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If you live on a block with houses and your family owns a lawnmower, get permission from your parents and go from door to door offering to mow their lawns.
It's shockingly tough to find someone who will mow a lawn, and you can probably clean up over a weekend, making enough to buy a 3d printer if you really want one. There are some models that are fairly inexpensive, a couple hundred dollars.
For real though, just going door to door with something simple like lawnmowing would probably do you way better than you'd expect. If they don't know what to offer you, offer 20-40 bucks, and what's really cool is then in a few weeks you can go back and say "Hey, I mowed your lawn a few weeks ago, just wondering if you'd like me to do it again" and if you can do it reasonably regularly you'll be in high demand for a lot of the families who just want a mowed lawn.
I'll add if you do do it take some of your earnings and invest it back into the lawnmower if you don't know when the oil was last changed or the blade or spark plug replaced. Small simple things like that can make the mower last much longer. I just had one die on me after never changing the oil for a decade. Oops.
And then when op does get a printer he can look up things he might be able.to print for it.
I second this idea. That's what I did when I was a kid, and my little brother has been doing it for a few years now and has saved up around $2400.