up until about 2 weeks ago my 3D printing setup at home was frankly
embarrassing so I sprang into action I picked up a rack I finally treated
myself to a filament dryer and I got everything organized to show it off to
you guys only to have bamboo Labs
bamboozle the community by issuing an update that in the name of security
significantly harms the functionality of these printers for a lot of their users
now I do still want to talk about what it's been like getting into this hobby a
little bit on on the later side uh there have been some pitfalls that we've run
into especially in a house where kids are often the users that's actually one
of the big reasons that I chose a bamboo printer in the first place but now that
they're altering the deal I think we need to expand the scope of this and
look at not just my 3D printing setup but maybe some Alternatives from other
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on old do wow so cool still the thing that impresses me most about our bamboo
setup is the incredible quality of these multicolored prints this was a single
print right yeah I still haven't printed the wings is amazing say what you want
about the kind of excessive waist poops when it changes colors the AMS system
takes something that would have been incredibly complicated years ago and makes it so simple that a child can use
it I I don't know if I agree with Bamboo's assertion that setup can be
done in 15 minutes took us a little longer than that but it definitely took
less than an hour once you've got it set up the bamboo app has pretty much
everything you need you've got a live view of the build plate you can monitor the status of the machine including
usually meaningful error messages you can contact support and what the kids
like best is of course the model Library where you can find everything from
useful replacement parts to project inspiration to what they use it for most
which is a personal toy Manufacturing device now you guys have recently taken
to painting some of your Creations this one was supposed to be AMS so I swapped
all the colors to White and then I painted it how I wanted it there's like
a couple bad spots on the wings but other than that it's really nice now the
long-term goal for me of course is that as their ideas for how they'd like to
change the models get bigger so will their ambition to learn a little bit of
modeling themselves starting with modifying existing ones and then
hopefully progressing to creating their own or maybe I'm just spending money on
toys either way honestly they've been pretty stoked on it good Christmas we
also use it for useful stuff printing cute little containers and adorable
bookins I mean the sky is the limit that's the beauty of it right and it
really is so easy that an 8-year-old can use it how do you use the 3D printer I
just open it and take out the stuff and take off their supports if they have
them okay is it pretty easy yeah yeah do you have anything in there right now
yeah and support removal is something that has gotten so much better it broke
oh we can show the
glow okay little 3D printed jumping frogs I don't think they're
frogs getting to this point where even kids can use 3D printers without usually
screwing things up too badly has taken a massive amount of work and the 3D
printing industry broadly deserves a ton of kudos for that and so does bamboo
specifically even if their reputation's kind of on the Rocks right now but that
doesn't mean that I would recommend just running out and buying a 3D printer for
your kids to use as a toy factory there's a lot that I've learned over the
last year the everyday stuff is negligible you don't really have to coat the build plate in glue and then clean
it off in between prints anymore but if you don't like managing desicant packets
in your AMS or in your filament storage maybe a 3D printer is not for you
because too much moisture from the air in your filament will jam up your system
here here here W here ask me how I know
also bamboo if you're watching this video I have some notes this needs an
access hatch okay cuz these end up with filament fragments in them like freaking
all the time it'd be nice to be able to just access them like this instead of
taking the whole thing apart In fairness to Bamboo that doesn't happen that often
now that I got my filament dryer though this thing's been a lifesaver because
I've had even brand new rolls of filament come out of the vacuum seal bag
jam up the machine I throw them in here and they're good to go as happy as I am
with my setup though the enthusiasts out there know that the sky is the limit
when it comes to 3D printing so why don't we take a look at some alternative
setups from other members of our team especially now that bamboo Labs has
become a little harder to recommend like this one this is my prusa mark 4S and it
is a freaking Rockstar and I would recommend it to be honest actually they
have a new version now that has an enclosure called The Core one it's kind of like the same printer but with an
enclosure and it's almost the same price so maybe buy that one instead but I love
this thing and I can upgrade it to the core one which is a big thing with
prusses you might recognize this build plate if you are a prussa fanboy you see
how it says prusa I3 Mark II this printer started out as a Mark III then
got upgraded to a mark 3s then a mark 3.9 then a markv and then a mark 4S not
a cost effective route but it was something I was able to do I actually
don't think I've had a print fail since the most recent iteration of upgrades I
also have some cool stuff for it like the mm3 which is PR say multimaterial
thing it's not my favorite I get why
people like the bamboo AMS it's small
it's compact it doesn't always work but assuming that it's working it's really
nice this thing requires this monstrosity which is a buffer and they
use this for when it switches filaments because it has to pull the filament back
out of the way of the new filament that's getting inserted there's
cartridges which you stick in here boom
and then this gives a bunch of space for that filament to get retracted into it's
just a giant void to have like an extra
foot of filament go into instead of that I 3D printed these really cool things uh
they're automatic filament rewinders so as the spool gets pulled it has a 3D
printed spring in there that rewinds the spool it's kind of insane and the dude
that engineered this some people are
very intelligent one day I wish to be one of those people I did do some other
mods too it's got cool little feet they're called hoola feet they're like
seismic dampening feet so they have soft 3D printed inserts out of TPU that allow
the printer to like kind of be seismically dampened like a big building
might and that just kind of removes some of the artifacting that you sometimes
see on the sides of 3D prints it's all models I found online on printables and
I just wish I didn't have to have like a weed grow tent for an enclosure so I'll
probably get the core one and there's other things I don't like about this printer specifically the Wi-Fi I don't
know what exactly went wrong but on the mark 4S upgrade they made these new
Wi-Fi boards that have a pass through header for an accelerometer that's like
a whole story for another time but it uses a different Wi-Fi chip and this
wi-fi chip sucks I actually was like maybe I'll just put the old Wi-Fi chip
back in and see if that works it immediately like solves all my problems
they even sent me a replacement one to try now like screw these things see you
later I also wish that they ship these printers with hardened nozzles because
the hardened nozzles not only are they good for filaments that need it like if
you're printing carbon fiber filament that destroys brass nozzles but the
Harden nozzles are usually less prone to getting stuff stuck to them um unlike
the brass nozzles so if you're printing like pet G for instance brass nozzles
are a nightmare and the hardened ones way better naturally when you print lots
of stuff you usually end up with lots of filament and this is like half of the
filament I have I really need to get rid of some of it but the biggest thing here
is for newbie 3D printer people out there get storage containers and get a
filament dryer I use this cheap creality dry box and cereal containers with some
uh silica gel which you can actually reuse just throw this in the microwave
to keep my filament dry and that is the easiest thing you can do to make your
prints more reliable better quality and just have a better 3D printing
experience speaking of uh liquid why don't we talk about my resin printer I
haven't done any like crazy modifications to this one it's basically
just off the shelf this is the eligo Saturn 4 ultra if you're not familiar
with resin printers they're very cool because they can print incredibly
detailed objects because look at the bottom there you see that right there
that's a UV LCD screen which which means once you fill this vat with UV activated
resin you can print entire layers in one
shot it'll do the whole layer and then it breaks the seal to let resin flow
back underneath and then it prints a whole another layer and it just repeats
and repeats this one I think is a 12K resolution screen so at you know that
size you're talking some insane detail if you want it but they also have a 16k
version I think that's coming out or just came out and um I don't even know
why you would need that because like this is already so accurate it's just
not as user friendly um especially in the postprocessing cuz once something's
done in the resin printer your print is not done you have more stuff you need to
do these are the other steps I'm talking about when you're done with a resin
print you have to wash the extra resin off and then you have to finish curing
it this is basically just a fancy platform with UV light in it and it
cures resin Prints but you have to be careful to like not over cure Stu cuz
then it becomes super brittle you don't want to under Cure stuff cuz it can like
get goopy or it it can have like weird white spots if it like starts to cure in
the sun it's just a whole it's a whole thing especially the cleaning because if
you have normal resin you have to clean it with isopropyl alcohol which is what
this tank has got inside of it this is like a washer and it does make it easier
but that's isopropyl alcohol it's not water but if you need stuff that's super
accurate for me sometimes the car stuff that I'll 3D print uh needs to be like
dimensionally perfect and in that case this is the only real option for me
that's not $10,000 or something like this these printers are actually pretty
pretty affordable honestly having a 3D printer is like a superpow for car nerds
and uh if you're a nerd of any other category like Warhammer or DND maybe you
might need one too like these other creators and their setups hey Linus tip
Texs my name is William Osman my channel is William Osman 2 I'm severely
dehydrated this is my 3D printing setup up currently I've used a lot of printers
over the years starting from a really really old original prusa machine that
was made out of wood which made me hate 3D printing that was like 2013 things
have gotten so much better since this is the XL this is like my Powerhouse multi
material five heads you can print all sorts of cool stuff like a replacement
vacuum cleaner wheel that I made and then on the inside on the Hub I used a
carbon fiber filament so that it has more wear resistance I think this is my
favorite print I've ever done it's an apple and a worm is actually TP I was
able to print with soluble support and then TPU and it did it seamlessly for
single Color Prints I've been using the prusa markv when I need really big stuff
I've used this uh cr10 Max I call it the cr10 maximum crap it's not a good
printer but it can print huge things I
made this hot sauce dispenser on the anchor make Pro it's got like a 100
different hot sauces in there one of the improvements I made is getting to the
back of these machines can be a pain in the butt so I put them on these rolling carts in the front there's levelers and
in the back there's casters so you just pick up the front and you can slide it
out which lets you get to the back of the machine and then under the cart you
can keep your filaments which I put inside of 5 gallon buckets with dog food
Lids so you open this up and you got a bunch of filaments in there and
stainless tea bags with a molecular seeve desicant to keep it dry you can
see one of them exploded open in there and there's little balls everywhere my
my little balls that is going to be a nightmare to clean up I use mostly fdm
printing which is what these machines are but form Labs have sent me their new
4L which I have plans for but I haven't played with it yet so I I can't give you
any recommendations on those machines one thing I really wish the XL had is a
dry box so I'm going to look for a open- source dry box that you can put your
filament rolls into that will automatically load them into the machine because it's a bit of a pain putting new
spools on this you got to feed it through and then get it into the tool
head it's like it it sometimes can take quite a bit of time especially with a
flexible filament or the PVA and a camera too not having a camera on the
crua machines is a little frustrating I know that the new printer does have one
there have been times where I've started a print for my computer and I come out
and it hasn't actually started and that that's you know that's a little frustrating but once it's
running I love you lonus tip techs Mr
Tech Mr tip I'm Jeff geerling and I'm from the channel well Jeff gearing I
make videos about single board computers home Labs and sometimes I even do very
important RF Safety Research with my dad well this insulating layer of corn
protect the hot dog this show is beautiful thank you so much John right
now I have these three printers a prusia markv a bamboo p1s and a tiny upside
down positron printer which is currently in a bit of a mess sorry about that
there are so many projects I work on where a little custom case or Mount is
useful I also 3D print little fixtures for devices I want to show in my videos
sometimes like this one I have for small PC Express cards I've also been learning
CAD software so I can design my own things like this Pi's dispenser that
instead of Pez dispenses raspberry pies I think the most practical things I've
built are all kinds of mounts for computers and network equipment for my
mini racks I'm working on moving my entire home lab into a minir rack like
this one I've used these printers for hundreds of prints now and every printer
I've used has its own little quirks like the prusia here doesn't have an
enclosure so some materials like ABS just don't work on it and there's no
built-in camera which is a little annoying for me because I like to check on prints remotely the bamboo well I
love the hardware and the speed plus the AMS up top lets me switch filaments
without even having to be at the printer but bamboo lab's latest updates are
making me nervous so I set it to landan only mode and blocked it from accessing
the internet but both of these two printers are my workhorses I can turn
them on remotely with these smart switches down here and then fire off a
print over my network I've only had like one or two print failures on these two
ever and both of those were actually my fault when I was slicing the models
they're reliable and the prusa is actually pretty quiet so if I'm going to
be recording I'll use it instead of the p1s I used to have an old creality
printer at home but I gave that to a friend I think if I get another home
printer it'll be a prusia they're built like tanks they're not that loud and I
love the community around them and the pre has a wired Ethernet port which is
useful if you're in a house with like a th000 wireless smart switches as for the
patron well this thing is the most fun and some people like a smaller size but
I wouldn't recommend you go in on a custom build like this unless you really
want to go full hobbyist and not just print things hi hi I'm Camden Bowen and
a lot of my videos involve me building various types of engines many of which
involve 3D printing in some way or another my setup is currently consisting
of a elu Neptune 3 and a creality cr10
S4 both of which serve their own purpose in their own way for all the large
components or the less critical ones I hand those over to the cr10 S4 because
it's got such a large bed size to it but for pretty much everything else I just
used the Neptune 3 because it's got a direct drive extruder I found that it
does a pretty good job with more difficult filaments like nylon and TPU
at least a much better job than what my cr10 does as that's only got a bden tube
set up another thing that I really like about the Neptune 3 is that it comes
pre-installed with an automatic bed leveler making the whole printing
experience like very TurnKey in fact I liked it so much that I installed one on
my cr10 as trying to level a bed that is almost half a meter in length is a
complete complete pain in the ass just because the nature of my content I'm a
lot less concerned with like making Parts with the highest resolution or the
most detail instead I'm always looking to make Parts as strong as possible to
serve more of a functional purpose but with the right filament these printers
actually do a pretty good job however there are a few things that I'm not
really a big fan of firstly the cr10 is
slow like really slow which sucks because in times where I can't use the
Neptune 3 prints that would otherwise be started and finished on the same day can
take up to two days of printing I mean you can make it a little bit faster by
adding supports to increase the rigidity or just adding a direct drive extruder
but I don't have either of those the only complaint I have about the Neptune
3 is that it's got a very strange problem I don't know why it does it
nobody else knows why it does it but for whatever reason every single time you
start a new print the Zed offset value
completely changes making so the nozzle's either way too high or crashing
into the bed now it's really not a big deal since you are able to manually
adjust the offset while it is printing but it does mean that you have to hover
over the printer for at least like a minute or so just to make sure that it's
working now unless you specifically needed a larger bed I think the overall
versatility and simplicity of the Neptune 3 makes it perfect for most
projects and not to mention the Neptune 3 is a lot more affordable being in the
same price range as the reality Ender 3 while also being a printer that you can
pretty much have up and running in only like half an hour and if you ask me that
is perfect for a beginner so then having
seen all that is it time for me to rip up my bamboo not yet but when the time
comes wow are there ever some inspiring setups to take things to the next level
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