Maya Dalton

Maya Dalton covers 3D printing for BitsFromBytes from Austin, Texas, where she works as a freelance industrial designer and has been printing since 2018. Her home shop runs a Bambu Lab X1-Carbon, a Prusa MK4, and an Elegoo Saturn 3 resin printer, all of which she uses for both personal projects and client prototypes. Maya publishes original designs on Printables where she has more than forty uploaded models ranging from functional parts to tabletop miniatures, and she is a longstanding member of ATX Hackerspace where she occasionally teaches weekend workshops on CAD for beginners. Her printer reviews come from months of actual use across many different filament types because she thinks the unboxing review genre is nearly useless for people trying to decide what to buy. She has particular opinions about which manufacturers actually honor warranties in the US versus which ones disappear when the device breaks. Outside 3D printing she collects old hand planes and is learning traditional furniture joinery from a retired cabinetmaker in her neighborhood.
FDM printers, resin printers, filaments, slicers, CAD (Fusion 360), miniatures, functional prints

SparkMaker SLA 3D Printer: The $99 Kickstarter That Changed Resin Printing Complete review and analysis of the SparkMaker SLA 3D printer — the affordable Kickstarter-funded resin printer that created the sub-$300 desktop SLA market.
SparkMaker SLA 3D Printer: How a $99 Kickstarter Campaign Democratized Resin Printing3D Printing

SparkMaker SLA 3D Printer: How a $99 Kickstarter Campaign Democratized Resin Printing

Maya DaltonMaya DaltonMay 21, 2026
Bambu Lab X2D: Specs, Price & What's New (April 2026) Bambu Lab launched the X2D today — dual extrusion in a compact X-series body, ~$1,049 base. Here are the confirmed specs, what the dual nozzle system actually does, and who should buy it.
Bambu Lab X2D Launched Today: Dual Extrusion Finally Comes to the X Series3D Printing

Bambu Lab X2D Launched Today: Dual Extrusion Finally Comes to the X Series

Maya DaltonMaya DaltonMay 21, 2026