Full Color in Tinkercad Video

https://youtu.be/ly0UQS2HaRo I could take this opportunity to talk about a lot of different things. I could talk about the on-screen keys utility that I’m using, and I do want to know if anyone noticed that and if it helped. I could talk about my relationship with XYZ Printing where, in exchange for a Davinci color I am contractually obligated me …

Sinterit Lisa Print Review Video

https://youtu.be/JG1W9nFSRdk It’s difficult to make an honest assessment of a printer, based on the prints alone. Especially a carefully curated group of prints. There’s a lot of questions that the prints alone don’t answer. Like: How easy is their software to setup and use? How much space does the printer require (including accessories)? What settings had to be adjusted to …

How to make $100 per month with 3D printing video

https://youtu.be/3urG1unvD-c Have a passion Get motivated to make money Fail early, fail cheap Strike oil Turn passion in to habit I’m expecting this video to do well. I’m not often right on these sorts of expectations, so… I guess we’ll see. That’s part of why I broke it into a 2 parter. But also, because part 2 gets real, real …

You Should Be Watching BarbMakesThings Video

https://youtu.be/Tm5vvFq-sKo My first shout out video is here, and it couldn’t go to a more deserving channel. I do not know why BarbMakesThings doesn’t get the love. Seriously, by the time I press send on this post, my video may already be to more more views that her last 3 videos combined. That ain’t right. So I’m sending her some …

Call me the Laser Cutting Professor

Don’t call me the laser cutting professor. But I am super stoked to have a laser cutter in the new Maker Space. To learn how to use it, and how to design for it, I decided to make a gear clock. The idea is that the minute hand has a small gear and the hour gear has a 12x circumference so …

Jimmy’s Tevo build

When Jimmy Shaw came to visit I bequeathed him my Tevo Tarantula. I just don’t have time to build printers like I used to, and Jimmy was sure he’d be able to. And he has. You can watch his two part live build below, and of course, subscribe to his channel. It looks like it took a good 5 hours …

Organizing your Blender projects to keep your sanity

https://youtu.be/PkNGD5Jb448 When you get too much going on in your Blender projects, it can be confusing keeping track of the final result of a composite of many modifiers on an object. There are a couple of tricks you can use to keep things organized. First of all, learn to use the local view (Numpad /) to view a single object …

Maker Space Grand Opening Report

How many time am I going to type “Makerspace” before my hands accept that it’s not a word? The St. George Library maker space is now officially open for business. Local news coverage spread the word about the space and a whole host of local people signed up. All day long I was able to answer adult’s questions and help kids …

Makerspace intro and behind the scenes video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZgVUw5kZAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5a2SLKDvYI Let’s start with the positive, shall we? That maker space intro video turned out great. exactly what I had in mind. A perfect way to launch the new channel. The only thing I forgot to say was “Make something of yourself” which is kind of my tie in with new years resolutions, and stuff. But otherwise a great …