How to fix a 3D printer clog by checking the fan

Watch on YouTube Every once in a while I wish I could make more evergreen content like this. I really should. But part fo the thing about evergreen content is that feeling of “Didn’t I already di this”, which is more than half the time true. Plus, there’s just the fact that there are only so many hours in the …

Is zero purge on the BambuLAB AMS 3D Printers possible?

Watch on YouTube Check out Cthulhu and Friends on kickstarter and sign up to be notified when it goes live in April. This video ran a little longer than usual. I had intended to include a more detailed guide to using Leon Fisher Skipper’s purge waste reduction scripts. But unfortunately, that had to be cut. Fortunately, his makerworld page does …

Best 3D Printer for Beginners 2024

Watch on YouTube As I’m writing this I am suffering under some kind of illness that is making me miserable. Just thought I’d mention it incase this post devolves into inane rambling, so you can know what’s going on. Uploading prints to the Creality Cloud from you phone is slightly more involved than I made is sound in the video. …

Fiverr Interviews

Watch on YouTube If you missed my blog post on what I’m planning for this campaign, you can check it out here. With this video’s description and thumbnail I wanted to play up the cost, but I want to be clear, this price is a steal. Almost literally. Almost every artist I worked with on fiverr was from Indonesia, meaning …

Creality at CES video

Watch on YouTube CES isn’t for you and I. It’s for investors and investees to meet. Getting to attend CES was a dream come true. It’s the sort of dream come true where when it does come true you kind of end up going “what was the big deal?” CES is not like a Makerfair or Rep Rap festival. Heck, …

Announcing Cthulhu and Friends coming in April

If you support me on Printables or Patreon you should have received this month’s reward. In honor of Chinese New Year and 2024 being the year of the Dragon, I brought out the articulated dragon model from the PrintABlok:Beasts campaign. This model has been newly updated with the improved ball joints and so should hold it’s poses better, longer. In …

Ankermake M5C Review Video

Watch on YouTube Ankermake really tried to do something new with the M5C. And while that could have gone very badly, or very well, it ended up… not bad. Not great, but not bad. I had a good time with it. But there’s enough little problems with it that it doesn’t merit a recommendation. Had they stuck with designing that …

How to go Pro, Learning Designer Con’s Secrets

Watch On YouTube Designer Con was recommended to me by someone at the Orange County Maker Fair Discord, and I immediately recognized it as a potential next step on my path towards a career as a toy designer. And boy howdy did that turn out to be true. However, after looking at this footage, I went and got a steady …