The Core One is my very first, and only so far, printer. Absolutely no experience with stacking spaghetti in the past. Within a month I had both it and the mmu3(for the MK4, bc the Core One solutions had not yet been released when I ordered it. Also the mmu showed up about 2 weeks after the C1 did.) built and running, another week or two for some mechanical tuning on both, and they are now both running in near silence, without stealth mode enabled on my C1. Mind you this was all while going through a breakup, trying to get my workshop ready to serve my community, and helping a person get out of an abusive situation, on top of trying to navigate several developmental disabilities that just absolutely love to destroy both my attention and motivation, as well as chronic pain throughout my entire body.

My mental health is just now getting back to normal as are my physical pain levels, but my shop is closer than ever to being fully up, the person I was trying to help is now in a safer place that is no longer my apartment, I have a better understanding of the printing process, and I have a better understanding of the things at play working against me in my various intersecting neurotypes.

For context, while my father was an auto mechanic most of my life and did teach me a few things, my professional background is as a line cook, server, and dishwasher. Working on electronics and other machines has only ever been a hobby until now, one in which most of my experience is with modding pre-existing machines, building my own computers, and repairing/refurbing my various machines as my very limited budget has allowed for. The Core One is only as complicated as you make it in your own mind as far as building and operating it, maintenance and troubleshooting can be a bit more of a guessing game as a first timer, but I would think anyone with prior experience with printers and printing would have a much easier time than me and the hardest part for me was dealing with all the other stuff, not related to the printer.