3D Printing Nerd

I had the chance to sit down and have a conversation with Adrian Bowyer. He is the father of Rep Rap, and his work is directly responsible for what I’m able to do today. He is quite the conversationalist and an extremely good human. Have a go at our conversation.

Is 3D Printing Practical? I get asked that a lot. Yes, 3d printing makes all sorts of things, but the practical use is a favorite among many. Here, we go through a few of my practical 3d printing projects and see how they are holding up!

TREELON from Chaos Coretech printed in wood filament. It was a bit stringy, so I show how to use a heat gun to clear the strings. Also, printed in Prusament!

HUGE 3d printers at ERRF! gCreate showed off the gMax 2.0 – their next entry into the massive build volume market! You get to see this and MANY others in this East Coast RepRap Festival episode!

The Mandalorian is on Disney+ REALLY SOON, so we 3d printed a FULL SIZE Mandalorian Helmet!

These Maleficent horns are fully 3d printed! Check out the Raise3D Pro2 Plus 3d printer: http://raise3d.com/pro2

Interviews from the show floor at the East Coast RepRap Festival (ERRF). Thanks to SURFSHARK for sponsoring this episode. Get 83% off AND an extra month FREE: http://surfshark.deals/3dnerd CODE: 3DNERD

The 3Devo Composer aims to let you make your own filament, but it DOES come at a price. In this First Impressions episode, we make our first spool of filament, and test it by printing a 3DBenchy.

Let’s get 20 million trees planted by 2020 – https://teamtrees.org #TeamTrees I get to talk with A LOT of people, and my microphone is boring. It’s time to model and 3d print a MIC FLAG. In this episode, I show you how to do that, PLUS, talk about troubleshooting the failed prints.

Peopoly has the Phenom – a HUGE resin mSLA resin 3d printer, capable of printing MASSIVE objects out of 405nm curable resin! 1/5th the cost of the Form 3L but a LARGER print volume!