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I'm on Studio 2, so we should be good. Yeah. Sorry. It's all sotty. It's a short one this week, folks. Paul Erick is a very relevant this week's project. Paul Erick saying that he just got his Creelty CR scan lizard. He's going to shrink his head. It's exactly what we did this week. He's going to, I guess, do some cool little action figure models. All right. Yeah, so... Let's do a little breakdown. Do you remember 2012, when we first got into 3D printing? There was this wonderful thing called 1-2-3D Capture, and it was a cool way to capture 3D scans with just photos, taking several photos and the app turns it into a 3D model. Here we are, eight years later, and we decided to try it out again. Yeah, so PT came up with this idea last minute. There was an announcement from Hasbro toys. Yes, Hasbro. And Formlabs are partnering up to make it so that folks can take photos of themselves and get a 3D printed head and kind of added to one of the figures that they're offering. So they have a mix of things. I think it's still yet to be released. I think they said by the end of the month they were going to release. I didn't sign up. I don't know how you're going to get your pictures. I don't know what the process is. Yeah, maybe they're figuring that out. But we want to let you know that's where you got inspired from Hasbro and Formlabs doing something that nobody has done before. They're coming up with different pigments and all that. Very, very cool stuff. So we figured we can do this right now with the free CAD apps, or there's some CAD 3D scanning apps out there available for the mobile devices. We figured we'd give them a try. We tried a couple of them. And Pedro, you came up with some cool things. We scanned a couple of different people. You got yourself scanned, so I scanned you. You scanned me, and then you scanned Brandy, your lovely wife. Tried scanning the kids. Did you try scanning the kids? It doesn't work when the kids fidgety. So you definitely have to be super still, like an adult who can focus. Yes, it does take about 50 photos to take. We did try using, for the longest time, PT has been wanting to do this project for a while now, I think over like a year, so we're trying. I've been trying all the apps, and one of the things I always constantly try is the LiDAR functionality of it, so using like the dot matrix little display that iPhones use to unlock your phone, yeah, so when it's scanning your face. Yeah, it sounds great. It sounds great in theory. Yeah. That'd be a better way than photos. Yeah, so every time I've tried that, it comes out like garbage, and it appears that Apple's not looking for like a beautiful pristine scan. What they're looking for is just like little dots and positioning data that's on your face. They don't really care about a clean, high-realization scan. And every time I would try that, that's why I didn't do the project because it always looked like junk. Yeah. Every time I'd import it into the CAD program to try to fix it up, it was just no way. It was way too dodgy in terms of... Too noisy, too spiky. Too noisy, too... Well, we have some examples that we could share, but we found the photo, the photo, taking a series of photos and having the app kind of generate a mesh with those photos is the way to go for our examples. It's such a tongue twister photogramme, photogramme. Photogramme? Sounds great. Yeah, so that's the procedure that Hasbro's going to be using. And PT has been doing his own tests and scanning statues and rooms. And the app that he was using was called Trino, which does do... They don't use the LiDAR, the scanning. They use just photos to create all the topography and the geometry. It is the best way, as we found, because we're taking a scan with LiDAR. Any slight movement will completely change what the model and the mesh it's creating. Is it just in there? Yeah, no. Even you, just when you're changing angles, because you got to get the top of your head, all the underneath, your chin, so all that geometry is created, by you just moving around your object, you'll sort of shift the way that the mesh is being created. And that is what's creating all the garbage that I'm not able to use for reprinting any of this. So using the photos of taking at least like 50 photos and having it processed on what we're using is Polycam. We're using the photo mode. They do have a LiDAR scan mode, and we'll show you some comparison shots of what that looks like compared to just plaino photos. So this will work with anything. You can use any phone, you can upload drone, camera footage, you can upload DSLR footage. Any photos. Yeah, any photos. So it doesn't need to be the app. It's just whatever photo taking program you're using. And that's what it's using to upload it. It is, they do have a trial. So this is like $3, which in the grand scheme of things, is pretty dang cheap for having a service that does such a high quality of processing and creating your 3D mesh for that. And yeah, that's what we use, just photogramming. And that's what, look at this. This looks just like you. Well, it is me. Yeah, so let's talk about the figures. Where did you get these figures and how did you get the... I mean, you could use any figures. Some of the ball sockets that we were showing in the video, we're just measuring how that is. You can adjust our geometry that we provide that you can edit and just create your own ball sockets. I think that's what the main part of this... This is George Lucas over here. This is his original head. So he was easy to take off. Most of these kind of things have these ball sockets. Yeah, and one of the cool things is that when you go in and you can fix things that is wrong with the toy, like you can see the scale in here. His head is like way too small for this huge body. You were talking about how easy it was to remove. Sometimes they are a little difficult. You did have to use some skate lubricant. You can kind of see the shininess in there just to make it easier to pop off because I thought it was going to break it at the stem here. But that's one way you can easily remove the heads from your toys. So keeping that ball socket there is kind of important if you want articulation and you want to move it a bit. That's cool. You can look up and down, left and right, and that's the kind of articulation you get with a ball socket. Boy, they should be standardized, but they're not. No, they're actually different sizes. Just slightly different. There's not real name associated to the style of the toy. Yeah, this one's like the George Lucas one. Sorry for any collectors out there. I totally ripped apart the box. This is from Marvel. This is Thor. It's a new series called Build a Figure. They literally call it on the box, Build a Figure, and they designed the parts to be swappable. So arms, accessories like the weapons, and then it actually came with another body part, which was very odd. Yeah, so all of the Build a Figure series came with half a body with missing limbs. It's like, what is that? But I guess they want you to buy this version of the character corg so that you can get more features of maybe Groot. We don't know, but we were... No, it's more sinister than that. You have to buy all of their action figures to get all the parts for... They're phenomenal, detailed things, the corg's body. What I like is the articulation that is built for building. So all of these... It's built to be detachable. Exactly. Small sockets are different. But look at the articulation you get in the neck. For example, we have these extra... You can see those notches there that kind of keep it in spot. So they're really nice and kind of modular. So shout out to the Build a Figure series from Marvel. Yeah. So that's a little bit of background on the particular figures themselves. They're really good, high quality figures. Yeah. So much so that inspired me to... For my head... Yeah, these are exclusive to Disney. We went to Target and Walmart and they don't have any of these characters. I'm guessing they have the... You can shop that Disney? Could you buy that? You definitely could get them there. Cool. Alright, so it's got a thing. Yeah, you can... I think there's like discount codes on there to get a little bit of a kickback on that. Alright, so there's that. So detailed. Let me finish my point on that. Nice and detailed that inspired us for my figurehead to add the detail that is on Groot's body. The green? Namely the moss for the green. So I incorporated that into my beard and my head making it look like there's a leaf grown out of there. And this is printed in... This is printed in wood filament. Real wood. Yeah, so... How's it wood? PLA wood. Yeah, so it's... Oh, they're much smaller. Oh yeah, check out the ball socket on that. So all of them are completely different sizes. We do provide all three of these sizes that you can go ahead and tweak. You'll have to tweak them a little bit more too if you're using something like Ninja Flex which we didn't even talk... Well, I guess now we can talk about that. We're talking about the materials of the head. When you are transitioning from a PLA print to a Ninja Flex print, one of the things that changes is the tolerances. You have much more flexibility in, well, flexible filaments but the PLA has gotten more rigid and much more sturdy material. So the tolerances and the diameter of the socket had to change. So you really want to pick what material you want and then go from there. So why would you want to print it in Ninja Flex versus PLA? Yeah, so for Ninja Flex, one of the things that I found is that it looked way better in terms of the printing of it and because for play, it makes it a lot more safe for kids. Squishy head. Yeah, having a squishy head that is not going to break one... because you know how kids play, they're going to bang this on the ground. So it's indestructible. You could run my head over. Exactly, yeah. That's what it looks like when it's shattered. You can do the squishy head thing. Oddly enough, it tends to take acrylic paint better than we found with PLA. It looks better, yeah. I don't have any of the ones where it's not... No, we didn't bring it. It didn't look as good. The shininess that you're seeing on here did not come through in a PLA print. You can kind of see it here with the wooden one because it is PLA and wood. So you can kind of see how it is more matted. You would have to use the more glossy paint, but it was easier to get, for instance, your eyes in there because you can poke down into it because it flexes down inside and sort of fills in your whole pupils, which was a little bit difficult to do with just PLA version of it. No, we lucked out with the filament color because this filament is already brown. Yeah. Back in a few days when we were tighter with Fender Drives, they made a whole line of kind of skin tones and they were kind of marketing this towards prosthetics. So they wanted different skin tones. So they had all these different colors and stuff. We stocked them for a good year or two, but this was many years ago. We still have, in stock, it's called Almond Smoothie and that is what is the more peach color. So this is still in stock if you have that complexion, if you want to match. That's why I printed myself in more peach colors. Yeah, it matches the skin tone. It definitely matches pretty close to the tone of these figures. So that was super cool having the Ninja Flex that I think we're the only ones that still have the stock for that color. They stocked, I think they discontinued it. It might have not been as popular. It's unfortunate. But then we'll go pick some up. We have a couple of these for projects that come up just like this. So there were some tips on printing Ninja Flex. Really like cutting it right under the chin, I think is the main important thing because then you're avoiding support material. So if you want more of a neck, you can go that route, but you're going to need some support. The neck is already in the figure, that's pretty much how they... Yeah, I mean here you can kind of see that that is where they cut it off and then you have an angular cut there, which I didn't go and do. You can see more of the neck in the back there. But yeah, that's good. And a properly scaled head if they ran out of time for scaling this. But super cool that the main conception for this project is definitely PT wanting to show that. Why wait to get your head scanned? You can go ahead and do this right now. Prices are printers and you can get a really good printer for like a hundred bucks. Three dollars to process your image. It's a free trial anyway. So you might be able to get away with scanning one or two. I think the limit is like 150 scans a month. So that's quite a bit to get a nice scan in. Good job on the paint. Yeah, it was a little tough to get that in there. Any other print settings that you want to throw out there? No, go ahead and go through it. This isn't a... That was for testing. Alright, the eyes are funny. What was I going to say about the layer height? Oh yeah, it's a hundred microns. Again, super surprised that Ninja Flex was able to print at such a high resolution. It's the ugly side, right? You have some overhangs. But you can clean that up if you wanted to. It actually matches the hair. When you zoom up a little bit closer you can do that close. You can see how the texture of it starts looking like your hair. Which is super cool. Okay. Trying to glance over at the chat room. Yeah, any questions? So, tips and slide settings. Our review page just kind of talks about the project. Here are the two Ninja Flexes we still have in stock. That Almond Peach Smoothie. It's a 1.75 diameter filament. So it'll work with most 3D printers. It is Ninja Flex, so you're going to need to print really slow. A little bit hot. You're probably going to want a direct drive as well. We linked to the apps that we're using here. Polycam. And for cleaning up the model, we're using Tinkercad. Nice free web app for 3D design. Just reading here. Electronics and coding. Yeah. You tried Blender. That's what originally this was going to be all in Blender. But then when I got to creating the ball socket and having to fill in all that, it's like this is way more than it needs to be. And I just tried out Tinkercad and was able to clean up the model, add all the ball joints and make it editable. So I didn't have to save out a file for people to download. It's just literally a web link that you can edit yourself and it just turns it into a derivative automatically. And you're inside a web browser just doing all of this and it's super easy to use. Yeah, it's pretty good. Blender is great. It's just that there's a lot more work involved. When you get your mesh out of Polycam, it's not optimized. That'll be for next week. It's an open model. It's zero thickness to it. It's not manifold at all. So bringing it into Tinkercad automatically just makes it work. It just took you like, I don't know, 20 minutes, 30 minutes of work, maybe even more. Yeah. Should I look at these websites? What's going on? You can check out the Polycam website just to get an idea of what it's actually doing. Here's where... Google Play and App Store and free on the web to try out. So you can just go ahead and try it out if you already have images. This is the first time looking at the website so I don't know. Yeah, so here's an example of what the LiDAR stuff is used for. Here's what we use here. The photogrammetry. Grammetry. Grammetry. And it's like a thing of our type. So you can upload models. There's a community. You can get models there for free too. So nice little place to check out for... If you're doing like video game design, you can get some textures or models that are ready to go. Cool. So that's the website. Just do a quick look at it. And they've been out for a little bit too. I already had the phone. I already had the app on my phone. So using the photo mode to do the scanning was the tip on that one. Okay. I think they have their own kind of learn help center. So that's cool. It's looking at some different ways and tips. I haven't looked at any of this one so I'm just kind of new to it. Do you want me to go to Tinkercad next? Tinkercad will go into like when we get to the modeling section. We'll actually go in and take a look at the model. Three Selfie had actually take all these pictures. So one of the tips is sit in a chair. Comfortable. Stand super still. It's going to take at least 50 photos to generate a proper watertight mesh. I took my glasses off because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work. That is another important clue too. Both of us had to take our glasses off. Make sure that you're not moving at all. I'll show you some examples of what slight movement will look like. The mesh is created. So comfortable chair. Super still. At least 50 photos. And then the last tip, make sure you get the top of the head. Underneath the chin. Because otherwise you'll have gaping holes there. That'll be very difficult to close or time consuming. If you could just take a photo. After that, it takes about 10 minutes after you upload all the photos to Polycam. It's pretty quick. Do you want to look at the phone? Take a look at what the models look like. Here's a Polycam lit up on my phone. Here's what the project view looks like. And how we were saying before. A quick example of what the light looks like. You can quickly see what I was talking about earlier. Even if you adjust your angle of how you're scanning the object. It will redo. Because it's live. You can see the mesh. And that seems to be the downfall of it. Because if you've already created that nose mesh. You don't need to recreate it. Up here. And it's just because the slight angle. Because I was trying to get the top of your head. You know. Bottom. So that is why LiDAR is just garbage for this. It didn't work well. And I've tried many apps. I've tried multiple times. This project has been for over a year now. And that's why I never went with it. Because of how garbage it came out with. What I thought was like so cool in advance. It turns out it's just taking photos. Is what creates crisp. Look at this. Yeah. Seems like we're still very detailed. Where you can do the exact same setup. Yeah. Yeah. Although a little bit better quality. Because the cameras are bad. Yeah. Look at the detail on that. It is super high quality. This is what a lot of people use it for. For character. Video game. Texturing. All this stuff. There's depth map in here. Because the photos are taken on the phone. Can you look at the mesh without the texture here? I don't believe so. Yeah. I don't think you can. There's an example of what all the photos look like. Every single side. I think they have a little tutorial. It tells you every 6 degrees. Take a photo of everything. And to fill the frame as well. So you don't have the room or the area that you are scanning. Being included in that. You just want the face. The head. All that. Here's an example of all that. And we were saying earlier. You have to be super still. This does not work on a 9 year old. Our 9 year old. Our 9 year old. This is what happens when What happens when a slight movement will come completely And then I had another example of what the lighter looks like. Skiniverse. Doesn't that look beautiful? You look like an avatar. It's just any of the dot matrix or the lighter type stuff. It's freaking garbage. I'm part of your cheek. I think does this one let you do the No. If you were to look at the mesh too. It's like a lump of clay with no detail in it. So the other alternative is to use an actual 3D scanning device. Dedicated for that. We haven't played with one or got one. We're trying to do everything on the phone. This is one off type stuff. We're not game developers. We're not doing this day in and day out. We're doing this for a quick project here and there. But it felt like in the early 2015 or 2016 I kept seeing these iPad 3D scanners and I just haven't seen them lately. They're out there. The type of quality you get with just regular photos taking a bunch of pictures. I think we covered all the tips and how to get that scan going. After that we're going to do the linker CAD. And then here is what that looks like. The link that we provide is not going to have our scanned head. It's going to have like a ate a bot head. People now have access to our but what you want to look at if you click on that select I think it's shift H to hide. Shift H to hide. And it's control. That's what you basically the geometry you want to use to edit. So it's for the ball socket. So you click on that you should have your ungroup it. Just ungroup it with this command up here and then you can go in here and edit the sphere that's going to be the ball socket joint for that. That's pretty much it. You just measure it um calipers if you're using ninja flex you want to be one millimeter smaller than what you've measured with your calipers and that'll give it the grip that you need uh because ninja flex is you know gonna be a little bit more um flexible so you want it to be smaller and then uh the hole i don't know what this is like the that gap that is uh right along the neck that this gets inserted to you just have to edit that as well if it is a different or bigger smaller size uh you'll combine all these again let me show that and then there you go you just combine it and it will give you a ready to go uh model and it turns red yeah when it turns red it means it's processing take a little bit that's funny i didn't know that and then there you go here is your i just said that i haven't used tinker cat in i don't know a decade or something took a little bit of to remember because they have so many cool stuff now they can like make leg roads not to say it's like hard it's super easy to learn just i haven't spent the 15 minutes or so sitting down to make it what are you showing here you can you can take it right into fusion if you want to get more complicated and uh post it to your favorite uh sites yeah it's pretty much what i'm showing there just can we look at the model before you chop my neck off like yeah look at the rock how much you got that looks like yeah there you go so f2 focus let's go ahead and let's hide all these guys it's a you said control h it's a shift h no there you go control h to hide and this is what it imports yeah so a little bit of my but look look if you were to import this into blender fusion you're going to get an open-ended geometry yeah all of this inside of as soon as you try to import any obj into tinker cat it's going to do the heavy lifting of automatically optimizing those open um holes so it fills it yeah so i again was originally going to do this all inside blender but it was just taking so long to close everything up and create the wider type mesh that you need for printing and then getting the ball socket in there trying to get all fancy and use the new cad sketcher plugin so you can it kind of acts like a fusion where you can create the the sketches the constraints the constraints and then the um you know just the the procedure that you're going to need to get the the ball socket inside there it was just too much work to even close the model even combining the model with the um the booyen is what we're using here to chop that off it wasn't even able to do it so i had to export a uh a model outside of blender bring it back into blender and that's how i was able to chop it up and that just i don't like that type of workflow where you're exporting something and then importing it back in it's not i don't think that's good at all so inside of tinker cat it does all of that for you makes the guide writing easy for me since i just say import it in the tinker cat and it takes care of yeah you don't have to install any different steps yeah you don't have to install anything you don't have to go grab this other thing you don't have to install python for for cat sketcher you have to get the pip file for that you don't have to get like i already have all that installed pindrow you should already have python installed i mean with your homebrew come on again the target you know we're going after is you know the people that are gonna that might get interested with the hasbro thing um you get a hundred dollar printer and get be able to do all this on your to estrus into tinker cat says love the raw figure like a feather and turn it into a hole when i make a container yeah totally yeah exactly um you can see here too the this is the this you know that's just preview you saw what the actual model came out so i don't know why i get missing like uh jonith kennedy vibes or something oh it does even over the moon yeah even the not because it's easy because it's hard that's my jfk impression yeah so that's uh tinker cat we did this project because it's it was hard at first right take a little bit get in the process town it's a week figure it out yeah all right any other that's the tinker cat i think that's it yeah you export this as a obj um you mean if you have uh you can do s yeah actually yeah stl might be better but um so when you have three set up in here canvas because say you want to do one in ninja flats one in pla um if you want to export one model and select the other ones hide them control h and then you can just export just this one you know to uh when you were saying s l o b j oh even a cg for laser cutting yeah which is bizarre yeah i would just take like a flat image did you have to orient my head uh when you brought the mesh in from polycam yeah so it looks pretty good yeah i mean yeah it's super easy to orient all the tools other yeah just pop up so clean like on stuff yeah in your face yeah you can do you know um like increment or if you scroll down here it'll let you do the snap to layer by layer on tinker cats coming soon my bedroom i mean i'm super happy that yeah um auto cab was able to keep us open for the students yeah i remember when um in 2013 when they were about to go under tinker cat it's like hey we can't pay for this anymore and the autodesk just bought them and let them do whatever they wanted with it i think i don't know anyone from the team so but good job tinker cat folks so everything i just said is i'll explain here you know how to get your uh turn into the hole and uh draw the battery box around so after you've created that up in order here is where i'm measuring the ball joint and this is where you can edit the size show that you want to edit the socket size and then the um the neck area and then recombine them then combine it with the the head um oh one thing i didn't talk about aligning you want to make sure that everything is aligned there are aligned tools up there you can kind of see in the screenshot there it's that blue highlight blue highlighted tool there yeah and that lets you um allows you to align it to the center of the neck and then if it's not centering big because whatever you know something that something that's off symmetry like with the head or something like your hair is like on one side you can nudge it into and like sort of eyeball where the center of the head is yeah i would say yeah okay all right on two three printing is where i'll have the link to edit the ball socket joint and then slicing the parts for this uh since we're using indeflex we're gonna print a little bit hotter at 230 degrees the see see celcius celcius the layer height to start off initial layer height because i'm using a pei sheet indeflex loves sticking to that super well so i'm using a 0.3 initial layer height so higher so it doesn't fuse to the pei sheet okay and then the layer height for that after that is going to be 0.1 so 100 microns for that to get that super uh high detail on your face are you sure you want to print at 50 that's for the heated bed oh okay for 50 millimeters a second for burning speed this is again this is a direct drive i need to put that in there um this would work for a botan if you're using the semi flex than the cheetah yeah cheetah uh but again for this uh i wanted that ultimate squishiness and we have a lot of well that's you know we only have that peach color in the 85 eight ninja flex so that's what i'd use and happy i used it because it yeah it turned out really well if you're using pla you can still use that um it regular settings just a hundred microns to get that uh detail in there and we already showed what that looks like cool all the regular settings for that uh you shouldn't need to use uh supports if you're able to chop off the head right at the neck like we were saying yeah but if you do need it for whatever reason like your hair or something i can add sports in there okay moving on to printing the selfie or painting the selfie sorry uh you definitely want to print a couple of different um like colors copies of it because it is going to be trial and error on what turns out to be to look good when painting i'm using a dry brush technique here which is you take your paint you brush it on to something else to sort of get a lot of the paint out so you have just a tiny bit of amount of paint that is dry on the brush so you can um get that and put that on the model to make it look like a texture uh for the hair that's how we're using it there you know in real life you can kind of see through your head through the hair you can see like the scalp or the scalp and that's what i'm doing there i'm dry brushing that in for the eyes we use something you know like a toothpick i use the needle actually because of how fine the detail is in their pupils one drop yeah one tiny little pin drop of uh the pupil and then techniques on pla and then for uh the pla here it's mostly just talking about matching the uh the textures on your face to whatever model uh specifically like the Groot one i wanted to add that moss onto my beard and my hair so again using the dry brush technique to make it look like there's moss grown on myself and then of course matching the color this was the dark uh wood pla from every no hatch box hatch box they have that darker and that's what matched uh Groot super well cool that's pretty much it a nice little uh obviously the kids were loving uh playing with you know the family action yeah well uncle too super funny and one of the tear jerky things when we were at uh Disney Springs buying these yeah the there was a daddy and daughter who you know were looking at the Thor toys and the daughter was like daddy a girl can't be king and dad superhero saying yes honey a girl can be a king and they got and then they got what they don't i think they either sold out of all of the mighty Thor which is that Italy Portman the girl Thor or you know they were looking at this and that would have been such a perfect thing you know to pop off Thor's head put the daughter's head on there be like yeah see women can be Thor because there's a whole freaking movie about it so that was super you know coincidental and to hear and good job on the dad and tell him you know daughter that yeah you can be whatever action hero you want to be so I think that's what the crux of this whole project was to really envision yourself and I think that's what Hasbro was doing to sort of have yeah they have their own story and back story why they were doing this yep it was a big hit at one of the conventions it was like a contest and like everyone was like oh yeah I mean everybody wants to be their superhero and being able to have your kids see you as that that was supposed to be like the Holy Grail like the the killer 3d printing amp yeah and like here we are 2022 yeah I mean printers now I mean I think cruelty is about to release a updated it's the smaller version of what we have the smart pro it's like the s1 ender I think and you know that the frigor quality you can do 100 microns you could probably do even higher quality not like the the resin print that form labs is doing but maybe close yeah I don't know if you go in there and do like like sanding a stuff like that you can probably get to that that level of detail and of course being able to you know not deal with any smells or any chemical that's going out from the resin printing and have something that's nice and flexible that can immediately start working with is not going to be toxic you know sure is a giant plus yeah great for an educational space yep it's a great for learning and the whole family sorry George I had to remove your head it's okay we'll put them on uh something else she put them on group put them on adabot here where in the score on the youtube channel or column for toll you know it's a really good idea what sort or any of these guys it's a amazon mm-hmm there's like a price that there's a good list I don't want to go in there again yeah definitely look for those because they looks like they were specifically designed to be pulled apart or any of the toys um in terms of engineering it was definitely inspiring to see just how small you can make all of these um pivot points and uh articulation on the hands how tiny that is and that's actually what gave me the idea to even use and to flex because they're using all these whatever you know pvc or whatever this flexible material is called uh resin or whatever it is that the allows it to be so flexible like the hands like this is not going to break off especially for like kid play look at grits has like this oh yeah I want to do that so bad but I ran out of time yeah like having the actual little detail of uh leaves and stuff on there quite different on the socket area yeah very cool yeah so if you got yourself a resin printer also give that a try you know folks yeah I know there is flexor flexible material that is in resin yeah yeah yeah I wonder how that would work well here if it would work well mm-hmm so tiny so cool cool and uh if you're you know in check out past bro's uh thing too if you really want to get like a high we'll do a test we should do a test to see how uh all it is yeah depending on the the quality difference of it yeah not cool that's this week's uh project cool yeah check it out it's on the learning system difficult all right let's go ahead and jump into this week's what are we prototyping yeah we got a fun iot servo project all right so we are prototyping a servo project so we got our analog feedback servo here we're going to use a little qt pi s the s2 so it's got wi-fi in the uh the enclosure is supposed to kind of be like a ship engine room telegram this is one of those ways to let the crew down below the deck know how far we want to go how fast we want to be going so the idea here is it will have two displays uh two two of these and then you'll have capacitive touch pads on the outside of the case and it's kind of a way to kind of gauge either your mood or an emoji uh somewhere you want to be a location maybe um so that's kind of the idea and it's supposed to be kind of like a two-way messaging system so if you have something really close to you and you're from afar um having this is a kind of an interesting or something but right now what i'm doing is i'm running a certain uh the servo can go about 100 right now so i got this kind of neat little enclosure again inspired by a engine room telegram um not much to the back right now let's just kind of prototype but they kind of snap fit together and i have some screws in there for the base but yeah we got our qt pi s2 there for doing the wi-fi and it'll be kind of Adafruit IO project super cool right now it's just thanks it's just running off the feather m4 yeah so this could be for like uh you want to get a message downstairs the family like oh food's ready or i'm hungry or do you think walking the dog or something like that so it's sort of like a to-do or a message status yeah status of what's going on right and um using iot of course yeah yeah super dope to set up we'll have some cool graphics here and of course some emojis here yes we'll kind of steam it out a little bit more but right now it's just kind of like uh let me get the server going and can i can i get you know equal amounts of space you can see it's off a little bit like if i really really look at it it's kind of off like right there but that's something like that not really because i print or use vinyl so you can no i think it's fine this is this is the way it's going to be folks it looks good yeah i'm using a real servo horn that comes with it because it's always hard to attach something to like the spline of the servo so i always recommend using the stock servo horn and attaching your your arrow or your horn your hub to that existing thing here because you're just not going to get any better tolerances yeah um so yeah i also want to talk about the code real quick um so if you are a designer and like look i don't know how to do any demo code um i recommend checking out the circuit python essentials guide by catney and other folks um everything's broken out here to the thing so if you want to do just servo demo code go to the servo demo code you have three different boards that show you how to wire it three different ways that is kind of the same and then down here is the code so if you want to do a standard servo code there's the code you need that's exactly what i'm running here all you would want to change is the pin and play around with the timing and the degrees um beautiful and it's really really great really quick way to get um servo code and when you use the project bundle you get all the libraries so you don't need to hunt search around yeah that is the most i just i'm a designer i just need to get this thing going i need to know what angle to go not where is my library oh no out of date it's great yeah i'm missing a thing and of course it's because the circuit python is going to run with any board so any board that works with a circuit python so the nrf chipset the m0s the m4s the rp2040s all of those boards work with this code and this in these libraries and that's like the beauty of circuit python uh let's say you have a continuous servo there's a continuous servo code here um yeah uh and if you want to cat touch you want to mp3 audio out regular audio out buttons leds neopixels it's all here in the essentials guide i always refer back to the essentials guide whenever i'm starting a new project and i kind of just kind of forget how easy it is to code some stuff but hey that's that's why the essentials guide is there for you yeah so that's what we're prototyping and a little bit of tips if you are new to programming and you want to get some demo code running for your bills check it out sweet circuit python essentials do i start saying that yeah this is a telegraph yeah it's telegraph from uh like a ship engine room yeah it's kind of a gauge as well so maybe y'all can get inspired to make other servo related projects and then uh porics and the discord is saying uh given some uh links on uh if you need to import bigger down to be able to upload it it's like a derezzing it and the west are saying that yeah he's a tinker cat a tinker cat guy himself which is like blender i kind of learned you know it wasn't you know it's not solid modeling it was just a cat came out like oh crap you can actually bowls or whatever what does that translate into yeah all right we'll keep moving mom uh shop talk we got about 10 minutes some repping up here oops sure i just need a speaker but yeah pretty cool um you might want to use an rp2040 board instead though if you don't want any of the wi-fi stuff get get an rp2040 board i think you could do um audio out or if you have an m4 it's even better it has a better DAC for doing higher quality audio uh you could also do two i2s audio code here for the audio out and also mp3 audio out so there's different ways to do it you can play like a tone or you can play a wave file and of course an mp3 file um and there's all sorts of wiring things here for you to do a nice little audio project nice yeah it's all there for you sweet and then bookway again and also says this thing reminds me of the space balls scheme they're like ludicrous speed i need to rewatch that that's funny i did not uh i don't know all right continue on i'll read the rest of the comments at the end job talk so there's some new CAD files check them out if you are into uh some of these parts so let me switch over to what part i have so uh some of the new parts that we added was the AT 42qt this is a really easy way to get capacity touch it's basically a capacity touch button you just wire to ground and and and voltage and bam it's a button that does capacity touch because all the circuitry is on the bottom of the board here it comes with the surface amount led for indication but you could also turn that off just a little breakout we were actually going to use this um for this project but uh it has native cap touch the esp 32 boards uh have native cap touch so you don't really need to use um these cap touch um boards boards breakouts is what we call them switching over but hey it's there it's kind of an older product but it's got mounting holes and uh it's great yeah i was going to use that i was going to have like an array of four of them and um yeah but it just works kind of native now we're just going to use um cap cap uh copper tape that has the adhesive the uh conductive PLA filament that we got i don't want to you don't try yeah it is more difficult because you gotta this ruined my nozzle and this is that and this is not really that good the nozzle we have live people don't use it and we have the wear resistant but no it will be more difficult in terms of you know getting the model and like fitting it in yeah it's just more work copper tape it's self adhesive and you can pattern it however you want we got the conductive but that's more it's way easier to do the tape i was going to do a PLA conductive PLA but like i said it's easier to do that easier and it gives you more kind of flexibility when you have the tape you literally just yeah there they'll definitely tolerance issues and yeah all that so tape for the one oops cancel and then there was a quick uh while you're still on the subject of the new parts that you're creating uh Devin it was saying that he was following the 360 tutorials on using the 3d package generator wants to mix um three psbs for whippersapper but it doesn't work with the free personal version there's no add-in capability so any workarounds for that like can you just download the the um the uh what is it an f3d file and import that that way yeah i guess it's just a limitation of of the free accounts yeah i'm a paid subscriber for fusion so that's it's for work so that's why i'm uh i have to pay for it um but i mean you can add a parts request to our get hub repo that way you know i can get to it and i have been doing them so oh no i think he's i think he's trying to import one but it just doesn't let you yeah man that's important but yeah that's that's what we're paying for i guess yeah it's the ability that used to be free yeah but uh yeah you could you could try it i i don't personally know how but there's ways to get a 3d model in into out of chi-cad maybe try on chi-cad there's probably some tutorials out there um might be a way to go that might be the way to go if you want to give it a shot give uh you have to do some research though on chi-cad cool all right uh there was another board that you were yes back over to fusion we got that one speaking of capacity touch the boards very board the feathers tend to have these uh stem port the stem of ports great and it's actually micro b usb um the droid i'm working on i'll have to share it now i can use usb c nice um to program my cricket feather i know it's finally but uh those are the parts you can go to the get hub repository hope to download those things i have not been posting links all right no every time it's my turn to present stuff yeah i know that's fine i'm always liking in that here's the link to the cat parts again you can add um in the issues tab you can submit part requests as well all right i'm ready to move on to the next topic there is a quick commenter um work around that uh paul eric on youtube chat was saying about the pcb importing he created a rp20 40 uh with a gc uh screen pcb an illustrator and then rebuilt them inside of tinker cad yeah that's a good thing too um you could get in uh a dxf out of eagle and then bring that dfx into fusion and then just extrude that and rebuild it that way i actually started that way before tinker before there was the integration for fusion and eagle that's actually how i built the boards it's a little tedious takes time but it's one of the ways to do it yeah for sure there's always workarounds if you can get you know like some sort of file format out you can always do something with that all right you're ready for community makes yeah yeah let's check them out all right from so this week oh yeah tuesday every tuesday we find something we 3d printed we do time lapse this week is the epic prop designed by peter beard this is the storm breaker from the marvel movies thor i think this one's from avengers where i say infinity more it's all the thorns you didn't say anything wrong but i think he this one was modeled when infinity no no it's correct it's all the thor movies but um i think it started in avengers affinity war right when i don't know he forged it and grutes like acting like don't spoil it i'm not doing anything then he sees thord dying is like well my better help let me make my arm part of the forged uh brand so this was scaled down again designed by peter yeah this is 50% scaled because i didn't want to make such a giant freaking this looks like a normal size yeah i think i'm going to be seeing these at uh hall spirit halloween stores maybe um we were seeing when we were picking up the action figures they have just the regular one and it does not look like this i mean look at all the detail that's great well to get on all this what camera am i on um no post processing as well this is just straight up filament that looks great this is a darkwood pla from hatchbox right that same stuff used for the group yeah excellent detail on all this uh the i didn't glue this part yet so this actually comes off yeah let's go under over underhead i don't know if i want to take it off some scary it's going to break the little nubbins off but yeah this comes off all these parts like i'm going to share the website and glue together or if you don't want to go there right you can print the entire thing as one piece excellent detail on the uh the hammer there there's some i got some like lettering on there you got the uh just really good detail in terms of the way this was sculpted and modeled you can print a uh this is all in several pieces but you can print it as one big print and uh oh i forgot to guess the other part fell off here it's supposed to be like a cap uh-huh but good stuff i like how this isn't like sharp or anything like this is designed for uh play play yeah kind of yeah sort of so let's look at the website uh it's on it's on thinkiverse peter thinkiverse user magnevis posted this up here's some images of the parts seems to have like a a center hole for like a metal rod for support yeah but these are epic and look at that post-processing holy moly that looks fantastic it's been through war geez sort of affinity war looking at the makes folks are making it oh the thing is why are they making it so cool i love the uh what's his name uh labowski yeah look how big it's supposed to be i mean you could barely wrap your hand around that's how thick the damn trunk is well it's supposed to be his uh groots arm right thick boy yeah so check it out if you're into this is so cool this is yeah we had so much fun playing with it yeah when you're walking through the toil aisle and you see what you know they offer as a toy and then what you can make at home holy crap and it's so cool because the kids see that all the time you know yeah and sometimes it's better to make it at home or like we were talking about with that that lola bot or any of these things we have a months before they're even able to mass produce them there's some extra detailing to it put it on your wall ah very cool very cool so check that out giant huge shout outs peter for dropping the goods fantastic our model excellent excellent i just can't get over how freaking cool this thing is yeah um did you put any you put like barbecue or skewers barbecue skewers just to line up yeah no they're the um it's for crafting those little sticks that use for crafting is what's in the center of there and that was just a center to get this to line i used uh um super glue and then um what's that spray called the uh activator activator yeah okay that's it just line them up stick them together or like we're saying before it's pretty much one ginormous piece okay we're over time now um doing some community makes we got some makes here the d20 got a make by jordan drago oh that's cool they made it as a little add-on to their ender what kind of shows the thing extruding oh great idea and then we have another one here this is a make posted up by you spieker posted up their make of our heat set insert press rig heat set rig so if you're looking for a way to make a bunch of heat set inserts and you want to be perfectly perpendicular um you can use uh some 3d parts and a piece of the aluminum extrusion and some ball bearings to make a really nice rig for doing heat set inserts and uh they did a fantastic uh job putting it together so shout out to you spieker for posting their make of our little rig i still use it i actually use it on the droid and then the last one that came in this week is a make of our kingdom key yet another key blade put this up no electronics just some nice snap fit screw together parts and bk nico posted up they say printed it at 65 for the kid had a little shift in the print but my kid loved it how about that more props for you where's that shift you see the shift how freaking cool i'll see your shift maybe there maybe there oh okay spot the shift come on everybody now just can't but kid love that it's great i love it too it's a very fun thing i made a small one for my kid eric not my kid but paper's good my nephew you can make a big one if you are a kid at heart yeah look at that detail phenomenal all right next this week's community makes thank you everybody for submitting your makes very cool paul eric on the youtube chat is saying that we should make some appealing slurry to uh fill in all the gaps that's an excellent idea yeah that would have been nice huh what about like uh the printing pen would that help too the slurry it's because you know it's sort of liquid yeah you can paint that on yeah and it's almost like matchbox mm-hmm i would like sort of you can paint brush it on like a detail for it i would i think that would match okay and hide that a lot more better for all those second lines slurry cool well great comments all the all the good banter was on youtube chat really i don't know there's some good stuff on discord there is like a lot of tips and tricks sometime people are you know youtube time shout out to eric and i don't know i'm sorry erin and paul for all the yeah thank you really good um insight and input yeah you you folks make the show more engaging and fun all right well tonight we have show intel hosted by lemar and phil so come and join us at seven thirty p.m eastern time around seven twenty we'll post a stream yard link in the discord server so you can join and be a part of the show um all sphere game retro tech um ideas um workshop tours 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