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That's really cool. I'm Sean, I'm a writer here at LMG

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and this is my Meet the Team. Yes, and we're learning everything about

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3D printing today, because you're our 3D printer guy. I don't know if we can learn everything about 3D printing

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that might take a lot of time, but we're gonna learn a few things. We printed a Deadpool mask to assemble on camera.

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Well, you asked me what we should 3D print, what would be interesting visually,

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and these masks have been really popular for a while. And funny enough, the day that you asked me,

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James was asking me about 3D printing them with his kids, so I thought that

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that would be a great thing to do. It's a little bit involved, because there's not a lot of assembly.

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Some 3D prints that people design are very mechanical in nature

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and will require a lot of parts. These ones just need magnets,

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so it's pretty easy for us to do, but it's a fun little mechanism.

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I know why it's like to keep it up, but why is it designed like this,

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or why is it straight lined like this? Well, they're designed for easy removal

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as best they can be, right? So you want this little waste when you're

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supporting printing import material, because it's not the object that you're trying to create.

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And then there is some very intentional design in this,

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because if you notice here, it gets a little bit of space,

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creating a little bit of a gap, right? Where the material is even more thin or floating, usually,

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so that it's far easier to just peel it off.

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And you can just try that right now. Just try to peel some of this off, and it'll just show the part underneath,

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as you intended to print it. Just rip it off.

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This is me trying to rip it off. It's looking like this? Oh, careful, careful.

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You got the rest, the real part is underneath. Look at where this is, right here, right?

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Oh, it's ripping here. Oh.

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Oh. There you go, see? It can be tough to get started, but it'll break off because it's weak, right?

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It's very thin in a lot of different places, because we don't want to use a lot of material.

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Okay, well, while I'm doing this, I'm going to ask you a question that our viewer submitted.

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First question by Darkwatersong. What caused you to apply to work at LMG?

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Oh, yeah. I was paying attention to jobs at LMG for some time.

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I'm originally from Canada, even though I lived in Germany for the last eight years,

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where I've also been working in media. Sammy didn't know this,

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and he only said that I flew in from Germany and didn't make it clear at all.

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He just thought I had a really good accent. But I had left Canada in part

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because media pay here was not very good. I was living in Toronto when I finished school.

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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,

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and so it was just natural for me to come and join.

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Just in time, I ripped it all off. Yeah, so see how easy it comes off when you get it.

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That was so easy, yeah. And look how like, so you'll see that there will be,

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usually, not always, this is pretty good, not quite as good quality where the support was.

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Because this was floating, there would be some drooping of the prints

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where it was being supported. But that looks pretty good.

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Is that the fault of the material itself, or the design? No, it's just because there's literally a gap

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between this support material to make sure

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that it's easy to disconnect, because it wants it to be any connection to be very thin.

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It wants to kind of support it, so it's at the right height.

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But you'll get the position where the nozzle spits out the material,

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and then that'll kind of fall while it's still hot. And so because there's that small gap,

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it'll just be not as fine a print as you've designed.

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And you can minimize that in a lot of different ways. A thing that's becoming really popular now,

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there's a lot of new solutions that are coming in for that, since the Prusa XL was doing it with multiple tool heads.

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Now they have the Bontech Index, and Bamboo Lab is doing one.

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And those allow you to print with multiple materials that don't bond well, right?

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So here we're using two of the same material. And so it's gonna bond to itself really, really well.

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But if you can mix your materials, and you can do things like PLA and PETG,

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they won't bond together as well, and the supports will be easier to remove. And that lets you make the gap smaller,

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so that your part can come off looking a lot better. That's hard to do with a single nozzle,

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like this machine here, but there's a lot of ways to do it really well now.

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Like why is there strands like this? Is that like the material itself, or is that like?

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That could be something caught up in it, like from when we moved it, but it could be from some stringing.

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It looks like it was stringing. So like when the print finishes here,

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it'll travel on the printhead. So it'll stop like extruding filament,

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but there can be still a little bit dripping out. And especially since it's on a support,

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the G-code, like the way that the software has set it up,

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it doesn't really care about the quality of that part. So it's not super concerned about making sure

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stringing isn't visible. So there's different ways to make sure that it doesn't happen on your part.

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Like sometimes in the infill, the part in the middle of these parts,

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which when they're thicker is usually a little bit hollow, and looks like there's a little bit of hollowness

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in this one too. It'll like move the nozzle inside a little bit,

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so that that's stringing happens on the inside and hides it, and there's a bunch of other ways, but yeah.

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All right, I show you, rip the rest or? Yeah, let's do it. All right, well, while you're doing that,

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I'm asking another question. Okay. Math, word, what made you get in 3D printing?

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Also, what prints have you had slash do you have?

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Why those? Well, I studied journalism actually, so it was a little bit odd that I ended up

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and then I went into journalism at a 3D printing publication,

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and it was kind of my trajectory, but why that happened is, when I was in university,

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I was a broke writing major, and I had- I was writing major czar.

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Exactly, and continue to be afterwards.

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I had this Sony Gold headset for like a PS4

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that I was using on my PC, and I bought it from my buddy for like 40 bucks,

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and like did not have the money for nice headsets, but I was really happy with this one,

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it was fine, it fit my purpose, but the headband snapped. Like this.

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and I didn't have the money to replace it, so I'm like, what do I do?

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so I'd like looked into it a little bit, and didn't know much about it,

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and I found out that the engineering department of my university, go whatever team is.

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I found out the engineering department had their 3D printers, and that there was time slots

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where other students could use them. I found a 3D model that had been shared on Thingiverse,

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so like a big 3D model, but repository, and I went down there, and I'm like,

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hey, could you guys print this, and like replace my headset for me?

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Like, how much would it cost? And they're like, yeah, it's no big deal, let's do it.

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And they kind of like showed me how on these like, really old, but really advanced at the time,

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ultimaker printers, and helped me out, and I was like, that was really cool,

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and I continued using those headsets for years more.

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And then after I graduated and moved to Germany, I was looking for a job in form Labs,

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had an office there. So you went to Germany to get a job,

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or did you get a job in them? I moved to Germany without a visa.

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I brought my dog, and I was there on a travel visa.

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I mean, I was allowed, I was allowed. So we had, yeah, it was allowed.

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I wasn't working until I was allowed.

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Technically, I was born an Austrian citizen,

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but I didn't have this acknowledged yet, so like the Austria didn't know that I was a born citizen.

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I had to do some more documentation stuff before I got that,

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but I actually didn't bother doing that until like a year before I left Europe.

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So it was fine, I just went through the visas processes like any immigrant did, and yeah, it was good.

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But yeah, I didn't even, I didn't know that I was for sure eligible

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when I moved there, and it was like a lot of work to dig out those files.

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So I didn't do that immediately. Yeah, so okay, how much does three to print roughly cost?

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A one kilogram spool, so this spool full. This is a Prusa spool, so they're usually a little,

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I don't wanna call them premium, they're like a fine price. Their materials are really good, I find.

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And I think around $24 US for Prusa materials.

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I don't remember exactly, so don't quote me on that. But you can get materials cheaper than that.

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Like you can get a cheaper PLA for 20 bucks easy. I know that I buy a lot of polymaker materials

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in my personal life. Those are usually like 20 bucks a spool, or it was 20 euros.

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Back when I was doing that, I haven't bought any since I moved. Wait, where are the eyes?

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Oh yeah, we didn't print those yet. Well, I'm gonna make you do that.

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Wait, what? Yeah. That wasn't part of the plan.

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You're locked up. We don't need it, I already know the file. It's already on there.

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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.

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There you go. Not a touch screen. It's not a touch screen?

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Why, it looks like a touch screen. I can't read it, I'm gonna go to the front.

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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.

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You know, I actually wanted to get in 3D printing, but I didn't get anything at the Christmas party.

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Wait, that's easy. That's it. Wait, what the heck, it's so...

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The hard part is the slicing. Well, not even the slicing. The hard part is the designing the files, right?

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But everyone shares them on these 3D model repositories that are awesome and you can find most things

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that you're looking for with them. So you can go a long way with 3D printing

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as a hobby before you have to start designing files for yourself.

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Raz will ask, how is life in Canada? Is it different from Germany

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and why did you decide to move Germany? I think you answered that second half, but...

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Yeah, I liked living in Germany. There was a lot of differences in the bureaucracy

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and stuff to deal with, even after visas were established and stuff.

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Wait, it's starting. Well, right now it's checking the position of the printhead.

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Wait, where's the... Oh. So this is the printhead, right? This is all the stuff

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that's gonna make the apostate actually come out. And it was doing that to check the position of where it is.

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Because if it was just starting, taking kind of a guess at where it was,

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the printhead could be trying to go out of the range, right?

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It was really nice living in Germany for the time that I was.

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The opportunities I was looking for were there. And my worldview was definitely expanded

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by integrating in a foreign culture. And Berlin's such a fun city to live in.

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There was so much to do. At the time when I moved there, it was a lot more affordable than Canada.

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There's things that you grew up being used to and you can miss. And there's different attitudes in different places

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that you live and it was time to come home.

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Wait, can I ask how old you are? I'm 33. 33, so you're there for eight years.

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That means you left at like 26?

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Yeah. Well, I didn't math really faster. Thanks.

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Oh, sh**. What happened? You turned it off. You turned it off, oh my God.

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No, it's fine. It'll recover. Oh, it'll recover? It'll recover?

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Yeah, it'll remember where it was. It was like mapping the bed.

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What's called, it was mesh leveling. So the print head here, the nozzle here,

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because it's always warped like a little bit. To get a perfect plane is like, is extremely difficult.

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the nozzle probes the bed and checks to see.

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Topography. And then it does, it creates a mesh of that

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No, it's just started. So it's, when you print a model, you put the model in something called a slicer.

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how the print is gonna go. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. So right now it just starts at the bottom

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and follows that map all the way up. Do you recommend 3D printing to the average person?

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Cause I feel like it's gotten a lot easier to enter 3D printing, but that doesn't mean

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that everyone should enter it for the sake of entering it. My dad got into it.

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Oh, really? I brought him to Germany to help me

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when I was renovating my bathroom once. And he was like so impressed by like the little parts

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that I would 3D print when we needed like an extra bracket

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for some, to hold some pipes against the wall and stuff. And he was like,

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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.

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He was so impressed and he was excited by it. And he got a 3D printer.

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And he asked me for a recommendation and I told him to get a bamboo lab A1 mini.

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Is it the one you recommend to everyone as well? No, not everyone.

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But I think for the case of people who want something that is relatively cheap

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and they want something where they can just use an app and like press go on whatever model.

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And it's very hands off and more appliance-like.

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I think it's a really good starting place for that because that company has made their ecosystem

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in a way that doesn't take a lot of technical know-how

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to get into, but there's a lot of limitations on it. The 3D printing video that we did at Linus's place,

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we were talking a little bit at the end. We didn't touch on it much about how there's some software restrictions.

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So there's like third-party apps that you can connect to 3D printers. And one of them is Octoprint.

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And it has these add-ons like continuous printing. So like if you wanted to set up a printer

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so that one print would finish and then the print head would knock that off

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and just start the next print, you can do that. But bamboo lab is far more complicated

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to make those sorts of things work. And there's a rich community of people

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who create open source like hacked versions

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of the software for those printers, specifically the X1C.

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So this guy Joshua Wise, he made the X1 plus open source firmware.

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Really cool project, really amazing guy. If you have an X1C and you're frustrated by the way

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that bamboo lab has like locked down their ecosystem more recently, check out X1 plus.

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It's really cool. Printed recommend to everybody. It's not prudent, right? I think it's conditional.

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So, oh, someone asked what printers I had and we didn't answer that.

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Oh, right. And I do have, and this is great. I do have an X1C and I have two MK4s.

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I have an MK4S, which is this one that we have here and I have an MK4.

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I'm a fan of Prusa personally. Their system is a lot more open.

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I mean, they sell these as a kit. They literally sell them so that you can build them up screw by screw.

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And like, you know exactly what's going on in your 3D printer.

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So if you want to get into 3D printing and you want to understand the technology, I think that's a great way

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because you'll have seen it piece by piece as they walk you through the process.

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for your ability to repair it later. Mr. Wizard 2K, bamboo Labs.

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Love them, hate them. Good for the health of industry.

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Bad? Why are they asking about bamboo Labs? Is that what they call it? They're really controversial

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because of some of the reasons I was just touching on. Because they have started kind of locking down

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their ecosystem in a way. And they've done some things where they locked it down

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more than it was in the past too, right? So people used to use third party slicers a lot more

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and they made that a lot harder. And they added some middleware

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that makes it so you'd have to slice it through this third party app and then put it into this middleware application

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so that it can get to its printer. Things that are like a pain to do

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and that are frustrating when you bought a piece of hardware that operates in a specific way

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and now you can't trust it to do that anymore and you have this question of what else

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are they going to do in the future? They also came onto the scene really fast.

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People were really cautious. It was this Chinese manufacturer.

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I believe the founders used to work at DJI so the printer just was amazing

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but people wondered what the security risks were like because they were printing everything off in the cloud.

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They were sending it and they still do send everything off to their servers before they send them back to the printer

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unless you have your printer set not to do that, which you can. There's a lot of hesitation around the brand

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for a lot of different reasons. Do I love them or hate them or do I think

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that they're good for the health of the industry? I think that's a really big question.

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I mean, they are competition. And when the X1C came out,

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we had been in this real stall

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where the race to the bottom had happened. Printers were like 200 bucks.

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Every year people were coming out with cheaper printers. If there were more expensive printers

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that were coming out with interesting features, it was like a real crawl.

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And then the X1C came out and it was this interesting thing

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that did everything a lot easier than other people were able to do it. And everyone had to catch up all of a sudden

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and it took a while. So they definitely have been good for the industry.

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I think the competition is still good for the industry and high value hardware.

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Like I said before though, they're not gonna be good for everyone.

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There's good reason to disagree with a lot of their practices. So it's gonna be up to you.

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Is there a reuse purpose for these or are we storing these away after?

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I am gonna bite my tongue because we're working on a video to talk a little bit about that.

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Can you give a little teaser? Is there more use for these later? Maybe.

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Okay, so yes. The answer is yes. I'll read you too.

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Most people won't. For most people, these are gonna go in unfortunately the landfill.

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They're hard to recycle because they're not labeled. Like go plastics.

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No, it's like when you have a plastic producing facility, like when you're doing injection molding,

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you often have to label the kind of plastic, right? So with which type it is

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and that way plastic recyclers know how to sort them.

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Oh, is it done? Yeah, that's it. Oh, okay. Well, let me ask you a question both past.

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What are like three things you think every 3D printer should be printing?

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Before I buy a 3D printer, I had to figure out what I'm using for it.

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After I kind of think about it, I was like, I really have nothing. Yeah.

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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

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once when I started working with 3D printers, like what are they for? And it was hard to answer because,

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and I think I have a better way to answer it now, which is just basically that they're just a tool

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to have on hand. A lot of people print like toys and stuff.

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3D printers are at their best when they are in the service of repairing things.

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It'll be a situation like my headphones where it's like, I have this one part and I want to keep using this,

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but how can I do that when I can't just buy a spare headband

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from Sony for these headphones? They need me to buy another one, but it was still good.

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That's when 3D printing is out of the best. So it's a great tool to have around

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for those kinds of situations. And you would be surprised how often you see them

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once you have the tool, you know? And then there's whole other parts.

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So people love printing phone stands, feet for a wobbly table, or anything that breaks.

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You can either find a design or figure out how to make one yourself, and it can be really handy.

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What I'm using it for is to get a card organizer

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because every meet the teams, it's a slight variation of petty theft,

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but it's so petty that the company shouldn't do anything because it's not worth the time to pursue it.

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Is that why you were asking me how much the materials would cost? Yes.

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Why is it hot? Yeah, so it's better to wait until things cool down. This should be fine.

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Yeah, yeah. Like, so that was where the print finished.

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Oh, that broke. I don't know. Do you want to put this mask together?

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Yeah, let's do the thing we're supposed to do. Well, you're supposed to get a hot glue gun,

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but I don't see one. Wait, where'd it go? Reese.

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Oh, right here. Oh, we need to heat it up. Metal Maxine asks,

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when slash how did you get the idea to bless us with Linus in a skin type spandex?

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He was so mad about that. He what? I mean, not mad, but like immediately.

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Like the Linus? Yeah, like.

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Okay. Exactly. That's the Linus. That's the Linus.

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That was like my second video. I was still on probation. I was like, this is a crazy second video.

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I was like, but you know what? I didn't let it fall out.

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Falls to the walls, it falls in everyone's face, apparently. What's like, he didn't know?

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He knew, but I think he was hoping that I would drop it.

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So, I mean, it was transparent PC, so I knew I needed to do like a John Cena joke.

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I was looking for the like the ear protectors as well, but I couldn't find them like fairly cheap.

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But I found like the wrestling singlet on Teemu first,

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that was like a really cheap one in our colors, and I was like gonna order that.

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So I showed it to James, and I was like, this is what I wanna order. I was like, but wait, wait, wait.

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I also found this and found like a custom like high school sports thing

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that would put your logo on it. And it was like, it was like 50 bucks or something.

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I was like, James, you have to approve this much more. It was like 40 bucks more,

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and he's like, that's hilarious to do it. And then as soon as I got it in the mail,

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I went up to Linus's office, it was like a window, and I just put it against him.

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He was like, oh no.

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Is that gun heated? Is it even on?

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I plugged it in. What more do you have to do? No. Turn it on.

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Eleanor asks, for someone looking to get into FDM printing, the rep rap is often touted as being a very

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affordable entry point, despite the quote unquote heavy lift involved.

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Is it really all that cheaper? Do you have any particular recommendations

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for a stage one printer to get a rep rap cookie? What a crazy name it's so hard to say.

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The rep rap project is like a really old 3D printer project that open sourced

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an early design of 3D printers. I think there's still like vestiges

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of the rep rap project around and like people who participate in the communities

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that popped up from it. And of course, like the two creators are still doing the thing.

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Those projects are still a good 3D printer to get involved with.

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If you wanted something that's a little bit simpler hardware wise to start building your own,

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that would be okay. But actually, if you wanna build your own,

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I would suggest a Voron. The Voron design team is,

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that team is so dedicated to the 3D printing hobby.

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And they're so smart in their designs that they before a lot of manufacturers

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made so many cool advancements that get adopted. It's like some of the open source designs

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that get co-opted. And those I would say their designs are a lot more modern.

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To get into 3D printing, I wouldn't do it.

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Like I said earlier, I would do something like a Prusa kit that gets you to build

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your first printer with very clear instructions and with a support team that'll help you out

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if there's any problems along the way. And then for your second printer build of Voron,

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because those instructions are also pretty good, but there's less of a support network

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available if something goes wrong and you're sourcing your own parts. So it's better if you have some familiarity

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with 3D printing already. Oh, there's actually a lot, oh shoot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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We should have been doing this a lot sooner. Yeah. Okay. Do you have anything that you've shared 3D printing wise?

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I did. I had a remix of a bike wall mount

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that I wrote an article about. Oh. And I had that shared for a while

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because I had found a model that I liked, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for.

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So I remixed it. I changed it up a little bit. So a remix stands for like...

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When you change a design that someone else has. And that was the license at the time.

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And so I changed it up and I uploaded it

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and I did an accompanying article to talk about it. Is that frowned upon when you remixed it?

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No, not when the license allows for it. But the creator of that had contacted me later

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and he was a young guy and he was like, I'd really like to spin this up into a business.

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And I'd like to use my original design for this

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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,

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like you don't have to at that point. But, you know, it's a kid that wanted to start a business.

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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.

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I think I looked a little while ago and didn't see anything, but that's okay.

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Oops. Oh, it didn't work? Oh, let's get it out of there. After we spent all that time talking about it,

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I just forgot. You distracted me. This one is cooked.

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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,

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what I'd probably do is I'd like take this one out. I'd like drill through that with a really small bit.

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And then I'd just like take something to push the magnet and put it in the opposite way.

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Maybe a heat gun would like make the glue better. Glue gun.

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Now we double the gluing. Now we have double the f*** ups.

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Minpaka, how was your first experience building your own PC?

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It sticks on. So my neighbor gave me an old Sony Veo tower

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and it was the first computer I had where it was like parts that you could change.

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And that would have been my first kind of experience building a computer when I like Frankenstein one together

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for a while through that. The first time I water-cooled the PC was here though.

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That was fun. That was transparent PC as well. I do miss Stonair, but I miss Stonair

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for a lot longer than I've lived here because it's too expensive now. Stonair is meant to be three euros, okay?

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I wouldn't die on this hill. Like five to seven. It's gotten so expensive since the pandemic.

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Okay, let me make sure this is the right way forward. Yes, don't make my mistake.

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I don't think it does. It's pushing back.

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How did I mess this up? I measured it. See if the other ones will be powerful enough to stop it.

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Okay, so hold on, hold on, hold on. Should we just finish both sides then

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and then do this one? Yeah, let's just do this side first. Tell you what, I'll check the clarity.

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Put the glue in that and then we're gonna put it in like this.

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I broke it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's perfect.

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You're a genius. It's the first time anyone's ever said that to me.

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Oh yeah, you can push it in like that. That would make sense, maybe. Yeah, I thought that's what you were doing.

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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.

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We weren't on the same wavelength. You were galaxy brain.

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And then, and then, directly. Hey, now push them in a little higher though, harder though.

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Yeah. Okay, we should have done this one at a start. Are we stupid?

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Yes. Let's go with the ice first. Oh, I? I feel like they matter more.

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I'll let you magnet. Okay, well, which side is the right side?

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Why does it matter? It doesn't matter right now, yeah.

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Wait, that's lying perfectly. Yeah, see, this is what I was saying earlier.

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Like, some of them don't. This is the more fun way. This is the we didn't start when we should have way.

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Let's push these in. Reece.

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It's like calling your mom, you know? Reece, I need help.

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No, he used to get the polarity right. Oh yeah, get the polarity right. Yeah, whatever that means.

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What time is it? Oh, God's five o'clock. Is it really? I'm going home.

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No. You're actually just passing off on the Reece.

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Well, like, Reece, he's helping us do some things. We're fixing this. He's helping us do that.

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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,

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so it might not pop off. But once it's cool, things will, like,

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on it here, and you can take them off. Sometimes you need, like, a spatula

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that we don't really have here, but they'll just come off most of the time.

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And now I'm touching it, so it's going to be oily. You can, like, see it on there.

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So we'll need to, yeah, that'll stop things from sticking well.

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So you need to clean that off with, like, just soap and water,

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or on these sheets you can use IPA.

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Yeah. I saw, in the comments of the last video, I saw some people saying to use Windex,

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and it sounds like that's a popular method over here, but I actually hadn't heard of that yet,

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so I guess maybe I'm out of the loop. I don't know. I like how we got two people here,

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and I'm just here sitting, watching. Sammy likes to delegate. I'm like a middle manager, you know?

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That's what they're calling it these days? Yeah. The Watcher. The Watcher.

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Nope, there. Oh, that was messed up. Ow.

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It's gonna be on wrong. No, watch this. See, look at that.

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There you go, crisp. That's fine, look at this, boom. It's better when it, you know what it all is,

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but the tolerances are kind of off. It's not a perfect mitt anyways.

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But it's great that it, like, the way it is, I don't know if we can show. That looks really cool.

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The way that it is, like, these aren't mated in here.

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I don't know if you can see that. Yeah, you can see the gap there, but it's still, like, from the front.

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It's hard to tell. It's a really cool design. Oh, you can tell. Can you?

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Oh, yeah, you can, everybody. Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my.

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All right, can't use that anymore, I'm wrong. But this is a skill shoot. This is a skill shoot.

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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.

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Oh, I mean, maybe that's why it's a skill shoot. Okay, maybe that's why it wasn't working.

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I mean, but I think that's the reality of, like, any three-digit printed product, right?

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Unless you specifically get the things that they tell you to get. Well, yeah, the tolerances are hard

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and you gotta make them all work together and your printer's gotta be tuned in such a way

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that it does what you want it to do really well. So would you recommend, like, these kind of more, like,

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very, like, detailed projects?

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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,

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I had trouble, you know, fitting these magnets in or something like that or something about the tolerances

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and maybe you'll talk, maybe you'll see someone who's talked about, like, having to widen them

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after the fact or reprinting so that they could get it.

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00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,920
That's a hint that you can, like, in the design, kind of, like, subtract a little bit of space around it.

399
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,600
Like, you can put in objects in a lot of slicers

400
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,320
that will, like, be, like, negative objects to remove stuff.

401
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,680
Definitely do it in CAD program. Can you keep working on it while you're talking?

402
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,680
Can't multitask, man. Saying things that are wrong enough.

403
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,880
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.

404
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,240
You're smart. Oh, thank you. Okay.

405
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,720
I don't know how the eyes work, though. I think there's just something like that.

406
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,240
Just pop it in? Yeah, and I think they're glued in. I think what you said resonated a lot with me.

407
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,800
It's a tool. It's something you use daily. It's like, when you need it, it'll be very useful.

408
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,040
When you don't need it, it's like, not gonna be that useful, obviously. Yeah, yeah.

409
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,680
I think it's a really good way to look at it. Whoa!

410
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,320
Okay, that's, oh, it's the magnet.

411
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,280
That's the wrong one, that's the wrong red one. Oh no. Oh, hey.

412
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,720
Now we, oh, the magnets fell out.

413
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,800
I don't know what I expected. I, oh my God.

414
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,880
Where'd they come from? Oh my God.

415
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