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today we have the flashforge artemis a

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cube style 3d printer

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i don't know where to go from here

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you thought all i knew about was crappy RGB and crappy soundbar speakers but i

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can print a thing or two as well flashforge the sponsor this video has

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sent us over one of their new printers the artemis it's a little bit different

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from some of the other printers available on the market i'm not entirely

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sure how it operates or what kind it is i know it's a big cube it's quite

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exciting instructions and things like that and it

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also looks like we've got the bed we'll be looking at that a bit later

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i was just gonna say yeah it's quite hefty i'll tell you that

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oh it's so orange i love it i just immediately rip all the cables out good

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job Dan so this piece of foam just holds the head and carriage in there from

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moving around got a whole bunch of zap straps and things we got to get out too

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oh look they've sent us two full spools of filament that's really nice actually

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white pla and a black pla i think we'll

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go with white it's all really nice and neat if

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i'm honest oh this is going to be sick look at this thing seems like the frame

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is really nice and sturdy this style's different because it's a

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cube most of the other ones are like an upside down t-style printer we

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generally measure the printers in in this direction so you've got your zed

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travel here then your x travel and then your y travels this way on traditional

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printers which were like a reprap style something like that the y-axis stays

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stationary and the bed goes back and forth and then your x goes you know left

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and right with this one the x and y moves and then the bed goes up and down

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itself shouldn't really move this you saw that light come on

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it's bad for it this style is slightly different in that it has two independent

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axes here probably two motors on each side it

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looks like yeah the motor is actually on the

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x gantry here so we have our x gantry here and our y gantry here this has a

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full direct drive extruder so you're going to get a lot of performance out of

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the extruder rather than speed and

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should be nice and quiet for those of you that don't know direct drive extruder compared to a standard bowden

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style extruder there's actually a motor up top here that pushes the plastic

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right next to the nozzle rather than having this tube which is where your

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filament is going to come from be at the back so the extruder motor is not on the

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back of the unit flashboard says that this extruder will do up to 260 degrees

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which is quite nice you can do your p-e-t-g's and your nylons at that sort

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of temperature it looks like a 4.4 millimeter brass nozzle so you're going

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to be able to do your your standard materials if you want to do weird things

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like wood infill or carbon fiber type of filaments then you'll just have to

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upgrade it to a hardened steel nozzle moving around to the back of the printer

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it's all completely closed off so we can definitely have this against a wall if

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you wanted to and our little filament holder i think

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the slots in here yeah that's nice and easy and so that

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goes on there looks like it comes with a borosilicate

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glass bed i mean i would assume so i hope so and it has this really really

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nice textured nanodot surface on the top advantage of using glass beds is that

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it's perfectly flat so there's no sort of undulations your first layers adhere

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really well and they've also sent along what looks like a textured metal bed

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this one feels really nice it's a nice smooth metal texture the nice thing

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about having a flexible bed is you can peel this off the printer and then just

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pop your parts out really easily it comes with this big magnet on the back

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here and it seems to have a self-adhesive tape i think i'm going to

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try it on the glass it's not running on linear rails it's just those ball tube

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things which have a very very nice

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light oil on them from factory which is good get that out oh it even comes with

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extra nozzles this is awesome what would you like to print oh i had what i want

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to print i even found a print file really there's a little frog with a

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cowboy hat that's so cute we're definitely doing that

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oh god

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i love that looks like it is a touch screen nice and responsive which is good

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it's good as a home ready see how loud it is

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holy whisper quiet it's incredibly affordable if you're going to put it in

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a school or if you had a younger kid at home who wanted to get into learning how

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to use 3d printers this seems like a good model for that the build volume is

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quite reasonable as well pretty standard 200 millimeters high of build volume by

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believe it's 190 in the x direction and 195 in the y direction oh yeah that's

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right it's got a light in the top of it i love that it's got wi-fi it's got

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languages it's got a buzzer i definitely want the buzzer on that sweet what does

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the level do what's gonna happen okay let's see if it's gonna crash

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oh it did not

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uh click the arrow to adjust the platform so that it just touches the

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nozzle so now we're setting our z-axis offset raise this platform and sit by

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the side of it till we get next to it this is way easier

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than having to adjust yourself manually because we only have two adjustment

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knobs on the front and none at the back it went to the center here

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and then we got it to touch and so now what i think it wants me to do is turn

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the knob there you go unscrew the corresponding nut under platform until

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touching the nozzle so we are touching it right now so i'm just going to bring

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this corner down by unscrewing the nozzle no tightening the nozzle

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tightening the nozzle brings the platform away from the nozzle and i'm just looking at the light through it and

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i'm just going to undo it bringing the platform up and just till i can't see

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the nozzle anymore there we go next this is so much easier than what i have

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to do at home i'm jealous there's the other side is

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done so that was incredibly easy to level this bed let's open up some

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filament this is my favorite part of opening filament is the

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fun noise are you ready for the

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didn't do it

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never let go of the end ever ever because it will get all tangled up and

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you'll ruin your life and it looks like the path is going to come up this side

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so i'm going to put my filament here and just stuff it in there and you go

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nice like siliconized type tube thing

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that's not bad at all there's a lot of space in between there i would prefer a

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tighter bowden tube everybody likes a tight bowden tube blue

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i loaded white filament i guess they test them at the

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factory with blue or something like that test file we have a tool changing and a

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file connect filter connect it's got a nice little display here of what you're

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about to print including the time how much filament it's going to use the

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layer height and the speed that it's going to print at there there we go oh he's so cute this

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is going to be quite a challenging print for this

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printer i don't think i can print this i'm just going to use their default

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settings i think that's pretty important to start with default extruder width 0.4

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pla a little cold maybe we'll we'll try that

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layer height is .18 as a default which is pretty detailed

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normally i print it like point three because i want my prints now not in five

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hours so we'll see how the default settings look and see how fast it prints

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and see if it even sticks to the bed so we're gonna start with homing oh nice

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look it's got a little picture of the froggy make sure our build plate's clean

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don't use your hand you'll get oils on it use a cloth or something nice slow

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first layer it's quiet apart from the fans but

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look at that it's doing the outline of the the froggy

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there legs i hope you guys weren't trying to do anything oh cool yeah we're

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filming a ShortCircuit no you're not since when do we 3d print things on

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ShortCircuit Dan what are you doing i'm doing a ShortCircuit i'm sure this

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table is really stable enough for 3d printing

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yeah now that we're through the first

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layer speeds have improved quite a lot this is just our our basic speeds the

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travel moves are looking pretty nice and fast it's whisper quiet apart from the

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layer fan and the power supply fan infill looks good all the

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lines look good i'm not noticing too much over extrusion or under extrusion

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on the first layer a little bit of wispy on one of the feet during one of the

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travel moves but it was quite slow so i would certainly suggest playing around

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with your slicer settings first one of the features that i want to try is the

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um Linus protection feature

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where he comes and trips over my cord like oh no and now the power's come back

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on so let's see what happens will it recover

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it's a boy frog yes

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oh here we go resume the uncompleted print job yes

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please well would you look at that now many printers have

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uh resumed from failure state is it just

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continuing yeah it finished that bit of infill there this is great and we're

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back after only an hour and a half and

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maybe four days later my beard's a little longer and i've got a different

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shirt on our little frog friend is done look at that one thing that i wanted to

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test now is the release of this interesting little glass surface so

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just by grabbing him from his hat let's see how easy he pops off if we have to

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use a spatula or anything look at that nice and released not a huge level of

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surface defects in the base no

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real elephant's feet around the edge which is when you get a

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little bit of a lip around the side maybe some of it

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but i only bed leveled it in like five seconds so this is looking pretty good

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yeah a little partner there so we'll put him aside and move on to

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some of the other things i'm a little bit concerned that the hotend assembly

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and most of this is proprietary unupgradable unrepairable for yourself

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and if you want to be learning about 3d printers you're going to be wanting to

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do your own maintenance and repairing it yourself so one of the things that's

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interesting about 3d printing is you can change a lot just by changing the nozzle

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and if you have to buy all of them from flashforge then you're limiting yourself

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to some fun exotics that you might not get access to if flashforge doesn't

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provide you with that type of nozzle there's one thing that i'd like to have

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a look at is how they're doing their motor drivers if it's an all-in-one

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system which you can't replace if one of them burns out you've got to buy a whole

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new main board or if they're

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standard drop-in styles that you could experiment with try different ones

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yeah i'm just a dumbass our motherboard is this nice little

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green board here this is our power supply we've got our z-axis motor here

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and this is the assembly for the nice little touch screen that plays songs at

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the front looks like our motor drivers are all soldered onto the motherboard so

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you won't get any chance to upgrade that they've all got some pretty nice

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heatsinks on there which is good we've got a little 40 millimeter fan which is

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nice and easily accessible here looks like we've got some extra ports here for

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a couple more things maybe sensors there's a secondary

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fan port here so you could put another one somewhere else if you were into that

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okay we're back on the top side now i want to have a look at how this hot

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end assembly is put together let's ruin this printer

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okay i was wrong they're not linear bearings they're actually bronze bushings which is very interesting i

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don't think i've seen that in a printer before they should just pop out quite

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easily then it looks like they're held in by just

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pressure snap yeah there we go those actually

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roll really smoothly they're silent there's no noise from them and

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the belt tensioning system here is just friction fit so that all comes out

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really nicely and our hot end assembly is out so easy

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there we go i'll just pull that out of the way and

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now we have access to our hot end assembly

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and just like that couple cables couple screws

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so i'm learning from Linus uh just like that we've got our

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hot end assembly it's really nice all in one

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almost plug and play style thing got our layer fan here which is pointed

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sort of directly at the silicon sock

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which is a odd choice i'd like to see that a little bit lower maybe and

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there's our led and we've got a little plug-in driver board here which is

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basically just uh making everything plug

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in easily so that this main cable can

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send it all back to the brains looks like our nozzle is going to go all the

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way through that and butt up against the top of the heat

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break there it's a really nice little assembly i

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think it's not very heavy it's pound

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after ripping apart the hot end assembly which actually wasn't that difficult um

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we found a couple interesting little notes of things

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nozzles are a weird size but seem very

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easy to install and remove the x carriage is not supported on

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linear bearings but bronze bushings which is a very interesting choice it

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seems to run nice and smooth and true and they're really easy to take in and

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out there is a separate control board right on top

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which is basically just a bunch of plugs that transfer everything over to this

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data cable for power and sensors and the

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little light underneath it's it's quite elegant honestly i do like the fact that

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it sings that's pretty cool you can get in there nice and easy it seems well

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built all the plastic injection parts on the hot end assembly and underneath seem

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to have heat set inserts which is really nice so you can be taking this apart

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constantly without having to worry about the plastic

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tearing out i think if you're not really into doing much of the

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tinkering or if you really don't want to get into the mechanicals of how a 3d

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printer works and be changing out parts and worrying about that if you just want

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something that prints reliably and quickly-ish if you want to be playing

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with settings i think this printer is a really really good offering in the

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space it's quite competitive at the 600-ish us dollar price range and this

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one i think fits into that very nicely for once uh

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i'm actually quite impressed with the printer of this caliber it's uh it's

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real sturdy and i really like it thanks to flash ford for sponsoring this video

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if you liked it throw a like downstairs and uh

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yeehaw in the comments for our little froggy friend