Don’t Suggest Bambu labs 3D Printers until you’ve seen this video

Watch on YouTube At this time of year people take to the internet to ask the age old question “What 3D Printer should I buy?” And like in days past we, as a community, have picked a default answer that isn’t necessarily the right answer for everyone. So, to illustrate why you might not want to suggest Bambu labs 3D …

3D Builder Alternatives now that Microsoft is killing 3D Printing

Watch on YouTube Big thanks to SlicePrintRoleplay for making an installer available to the community. It seems that Microsoft’s distain for 3D printing is deeper than initially thought. If you missed your chance to get 3D Builder, don’t despair, there are a few alternatives you can still use. I still have no idea what Microsoft’s endgame is here. Why buy …

3D Builder is being buried by Microsoft

Watch on YouTube Download and install 3D Builder now before it’s gone: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfj3t6?hl=en-us&gl=PH Why has the best 3D printing tool ever been removed from the Microsoft store? Microsoft apparently has an on-again, off-again relationship with 3D printing. At one point they were trying to make 3D printing as easy as 2D printing, and then they’re buying up great tools like …

Organize all the things with PrintABlok StorABlok

Watch on YouTube Do you have stuff you need to organize? Download and 3D print StorABloks or StorABloks Drawers today! 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 …

Best Survival 3D Printer

Watch on YouTube If you want to 3D print off the grid, which 3D printer will be the best for it? In this video I test the Creality K1, Flashforge Adventurer 5M Pro, Creality Ender 3, Qidi X-Smart S, BambuLabs Carbon X1, P1S and A1 Mini to find out which one uses the least battery. I think if I were …

X-Maker Joy Review

Watch on YouTube One thing I didn’t mention in the video is my desire to have AOSEeed make their app available to people with non-AOSeed 3D printers. I think if they gave their app the ability to export STLs, in addition to sending them directly to their X-Maker 3D printers, they’d get 100x the users, which would translate to an …

3D Printing Fails – Color Mixing

Watch on YouTube Did I really throw that 3D printer into a fire? Yes I did. How did I get the fire to light that way? I wish I could say that was just the effect of living in a dry climate, but there might have been an accelerant at play, the application of which was edited out of the …

How to avoid a scam 3D Designer

Watch on YouTube I kid you not, no sooner had I finished editing this video that another one contacted me on facebook. It took me all of 2 seconds to image search their supposed portfolio pieces in their profile to lay bare their fraud. I considered sending them the link to this video, but I realized the point wasn’t to …

Creality and Jackery review video

Watch on YouTube I don’t think I’ve ever done a video like this. Usually when reviewing equipment I just use the equipment, maybe record some B-Roll while I’m working on it, and then sit in my shed and talk about it. But this time I decided to record the video while working on it. Part of the reason is I …

3D Printing in the Wilderness

Watch on YouTube Betcha didn’t expect a stealth lesson about the Engineering process, did ya? I wanted to provide the files for the arm mounted 3D printer project, but unfortunately the specific battery backup I used is no longer available, meaning any attempt at it would involve a redesign of at least half of it. So as much as I’d …