3D Printing

What kind of stuff could you make with this machine? 

I was thinking this might be the case. Sure, you could come up with a few useful items, as you noted with your table lifter, but I wondered how many items of value you could produce. 

For the last couple of weeks I've been learning the various software involved in 3D printing. It's nice that you can use the Bambu "slicer" software even without the printer.

"Slicer" software is roughly the equivalent of a computer print dialogue box. In that software you set up where to print, how large, which face to set on the bottom plate, what quality, and sort of the basic things you might do (if you really dig down) in a print dialogue when printing to a laser printer.

There are some advanced features as well in the "slicer" software that allows you to manually color things (if you have a 3D printer equipped with several different spools of filament to choose from).

Bambu's "sliver" software is called Bambu Studio. The other piece of the puzzle is the software to actual create the 3D models. I've mentioned before Tinkercad and Fusion 360. The former is free and the later has a free version for hobbyists. Because they are both (now) owned by the same company, you can use them in conjunction with each other. For instance, you can create something in Tinkercad and then use some of the more advanced features in Fusion 360 to edit it.

Either I'm slow or YouTube teachers are quite willing, but often lacking the ability to teach concepts in a clear and coherent way. Let's give credence to both, for sure. But, good golly, although you can't really complain about someone offering free advice in a YouTube video, it can be nut-driving how confusing these videos can be sometimes. I mean really bizarrely and unnecessarily confusing.

I like to think of myself as a good teacher. Perhaps this is true if only because I need things explained in coherent steps with an overall rationale or conception of the paradigm in play. That is, you need to know not only what to do but why to do it. I'm sure Brother Artler understands this as I imagine he was an excellent teacher.

But I'm nowhere near buying a 3D printer. However, with some of the skills I've learned, I would certainly be able to create my own 3D printer file and use some online site to print it out. I'm just not sure I would use a 3D printer regularly enough to justify buying one. Still, as much as I liked stuff like the Vac-U-Form and Thingmaker (with PlastiGoop) when I was a kid, this stuff is sort of right up my alley.

I was thinking more of 3D printing a Stepford Wife. Or maybe some Krugerrands.

I haven't purchased a 3D printer yet. But I have continued learning the 3D programs, particularly Fusion 350. My brain hasn't worked this hard since trying to understand the female mind in regards to letting men who claim to be women use their locker room.



The above is a relatively simple part but probably represents the most complicated thing I'd ever need or want to make for myself. There are two main challenges to overcome:

1) The sheer depth and obscurity of the Fusion 360 program.
2) The madcap (but well-meaning) YouTube tutorials that jump around, make mistakes, start over, skip vital instructions, and just generally don't actually explain much of the time what they are doing or have actually done. And, in many videos, the videos seem to jump or drop frames so that you don't see what menu was chosen and things like that. And it's definitely not my computer that is the problem.

When you, from time to time, are yelling (literally) at the screen at these guys for making an already difficult task more difficult, then the saying "You get what you pay for" comes to mind. All these tutorials are free, of course.

But sometimes it's just amazing. I think many of these yutes are strung up on caffeine or something. They go so fast and are so fiddly with mouse motions and all.

The history of the Golem is Eastern Europe, mostly the Ukraine Pale and verry Jewish. Please don't make one I'm not sure your area has enough Hasids to counter a true Golum.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

This is the item my younger brother wants me to print. I don't know why.