Artillery Genius Review

Watch the Video As impressive a feat as doing a print while reviewing the printer is, when should the quietness of a 3D printer matter in your decision to buy it? You’re not supposed to be near open frame 3D printers when their printing anyways, right? Well, if you’re a young person in a small apartment where your choices 3D …

3D Print Better with One Simple Trick – Slow Down! Video

Watch Video The TL:DW goes like this: Slow down for better prints. But not just slow down. There are a couple of tricks you can use: Slow Down Turn on Z-Hop Print single objects or multiple objects at once How much should you slow down? I didn’t mention in the video because it’s different for each printer. 3D printers used …

Meta Chess with the Flashforge Creator Max 2 Review

Watch Video The Creator Max 2. Like I said in the video, its price is creeping up there, but justifying it along the way. The lack of wifi is a sticking point for me, but what it’s ultimately capable of is inspiring. Here’s an example. I’m working on 3D printing some utensils, like forks and spoons, and to get the …

How to Export from Blender for 3D Printing

Watch Video While this weeks video is stuck crawling out of the editing pit, I decided to do one of my quick turn around 3D print tutorial videos, this time about a subject that I’m kinda surprised I didn’t already cover. Maybe I thought how to export from Blender was too simple a thing to make a whole video about, …

3DPProfessor 2021 Shareholder Presentation Video

Watch Video Behind the scenes, I played with using the NVidia RTX noise canceling… and that’s why my words are sometimes being clipped. Apparently according to the AI, my voice isn’t quite human enough sometimes. I have to play with the settings, but it did get rid of the air conditioner hissing in the background. 2020 has seen me adopting …

Big 3D Printer, Little Price, Guest Reviewer, the Longer LK1 Video

Watch Video I was experimenting with a new wireless lav mic in this video, but I wasn’t willing to commit to the new untested mic, so that’s why I’m wearing two lav mics. And while the cheap wireless lav mic I used is nice and portable, there was a lot of hiss and clipping in the recording which I maybe …

10 ways 3D printer manufacturer’s can fail

Watch on YouTube Don’t sell crap in a box Be aware of your competition Documentation Quality Assurance Treat support questions seriously Test your designs Don’t put demanding requirements (esp time) on the review Do not attempt to stop a bad review Don’t offer to pay off a reviewer Don’t invite reviewers to review your printers Making the glitch effects at …

Make a Custom Snowflake Christmas Ornament in Blender

Part 1 Part 2 It should be mentioned that you don’t need to do the cursive signature thing by hand and you can just use a script font, which is how I’ve done this in the past. but script fonts had a problem in that overlapping letter was overlapping solids, and that messed up the old Boolean modifier (or the …

The absolute Beginner’s Guide to Blender Intro Video

Watch on YouTube How do I follow up that last video, a video which is blowing up my analytics? When I get a success like that it’s kinda paralyzing. I mean I hope every video does well, but this one raises the bar! Now I have to make sure that all of my videos are critical analysis with provocative titles …

PrintABloks for All!

Download the first set of PrintABloks on MyMiniFactory. Go read the full release on Kickstarter.