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These days, 3D printers are capable of manifesting objects seemingly out of thin air with nothing more than heat, filament, and a digital 3D model — from life-changing resources like prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs to less important, but still useful objects like coasters, figurines, and playable vinyl records . Not all is perfect in the 3D printing process, however, and what starts off as an idea or can spiral into a disaster. Printer owners have reported a number of errors since the device's invention relating both to the printing process and its aftermath.

If you aren't careful about where you place objects near your 3D printer, it can consume them. One Reddit user recounted the moment his glasses lost a battle to the printing machine. "I was manually leveling the bed on my FDM printer, and took my glasses off so I could see the gap between the nozzle and the glass better," the user said. "When the process was finished, the bed automatically homed...…