{"video_id":"QXp02wUQ8Yg","title":"Learn 3D Printing with Shawn Frey - Meet the Team","channel":"FP Exclusives","show":"FP Exclusives","published_at":"2026-04-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":1725,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":4.44,"text":"That's really cool. I'm Sean, I'm a writer here at LMG","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.44,"end_s":7.92,"text":"and this is my Meet the Team. Yes, and we're learning everything about","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.92,"end_s":13.12,"text":"3D printing today, because you're our 3D printer guy. I don't know if we can learn everything about 3D printing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.12,"end_s":19.2,"text":"that might take a lot of time, but we're gonna learn a few things. 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And those I would say their designs are a lot more modern.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1260.44,"end_s":1263.88,"text":"To get into 3D printing, I wouldn't do it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1263.88,"end_s":1268.36,"text":"Like I said earlier, I would do something like a Prusa kit that gets you to build","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1268.36,"end_s":1273.24,"text":"your first printer with very clear instructions and with a support team that'll help you out","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1273.24,"end_s":1277.44,"text":"if there's any problems along the way. And then for your second printer build of Voron,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1277.44,"end_s":1281.68,"text":"because those instructions are also pretty good, but there's less of a support network","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1281.68,"end_s":1286.28,"text":"available if something goes wrong and you're sourcing your own parts. So it's better if you have some familiarity","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1286.28,"end_s":1289.6,"text":"with 3D printing already. Oh, there's actually a lot, oh shoot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1289.6,"end_s":1294.92,"text":"We should have been doing this a lot sooner. Yeah. Okay. Do you have anything that you've shared 3D printing wise?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1296.76,"end_s":1301.88,"text":"I did. I had a remix of a bike wall mount","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1301.88,"end_s":1305.36,"text":"that I wrote an article about. Oh. And I had that shared for a while","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1305.36,"end_s":1308.44,"text":"because I had found a model that I liked, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1308.44,"end_s":1312.52,"text":"So I remixed it. I changed it up a little bit. 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But the creator of that had contacted me later","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1330.24,"end_s":1336.08,"text":"and he was a young guy and he was like, I'd really like to spin this up into a business.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1336.08,"end_s":1339.12,"text":"And I'd like to use my original design for this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1339.12,"end_s":1343.72,"text":"and I was hoping that you could take it down. So I was like, okay, that's fine. Because of how it was licensed at the time,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1343.72,"end_s":1348.2,"text":"like you don't have to at that point. But, you know, it's a kid that wanted to start a business.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1348.2,"end_s":1352.64,"text":"So like, yeah, of course. Is it doing well? I don't know. I don't know if I've seen any update from it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1352.64,"end_s":1356.4,"text":"I think I looked a little while ago and didn't see anything, but that's okay.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1356.4,"end_s":1360.88,"text":"Oops. Oh, it didn't work? Oh, let's get it out of there. After we spent all that time talking about it,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1360.88,"end_s":1364.52,"text":"I just forgot. You distracted me. This one is cooked.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1364.52,"end_s":1369.0,"text":"So maybe if we put this one there, it'll kind of like... I mean, if we like, if I wanted to fix it myself,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1369.0,"end_s":1374.24,"text":"what I'd probably do is I'd like take this one out. I'd like drill through that with a really small bit.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1374.24,"end_s":1377.76,"text":"And then I'd just like take something to push the magnet and put it in the opposite way.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1378.76,"end_s":1382.32,"text":"Maybe a heat gun would like make the glue better. Glue gun.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1382.32,"end_s":1385.4,"text":"Now we double the gluing. Now we have double the f*** ups.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1385.4,"end_s":1388.76,"text":"Minpaka, how was your first experience building your own PC?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1390.2,"end_s":1394.24,"text":"It sticks on. So my neighbor gave me an old Sony Veo tower","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1394.24,"end_s":1397.4,"text":"and it was the first computer I had where it was like parts that you could change.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1397.4,"end_s":1403.32,"text":"And that would have been my first kind of experience building a computer when I like Frankenstein one together","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1403.32,"end_s":1406.72,"text":"for a while through that. The first time I water-cooled the PC was here though.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1406.72,"end_s":1410.28,"text":"That was fun. That was transparent PC as well. I do miss Stonair, but I miss Stonair","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1410.28,"end_s":1414.72,"text":"for a lot longer than I've lived here because it's too expensive now. Stonair is meant to be three euros, okay?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1414.72,"end_s":1419.76,"text":"I wouldn't die on this hill. Like five to seven. It's gotten so expensive since the pandemic.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1419.76,"end_s":1422.76,"text":"Okay, let me make sure this is the right way forward. Yes, don't make my mistake.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1423.92,"end_s":1426.92,"text":"I don't think it does. It's pushing back.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1426.92,"end_s":1431.28,"text":"How did I mess this up? I measured it. See if the other ones will be powerful enough to stop it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1431.28,"end_s":1435.12,"text":"Okay, so hold on, hold on, hold on. Should we just finish both sides then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1435.12,"end_s":1439.32,"text":"and then do this one? Yeah, let's just do this side first. Tell you what, I'll check the clarity.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1439.32,"end_s":1442.72,"text":"Put the glue in that and then we're gonna put it in like this.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1445.52,"end_s":1448.56,"text":"I broke it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's perfect.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1448.56,"end_s":1452.44,"text":"You're a genius. It's the first time anyone's ever said that to me.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1452.44,"end_s":1456.0,"text":"Oh yeah, you can push it in like that. That would make sense, maybe. Yeah, I thought that's what you were doing.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1456.0,"end_s":1460.28,"text":"No, it's not what I was going for. I'm not a genius, see? That's why it's the first time anyone's ever said that.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1460.28,"end_s":1463.76,"text":"We weren't on the same wavelength. You were galaxy brain.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1463.76,"end_s":1469.04,"text":"And then, and then, directly. Hey, now push them in a little higher though, harder though.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1469.04,"end_s":1472.56,"text":"Yeah. Okay, we should have done this one at a start. Are we stupid?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1472.56,"end_s":1476.4,"text":"Yes. Let's go with the ice first. Oh, I? I feel like they matter more.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1476.4,"end_s":1479.8,"text":"I'll let you magnet. Okay, well, which side is the right side?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1479.8,"end_s":1481.96,"text":"Why does it matter? It doesn't matter right now, yeah.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1484.4,"end_s":1487.8,"text":"Wait, that's lying perfectly. Yeah, see, this is what I was saying earlier.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1487.8,"end_s":1492.96,"text":"Like, some of them don't. 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He's helping us do that.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1518.44,"end_s":1522.4,"text":"He knows how to do this type of thing better. Yeah, so how do we clean that? You just take them off, and this is pretty small,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1522.4,"end_s":1525.76,"text":"so it might not pop off. But once it's cool, things will, like,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1525.76,"end_s":1530.04,"text":"on it here, and you can take them off. Sometimes you need, like, a spatula","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1530.04,"end_s":1533.64,"text":"that we don't really have here, but they'll just come off most of the time.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1533.64,"end_s":1536.68,"text":"And now I'm touching it, so it's going to be oily. You can, like, see it on there.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1536.68,"end_s":1539.96,"text":"So we'll need to, yeah, that'll stop things from sticking well.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1539.96,"end_s":1545.68,"text":"So you need to clean that off with, like, just soap and water,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1545.68,"end_s":1548.28,"text":"or on these sheets you can use IPA.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1549.2,"end_s":1552.72,"text":"Yeah. I saw, in the comments of the last video, I saw some people saying to use Windex,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1552.72,"end_s":1556.12,"text":"and it sounds like that's a popular method over here, but I actually hadn't heard of that yet,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1556.12,"end_s":1560.04,"text":"so I guess maybe I'm out of the loop. I don't know. I like how we got two people here,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1560.04,"end_s":1564.08,"text":"and I'm just here sitting, watching. Sammy likes to delegate. I'm like a middle manager, you know?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1564.08,"end_s":1567.84,"text":"That's what they're calling it these days? Yeah. The Watcher. The Watcher.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1567.84,"end_s":1571.44,"text":"Nope, there. Oh, that was messed up. Ow.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1572.32,"end_s":1575.48,"text":"It's gonna be on wrong. No, watch this. See, look at that.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1575.48,"end_s":1578.88,"text":"There you go, crisp. That's fine, look at this, boom. It's better when it, you know what it all is,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1578.88,"end_s":1582.16,"text":"but the tolerances are kind of off. It's not a perfect mitt anyways.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1582.16,"end_s":1585.68,"text":"But it's great that it, like, the way it is, I don't know if we can show. That looks really cool.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1585.68,"end_s":1589.6,"text":"The way that it is, like, these aren't mated in here.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1589.6,"end_s":1593.24,"text":"I don't know if you can see that. Yeah, you can see the gap there, but it's still, like, from the front.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1593.24,"end_s":1596.6,"text":"It's hard to tell. It's a really cool design. Oh, you can tell. Can you?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1596.6,"end_s":1600.04,"text":"Oh, yeah, you can, everybody. Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1600.04,"end_s":1603.12,"text":"All right, can't use that anymore, I'm wrong. But this is a skill shoot. This is a skill shoot.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1603.12,"end_s":1607.28,"text":"This is a very much a skill. Well, this is what we were talking about earlier, like, these aren't, oh, there's extra magnets in there.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1607.28,"end_s":1610.56,"text":"Oh, I mean, maybe that's why it's a skill shoot. Okay, maybe that's why it wasn't working.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1610.56,"end_s":1613.64,"text":"I mean, but I think that's the reality of, like, any three-digit printed product, right?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1613.64,"end_s":1617.32,"text":"Unless you specifically get the things that they tell you to get. 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So would you recommend, like, these kind of more, like,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1625.28,"end_s":1628.6,"text":"very, like, detailed projects?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1628.6,"end_s":1633.96,"text":"Yeah, I mean, when you have, when you know that something is a tight tolerance and if you see people in the comments being, like,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1633.96,"end_s":1637.64,"text":"I had trouble, you know, fitting these magnets in or something like that or something about the tolerances","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1637.64,"end_s":1642.04,"text":"and maybe you'll talk, maybe you'll see someone who's talked about, like, having to widen them","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1642.04,"end_s":1645.12,"text":"after the fact or reprinting so that they could get it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1645.12,"end_s":1648.92,"text":"That's a hint that you can, like, in the design, kind of, like, subtract a little bit of space around it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1648.92,"end_s":1652.6,"text":"Like, you can put in objects in a lot of slicers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1652.6,"end_s":1657.32,"text":"that will, like, be, like, negative objects to remove stuff.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1657.32,"end_s":1661.68,"text":"Definitely do it in CAD program. Can you keep working on it while you're talking?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1661.68,"end_s":1664.68,"text":"Can't multitask, man. Saying things that are wrong enough.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1664.68,"end_s":1668.88,"text":"Let me do it, let me do it, let me do it. They're all gonna know that I'm stupid, just like you know.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1670.6,"end_s":1674.24,"text":"You're smart. Oh, thank you. Okay.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1674.24,"end_s":1677.72,"text":"I don't know how the eyes work, though. I think there's just something like that.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1677.72,"end_s":1681.24,"text":"Just pop it in? Yeah, and I think they're glued in. I think what you said resonated a lot with me.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1681.24,"end_s":1685.8,"text":"It's a tool. It's something you use daily. It's like, when you need it, it'll be very useful.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1685.8,"end_s":1689.04,"text":"When you don't need it, it's like, not gonna be that useful, obviously. Yeah, yeah.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1689.04,"end_s":1692.68,"text":"I think it's a really good way to look at it. Whoa!","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1694.64,"end_s":1696.32,"text":"Okay, that's, oh, it's the magnet.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1699.6,"end_s":1703.28,"text":"That's the wrong one, that's the wrong red one. Oh no. Oh, hey.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1707.04,"end_s":1709.72,"text":"Now we, oh, the magnets fell out.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1712.76,"end_s":1716.8,"text":"I don't know what I expected. I, oh my God.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1716.8,"end_s":1718.88,"text":"Where'd they come from? Oh my God.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1720.56,"end_s":1724.88,"text":"Check out David's Media Team, where we didn't mess it up, because it was my actual computer.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"That's really cool. I'm Sean, I'm a writer here at LMG and this is my Meet the Team. Yes, and we're learning everything about 3D printing today, because you're our 3D printer guy. I don't know if we can learn everything about 3D printing that might take a lot of time, but we're gonna learn a few things. We printed a Deadpool mask to assemble on camera. Well, you asked me what we should 3D print, what would be interesting visually, and these masks have been really popular for a while. And funny enough, the day that you asked me, James was asking me about 3D printing them with his kids, so I thought that that would be a great thing to do. It's a little bit involved, because there's not a lot of assembly. Some 3D prints that people design are very mechanical in nature and will require a lot of parts. These ones just need magnets, so it's pretty easy for us to do, but it's a fun little mechanism. I know why it's like to keep it up, but why is it designed like this, or why is it straight lined like this? Well, they're designed for easy removal as best they can be, right? So you want this little waste when you're supporting printing import material, because it's not the object that you're trying to create. And then there is some very intentional design in this, because if you notice here, it gets a little bit of space, creating a little bit of a gap, right? Where the material is even more thin or floating, usually, so that it's far easier to just peel it off. And you can just try that right now. Just try to peel some of this off, and it'll just show the part underneath, as you intended to print it. Just rip it off. This is me trying to rip it off. It's looking like this? Oh, careful, careful. You got the rest, the real part is underneath. Look at where this is, right here, right? Oh, it's ripping here. Oh. Oh. There you go, see? It can be tough to get started, but it'll break off because it's weak, right? It's very thin in a lot of different places, because we don't want to use a lot of material. Okay, well, while I'm doing this, I'm going to ask you a question that our viewer submitted. First question by Darkwatersong. What caused you to apply to work at LMG? Oh, yeah. I was paying attention to jobs at LMG for some time. I'm originally from Canada, even though I lived in Germany for the last eight years, where I've also been working in media. Sammy didn't know this, and he only said that I flew in from Germany and didn't make it clear at all. He just thought I had a really good accent. But I had left Canada in part because media pay here was not very good. I was living in Toronto when I finished school. It felt like it was time to come back, and so I submitted an application, and I was happy with the compensation we talked about, and so it was just natural for me to come and join. Just in time, I ripped it all off. Yeah, so see how easy it comes off when you get it. That was so easy, yeah. And look how like, so you'll see that there will be, usually, not always, this is pretty good, not quite as good quality where the support was. Because this was floating, there would be some drooping of the prints where it was being supported. But that looks pretty good. Is that the fault of the material itself, or the design? No, it's just because there's literally a gap between this support material to make sure that it's easy to disconnect, because it wants it to be any connection to be very thin. It wants to kind of support it, so it's at the right height. But you'll get the position where the nozzle spits out the material, and then that'll kind of fall while it's still hot. And so because there's that small gap, it'll just be not as fine a print as you've designed. And you can minimize that in a lot of different ways. A thing that's becoming really popular now, there's a lot of new solutions that are coming in for that, since the Prusa XL was doing it with multiple tool heads. Now they have the Bontech Index, and Bamboo Lab is doing one. And those allow you to print with multiple materials that don't bond well, right? So here we're using two of the same material. And so it's gonna bond to itself really, really well. But if you can mix your materials, and you can do things like PLA and PETG, they won't bond together as well, and the supports will be easier to remove. And that lets you make the gap smaller, so that your part can come off looking a lot better. That's hard to do with a single nozzle, like this machine here, but there's a lot of ways to do it really well now. Like why is there strands like this? Is that like the material itself, or is that like? That could be something caught up in it, like from when we moved it, but it could be from some stringing. It looks like it was stringing. So like when the print finishes here, it'll travel on the printhead. So it'll stop like extruding filament, but there can be still a little bit dripping out. And especially since it's on a support, the G-code, like the way that the software has set it up, it doesn't really care about the quality of that part. So it's not super concerned about making sure stringing isn't visible. So there's different ways to make sure that it doesn't happen on your part. Like sometimes in the infill, the part in the middle of these parts, which when they're thicker is usually a little bit hollow, and looks like there's a little bit of hollowness in this one too. It'll like move the nozzle inside a little bit, so that that's stringing happens on the inside and hides it, and there's a bunch of other ways, but yeah. All right, I show you, rip the rest or? Yeah, let's do it. All right, well, while you're doing that, I'm asking another question. Okay. Math, word, what made you get in 3D printing? Also, what prints have you had slash do you have? Why those? Well, I studied journalism actually, so it was a little bit odd that I ended up started working in 3D printing, started working for manufacturers, doing some marketing, and that was kind of how I started using my writing skills, and then I went into journalism at a 3D printing publication, and it was kind of my trajectory, but why that happened is, when I was in university, I was a broke writing major, and I had- I was writing major czar. Exactly, and continue to be afterwards. I had this Sony Gold headset for like a PS4 that I was using on my PC, and I bought it from my buddy for like 40 bucks, and like did not have the money for nice headsets, but I was really happy with this one, it was fine, it fit my purpose, but the headband snapped. Like this. Exactly. So I was like, this headband broke on my headset, and I didn't have the money to replace it, so I'm like, what do I do? So I'd like heard of 3D printing, and I'm like, obviously a bit of a nerd, so I'd like looked into it a little bit, and didn't know much about it, and I found out that the engineering department of my university, go whatever team is. I found out the engineering department had their 3D printers, and that there was time slots where other students could use them. I found a 3D model that had been shared on Thingiverse, so like a big 3D model, but repository, and I went down there, and I'm like, hey, could you guys print this, and like replace my headset for me? Like, how much would it cost? And they're like, yeah, it's no big deal, let's do it. And they kind of like showed me how on these like, really old, but really advanced at the time, ultimaker printers, and helped me out, and I was like, that was really cool, and I continued using those headsets for years more. And then after I graduated and moved to Germany, I was looking for a job in form Labs, had an office there. So you went to Germany to get a job, or did you get a job in them? I moved to Germany without a visa. I brought my dog, and I was there on a travel visa. I mean, I was allowed, I was allowed. So we had, yeah, it was allowed. I wasn't working until I was allowed. Technically, I was born an Austrian citizen, but I didn't have this acknowledged yet, so like the Austria didn't know that I was a born citizen. I had to do some more documentation stuff before I got that, but I actually didn't bother doing that until like a year before I left Europe. So it was fine, I just went through the visas processes like any immigrant did, and yeah, it was good. But yeah, I didn't even, I didn't know that I was for sure eligible when I moved there, and it was like a lot of work to dig out those files. So I didn't do that immediately. Yeah, so okay, how much does three to print roughly cost? A one kilogram spool, so this spool full. This is a Prusa spool, so they're usually a little, I don't wanna call them premium, they're like a fine price. Their materials are really good, I find. And I think around $24 US for Prusa materials. I don't remember exactly, so don't quote me on that. But you can get materials cheaper than that. Like you can get a cheaper PLA for 20 bucks easy. I know that I buy a lot of polymaker materials in my personal life. Those are usually like 20 bucks a spool, or it was 20 euros. Back when I was doing that, I haven't bought any since I moved. Wait, where are the eyes? Oh yeah, we didn't print those yet. Well, I'm gonna make you do that. Wait, what? Yeah. That wasn't part of the plan. You're locked up. We don't need it, I already know the file. It's already on there. All you gotta do is just press go. I wanna see if you can figure it out though. I can't read it, but it says print. There you go. Not a touch screen. It's not a touch screen? Why, it looks like a touch screen. I can't read it, I'm gonna go to the front. I can't read it, I'm trying my best to show the camera, but what the frick am I, it's like a print track staples, man. You know, I actually wanted to get in 3D printing, but I didn't get anything at the Christmas party. Wait, that's easy. That's it. Wait, what the heck, it's so... The hard part is the slicing. Well, not even the slicing. The hard part is the designing the files, right? But everyone shares them on these 3D model repositories that are awesome and you can find most things that you're looking for with them. So you can go a long way with 3D printing as a hobby before you have to start designing files for yourself. Raz will ask, how is life in Canada? Is it different from Germany and why did you decide to move Germany? I think you answered that second half, but... Yeah, I liked living in Germany. There was a lot of differences in the bureaucracy and stuff to deal with, even after visas were established and stuff. Wait, it's starting. Well, right now it's checking the position of the printhead. Wait, where's the... Oh. So this is the printhead, right? This is all the stuff that's gonna make the apostate actually come out. And it was doing that to check the position of where it is. Because if it was just starting, taking kind of a guess at where it was, the printhead could be trying to go out of the range, right? It was really nice living in Germany for the time that I was. The opportunities I was looking for were there. And my worldview was definitely expanded by integrating in a foreign culture. And Berlin's such a fun city to live in. There was so much to do. At the time when I moved there, it was a lot more affordable than Canada. There's things that you grew up being used to and you can miss. And there's different attitudes in different places that you live and it was time to come home. Wait, can I ask how old you are? I'm 33. 33, so you're there for eight years. That means you left at like 26? Yeah. Well, I didn't math really faster. Thanks. Oh, sh**. What happened? You turned it off. You turned it off, oh my God. No, it's fine. It'll recover. Oh, it'll recover? It'll recover? Yeah, it'll remember where it was. It was like mapping the bed. What's called, it was mesh leveling. So the print head here, the nozzle here, taps the bed to see how the print bed here is deformed because it's always warped like a little bit. To get a perfect plane is like, is extremely difficult. But because you want your first layer to be very accurately following that, the nozzle probes the bed and checks to see. Topography. And then it does, it creates a mesh of that and then it knows how it needs to travel. What's happening? Is there any stages to this or is it just like No, it's just started. So it's, when you print a model, you put the model in something called a slicer. And what the slicer does is it maps out layer by layer how the print is gonna go. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. So right now it just starts at the bottom and follows that map all the way up. Do you recommend 3D printing to the average person? Cause I feel like it's gotten a lot easier to enter 3D printing, but that doesn't mean that everyone should enter it for the sake of entering it. My dad got into it. Oh, really? I brought him to Germany to help me when I was renovating my bathroom once. And he was like so impressed by like the little parts that I would 3D print when we needed like an extra bracket for some, to hold some pipes against the wall and stuff. And he was like, we're gonna have to run to the hardware store again. And I'm like, ah, that's fine. I'll just print them off and whatever. He was so impressed and he was excited by it. And he got a 3D printer. And he asked me for a recommendation and I told him to get a bamboo lab A1 mini. Is it the one you recommend to everyone as well? No, not everyone. But I think for the case of people who want something that is relatively cheap and they want something where they can just use an app and like press go on whatever model. And it's very hands off and more appliance-like. I think it's a really good starting place for that because that company has made their ecosystem in a way that doesn't take a lot of technical know-how to get into, but there's a lot of limitations on it. The 3D printing video that we did at Linus's place, we were talking a little bit at the end. We didn't touch on it much about how there's some software restrictions. So there's like third-party apps that you can connect to 3D printers. And one of them is Octoprint. And it has these add-ons like continuous printing. So like if you wanted to set up a printer so that one print would finish and then the print head would knock that off and just start the next print, you can do that. But bamboo lab is far more complicated to make those sorts of things work. And there's a rich community of people who create open source like hacked versions of the software for those printers, specifically the X1C. So this guy Joshua Wise, he made the X1 plus open source firmware. Really cool project, really amazing guy. If you have an X1C and you're frustrated by the way that bamboo lab has like locked down their ecosystem more recently, check out X1 plus. It's really cool. Printed recommend to everybody. It's not prudent, right? I think it's conditional. So, oh, someone asked what printers I had and we didn't answer that. Oh, right. And I do have, and this is great. I do have an X1C and I have two MK4s. I have an MK4S, which is this one that we have here and I have an MK4. I'm a fan of Prusa personally. Their system is a lot more open. I mean, they sell these as a kit. They literally sell them so that you can build them up screw by screw. And like, you know exactly what's going on in your 3D printer. So if you want to get into 3D printing and you want to understand the technology, I think that's a great way because you'll have seen it piece by piece as they walk you through the process. And that's really cool. And that's really, really valuable for your ability to repair it later. Mr. Wizard 2K, bamboo Labs. Love them, hate them. Good for the health of industry. Bad? Why are they asking about bamboo Labs? Is that what they call it? They're really controversial because of some of the reasons I was just touching on. Because they have started kind of locking down their ecosystem in a way. And they've done some things where they locked it down more than it was in the past too, right? So people used to use third party slicers a lot more and they made that a lot harder. And they added some middleware that makes it so you'd have to slice it through this third party app and then put it into this middleware application so that it can get to its printer. Things that are like a pain to do and that are frustrating when you bought a piece of hardware that operates in a specific way and now you can't trust it to do that anymore and you have this question of what else are they going to do in the future? They also came onto the scene really fast. People were really cautious. It was this Chinese manufacturer. I believe the founders used to work at DJI so the printer just was amazing but people wondered what the security risks were like because they were printing everything off in the cloud. They were sending it and they still do send everything off to their servers before they send them back to the printer unless you have your printer set not to do that, which you can. There's a lot of hesitation around the brand for a lot of different reasons. Do I love them or hate them or do I think that they're good for the health of the industry? I think that's a really big question. I mean, they are competition. And when the X1C came out, we had been in this real stall where the race to the bottom had happened. Printers were like 200 bucks. Every year people were coming out with cheaper printers. If there were more expensive printers that were coming out with interesting features, it was like a real crawl. And then the X1C came out and it was this interesting thing that did everything a lot easier than other people were able to do it. And everyone had to catch up all of a sudden and it took a while. So they definitely have been good for the industry. I think the competition is still good for the industry and high value hardware. Like I said before though, they're not gonna be good for everyone. There's good reason to disagree with a lot of their practices. So it's gonna be up to you. Is there a reuse purpose for these or are we storing these away after? I am gonna bite my tongue because we're working on a video to talk a little bit about that. Can you give a little teaser? Is there more use for these later? Maybe. Okay, so yes. The answer is yes. I'll read you too. Most people won't. For most people, these are gonna go in unfortunately the landfill. They're hard to recycle because they're not labeled. Like go plastics. No, it's like when you have a plastic producing facility, like when you're doing injection molding, you often have to label the kind of plastic, right? So with which type it is and that way plastic recyclers know how to sort them. Oh, is it done? Yeah, that's it. Oh, okay. Well, let me ask you a question both past. What are like three things you think every 3D printer should be printing? Before I buy a 3D printer, I had to figure out what I'm using for it. After I kind of think about it, I was like, I really have nothing. Yeah. So I just didn't want to commit to one. I've had people something with this question before. My uncle actually asked me this question once when I started working with 3D printers, like what are they for? And it was hard to answer because, and I think I have a better way to answer it now, which is just basically that they're just a tool to have on hand. A lot of people print like toys and stuff. 3D printers are at their best when they are in the service of repairing things. It'll be a situation like my headphones where it's like, I have this one part and I want to keep using this, but how can I do that when I can't just buy a spare headband from Sony for these headphones? They need me to buy another one, but it was still good. That's when 3D printing is out of the best. So it's a great tool to have around for those kinds of situations. And you would be surprised how often you see them once you have the tool, you know? And then there's whole other parts. So people love printing phone stands, feet for a wobbly table, or anything that breaks. You can either find a design or figure out how to make one yourself, and it can be really handy. What I'm using it for is to get a card organizer because every meet the teams, it's a slight variation of petty theft, but it's so petty that the company shouldn't do anything because it's not worth the time to pursue it. Is that why you were asking me how much the materials would cost? Yes. Why is it hot? Yeah, so it's better to wait until things cool down. This should be fine. Yeah, yeah. Like, so that was where the print finished. Oh, that broke. I don't know. Do you want to put this mask together? Yeah, let's do the thing we're supposed to do. Well, you're supposed to get a hot glue gun, but I don't see one. Wait, where'd it go? Reese. Oh, right here. Oh, we need to heat it up. Metal Maxine asks, when slash how did you get the idea to bless us with Linus in a skin type spandex? He was so mad about that. He what? I mean, not mad, but like immediately. Like the Linus? Yeah, like. Okay. Exactly. That's the Linus. That's the Linus. That was like my second video. I was still on probation. I was like, this is a crazy second video. I was like, but you know what? I didn't let it fall out. Falls to the walls, it falls in everyone's face, apparently. What's like, he didn't know? He knew, but I think he was hoping that I would drop it. So, I mean, it was transparent PC, so I knew I needed to do like a John Cena joke. I was looking for the like the ear protectors as well, but I couldn't find them like fairly cheap. But I found like the wrestling singlet on Teemu first, that was like a really cheap one in our colors, and I was like gonna order that. So I showed it to James, and I was like, this is what I wanna order. I was like, but wait, wait, wait. I also found this and found like a custom like high school sports thing that would put your logo on it. And it was like, it was like 50 bucks or something. I was like, James, you have to approve this much more. It was like 40 bucks more, and he's like, that's hilarious to do it. And then as soon as I got it in the mail, I went up to Linus's office, it was like a window, and I just put it against him. He was like, oh no. Is that gun heated? Is it even on? I plugged it in. What more do you have to do? No. Turn it on. Eleanor asks, for someone looking to get into FDM printing, the rep rap is often touted as being a very affordable entry point, despite the quote unquote heavy lift involved. Is it really all that cheaper? Do you have any particular recommendations for a stage one printer to get a rep rap cookie? What a crazy name it's so hard to say. The rep rap project is like a really old 3D printer project that open sourced an early design of 3D printers. I think there's still like vestiges of the rep rap project around and like people who participate in the communities that popped up from it. And of course, like the two creators are still doing the thing. Those projects are still a good 3D printer to get involved with. If you wanted something that's a little bit simpler hardware wise to start building your own, that would be okay. But actually, if you wanna build your own, I would suggest a Voron. The Voron design team is, that team is so dedicated to the 3D printing hobby. And they're so smart in their designs that they before a lot of manufacturers made so many cool advancements that get adopted. It's like some of the open source designs that get co-opted. And those I would say their designs are a lot more modern. To get into 3D printing, I wouldn't do it. Like I said earlier, I would do something like a Prusa kit that gets you to build your first printer with very clear instructions and with a support team that'll help you out if there's any problems along the way. And then for your second printer build of Voron, because those instructions are also pretty good, but there's less of a support network available if something goes wrong and you're sourcing your own parts. So it's better if you have some familiarity with 3D printing already. Oh, there's actually a lot, oh shoot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We should have been doing this a lot sooner. Yeah. Okay. Do you have anything that you've shared 3D printing wise? I did. I had a remix of a bike wall mount that I wrote an article about. Oh. And I had that shared for a while because I had found a model that I liked, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. So I remixed it. I changed it up a little bit. So a remix stands for like... When you change a design that someone else has. And that was the license at the time. And so I changed it up and I uploaded it and I did an accompanying article to talk about it. Is that frowned upon when you remixed it? No, not when the license allows for it. But the creator of that had contacted me later and he was a young guy and he was like, I'd really like to spin this up into a business. And I'd like to use my original design for this and I was hoping that you could take it down. So I was like, okay, that's fine. Because of how it was licensed at the time, like you don't have to at that point. But, you know, it's a kid that wanted to start a business. So like, yeah, of course. Is it doing well? I don't know. I don't know if I've seen any update from it. I think I looked a little while ago and didn't see anything, but that's okay. Oops. Oh, it didn't work? Oh, let's get it out of there. After we spent all that time talking about it, I just forgot. You distracted me. This one is cooked. So maybe if we put this one there, it'll kind of like... I mean, if we like, if I wanted to fix it myself, what I'd probably do is I'd like take this one out. I'd like drill through that with a really small bit. And then I'd just like take something to push the magnet and put it in the opposite way. Maybe a heat gun would like make the glue better. Glue gun. Now we double the gluing. Now we have double the f*** ups. Minpaka, how was your first experience building your own PC? It sticks on. So my neighbor gave me an old Sony Veo tower and it was the first computer I had where it was like parts that you could change. And that would have been my first kind of experience building a computer when I like Frankenstein one together for a while through that. The first time I water-cooled the PC was here though. That was fun. That was transparent PC as well. I do miss Stonair, but I miss Stonair for a lot longer than I've lived here because it's too expensive now. Stonair is meant to be three euros, okay? I wouldn't die on this hill. Like five to seven. It's gotten so expensive since the pandemic. Okay, let me make sure this is the right way forward. Yes, don't make my mistake. I don't think it does. It's pushing back. How did I mess this up? I measured it. See if the other ones will be powerful enough to stop it. Okay, so hold on, hold on, hold on. Should we just finish both sides then and then do this one? Yeah, let's just do this side first. Tell you what, I'll check the clarity. Put the glue in that and then we're gonna put it in like this. I broke it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's perfect. You're a genius. It's the first time anyone's ever said that to me. Oh yeah, you can push it in like that. That would make sense, maybe. Yeah, I thought that's what you were doing. No, it's not what I was going for. I'm not a genius, see? That's why it's the first time anyone's ever said that. We weren't on the same wavelength. You were galaxy brain. And then, and then, directly. Hey, now push them in a little higher though, harder though. Yeah. Okay, we should have done this one at a start. Are we stupid? Yes. Let's go with the ice first. Oh, I? I feel like they matter more. I'll let you magnet. Okay, well, which side is the right side? Why does it matter? It doesn't matter right now, yeah. Wait, that's lying perfectly. Yeah, see, this is what I was saying earlier. Like, some of them don't. This is the more fun way. This is the we didn't start when we should have way. Let's push these in. Reece. It's like calling your mom, you know? Reece, I need help. No, he used to get the polarity right. Oh yeah, get the polarity right. Yeah, whatever that means. What time is it? Oh, God's five o'clock. Is it really? I'm going home. No. You're actually just passing off on the Reece. Well, like, Reece, he's helping us do some things. We're fixing this. He's helping us do that. He knows how to do this type of thing better. Yeah, so how do we clean that? You just take them off, and this is pretty small, so it might not pop off. But once it's cool, things will, like, on it here, and you can take them off. Sometimes you need, like, a spatula that we don't really have here, but they'll just come off most of the time. And now I'm touching it, so it's going to be oily. You can, like, see it on there. So we'll need to, yeah, that'll stop things from sticking well. So you need to clean that off with, like, just soap and water, or on these sheets you can use IPA. Yeah. I saw, in the comments of the last video, I saw some people saying to use Windex, and it sounds like that's a popular method over here, but I actually hadn't heard of that yet, so I guess maybe I'm out of the loop. I don't know. I like how we got two people here, and I'm just here sitting, watching. Sammy likes to delegate. I'm like a middle manager, you know? That's what they're calling it these days? Yeah. The Watcher. The Watcher. Nope, there. Oh, that was messed up. Ow. It's gonna be on wrong. No, watch this. See, look at that. There you go, crisp. That's fine, look at this, boom. It's better when it, you know what it all is, but the tolerances are kind of off. It's not a perfect mitt anyways. But it's great that it, like, the way it is, I don't know if we can show. That looks really cool. The way that it is, like, these aren't mated in here. I don't know if you can see that. Yeah, you can see the gap there, but it's still, like, from the front. It's hard to tell. It's a really cool design. Oh, you can tell. Can you? Oh, yeah, you can, everybody. Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my. All right, can't use that anymore, I'm wrong. But this is a skill shoot. This is a skill shoot. This is a very much a skill. Well, this is what we were talking about earlier, like, these aren't, oh, there's extra magnets in there. Oh, I mean, maybe that's why it's a skill shoot. Okay, maybe that's why it wasn't working. I mean, but I think that's the reality of, like, any three-digit printed product, right? Unless you specifically get the things that they tell you to get. Well, yeah, the tolerances are hard and you gotta make them all work together and your printer's gotta be tuned in such a way that it does what you want it to do really well. So would you recommend, like, these kind of more, like, very, like, detailed projects? Yeah, I mean, when you have, when you know that something is a tight tolerance and if you see people in the comments being, like, I had trouble, you know, fitting these magnets in or something like that or something about the tolerances and maybe you'll talk, maybe you'll see someone who's talked about, like, having to widen them after the fact or reprinting so that they could get it. That's a hint that you can, like, in the design, kind of, like, subtract a little bit of space around it. Like, you can put in objects in a lot of slicers that will, like, be, like, negative objects to remove stuff. Definitely do it in CAD program. Can you keep working on it while you're talking? Can't multitask, man. Saying things that are wrong enough. Let me do it, let me do it, let me do it. They're all gonna know that I'm stupid, just like you know. You're smart. Oh, thank you. Okay. I don't know how the eyes work, though. I think there's just something like that. Just pop it in? Yeah, and I think they're glued in. I think what you said resonated a lot with me. It's a tool. It's something you use daily. It's like, when you need it, it'll be very useful. When you don't need it, it's like, not gonna be that useful, obviously. Yeah, yeah. I think it's a really good way to look at it. Whoa! Okay, that's, oh, it's the magnet. That's the wrong one, that's the wrong red one. Oh no. Oh, hey. Now we, oh, the magnets fell out. I don't know what I expected. I, oh my God. Where'd they come from? 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