3D Printed Smoking Low Poly Dino Volcano

Watch Video The quality of this video may seem all over the place. I guess the lesson here is “what a difference a year makes.” Nothing makes the changes the Low Poly Dino kickstarter has had on my videos as pronounced as a video with footage shoot on the old camera, my still current camera phone, the camera built into …

Making my own 3D Printed Surprise Eggs Video

Watch the video You can download my surprise egg shell here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3538929 This is the first video recorded with my brand new camera rig. I hope the difference is noticeable. That said, if no one says anything, is that a success? With the AstroPrint egg, one problem I foresaw is that it couldn’t scale up. If you scaled it up, …

Midwest Reprap Festival Day 2 #MRRF2019

You may be wondering why I didn’t post this at the end of Day 2 of the Midwest Reprap Festival, like I did the last MRRF post. There are a couple of good reasons. First of all, day 2 of MRRF doesn’t end until midnight. Then, when it finally did end, I had a couple of hours of sleep and …

Best 3D Printing April Fools

When you’re a dad like me, every day is April Fool’s day. Still, I should have prepared something for this day. Fortunately, many others already have, so I’ll just share theirs with you. XYZPrinting is creating 100% Gold Filament Josef Prusa is Josef Prusa’s Josef Prusa Josef Prusa Allie Webber has named today 100$ appropriately Elijah Horland comes out as …

Midwest Reprap Festival 2019 Day 1

I want to do a more in depth coverage of the event in the future, in video format. But for now I just want to decompress my thoughts on Day 1 of the Midwest Reprap Festival 2019. (As an aside, upgrading my phone or bringing a better camera is item #1 when I get back) The day kind of started …

March MadMess 2019 3D Printer Re-Review Part 3

Watch Video You can buy the Monoprice Voxel/Adventure 3 nozzles now. And my Adventure 3 is printing again. So it was a lot of drama for a little bit of time. I’m hitting go on this so I can pack my computer for my trip to Indiana and the Midwest RepRap Festival. I’m excited, but I’m also feeling a lot …

March MadMess 2019 3D Printer Re-Review Part 2

Watch Video Now we’re in the swing of things, as far as these reviews are concerned. 7 3D printers, no interruptions. I’m afraid I may have buried the lead as concerns my points about DUP 3D printing at the end of this video. It’s something that I’ve wanted to talk about for a while, that I’ve even considered making it’s …

Happy Pi Day – 3D Printed Pi Day Project

Watch Video This video, for as short and silly as it is, has a couple of things going on behind the scenes to talk about. First of all, this was printed on my JGAurora, which is currently my primary 3D printer. To get the time lapse I was using my webcam, that I used to make the primary video on …

March MadMess 2019 3D Printer Re-Review Part 1

Watch The Video To me, this may be some of the sloppiest editing I’ve ever done. I feel like I’m just churning this out because March is going to be super busy for me. I’ve got some new equipment to set up, I’ve got some places I need to be, I’ve got some projects I want to finish up and …