Pushing 3D Printing with… a plate?

Watch on YouTube I have an update with the tableware. After “testing” them with a few meals, I popped them in the dishwasher and… the sanitization stage caused them to warp and melt. They’re not unusable at this point, but I don’t want to commit to using them like this. So, I’m going to have to print a whole new …

Meet ME! and Ridiculing the racists

Watch the Video on YouTube Wow. What can I say about this video. It went off the rails right from the start, and just kept getting deeper and deeper into the weeds. And yet it also ended up being one of the most poignant and meaningful conversations I’ve had in a log time. We barely touched on my past kickstarters, …

Artillery Genius Review

Watch the Video As impressive a feat as doing a print while reviewing the printer is, when should the quietness of a 3D printer matter in your decision to buy it? You’re not supposed to be near open frame 3D printers when their printing anyways, right? Well, if you’re a young person in a small apartment where your choices 3D …

3D Print Better with One Simple Trick – Slow Down! Video

Watch Video The TL:DW goes like this: Slow down for better prints. But not just slow down. There are a couple of tricks you can use: Slow Down Turn on Z-Hop Print single objects or multiple objects at once How much should you slow down? I didn’t mention in the video because it’s different for each printer. 3D printers used …

Meta Chess with the Flashforge Creator Max 2 Review

Watch Video The Creator Max 2. Like I said in the video, its price is creeping up there, but justifying it along the way. The lack of wifi is a sticking point for me, but what it’s ultimately capable of is inspiring. Here’s an example. I’m working on 3D printing some utensils, like forks and spoons, and to get the …

How to Export from Blender for 3D Printing

Watch Video While this weeks video is stuck crawling out of the editing pit, I decided to do one of my quick turn around 3D print tutorial videos, this time about a subject that I’m kinda surprised I didn’t already cover. Maybe I thought how to export from Blender was too simple a thing to make a whole video about, …

3DPProfessor 2021 Shareholder Presentation Video

Watch Video Behind the scenes, I played with using the NVidia RTX noise canceling… and that’s why my words are sometimes being clipped. Apparently according to the AI, my voice isn’t quite human enough sometimes. I have to play with the settings, but it did get rid of the air conditioner hissing in the background. 2020 has seen me adopting …

Big 3D Printer, Little Price, Guest Reviewer, the Longer LK1 Video

Watch Video I was experimenting with a new wireless lav mic in this video, but I wasn’t willing to commit to the new untested mic, so that’s why I’m wearing two lav mics. And while the cheap wireless lav mic I used is nice and portable, there was a lot of hiss and clipping in the recording which I maybe …

10 ways 3D printer manufacturer’s can fail

Watch on YouTube Don’t sell crap in a box Be aware of your competition Documentation Quality Assurance Treat support questions seriously Test your designs Don’t put demanding requirements (esp time) on the review Do not attempt to stop a bad review Don’t offer to pay off a reviewer Don’t invite reviewers to review your printers Making the glitch effects at …

Make a Custom Snowflake Christmas Ornament in Blender

Part 1 Part 2 It should be mentioned that you don’t need to do the cursive signature thing by hand and you can just use a script font, which is how I’ve done this in the past. but script fonts had a problem in that overlapping letter was overlapping solids, and that messed up the old Boolean modifier (or the …