WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.879 today we have the flashforge artemis a 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:09.920 cube style 3d printer 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:11.920 i don't know where to go from here 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:16.800 you thought all i knew about was crappy RGB and crappy soundbar speakers but i 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:20.480 can print a thing or two as well flashforge the sponsor this video has 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:23.840 sent us over one of their new printers the artemis it's a little bit different 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:28.480 from some of the other printers available on the market i'm not entirely 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:31.439 sure how it operates or what kind it is i know it's a big cube it's quite 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:36.160 exciting instructions and things like that and it 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:41.680 also looks like we've got the bed we'll be looking at that a bit later 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:47.039 i was just gonna say yeah it's quite hefty i'll tell you that 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:50.800 oh it's so orange i love it i just immediately rip all the cables out good 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:54.559 job Dan so this piece of foam just holds the head and carriage in there from 00:00:52.879 --> 00:00:59.120 moving around got a whole bunch of zap straps and things we got to get out too 00:00:56.239 --> 00:01:05.119 oh look they've sent us two full spools of filament that's really nice actually 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:06.080 white pla and a black pla i think we'll 00:01:05.119 --> 00:01:10.560 go with white it's all really nice and neat if 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:14.799 i'm honest oh this is going to be sick look at this thing seems like the frame 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:18.880 is really nice and sturdy this style's different because it's a 00:01:16.479 --> 00:01:23.280 cube most of the other ones are like an upside down t-style printer we 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.040 generally measure the printers in in this direction so you've got your zed 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:32.400 travel here then your x travel and then your y travels this way on traditional 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:37.920 printers which were like a reprap style something like that the y-axis stays 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:42.720 stationary and the bed goes back and forth and then your x goes you know left 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:46.479 and right with this one the x and y moves and then the bed goes up and down 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:50.479 itself shouldn't really move this you saw that light come on 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:54.399 it's bad for it this style is slightly different in that it has two independent 00:01:53.200 --> 00:02:00.880 axes here probably two motors on each side it 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:03.840 looks like yeah the motor is actually on the 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:08.560 x gantry here so we have our x gantry here and our y gantry here this has a 00:02:06.479 --> 00:02:14.160 full direct drive extruder so you're going to get a lot of performance out of 00:02:10.399 --> 00:02:15.440 the extruder rather than speed and 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:20.879 should be nice and quiet for those of you that don't know direct drive extruder compared to a standard bowden 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:26.000 style extruder there's actually a motor up top here that pushes the plastic 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.360 right next to the nozzle rather than having this tube which is where your 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:33.280 filament is going to come from be at the back so the extruder motor is not on the 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:37.800 back of the unit flashboard says that this extruder will do up to 260 degrees 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:42.640 which is quite nice you can do your p-e-t-g's and your nylons at that sort 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:47.360 of temperature it looks like a 4.4 millimeter brass nozzle so you're going 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:51.360 to be able to do your your standard materials if you want to do weird things 00:02:48.959 --> 00:02:55.519 like wood infill or carbon fiber type of filaments then you'll just have to 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:59.920 upgrade it to a hardened steel nozzle moving around to the back of the printer 00:02:56.959 --> 00:03:04.239 it's all completely closed off so we can definitely have this against a wall if 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:08.000 you wanted to and our little filament holder i think 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:11.760 the slots in here yeah that's nice and easy and so that 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.000 goes on there looks like it comes with a borosilicate 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:20.560 glass bed i mean i would assume so i hope so and it has this really really 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:25.920 nice textured nanodot surface on the top advantage of using glass beds is that 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:29.680 it's perfectly flat so there's no sort of undulations your first layers adhere 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.280 really well and they've also sent along what looks like a textured metal bed 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:37.519 this one feels really nice it's a nice smooth metal texture the nice thing 00:03:35.519 --> 00:03:40.959 about having a flexible bed is you can peel this off the printer and then just 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.879 pop your parts out really easily it comes with this big magnet on the back 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:49.120 here and it seems to have a self-adhesive tape i think i'm going to 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:52.319 try it on the glass it's not running on linear rails it's just those ball tube 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:58.159 things which have a very very nice 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:03.439 light oil on them from factory which is good get that out oh it even comes with 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:06.720 extra nozzles this is awesome what would you like to print oh i had what i want 00:04:04.959 --> 00:04:09.680 to print i even found a print file really there's a little frog with a 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:13.400 cowboy hat that's so cute we're definitely doing that 00:04:14.799 --> 00:04:17.439 oh god 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:24.639 i love that looks like it is a touch screen nice and responsive which is good 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:28.360 it's good as a home ready see how loud it is 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:34.400 holy whisper quiet it's incredibly affordable if you're going to put it in 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:39.040 a school or if you had a younger kid at home who wanted to get into learning how 00:04:36.479 --> 00:04:43.199 to use 3d printers this seems like a good model for that the build volume is 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:48.960 quite reasonable as well pretty standard 200 millimeters high of build volume by 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:53.600 believe it's 190 in the x direction and 195 in the y direction oh yeah that's 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:57.520 right it's got a light in the top of it i love that it's got wi-fi it's got 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:02.160 languages it's got a buzzer i definitely want the buzzer on that sweet what does 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:08.120 the level do what's gonna happen okay let's see if it's gonna crash 00:05:04.479 --> 00:05:08.120 oh it did not 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:17.039 uh click the arrow to adjust the platform so that it just touches the 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:21.440 nozzle so now we're setting our z-axis offset raise this platform and sit by 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:26.240 the side of it till we get next to it this is way easier 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:29.759 than having to adjust yourself manually because we only have two adjustment 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:33.600 knobs on the front and none at the back it went to the center here 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:37.520 and then we got it to touch and so now what i think it wants me to do is turn 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:42.160 the knob there you go unscrew the corresponding nut under platform until 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.520 touching the nozzle so we are touching it right now so i'm just going to bring 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:48.639 this corner down by unscrewing the nozzle no tightening the nozzle 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:53.840 tightening the nozzle brings the platform away from the nozzle and i'm just looking at the light through it and 00:05:52.080 --> 00:05:59.039 i'm just going to undo it bringing the platform up and just till i can't see 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:02.000 the nozzle anymore there we go next this is so much easier than what i have 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:06.479 to do at home i'm jealous there's the other side is 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:09.600 done so that was incredibly easy to level this bed let's open up some 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:13.759 filament this is my favorite part of opening filament is the 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:18.960 fun noise are you ready for the 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:18.960 didn't do it 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:26.319 never let go of the end ever ever because it will get all tangled up and 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:30.160 you'll ruin your life and it looks like the path is going to come up this side 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:36.080 so i'm going to put my filament here and just stuff it in there and you go 00:06:33.039 --> 00:06:38.240 nice like siliconized type tube thing 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:42.240 that's not bad at all there's a lot of space in between there i would prefer a 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:46.840 tighter bowden tube everybody likes a tight bowden tube blue 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:51.120 i loaded white filament i guess they test them at the 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:56.880 factory with blue or something like that test file we have a tool changing and a 00:06:54.479 --> 00:07:00.880 file connect filter connect it's got a nice little display here of what you're 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:04.240 about to print including the time how much filament it's going to use the 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:09.199 layer height and the speed that it's going to print at there there we go oh he's so cute this 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:13.120 is going to be quite a challenging print for this 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:16.400 printer i don't think i can print this i'm just going to use their default 00:07:14.479 --> 00:07:23.599 settings i think that's pretty important to start with default extruder width 0.4 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:26.720 pla a little cold maybe we'll we'll try that 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:31.360 layer height is .18 as a default which is pretty detailed 00:07:28.479 --> 00:07:34.720 normally i print it like point three because i want my prints now not in five 00:07:33.039 --> 00:07:38.319 hours so we'll see how the default settings look and see how fast it prints 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:42.400 and see if it even sticks to the bed so we're gonna start with homing oh nice 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:46.800 look it's got a little picture of the froggy make sure our build plate's clean 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:50.720 don't use your hand you'll get oils on it use a cloth or something nice slow 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:54.720 first layer it's quiet apart from the fans but 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:58.479 look at that it's doing the outline of the the froggy 00:07:57.039 --> 00:08:01.919 there legs i hope you guys weren't trying to do anything oh cool yeah we're 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:05.360 filming a ShortCircuit no you're not since when do we 3d print things on 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:08.879 ShortCircuit Dan what are you doing i'm doing a ShortCircuit i'm sure this 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:13.840 table is really stable enough for 3d printing 00:08:10.840 --> 00:08:15.919 yeah now that we're through the first 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:19.919 layer speeds have improved quite a lot this is just our our basic speeds the 00:08:18.400 --> 00:08:25.280 travel moves are looking pretty nice and fast it's whisper quiet apart from the 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:30.800 layer fan and the power supply fan infill looks good all the 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:35.839 lines look good i'm not noticing too much over extrusion or under extrusion 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:39.680 on the first layer a little bit of wispy on one of the feet during one of the 00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:42.719 travel moves but it was quite slow so i would certainly suggest playing around 00:08:40.959 --> 00:08:45.839 with your slicer settings first one of the features that i want to try is the 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:50.880 um Linus protection feature 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:53.760 where he comes and trips over my cord like oh no and now the power's come back 00:08:53.040 --> 00:09:00.160 on so let's see what happens will it recover 00:08:56.880 --> 00:09:01.440 it's a boy frog yes 00:09:00.160 --> 00:09:06.959 oh here we go resume the uncompleted print job yes 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:11.680 please well would you look at that now many printers have 00:09:08.560 --> 00:09:13.760 uh resumed from failure state is it just 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:18.800 continuing yeah it finished that bit of infill there this is great and we're 00:09:15.760 --> 00:09:20.720 back after only an hour and a half and 00:09:18.800 --> 00:09:24.959 maybe four days later my beard's a little longer and i've got a different 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:29.680 shirt on our little frog friend is done look at that one thing that i wanted to 00:09:26.959 --> 00:09:34.399 test now is the release of this interesting little glass surface so 00:09:32.880 --> 00:09:39.360 just by grabbing him from his hat let's see how easy he pops off if we have to 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:44.320 use a spatula or anything look at that nice and released not a huge level of 00:09:42.160 --> 00:09:47.360 surface defects in the base no 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:50.880 real elephant's feet around the edge which is when you get a 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:55.120 little bit of a lip around the side maybe some of it 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:59.040 but i only bed leveled it in like five seconds so this is looking pretty good 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:03.839 yeah a little partner there so we'll put him aside and move on to 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:08.640 some of the other things i'm a little bit concerned that the hotend assembly 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:12.480 and most of this is proprietary unupgradable unrepairable for yourself 00:10:10.959 --> 00:10:15.600 and if you want to be learning about 3d printers you're going to be wanting to 00:10:14.079 --> 00:10:19.200 do your own maintenance and repairing it yourself so one of the things that's 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:22.800 interesting about 3d printing is you can change a lot just by changing the nozzle 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:27.680 and if you have to buy all of them from flashforge then you're limiting yourself 00:10:24.880 --> 00:10:31.839 to some fun exotics that you might not get access to if flashforge doesn't 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:34.959 provide you with that type of nozzle there's one thing that i'd like to have 00:10:33.040 --> 00:10:39.200 a look at is how they're doing their motor drivers if it's an all-in-one 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:42.240 system which you can't replace if one of them burns out you've got to buy a whole 00:10:40.800 --> 00:10:46.480 new main board or if they're 00:10:44.560 --> 00:10:51.600 standard drop-in styles that you could experiment with try different ones 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:54.800 yeah i'm just a dumbass our motherboard is this nice little 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:59.920 green board here this is our power supply we've got our z-axis motor here 00:10:57.920 --> 00:11:03.600 and this is the assembly for the nice little touch screen that plays songs at 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:07.600 the front looks like our motor drivers are all soldered onto the motherboard so 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:11.040 you won't get any chance to upgrade that they've all got some pretty nice 00:11:08.800 --> 00:11:15.279 heatsinks on there which is good we've got a little 40 millimeter fan which is 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:19.360 nice and easily accessible here looks like we've got some extra ports here for 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:23.600 a couple more things maybe sensors there's a secondary 00:11:21.920 --> 00:11:28.480 fan port here so you could put another one somewhere else if you were into that 00:11:26.160 --> 00:11:32.079 okay we're back on the top side now i want to have a look at how this hot 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:35.519 end assembly is put together let's ruin this printer 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:40.079 okay i was wrong they're not linear bearings they're actually bronze bushings which is very interesting i 00:11:38.800 --> 00:11:43.360 don't think i've seen that in a printer before they should just pop out quite 00:11:41.920 --> 00:11:46.560 easily then it looks like they're held in by just 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:51.200 pressure snap yeah there we go those actually 00:11:48.800 --> 00:11:55.279 roll really smoothly they're silent there's no noise from them and 00:11:53.040 --> 00:11:59.040 the belt tensioning system here is just friction fit so that all comes out 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:04.800 really nicely and our hot end assembly is out so easy 00:12:02.079 --> 00:12:09.120 there we go i'll just pull that out of the way and 00:12:06.560 --> 00:12:12.480 now we have access to our hot end assembly 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:14.959 and just like that couple cables couple screws 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:22.560 so i'm learning from Linus uh just like that we've got our 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:26.639 hot end assembly it's really nice all in one 00:12:23.760 --> 00:12:32.480 almost plug and play style thing got our layer fan here which is pointed 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:34.320 sort of directly at the silicon sock 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:39.279 which is a odd choice i'd like to see that a little bit lower maybe and 00:12:36.560 --> 00:12:45.279 there's our led and we've got a little plug-in driver board here which is 00:12:42.160 --> 00:12:48.639 basically just uh making everything plug 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:50.240 in easily so that this main cable can 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:53.680 send it all back to the brains looks like our nozzle is going to go all the 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:57.200 way through that and butt up against the top of the heat 00:12:56.079 --> 00:13:01.200 break there it's a really nice little assembly i 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:06.000 think it's not very heavy it's pound 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:09.839 after ripping apart the hot end assembly which actually wasn't that difficult um 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:15.120 we found a couple interesting little notes of things 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:17.839 nozzles are a weird size but seem very 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:21.519 easy to install and remove the x carriage is not supported on 00:13:19.760 --> 00:13:25.040 linear bearings but bronze bushings which is a very interesting choice it 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:28.079 seems to run nice and smooth and true and they're really easy to take in and 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:32.079 out there is a separate control board right on top 00:13:29.760 --> 00:13:37.200 which is basically just a bunch of plugs that transfer everything over to this 00:13:34.160 --> 00:13:39.199 data cable for power and sensors and the 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:43.680 little light underneath it's it's quite elegant honestly i do like the fact that 00:13:41.199 --> 00:13:47.680 it sings that's pretty cool you can get in there nice and easy it seems well 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:51.360 built all the plastic injection parts on the hot end assembly and underneath seem 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:55.519 to have heat set inserts which is really nice so you can be taking this apart 00:13:53.680 --> 00:13:59.040 constantly without having to worry about the plastic 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:02.720 tearing out i think if you're not really into doing much of the 00:14:00.959 --> 00:14:07.440 tinkering or if you really don't want to get into the mechanicals of how a 3d 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:10.800 printer works and be changing out parts and worrying about that if you just want 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:15.199 something that prints reliably and quickly-ish if you want to be playing 00:14:12.800 --> 00:14:20.320 with settings i think this printer is a really really good offering in the 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:25.440 space it's quite competitive at the 600-ish us dollar price range and this 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:28.639 one i think fits into that very nicely for once uh 00:14:26.800 --> 00:14:32.959 i'm actually quite impressed with the printer of this caliber it's uh it's 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:36.560 real sturdy and i really like it thanks to flash ford for sponsoring this video 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:39.440 if you liked it throw a like downstairs and uh 00:14:37.839 --> 00:14:42.160 yeehaw in the comments for our little froggy friend