https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-e-SQk-wmM Your first 3D printer is likely to be an FFF or FDM, 3D printer. both work on the same principal, melting a material and depositing it in 3D space. In this chapter, we’ll be going into depth about how FFF 3D printers do their thing. The FFF 3D printing process actually starts with a piece of software called a …
2017 Year of the Rooster 3D Printed in Algix Dura Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV08x0R8tpM Code for 3D Scholars: J:LUVLXJ PJ LUVMJ Technically this is a day late. While January 28th is Chinese New Year, just like the New Year I’m most acquainted with, the day itself is pretty much secondary to the day before and the countdown at midnight. So apologies to all my Chinese viewers to not getting this out in time. Download …
3D Printed Dice Dump Day – Giving it away
What a morning. It wasn’t easy making these dice, and it wasn’t easy uploading them either. Well, it wasn’t hard, just tedious. But now it’s done, and you can purchase and download any of the varieties on Pinshape: https://pinshape.com/items/31204-3d-printed-spacedice-variation-1-prototype https://pinshape.com/items/31205-3d-printed-spacedice-variation-2-spacedice https://pinshape.com/items/31206-3d-printed-spacedice-variation-3-space-dice-plus https://pinshape.com/items/31207-3d-printed-space-dice-variation-4-diamond-joe https://pinshape.com/items/31208-3d-printed-space-dice-variation-5-corners https://pinshape.com/items/31209-3d-printed-spacedice-variation-6-gears https://pinshape.com/items/31197-3d-printed-earthdice-variation-1-prototype https://pinshape.com/items/31198-3d-printed-earthdice-variation-2-space-body https://pinshape.com/items/31199-3d-printed-earthdice-variation-3-space-plus https://pinshape.com/items/31201-3d-printed-earthdice-variation-4-diamond-joe https://pinshape.com/items/31202-3d-printed-earthdice-variation-5-corners https://pinshape.com/items/31203-3d-printed-earthdice-variation-6-gears Giving it away I want to talk for a second …
3D printed pompom ring
This silly little project was motivated by a twitter conversation between myself, the 3D Printing Noob, and the 3D Pritning Cheerleading Squad of Lauren Renee and Heather of A Pyro Design. When an offhand conversation goes to production in less than a day, I can’t really charge for that one. So when I uploaded it it went to PinShape, naturally, …
3D Printed Space Dice Gone Wild
So I might have gone a little bit space dice crazy. I think it’s out of my system now. Fortunately, you all get to reap the rewards. What follows is a descent into the madness of my mind via the medium of 3D printed dice, so strap in and enjoy the ride. After I released my Space Dice models and …
3D Printed Space Dice video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ2EsoQ-N5E Code for 3D Scholars: I:”SMKWPCIY” UEY’Z PBPY I ZTUYR I’ve been getting more into building the YouTube channel, reading up on the best practices and whatnot. That’s why what you see above is not an embedded video, because embedded views don’t “count”. Instead it’s a picture and a link to YouTube where the view does count. Also the title on …
In defense of useless 3D prints Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzc_UGfToVM Secret code for 3D Printing Scholars: H:UHN UHN TS ERL STER WYNK Some people wonder if 3D printing can be used to make useful 3D prints, when all that anyone seems to print are trinkets and knick-knacks. But of course an unlimited technology like 3D printing can do anything. Are so called “useless” 3d prints really a bad thing? Prints …
3D Printed Lithophane Lamp and Don’t Fear Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj1wGWATKko Secret code for 3D Printing Scholars: G:QCONKNQCKN, QGXJ POKXGJKN, GXJ 3J YORXSRXP This video had 2 distinct themes. The first was responding to Vicky Soma’s failure video. The second was the lithophane lamp I made and the story of the struggle with it (and my historical struggles with lithophanes). However, along the way I realized a joke that should have been …
The surprising necessity of a fan when 3D printing
Left, no fan, right, light fan. This may come as a shock to you, but there was a time where a downward blowing fan was not standard equipment on most 3D printers. The 3D printing technology at the time, developed by the likes of 3D Systems and Stratasys, never needed one. They were printing ABS in enclosures. And so the …
3D printing 101 – Which 3D Printer should you buy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VPHh7ifPk So you’ve decided that owning a 3D printer is for you. Excellent! Good choice. But don’t just go out and buy the first one that catches your eye. Do what your mama told you and look around a bit first. A little bit of research can go a long way to making a good decision. Of course I can’t …