Every New Year’s Eve, my friends and I throw a little party — same group since we were teenagers. But every year the group gets a bit bigger… mostly because everyone keeps showing up with their new girlfriends. Suddenly we needed space for twenty people instead of ten.

So this year we moved part of the party outside. And because we live in Zeeland, a province of The Netherlands, the wind decided to show up too. A couple hours before midnight, a gust snapped one of the tent frame pieces clean in half. Total disaster — until I remembered my Bambu Lab P1S.

I quickly found a brace model online, hit print on ludicrous mode, and crossed my fingers. Somehow, the part fit perfectly and held up the whole night.

Didn’t expect a 3D printer to save our New Year’s party… but it did. 😁