EVERYONE PANIC! Someone tried sneaking a 3D printed gun on an airplane. But thank goodness, the TSA caught them first. Everyone with a 3D printer, you’d better watch out. Actually, the TSA was pretty chill about the whole thing. They pick up a lot of guns, loaded and with ammo, but being 3D printed makes this note worthy enough to …
3D printing and board games
A New York MakerSpace is holding a game jam. It’s co-presente presented by Ultimaker and MakerOS so you know there will eventually be requirements that the games have 3D printed elements in it, though other tools like laser cutters will also be available. For $30 I would hope they’re able to supply everyone’s needs. I love the idea, but I …
Is 3D Printing Dead video
Fun fact, the original joke at the start of this video was going to be me wondering what my wife had been up to, but I switched it to my kids for reason. John Brandon’s article about the slow, sad, and ultimately predictable decline of 3D printing is badly written, badly cited, leans too heavily on personal experience, and kicked …
Pinshape “How Do 3D Printers Work” Infographic
This infographic is incomplete, but then again I feel like a complete infographic on 3D printing would be… vast. There have been lots of solutions to 3D printing, and FDM, SLA, and DLP are only the most popular right now, but it’s a good start, so I’m sharing it here. I may work this into a future video: Source https://pinshape.com/blog/how-do-3d-printers-work-sla-fdm-sls/
Setting up Blender 2.77 for 3D Printing
I’ll let you in on a little secret. This first part of this video was almost entirely lifted from my books. Content-wise, anyways. The book is much more concise and less… rambly. The second part of this video, where I point out that Blender’s STL export is now a little broken in 2.77, well, that’s original. So this video got …
Vlog video about books, Patreon, and a contest to keep you watching
I’ll admit it, I’m not above bribing you to watch my video. If you want to win a copy of my second 3D Printing Designs book, the SD Card Holder Ring, then you need to comment on YouTube. Each book has a focus. The Octopus Pencil Holder was about solid shape modification and modifiers. This second book is more about …
How not to advertise your 3D Printing school
I don’t want to give this any more legitimacy than it deserves, but I feel that we need to shine a spotlight on this sort of thing and address it openly before it becomes the norm. Watch this video, but turn off the sound, and tell me what you think they’re advertising: Obviously it’s something to do with 3D printing …
Are free 3D models holding 3D printing back?
This is a topic that I’ve been stewing over for a while. Of course I want there to be a market for 3D printable models, but what if we’re actually hurting 3D printing by our insistence that they be free? I’ll admit it’s taken me a lot to start charging for my models. That was mostly because paid 3D models …
Should I Censor my 3D Print Video?
So here’s the video I was working on last week that I didn’t get done in time. It’s a rather ambitious video, and maybe a little pretentious. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to tackle for a while, but didn’t know how until this situation dropped in my lap. What situation? Well, it goes like this. In my Tungsten fill video …
Busy week, big news, no video
It’s not that I didn’t want to make a video this week. I tried, I really did. This video was ambitious, both in topic, editing, and what’s it may end up meaning. Lost a whole day editing it. Even reshot some stuff, which I never do. But the final result was… icky poo to the ears. I’m going to have …