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This release has been a long time coming. In fact I’ve been working on these for over 6 months now, judging from when I made my Blender tutorial video about making simple organizers in Blender. But it took me a long time to feel they were ready to share. I’ve been using them all over the place, and that’s helped me refine the design. But there’s more to a release than being functionally complete. Figuring out where they fit in the PrintABlok number system was a big ordeal.
In some ways I’m kind of glad I waited, though. There were some things, like raising the bottoms so that small objects don’t fall into the printablok holes, that I didn’t figure out until I tried the example that I ultimately put into the video. And for some reason the numbering system didn’t work itself out until recently. But I do thing they’re finally ready.
When I started modeling these, there was a 3D printed organizer contest going on somewhere, but I wasn’t able to finish them in time, and for a while I held on to releasing them, hoping that another would come around. Then on did… and I didn’t care for the prizes. And I realized I had no reason to hold on to these, so today’s the day I’m publishing.
At one point I wanted to call these “BlokFinity”, but ultimately I decided not to intentionally try to be annoying. Though I couldn’t help a little dig in the video.
However, speaking of the PrintABlok numbering system, at this point, the next set of PrintABlok I decide to add are probably going to have to be numbered in the thousands. And while there are some gaps in the numbering system, the point is there are a lot of PrintABloks. Over 650 individual parts at this point.
I tried something with this video, and I’m curious if anyone will say anything. I noticed that when I edit the videos they often times feel upbeat and engaging, but when the video comes out it doesn’t do well. And my guess for why that is is because when I edit the videos I watch them at 2x speed. I already know what I said, so there’s no point in listening to myself at 1x speed. But the that means I’m having a different watching experience than my viewing audience, and sometimes I can’t not watch these videos all the way to the end because the increased pace keeps things moving. So with this video I decided to try something a little sneaky. I sped my raw footage up 125%. Not a huge difference, but just enough to pick up the pace and keep things moving, a little more like what I experience in the edit. If this video does better than usual, I may do this every time.
