here. The printer was the Anet A8 which is a DIY Prusa i3. It came as a kit that had to be built. It took me about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/?p=52\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In The Beginning There Was The Anet A8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerserviceswinona.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}