ReCurta: Our goal is to build the first Curta calculator since 1972

Ultimately, Adam has done much more to put him in his current spot than just co-host Mythbusters. He has gone to maker events, cons, and works hard to encourage others to take up the making hobby. He makes tutorials on how to create props freely available. He actively participates in the community, and makes people feel good about themselves - such as unboxing and praising creative efforts.

IMO, Adam is the quintessential example of what is possible when someone no longer has to worry about providing for food and shelter, and can do what they want. Maybe he's the 1% in that regard, but the value provided by his 1% is worth the other 99%.

I have a cheap 300USD FDM printer and even on that you can put a 0.2mm nozzle on and use 0.04mm layer height. These sizes however are already not very practical, in addition to being excruciatingly slow to print it does a very poor job of handling any geometry with overhangs in the printed object.

Even the cheaper SLA models (i.e. Wanhao D7 is ~500USD shipped from china and a kickstarter model called SparkMaker is supposedly going to be 250USD) are capable of fantastic levels of detail.