Modeling my daughter’s drawing in 3D video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an8YqY1NxLA Print your own Princess Keira here: https://pinshape.com/items/32675-3d-printed-kid-drawing-to-3d-model-princess-kyera Apparently I forgot to report on my 3rd livestream with my daughter. Time to correct that. It was a fairly successful livestream, as was the printing of the model afterwards. After the stream I discovered something. I wasn’t happy with the topology of the sculpted face. I wanted it to be smoother, less …

Modeling my kids drawing livestream 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz5UZsZIpG4 You can download the model from the stream here: https://pinshape.com/items/32968-3d-printed-kids-drawing-to-3d-model-max Almost finished this one during the stream, but it took a little finishing afterwards, and then the usual fiddling for an hour to get things just right before I was happy. As I said during the stream I wasn’t going to make any attempt to make this FFFriendly that excepting …

Fixing the Replicator heated build plate, once and for all

An email this morning made me realize this was an adventure I had completely on twitter. For those who don’t follow the breakneck pace of the social media machine, I should do better commenting these things here. On Monday, November 28th I woke up and my heated build plate, which was working fine on Saturday, wasn’t heating up any more. …

5 reasons to get a 3D printer, even if you’re not a designer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY_ep8KiJho Code for 3D Scholars: M:D’I RKQQC It’s interesting to me to put that old footage next to the new ones. Both lighting and sound has improved substantially over time. Here’s the countdown: 3D Printers are cheaper and easier to use than ever There are more things than you could ever hope to print More demand for 3D models is good …

3D Printing 101 – Slicer Settings

Click to play video Slicers are a very special piece of software that turns a 3D model into instructions that a 3D printer can follow to make a 3D print. Slicers do not generally create the 3D model, for that, you need a separate piece of software for CAD or 3D design. Or you can download the 3D model that …

Modeling my kids drawing 2 livestream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXhnwBbf6ck The best livestream to date. I know I say that every time, but I think I’ve worked out every technical problem I possibly can with the hardware setup I have. 45 minutes that didn’t devolve into a slide show, though there were a few drops when I did some a particularly intensive tasks in Blender. At this point the …

3D modeling my kid’s drawing video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7sJi2fJTug As mentioned in the stream, I’m starting a goFundMe to get the equipment I need to improve my videos, so if you can, please support me. https://www.gofundme.com/3DPrintingProfessor Had a good time on the stream, and got about 25% through modeling the character. However the stream got laggier and laggier as I went on until it was, once again, just a …

PPAP video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqeWDeVHuGs Code for 3D Scholars: K:ZGONNZYZOGP IOG EHDMOK Believe it or not, I’m actually a huge fan of the memes. Those sort of easily replicated familiar language of the “in” crowd of the internet. It’s the intellectual shorthand that lets us all chuckle at each other’s jokes. I’ve subtly referenced certian memes in the past like duplicating the unhelpful teacher for my …

PomPom ring live stream… almost watchable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM-23DMuKMo M0nday’s livestream went well. I showed off how to I modeled the PomPom ring, answered some questions, opened some mail, and generally had a good time. Thanks to everyone who showed up and made this live stream a success. Technically I’ve overcome a lot of problems since I started live streaming, including getting the chat window up there, but …

3D Printing 101 – Anatomy of an FFF 3D Print

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HpHw4fbhUk So now that we’ve talked about the 3D printer, let’s talk about the anatomy of an FFF 3D print. Here is a 3D print stopped before it completed. Looking inside this print the parts of an FFF 3D print can be illustrated. FFF 3D prints are made in layers. The lowest layer is the first, the next layer goes …