1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,880 - We'll just be unkind to it here. Right? Stop. 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,910 I'm trying to screw with you. Stop. - Screw with you. 3 00:00:06,910 --> 00:00:11,370 - As I get older, there's one thing that I want my 3D printers to do, work. 4 00:00:11,370 --> 00:00:15,990 And you, you think that's pretty easy but it really is not an apparently AnchorMake 5 00:00:15,990 --> 00:00:20,063 has made one that uses the power of AI to prevent spaghetti. 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,643 Let's test it out and huge thanks to anchor make for sponsoring this video. 7 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:31,830 Oh I've been using 3D printers for the better part of 10 years. 8 00:00:31,830 --> 00:00:35,110 And for about five of those, I didn't use 3D printers 9 00:00:35,110 --> 00:00:38,260 because they're so good at being just terrible. 10 00:00:38,260 --> 00:00:41,410 For a long while there, I only liked using laser cutters 11 00:00:41,410 --> 00:00:44,430 because then at least if it fails, you only waste an hour 12 00:00:44,430 --> 00:00:48,100 or two instead of a day. When you're working on videos like this, 13 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:52,230 you can't waste a day. Oh In the last couple of years though, 14 00:00:52,230 --> 00:00:57,080 3D printers have gotten to the point where, well I enjoy using them again. 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,080 They work well. They give me my parts and I just arrive the next day. 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,020 And it's sitting there. It's fantastic. It's hopefully this one can do that and even better 17 00:01:04,020 --> 00:01:09,163 Apparently faster too. Although their 70% claims are kind of eh. 18 00:01:12,450 --> 00:01:14,843 Oh, fancy! Look at this. 19 00:01:16,030 --> 00:01:20,600 Apparently this thing only takes 15 minutes to put together. I guess we're gonna find out soon. 20 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,720 I'm running out of table. I like the packaging. It seems like the whole thing arrived in intact. 21 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,370 Despite you know, UPS's best efforts. 22 00:01:30,370 --> 00:01:34,810 This plate rate here looks really expensive. This is all aluminum. 23 00:01:34,810 --> 00:01:38,274 I don't know if it's hallow or not. Can we take it apart? Let's take it apart. 24 00:01:38,274 --> 00:01:42,930 We're supposed to be putting it together, but you know, sometimes things just start going the wrong way. 25 00:01:42,930 --> 00:01:46,860 Have an included tool kit. Very nice. Oh weird. 26 00:01:46,860 --> 00:01:50,033 Look at this. It's a changeable Allen key. 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,310 - We'll see how difficult it is. Okay, bottom's plastic. 28 00:01:56,310 --> 00:02:00,583 That's good. I don't know the price yet. So I'm mostly just looking 29 00:02:00,583 --> 00:02:07,090 at this and hoping it's not too bad. Normally you don't compliment people on using plastic. 30 00:02:07,090 --> 00:02:12,368 But if this whole thing was aluminum I would've been pretty concerned about the pricing. 31 00:02:12,368 --> 00:02:18,230 It's just injection mold of plastic. The top though is a piece of aluminum. 32 00:02:18,230 --> 00:02:19,653 Wonder what the chances are. 33 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:25,300 Heck yeah. Did we do it? 34 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,070 Feels like there's a sneaky screw somewhere. Do you know how many units there are 35 00:02:29,070 --> 00:02:32,550 in existence right now Jono? - [Jono] No probably very little. 36 00:02:32,550 --> 00:02:36,270 - Yeah, very few. I know that this is all beta build stuff. 37 00:02:36,270 --> 00:02:40,610 So how many exist right now? We don't know, but it can't be very many. 38 00:02:40,610 --> 00:02:45,150 So we probably shouldn't break it. Found the last screw required to get this open. 39 00:02:45,150 --> 00:02:48,870 It requires a 16th inch hex. 40 00:02:48,870 --> 00:02:51,213 This right here does not reach all the way down. 41 00:02:52,633 --> 00:02:57,430 - [David] They knew what they were doing. - Yeah. They probably don't want us in here 42 00:02:57,430 --> 00:03:00,143 which look, fair enough. We're gonna be right beside AC. 43 00:03:01,850 --> 00:03:07,770 Ha ha! Damn afraid Jono this is gonna be expensive. 44 00:03:07,770 --> 00:03:11,500 There's no way this is cheap. That's a very nice and very expensive 45 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:14,920 block of aluminum right there. One and a half, one and a half. 46 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:18,690 Would've had to come out of like a three inch thick piece of aluminum. 47 00:03:18,690 --> 00:03:22,790 This has to be a beta version thing. This would either have to be cast 48 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,020 or plastic in the final one. There's no way they're doing something this expensive 49 00:03:28,020 --> 00:03:32,010 or it's gonna be like a $5,000 machine. $429. Okay, yeah. 50 00:03:32,010 --> 00:03:36,420 There's no way that this right here is a part on the final version. 51 00:03:36,420 --> 00:03:41,690 If the early bird prices and that's what like a bit off. So that means the final is gonna come around 800 ish. 52 00:03:43,210 --> 00:03:46,950 - Okay. Yeah. There's no way this part's on there. 53 00:03:46,950 --> 00:03:53,190 This is a really nice part. Our Pantheon printer has a very similar like 54 00:03:53,190 --> 00:03:55,523 build plate that they put everything against. 55 00:03:56,890 --> 00:04:02,300 It's $8,000. If the product is this and it comes in at $429 56 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:04,550 you should just buy it and take the aluminum. 57 00:04:05,710 --> 00:04:09,960 All right, now we can have a look at what's in here. We have a nice little power supply here. 58 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:15,000 24 volts. Oh Jono, looks like we can change the output voltage. 59 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,813 Should we try and over clog this thing? 60 00:04:18,230 --> 00:04:22,080 - That, that wouldn't work. Don't do that. You also have our nice little controller. 61 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,413 I find it really interesting if they use type C. All right. 62 00:04:25,413 --> 00:04:30,220 We just got confirm from Anchor. This aluminum bit here is going to be cast 63 00:04:30,220 --> 00:04:34,240 in the final product, but it will be all aluminum which is sweet. 64 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:40,090 Do we read the instructions, Jono? Or do we just go for it? - Yeah, this seems very yoloable. 65 00:04:40,090 --> 00:04:42,493 There's probably a good way to do this. 66 00:04:43,623 --> 00:04:49,380 This one has a bent pin. No, I didn't bend the pin. It came with a bent pin. 67 00:04:49,380 --> 00:04:53,820 Oops. Now it's more bent. Is there like a way you're supposed to do this? 68 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,800 - How? I was definitely supposed to plug in those motors 69 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,290 after it was through which would've made this way easier read the instructions. 70 00:05:02,290 --> 00:05:03,163 Don't be like me. 71 00:05:05,890 --> 00:05:10,313 - Yeah. Actually don't read the instructions. Make sure the first thing you do with every product 72 00:05:10,313 --> 00:05:15,480 you own is void the warranty. Yeah. I know people that kept the warranty on their things. 73 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:16,530 They're all dead now. 74 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,210 Oh yeah that make it way easier. Yeah, if you look at it, yeah, 75 00:05:24,210 --> 00:05:28,350 it would just hold it kind of like I have it right now. Actually, we can still do that. 76 00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:31,980 Okay Jono, can you put the foam under it? 77 00:05:36,496 --> 00:05:39,857 You, you had it right the first time I think. - No, I think it was this way. 78 00:05:39,857 --> 00:05:43,090 There you go. - Yep. Okay that's easy. 79 00:05:43,090 --> 00:05:47,060 What are these four bolts for? It's for the filament hold Oh, that's a filament holder. 80 00:05:47,060 --> 00:05:53,650 This makes so much sense. I was so confused what this thing was. Yeah. So it goes here or here. 81 00:05:53,650 --> 00:05:55,493 I found a pre-production thing Jono. 82 00:05:58,010 --> 00:06:03,263 - The screw don't go through. - I think it's safe to say you won't have to do this step. 83 00:06:05,660 --> 00:06:08,060 Okay. Maybe safety classes are a good idea Jono. 84 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,500 Alright we did it. Alright now we can attach this. 85 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:16,210 I love pre-production things they're always so much more fun. 86 00:06:17,290 --> 00:06:23,060 Back to the filament holder though. This little one that they gave us, clearly no problem. 87 00:06:23,060 --> 00:06:29,090 Now we have our regular sized role here and that fits pretty much perfectly. 88 00:06:29,090 --> 00:06:31,500 Although if you're going for the mega roll 89 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,380 It, yeah not so much. I don't really expect it to be able to 90 00:06:40,380 --> 00:06:44,530 hold something like this. It weighs about as much as the printer. 91 00:06:44,530 --> 00:06:50,370 If you want a big roll, you're gonna have to buy one of the $20 Amazon roll holder things. 92 00:06:50,370 --> 00:06:56,270 Hey Jono, can you ask 'em how they do their leveling? They have 49 points of auto leveling, which is awesome. 93 00:06:56,270 --> 00:07:00,440 It makes your prints just work so much more of the time. 94 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:07,310 Cause you know, if your bed isn't quite correct then maybe on one side, your first layer doesn't stick. 95 00:07:07,310 --> 00:07:12,070 And then it doesn't really work. First layer is kind of all that matters once you get that 96 00:07:12,070 --> 00:07:15,630 everything else is good. There's two ways to do auto leveling though. 97 00:07:15,630 --> 00:07:19,420 You can either have like a capacitive touch probe which is pretty good, 98 00:07:19,420 --> 00:07:23,310 but now a lot of them are using strain gauges, which is even better. 99 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:25,163 Think we're about ready to boot this up though. 100 00:07:27,250 --> 00:07:28,083 Is it on? 101 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:34,240 It is. Okay. Let's have a little look at the control that we have here. 102 00:07:35,510 --> 00:07:37,393 So if I hit home, where does it go? 103 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,250 There I guess. I'm not entirely sure how I feel 104 00:07:45,250 --> 00:07:49,490 about having the controller on the Z axis. It is going to be moving 105 00:07:49,490 --> 00:07:52,900 but it shouldn't be moving very much while it prints. 106 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:54,823 Level before printing. Turn that on. 107 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,943 Oh, nice. So it is using the actual extruder. 108 00:08:03,687 --> 00:08:07,130 I'm not quite sure how they're doing it. Okay, we're doing the auto leveling now. 109 00:08:07,130 --> 00:08:10,590 I guess just had to heat up first. It takes a little while to do it 110 00:08:10,590 --> 00:08:14,670 but I would still just leave it on for every single time that I run a print. 111 00:08:14,670 --> 00:08:19,250 It's just cheap insurance. That means it'll work more of the time. 112 00:08:19,250 --> 00:08:23,860 Okay, let's see. Cut the end of the filament on a 45 degree angle. 113 00:08:23,860 --> 00:08:28,800 Now we're just gonna put it in here, and hopefully 114 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:35,610 I was kind of hoping that we could get a print started using what's here and oh, I got it through. 115 00:08:35,610 --> 00:08:38,850 Yeah, that's just kind of not great. 116 00:08:38,850 --> 00:08:42,560 I had a little bit of try trouble getting the filament to go 117 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:47,460 down to the extruder. All I needed to fix, it was take off this little clip. 118 00:08:47,460 --> 00:08:52,570 You can pull this tube out and then look down in and feed the filament down. 119 00:08:52,570 --> 00:08:56,030 - Hey. All right? So what am doing is just 120 00:08:56,030 --> 00:09:00,265 connecting the 3D printer (Ankermake) 121 00:09:00,265 --> 00:09:04,010 with the app. What should we call this? 122 00:09:04,010 --> 00:09:09,140 Poopsmouth. - Sure. I was gonna say Printy boy number five. 123 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:13,520 - Oh I like that, that's better. All right, PrettyBoy 5. Cool. 124 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:20,560 We just want to make sure that this has all the latest firmware. 125 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:24,730 That's cool, you can actually have files on your... 126 00:09:24,730 --> 00:09:27,450 Smartphone! And we can upload it from there. 127 00:09:28,460 --> 00:09:31,283 - You're taking too long. I already have G code on here. - Okay fine. 128 00:09:33,084 --> 00:09:34,213 You can control it. 129 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,690 - I love that they have their speed as five times even though it's just 250 millimeters per second 130 00:09:42,690 --> 00:09:45,890 which by the way, 250 millimeters per second. Very fast. 131 00:09:45,890 --> 00:09:49,780 That is awesome. I just find it silly how they did it. 132 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:54,040 So let's, I wonder what this is. Let's just go see what happens. 133 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:54,963 Oh, one thing. 134 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:04,070 Oh yeah. - [Jono] Oooooooo. Satisfying. You have to Auto-Level again? - You don't have to, but I turn on auto leveling every time 135 00:10:04,070 --> 00:10:09,010 just cause it makes your prints more consistent. If this just works, I'm gonna be pretty impressed. 136 00:10:09,010 --> 00:10:12,150 I have done literally none of the things that you 137 00:10:12,150 --> 00:10:16,310 should probably do with 3D printer. Like not even an alcohol wipe, 138 00:10:16,310 --> 00:10:21,093 we definitely should have done that, but whatever. If this just goes then fantastic. 139 00:10:22,130 --> 00:10:26,410 What do you guys think this is? We're just putting mystery G code into this 140 00:10:26,410 --> 00:10:31,890 which I do not recommend, but it's from anchor. So I'm sure it's fine. Okay. Do they do a little extrude thing at the start? 141 00:10:34,570 --> 00:10:36,863 Nope. That's really fast for first layer. 142 00:10:38,630 --> 00:10:41,873 I'd probably turn it down a bit but I guess it's what it's doing. 143 00:10:48,620 --> 00:10:52,300 First layer's almost done, but I am impressed with the speed 144 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:55,740 especially for just outta the box. This is looking promising. 145 00:10:55,740 --> 00:10:58,617 Let's come back in about an hour or something. 146 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:20,200 All right. It's the next day, and I have to say, I'm very impressed. 147 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,700 This print took two hours and 24 minutes tells you right there. 148 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:28,750 And this is, oh, comes off very easy. 149 00:11:28,750 --> 00:11:32,150 I was afraid that would be a bit of a challenge, but it wasn't. This is like, look at this. 150 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:36,120 There's barely any stringing between these guys. There's like a tiny bit 151 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,790 but there's just a bunch of super challenging things in here. 152 00:11:39,790 --> 00:11:43,900 So like a ramp that just goes up to a 15 degree angle. 153 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:47,180 It gets a little bit weird here but if you ever used a 3D printer before 154 00:11:47,180 --> 00:11:50,210 you know that this is not easy to do 155 00:11:50,210 --> 00:11:55,710 we've got a bunch of weird little overhangs in here and a whole bunch of little dimensions. 156 00:11:55,710 --> 00:11:59,070 So let's check it out. Something like this ramp is challenging 157 00:11:59,070 --> 00:12:03,960 because we aren't using support. So that means that it kind of just has to print it 158 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,670 and keep on going and have all the layers stick properly so it can do this overhang 159 00:12:08,670 --> 00:12:13,650 because it is just going up and up and up. So there's nothing supporting it under, underneath here. 160 00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:16,930 Same with these little spires are very difficult 161 00:12:16,930 --> 00:12:20,950 because of the filament. You know, it's very easy for even when it stops 162 00:12:20,950 --> 00:12:25,470 for a little bit to just keep on coming out. And then when it goes between them 163 00:12:25,470 --> 00:12:30,290 you get those little bits of filament in between it. So like if this printer wasn't working very well 164 00:12:30,290 --> 00:12:34,382 it would get a whole bunch of stringing in between these. And it would just kind, gonna look 165 00:12:34,382 --> 00:12:41,120 like a nest as opposed to a whole bunch of little spires. I think that what this is is it's a cylinder 166 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,130 and a hole of different sizes. So this is 0.5. 167 00:12:46,130 --> 00:12:51,233 That must is that half a millimeter. You can see it's a cylinder that comes out of the hole. 168 00:12:54,510 --> 00:12:58,130 - Yeah. And so this one's 0.3, that one comes out. 169 00:12:58,130 --> 00:13:01,140 Okay. For whatever reason, 0.4 comes after 0.3 170 00:13:01,140 --> 00:13:06,340 but sure that one comes out too. They need to figure out how they're doing it. 171 00:13:06,340 --> 00:13:10,530 But 0.2 of a millimeter that one's not coming out. 172 00:13:10,530 --> 00:13:14,410 Okay. It looks like each of these are 10 millimeter increments. 173 00:13:14,410 --> 00:13:18,170 The way that it's printed it's kind of hard to tell exactly how accurate it is. 174 00:13:18,170 --> 00:13:20,430 Like I can show it as 10 on here 175 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,890 but it might be a little bit off 24.9. 176 00:13:24,890 --> 00:13:29,520 I'm sure that was supposed to be 25. Very good. It's off by this much in a lot of cases. 177 00:13:30,890 --> 00:13:34,950 - But that's, that's barely off Jono. If you want your stuff off to be 178 00:13:34,950 --> 00:13:39,380 within a thousandth of a thousandth of an inch, then 179 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:44,820 - Yeah. Pay 10 times more. There's a number of other cool things that we have here. 180 00:13:44,820 --> 00:13:49,520 Jono, do you wanna bring over the app? We have a video feed of your print. 181 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,960 Hello myself over the internet. Okay. I guess. 182 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,173 Oh, balls. Yep. I broke it. I broke it. 183 00:13:59,060 --> 00:14:02,840 Start this one again. Print. - (Jono) Oh, cool. - And it starts. 184 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,583 Speed. Boom. Six times. Sure. Save. 185 00:14:10,930 --> 00:14:15,670 - 300 millimeters per second. That's to the point where you're going to run 186 00:14:15,670 --> 00:14:20,880 into extruder issues, unless you have things really dialed in, 187 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,730 like just how fast you can move the plastic out and 188 00:14:24,730 --> 00:14:27,900 stop the plastic becomes a problem when you're going that fast. 189 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:33,790 Now there are a lot of things that we don't know about this printer. The biggest big question mark is the slicer. 190 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:38,510 AnkerMake are going to have their own slicer. And it's probably fine. 191 00:14:38,510 --> 00:14:43,730 It probably has a great profile for this printer but how good it actually is and how powerful it is, 192 00:14:43,730 --> 00:14:46,760 we don't know yet. A slicer is what takes your 3D model, 193 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:53,390 Like say, we had a 3D model of this. It converts it into the 0.4 millimeter or whatever layers 194 00:14:53,390 --> 00:14:56,630 going all the way up and turns into the code that the machine runs 195 00:14:59,810 --> 00:15:04,450 - It doesn't make coffee unfortunately. You could definitely write G code to make you coffee. 196 00:15:04,450 --> 00:15:08,770 I don't know if you could do it in a slicer and the main test I want to do here, 197 00:15:08,770 --> 00:15:12,170 once it's done doing a it's auto leveling, is just try 198 00:15:12,170 --> 00:15:16,270 and screw with it a bit and see if it can ping Jono's 199 00:15:16,270 --> 00:15:20,300 phone when it screws up. Actually we try and screw with it. 200 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:24,670 I'm gonna take a spire and just put it in here. Maybe it'll run it over. 201 00:15:24,670 --> 00:15:29,653 Ah, no, it's not good of the way. Darn. We'll just be unkind to it here. 202 00:15:30,905 --> 00:15:33,920 Oh, Stop. I'm trying to screw with you. 203 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:38,583 Stop - Okay. Okay I, I know what we can do here. 204 00:15:40,450 --> 00:15:45,250 Stop working. - Oh, I could just clip it. 205 00:15:45,250 --> 00:15:49,920 I'm sorry Mr. Printer. Will it realize? 206 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,163 Yeah, it seems like it still is printing. 207 00:15:54,083 --> 00:15:59,213 It's supposed to stop. I wonder if it stops if it detected in here. 208 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,730 - Okay. That makes a lot more sense. - Yeah. It does make sense 209 00:16:08,730 --> 00:16:13,810 that they would have the filament detection over here. Cause then you would still have plenty of time to, 210 00:16:13,810 --> 00:16:18,210 you know, take it out, swap the spool put it back in and not have to worry about your print. 211 00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:21,780 Getting all screwed up overall though especially for the price. 212 00:16:21,780 --> 00:16:25,010 I'm quite impressed. Right now there's a Kickstarter on 213 00:16:25,010 --> 00:16:31,470 where this is 43% off. So that's $430. For that price I think it's a very easy buy 214 00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:36,090 at the usual price of $760 still very great. 215 00:16:36,090 --> 00:16:39,760 Like this was incredibly easy to set up. It seems to print well, 216 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,100 it has lots of features that allow you to easily print 217 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:47,910 from just your phone and stuff. I'm actually impressed. And thank you, AnkerMake for sponsoring this video 218 00:16:47,910 --> 00:16:52,510 and also for making a good product 'cause then it's not awkward that you sponsored it. 219 00:16:52,510 --> 00:16:56,200 We like honesty here. So hit like get subscribed and 220 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,310 if you want more maker type videos, let us know. 221 00:17:00,310 --> 00:17:01,343 See you later. Bye.