Band 7: Describe a piece of technology that you find difficult to use. - When did you get it? - What did you get it for? - How often do you use it? - How do you feel about it? (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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A piece of technology that I find difficult to use would be my 3D printer. It is basically like a normal printer, except it can print solid blocks of plastic. I mostly use it for my personal projects, you know, building my... I'm trying to become an electrical engineer, and I'm building robots that operate completely on their own and stuff like that. I used it to print parts for them. I first used it back in 2024, I think. That's when I got the 3D printer. I assembled it myself, and it was a hard process. The guide was very hard. The handbook, per se, was really complicated. The reason it is very difficult is because of the software. It's called Bandalab Trainer; maybe you've heard of it. The software is terrible. It's frustrating. To get it to work, I had to spend 15 minutes standing by the 3D printer, trying to get it to connect to my phone, which should happen over the internet, by the way. But once it eventually works, I don't really feel happy because now I have to wait three hours or even more for it to potentially fail. It fails very often because I use it on a wobbly table, so it wobbles a lot as it prints, and that creates a lot of issues when printing. That is also a factor in why it is difficult to use.

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A piece of technology that I found difficulty would be my 3D printer. It is basically like a normal printer except it can fit solid blocks of plastic. And I mostly use it for making my personal projects, you know, building my… I’m trying to become an electrical engineer and I’m like building robots that were completely on their own, around and stuff like that. I used it to print parts for it. I first used it back in 2024 I think. That’s when I got the 3D printer. I assembled it myself and it was a hard difficult process. What is it called? The guide was very hard. The handbook per se. It was really complicated and And the reason it is very difficult is because of the software. Like, it’s called a Bandalab trainer, maybe you heard of it. And the software is terrible. It’s rancid. Like, to get it to work, I had to like, spend 15 minutes standing by the 3D printer, trying to get it to connect to my phone. Which should happen by the internet, by the way. But once it eventually works out, I don’t really feel happy because now I have to wait three hours or even more for it to potentially fail. It fails very often because I use it on a wobbly table, so it wobbles a lot as it prints and that creates a lot of issues when printing. That is also a factor to why it is difficult to use.

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