 What's up everybody? Welcome to hot makes right here on hot makes and the edge of tech and filament stories. What's up everybody? I'm nerdy J also known as Jim from the edge of tech. I am laughing because I said, let's go. I'm talking backstage. We're talking to Courtney and I popped open my water for the show, went to turn my light on on the side and knocked my can of water all over my desk and I've never done that before. Uh, so I was like scrambling because it went right in my mouth. If weird stuff happens tonight, we're going to find out. I don't know. I don't know, but, but, uh, we're here to have some fun with you. I'm going to put that right over there for now and welcome. I have a super pumped up show for you. As you can tell, I'm out of breath because during the countdown, I'm scrambling to clean up. I ran out of the studio, found, uh, paper towels, ran back here. And, and now I'm like out of breath, um, awesome show. Every, excuse me, everything we talk about, uh, hot makes wise is in a link in the description below jump in there. You can find everything. Episode one 48 tonight. This is a big one, 148, um, Caleb will not be with us tonight. He had some stuff going on, uh, and couldn't make it tonight, which is totally cool. So hope everything goes good there Caleb and what else we have. Um, if you so choose still, it's still, it's a little damp over here still. Uh, if you choose to shoot us something, there is a PayPal link, probably in, uh, rolling in the, um, nightbot, I hope, uh, I should probably check mine to make sure mine's not rolling because that would be interesting real quick. Um, also, uh, thank you so much for subscribing. I believe we're this close. If we didn't already pass it, we're this close for the threshold to get, uh, this particular channel, um, finally, finally monetized. I'm, I'm hurrying real quick here, trying to check timers and all that stuff. Um, I just want to make sure I don't have anything on my channel blown up. I don't disable, disable enable, um, perfect. All right, we're good. Sorry. That was, that was like last minute panic when I dumped a can of water all over the world here. Um, what do we got for comments? How you guys doing Justin? I was purposely one minute late just because you said that. Uh, happy birthday, Justin. Happy birthday. I didn't even know it was your birthday. I've not been on social media almost all day. So, you know, happy birthday there. Um, uh, let's see water. Yes, it was definitely water. I was like hurrying. I reached over. I have a little, uh, light here that I turned on for the stream. And, uh, I just bam knocked it over. Oh, love you, man. Um, Courtney says, what's up? Happy birthday. Okay. Use some Oreos to soak it up. I didn't even think of that genius. All right, we have an awesome show tonight. Like I said, Caleb won't be with us, but we do have Courtney from the filament stories, the one and the only. I'm going to bring her in right away. We have a lot of fun stuff to talk about. Um, I see in the background, she's about her. I love it. Courtney, how are you doing? Hey, I'm good. I love it. If you need to go like change into dry pants, there is nothing worse than heavy. I've done it. I've done it. I've done exactly that with, is that a seltzer? With Seltzer. It was, it was, uh, it was, my wife found this at Menards, which is like a home, home improvement store kind of thing. And it's like, it's called Waterloo, uh, sparkling. I can't even focus on this. My son has a addiction to all things those. And he is really, um, yeah, he loves them. So they're all over the house. But yeah, funny is I dumped it just enough down and I picked it up where it like went on the mouse and just kind of like in this general area. And then I was like the panic, the countdown's going and like, what am I Oh, you gotta run to get paper towels. I'll be right back. You know, uh, yeah, that too. I was like shaking and blowing out the mouse. Windows are opening up on this side of the screen. But how you been it? You haven't been here before. Well, welcome. No, so I told the story. I actually was a little late getting some, uh, getting a video up today to announce that I was going to be here. And I looked because I had found out about you when clock spring came on and he was doing the torture toaster. And I looked and that was episode 49. And this is 148 hundred and a hundred episodes like a hundred episodes later. What? And so he was telling me about it. Now I have to say, I have like one of my favorite things in 3D printing I do in the whole world is I work with him behind the scenes with his models. And I had just started doing that. And he is a very, he's a very modest guy. So he was sending, I've got this model. It's kind of interesting and I'm doing it for this show. I'm going to be on and I'm like, oh, what's this show? And so he told me about you guys. And I was like, wow. And in the meantime, I was like, I had backseat to the coolest model on the planet because I was, we were testing the torture toaster and determining, I wasn't really determining, but he was determining how torturous it should be, how much failure was okay. So I was, I mean, I just felt like I knew the biggest secret. And so anyway, so I've been a big fan ever since the torture toaster episode. No, I, I appreciate that. It was, that was such a fun episode. Sven is amazing dude to work with. We've had him on a couple of times and the torture toaster, we talked to him, we had him on, I think, when we debuted it. And what was super funny about that is like, I usually make stuff not to fail. And he's like, I had to purposely make stuff fail or fail a bowl this time. It was fun that he went through that. Yeah. How much fail is okay? I remember him because I would say, well, it's done this, you know, and I would, I would make, so that I, we actually, we've communicated mostly by discord, but when I have a model complete, I'll set it in front of with my, you know, the ring light and I will video me taking it off the bill plate and showing how it works or doesn't work. So pretty much he sees my hands and that's it. Unless he happens to see one of our videos. But yeah, I was saying, you know, it's doing this. Is this what you're looking for or not? But yeah, and he was having to make some calls on it. It's really neat. Now he wanted to be here, but hello from New Zealand, Jane. Oh my gosh, New Zealand and Denmark, Denmark, Denmark and then Abby says, how has Courtney not been here before? That's what I'm saying. You know, we actually met in person at remerf for the first time. You were so much fun. Yeah. I was trying to get to you to say hello, but Earth was crazy this past year. I was in the proto pasta booth and I was helping them, which was really fun. And so I would talk to people there and then I would say, I am going to go and I'm going to see everything. And at the end, I didn't even get to see half of it. And so you guys were walking around and you were filming and everything. And it just, Joel and I waved across the way. And yeah, I saw Uncle Jesse because he came in when I was grabbing some food, but other than that, yeah, I mean, it was a whirlwind. Well, it was, it was, um, it's kind of like a lot of those shows, you get caught up like what, with what you're doing. And a lot of times you don't, if you, especially if you have a booth or in a booth, you don't get to see everything. Yeah. Um, remerf, uh, you know, it was about, um, actually a month ago today, you know, and, or yeah, today. Um, and, and I don't think I saw everything that was there all weekend. So it was a lot of fun. It was great to meet you in person. Um, and, and so much fun with the milk duds. Uh, that's a story for. Oh my God. I think someone had that on film, which was a lot of fun. Yeah. So that milk duds thing was, and I see, actually, let me quickly say something. Um, wait, hold on. Oh, JC production. What a beautiful story. Hello, Juan, Juan Carlos. And he says he's legally blind and he's so happy to know that fellow 3D printer has a blind individual and their family. Um, and, and we love, and we'll have to talk about that, but absolutely we love. Well, I mean, I'm a little obsessed with 3D printing, as you all know, but the rest of my family, I have two children, a son, a daughter, and a husband who is incredibly helpful behind the scenes. In fact, he's the reason that I look good on camera. I'm like, I will film something. It'll be terrible. And he'll put it together. And I'll say, dang, you, I don't know how you did that. Um, nice. Got to have that. You got to have that. Yeah. The, um, okay, wait, we would say something. I was saying something about having a booth and going around at, at Armor. Yeah, it really is, it's strange. Having the booth is interesting, but I had a booth and we were wide at the bathrooms, which was great. Cause it turned out to be this big open area. And so people come around. Yeah. And people who actually could come around and hang out behind us. So Ben Pendergast, and if you're on TikTok, he's got like 4.2 million people following him and he would come over and he's a hoot. I don't know if he's in here, but Ben is awesome. Yeah. So I had like hard candy up on the table, but I had like chocolate and stuff down below. And I brought up two bags because we had gone to a, what is it? Target beforehand. And I was like, and he was like, what? And they, I'm like, no, take some guys. We need calories. And he saw the little thing of milk duds and he grabbed one and he was like, wait, how many of those do you have? And I was like, oh, we've got more. And so we just went through, we pulled out as many as we could and somebody knew where Joel was. And he said, we're going to go, we're going to go, you know, what does it, uh, milk dud bomb Joel. And so we were going. And so I grabbed, um, Nathan of Cookie Cad and I grabbed pooch because they were on the way. And I was like, here, guys, take these, come on. Well, I let go. I turned around. They're walking in the other direction. Pooch is opening his and starting to eat it. And I'm like, no, we're going to. Anyway, so that's why pooch had eaten half of his because they were like, we didn't understand what was going on. And I was like, they were, and it was really great. So they just started, everybody just started dropping little things of milk duds and Joel's hands. And he had the he had the best expression on his face. Right. It was this really, it was a very sweet expression that was surprised. And I don't know, it was really cool and happy looking. It was awesome. He, he definitely was surprised. And at the end of it, he had a pile of milk dudes in his hand. Right. Um, but, but not so, so real quick before we get too much further, if anyone hasn't heard about you or heard of you or seeing your content, who are you? What do you do in that, you know, where can we find you? And we'll do that again at the end, but that's an important thing. So, so people know who you are. Yeah. And, and also I'm really bad at the, at the comments. So if I miss something, say it again. Okay. I will, I will do my best to watch. And if you guys have questions for Courtney, let me know. I'm going to do my best to star them and we'll come back to questions as soon as we can. But if you have any questions, let us know. Um, and we'll definitely come back to that. Um, yes. And I definitely want to read all of, um, one Carlos's questions or comments too, because I think that's really important. So my name is Courtney. I love filament, which was sort of an interesting thing. So, uh, funny story, starting 3D printing, my husband said we should do this and I was like, we don't do design and what would we do? And I didn't know about the repository. So I said, let's not get a 3D printer. They're expensive. And a couple of years later when I realized that 3D printer can be really useful to print things for my door who is blind, I was like, we need to get a 3D printer. And that's when I found the repositories, which at that point, not only did I find things interesting for her. I was like, I want to put that and that and that and that. So that gets really exciting. Right. And so then we got the printer. I was like, what do you mean it prints in only one color? I would not expect white, you know, because the toys that we see and what are there in many colors. And so that's when I started ordering filament and my husband was like, I think we had, I had like 30 spools or something. And he looked at them and he was like, this is ridiculous. They all look the same. And I was like, this is an entire, there is no repeat. This is an entire rainbow. What are you, you know, and there's glitter. And so that just really didn't stop. And after a while, I had been thinking about, I'd love to show filament because I got so frustrated with manufacturers. I mean, they're, they're even some manufacturers. I won't call them out that they have one picture of their filament and it is in the bag. Yeah. Open up the show. It looks so good in your bag. Like, no, I got to sell them. Anyway, so I was like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get these filaments. And I had a lot already. And I said, I could do this for a while and I have an addiction to buying filaments. So I'm sure I'll get more. And so it was a lot of fun. And the goal was to show people who are doing 3D printing. These, this is what this film looks like in case you're interested in getting and then try to connect people with companies because I had at that point also had an obsession for browsing the internet to find. It was like it's like a little, you know, hunt seek and find game, right? When I would find a new company or they are they in the U.S. Can I order from them? Has any, you know, and so that was so fun to find new companies. And so I wanted to, there's not, you get your printer and you look on Amazon and the top five companies. There's more out there and there's great filament. So that was how I started. Yeah. No, no mission other than to tell people about filament. And I guess kind of that's still my mission. I work with companies now because apparently if we talk about a filament, sometimes a lot of people click the link. But I always tried to be, I have a very easy job, right? Years ago, filament was not the same as it is today. The majority of filament sort of understanding what makes a filament print easy is is much better understood. And so it's a much easy job. There are a few filaments that I'm like, oh, they're not print, but I get the filament. I open it up. I print it with default slicer settings, because if I can't print it with standard slicer settings, a brand new person won't be able to either. Sure. And then I just show it. Yeah. And I get to play fun models. There, that's my story. Ethan, Marcus says, if you don't, I think he's saying if you don't show him in the bag or don't show him the bag, they may not think it comes with a bag. Love that. But I saw Sven is is in here and I just wanted to point out we have one of these with us. And this is the biggest one that I have done. It still works. Everything works. And of course, to plug Fox, let me get my face out of there. There you go. But don't forget this one actually came with me to Murph last year. So some people signed it all around. And if you haven't seen this before, it's a torture test. You have all sorts of fun overhangs, some different shapes. You have the gears that have to work, obviously at this size. It's a little different. And then on this side, you have a whole bunch of slidies that will go up and down. If you're Clarence, I say Clarence, like Clarence Thomas. Clarence is good. And this is this is an evil genius at work. We talked about Clark Spring being evil genius. And and, of course, don't forget the toast has to pop. Toast has to pop. And and if you look at the bottom, when you're printing this bad boy, all of that has to print individually in little pads until over here until it connects. That's where it fails the most. And right here. Yep. So anyways, while you were talking, I was like, I want to grab the biggest one I've got. He is I think an evil genius is a great way to describe him. Now, he wants to be here. He's going to try to be here, but he is at work. So this is his workday. So we are I'm in the East Coast, and I think we're 14 hours off. So he and I like we do ships passing in the night, right? You know, hey, how's it going? And he's heading to bed or I'm heading to bed or one of us is going to work. And so but he said he would try to get on. He messaged me before the stream and he said I'm in meetings. So he wanted to come in. But I do have now I have a story about this morning, but do you want to do that or now? Let's do it because he's here. He might as well we might as well a lot easier. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I am here. OK, so this morning I said, hey, did I mention I'm going to be on hot makes today? And he was like, no, you didn't know that's great. And I was like, oh, I've known this. How did I not tell him? And so then I, you know, I was like, so anyway, remember that torture toaster thing? This is it didn't sound like this on discord because it was just words. But just so you know, this is how I was like, hey, you remember that torture toaster? So anyway, I've been meaning to ask you, but it's probably too late. I was wondering if we could do something fun. And then he said there's still time. And that's how I hear there's still time. And so we started to just crazy talk. Now he was running into bedtime, right? And I had to run off to take my children to school, but I would have been back. So we had to do something small. So we're like, what can we do? And I was like, maybe something we ended up on a vehicle. There he is. Hi, he's between meetings. OK, I'm talking all about you. It's all good things when you're at the meeting. I'll say the bad thing. Yeah. And so we came up with something that would move and a small vehicle would be fine. And I mean, you guys are hot makes, right? So a fire truck sounds like fun because it's got wheels. And then he was like, what could move on the fire truck? The ladder. What about the ladder? So he in like zero time flat had this, right? Here, wait, let me turn it. Let me go over here. Yeah. Let's get. Oh, I got a couple of iterations here. OK, so he had this thing in like no time flat and prints like this, right? Yeah. So it's got the wheels and done. And so here's the shape. And we've got the wheels. And now this is the base. And then I love it. He uses that same style wheels on the van again. Either the van or the other vehicles. No, I know. I love that, too. Now, I will say if you guys because this we're going to get this model up, he may be uploading it now. It does because it doesn't have an axle in it. So when you try to roll, it's actually taking the whole wheel and pushing it forward. If you put like a drop of oil on God, if you put like a drop of oil in here, these things, they will spin really well, right? They'll spend really well. So I just put a little drop of oil in there. So in any case, that was his version one and like 15 minutes later, where's version two that you have? 15 minutes. No, I'm serious. 15 minutes later. Version two, he had already come up. Now, remember this thing, Prince. I have to brag about it. Ah, I can't do this. You know, it's backwards motion, right? So he had come up with the ladder here. Nice. Again, so it prints on the side. It had to be sort of a chunky ladder because you've got to have it print successfully, right? And so that worked. But then how do you constrain the ladder so that it would, you know, and then and then right at the end, we decided, I'm going to go back here for me, right at the end, we decided that as really fun as a ladder that was this tall was, it really was just overpowering a thing. So he had a couple more modifications that he did. And let me show this one, right? And he got it. Now, here is, oh, I'm going to be terrible at this. Look at that. There is the hot makes logo. Can you see that? Hot makes, right? And then he's got his logo right there. And then he put, oh, how can I do this? Filming stories on the back. I cannot do this left. Right. Nice. I love that. He's got all those in plus, you know, I mean, some things that make it look like a fire truck, right? And then the very last thing that was genius was like, how can you get this thing to stand up? And I was sending him pictures because I haven't done this for long, right? Because it folds. Sure. Yeah, it folds. It folds down like that. So it's actually a nice little fold up. Man, I love that. He came up with a kickstand. Look at this, guys. It's right here. It stands up. Little kickstand. Look at that. And then a little kickstand and then hold on. And I'll drop my kickstand. Hold on. I cannot look at this. I cannot hold on. I've just got to do this. I hold one second. I'll get it. I'll get it. Yeah. Right there's a little kickstand. And then, yeah. And then it just holds. OK, I can do this. This kickstand, actually, there is, I gave him a kickstand. It's a little bit, yeah. So now the kickstand just holds it perfectly in place. That's awesome. And then you've got a ladder, right? Look at that. We'll come back here. Look at that. That was so hard to do. Imagine me not being up. But the kickstand, this little tiny kickstand, right? Right, there holds it in place. And this was, I think, aside from the fact that there was the print time, his total design time was less than an hour, maybe. I mean, he was just like, he said a minute ago, I put it up on the screen. He said, dead driven panic design, deadline driven panic design. That was it. That was it. And so I was like, how fun is this? Right? I mean, hot makes. I know it's hot, but right, this is in case it's too hot. What's funny is that you chatted. You chatted us and you said, hey, I'm out right now. I have something. If you can print it, if you have it only takes a couple hours, if you have a bamboo printer, when I get home, I'll shoot you the file. And then I think you sent it to the hot makes account Caleb forwarded over to me. I was at work and I'm like, well, my P1P is not printing. I checked the camera that I have on to make sure there's nothing on the bed. And I just hit print. And I said, send it over and I got one. I got one done. And this design is amazing. Let's see if I can get my face out of there. There we go. But what's funny is I had, I didn't remember why I was printing in yellow. I don't remember the last thing I printed. That would be yellow. But it was on there. And and so we got one done. This thing is so much my little guy. There goes the kickstand. I think that's an iteration we're working on. But my little guy absolutely loves. He has two of the vans I printed and he is going to he loves fire trucks. So I'm going to put red in. I might even multicolor this, but I'm going to put red in for sure and print this again for him. But I thought I thought the same thing. So I when I got home and had this done, I sent I sent him back. I said that the kickstand because you guys saw it was like the kickstand is a little bit loose. And so mine fell out on one printer. It fell out in the other printer. It didn't. So he was still asleep at that point. So when he woke up, I figured he's going to do an iteration and then he is going to upload it with all the other thing was. He was like, you can upload it. And I'm like, well, we didn't pick a name. And I'm not sure he may have fallen asleep at the keyboard because he was there and then he was gone. And that happened. I'm like, did you just and he was like, yeah, woke up drooling. There are yellow. I was just told there's yellow fire trucks. By the way, also, let's see. Let's see. I printed mine in yellow two for no reason. Otherwise on the printer. Amen. I just I literally that printer was open. I shot it over there during the day. It was a P1P. I think it did it at point two strength. The default, everything default default. And then I just let it fly. It was like two hours, 27 minutes or something on the P1P. And my little guy is going to love this. They're since since Sven is here. I'm not going to I don't want to hijack too much, but I just want to point out that. But something that this might look familiar to him in quite a large way that I'm working on. It's maybe I got parts everywhere. Where's my line straight over there? Yeah. So this has been printed since he's put out this model. And I have not put it together. I have everything laying here. I was going to do a short and I just haven't put it together yet. So I did blue, you know, blue for inside. If you guys haven't seen this, this is this is a genius model as well, such a new model. But he's like, that's so cool. So I did a mix of filaments, a little bit of the PETG high five blue, a little bit of the Galaxy Black, which probably will not show up on this camera. But it's got this work on. But but all of his stuff. If you haven't checked out clock springs, Patreon, you got to do it. It is 100% worth the money. The amount of all of a sudden, you'll be sitting there, right? And you'll get like 15 emails like uploaded a model, uploaded a model, uploaded a model up. OK, it's like four at a time. But yeah, but thank you. This is this is amazing. I cannot wait to show everybody even closer up. And the hot makes in there. I we we definitely appreciate that. Yeah, that's definitely a hot make. I mean, what's hotter than a fire truck? I mean, the fire that was put now. Hotter than that. So yeah, and I did read because I happened to have read in my bamboo, too. And that was what we were talking about, you know, because we both have printers. But the fact that we did have the speed of and actually we both have borons. So I'm not sure. But we just jumped to I mean, the bamboo slush. You know, right? Just done. And it was just really easy. But yeah, we he and I I think are we are. I don't know if we are good influences on each other or bad because one person will say, hey, so have you thought about the really? And then, yeah. So yeah, well, that's that's the best type of people to have in your circle, right? I mean, the people that question and push you and come up with these crazy ideas. I mean, we were talking about the torture toaster for a minute. I got a hold of mom's like, hey, I have this idea. What about a torture test for that? You know, and and I was like, anything you want to do. What if it's I don't know? And and he comes up with a toaster, which is I mean, if you have not seen the episode where he explains that whole process, I believe you said it was 49. Go back and check. I'm 49. Yeah. Yeah, 100. Well, I guess 99 or 100 episodes ago, I went and I was like, you know, it depends on how you count. I'm calling it 100. Yeah, but he I do feel a little bad because I very much enjoy. I mean, I was I did computer science and math. So here I am as a hold on. I got to get I had to make sure I'm not missing comments. I was a math neighbor in college and I love math. And so the hexagons and all of the math, which to me, his models kind of go in that very interesting everybody. But yeah, I just enjoy his model so much because they look fun to me. But then I also feel bad because I'm printing them. And then I'm like, hey, guys, that's film stories. And I got a new model. And hey, it's another clock spring. And so I feel like I'm not pushing. I'm not trying to hammer it in. I just really like this stuff. So hopefully I try to have the same variety. But I just adore his stuff. There's so much fun to print. You see, it's like you get those emails and you're like, I've got to print that. 100% as soon as you see, I just posted in our chats. I posted the link for his Patreon. If you want the best selection for the best money, go there, check that out. I don't even know. I think it's, I don't even know how much it is anymore. I think it's $8 a month or something. It's $8 a month, yeah. $8 a month and you get his back designs. Yeah, but he does, it doesn't have like, sometimes I'll have a certain number of models per month. He doesn't actually have a, and you don't really know what you're going to get, which is part of the fun. He like out of the blue, he said, I'm going to do something with EL wire. And I'm like, okay, I need to get some EL wire. He was like, yeah, there's some EL wire. I'm like, okay. And so then he comes up with, and I don't have mine here. And he comes up with these absolutely beautiful things and you run the EL wire all through them. And they were just out of the blue. He, I'm sorry. He's probably like, oh my word, they're talking about me. Get hit, Chrisley. So yeah, my chat chat is over here. So that's why I'm waving. No, you're fine. But yeah, it's just fun. But there are a lot of people like that. I just, his is very varied. Aside from hexagon, you never really know what you're going to get. Yeah. And it's awesome. So that brings me to your channel. You started with just wanting to show people what the filament looks like. And now, I mean, you're exploded. Your channel is huge across all your socials. So if you haven't done it yet, in the description of our video below, there's a whole bunch of, there should be the links to find Courtney at Filament Stories. But would you do so much fun stuff like shorts? You're big on the short. I love the shorts. Shorts, nice shorts. I think everybody's loving the shorts, right? Nice shorts. I mean, I'm wearing shorts right now. That's right. But I mean, the channel's awesome. You kind of alluded to a video you just put out. I know we're 30 minutes in, but do you want to talk about that a little bit? I think that's pretty important. And I think that's something we've wanted to hit on. No, no, I'll start back by saying that when we were going to do the beginning, I had the great good fortune of getting some really good advice. So I'll do that video, but let me give the really good advice. So Mihai Stanmere, Mihai Designs, I had been watching his videos. He was really small at the time. And I was like, this guy's a genius. He's funny. And he started a Patreon and boom, I was like in his Patreon day one. And he's a very, very kind gentleman. And Mars Gizmo is his brother. So they had their first Patreon call and it just happened to be a Zoom call. And there were not many of us on there. And Mars Gizmo was on there. So at the end of the call, I have an hour with Mars Gizmo and Mihai giving me advice and they gave some really good advice. And like shorts was not the direction we were going if you look at our very first. And they were like, okay, look, you do not need more than a minute about a filament. I'm like, but, and they were like, no, no, no, you don't. Cause people don't have the... And so I was like, shorts. I didn't really know that much. And I was like, what are you talking about Instagram reels? I don't know. And I had accounts on all of them. And so Mihai was really sweet and he gave, and he, let me tell you, he can be really good at telling you how bad your video sucks in a very fine way. He was, I mean, every video he was like, okay. And then afterwards, but he helped us so much because he and Mars Gizmo really understand social media and we had no idea what we were doing. And so we have a hard time doing long form because everything seems like it moves so slow because when you do short form content, all the time, you have like every second is precious. You get in and go, go, go, right? Okay. Okay. Clock spring is getting ready to have a link that he's going to post, I think in a minute. So people can download the truck. I'm not sure what the name is because anyway, but yeah. And so we love it. And so we have a hard time with long format but I really like long format. So we have other things to do. But one of the things I've been wanting to do for a long time was to tell why I got started in 3D printing, which is, as you all now know because my daughter is blind, but she was not born blind. She is 11 now and when she was four, she had a catastrophic failure in her eyes. It would have happened. It's not, she doesn't have anything. I didn't explain it on the video because she doesn't have any one thing. She has a collection of things that are malformed in her eyes. And so her eyes were very delicate. They didn't have proper oxygenation and her blood vessels aren't right. So it got an infection and it caused her retinas to crumple inwards and the retinas, right? Your light bounces in on that. And we went through several years of trying to save her eyes and ultimately it didn't work. But we did everything that we could. I think we feel, even though that was not fun for her, she got to be really good at flying because we had to go to an expert that was in Detroit. And let me tell you, she would, she, because we would take turns with going with my husband and me and she would just, oh, it's over here. We do this. This is the place where we stop and she's funny. But she's quite smart. And I said to her, when you are ready to tell that story, we will tell it. Because as you can imagine, you are sighted and you go blind at four. What happens, we were told by the therapist is you don't know that that's not what happens, right? You are four. You don't know how life is supposed to happen. But when you get old enough to understand what you've lost, she said she's going to be very angry. And that is exactly what happened. And she became clinically depressed because this is one hell of a thing to accept. But she had to process it. At that point, we actually did put her on some antidepressant a mile level because she needed to be able to not be numb, but she needed to be able to work through that. You have to accept it so that you can move on with your life. And she, at that point, would not even refer to herself as blind. She was in complete denial and wouldn't talk about it. So she is on the other side of that now and is funny and will joke about things, but she's really, she's very, very kind and sweet, but she's smart. So last year I was planning on going to Murph and what happened and I alluded to it, but I didn't say why. I said that I was not gonna be able to go, I was actually only going one day and then the flights got all crazy because of all the flights. But she, there's the Braille challenge every year and she's really good at Braille. And she made it into the national Braille finals and there are 10 children at each level for the US, Canada and the UK. She was one of 10 in three countries and she's going to LA to compete at the Braille Institute, which it's a big honor, but it's also really exciting because she's gonna be with other blind people who are at that same level of skill. So she was so excited and I was like, I cannot miss this because there's a gala at the end. Anyway, so we went and it was really fun and that's an honor. And this year it's the same week as Murph and she got in again. Awesome. Yep, so it's okay, but she was like, Mom, you go to Murph, I know how important Murph is and really she only needs one adult to go with her. And yeah, so she's excited to see if some of her friends she met last year will also be back and that is not atypical. If you are in the top in your age range, you may continue to be at the top in your age range. So we're just thrilled for her and she loves me. Yeah, so in any case, so she told me a bit ago, a couple of months ago, because we're bad at long form out here, Mom, I'm ready. And I was like, you're ready? And so I was like, okay, so she and I talked about what we wanted to do, but what was even more exciting was she said, Mom, I would like to do a regular, maybe once a month. Could we do a video on something that you can do with 3D printing that would help someone who's blind or visually impaired. And I was like, yes, I'm so excited she wanted to do that. So yeah, we only showed a few things like we showed the dice, those are one of Clark Springs models here. It's the cutest thing. I mean, you wanna take a game with a child, you don't have to be visually impaired and say, you can put the dice in here and roll. I mean, this is such an overly engineered thing to do. But that was fun because when you're blind and you roll the dice, they, yeah, yeah. So dice towers or any dice towers, a lot of fun. But yeah. So I was really proud of her and really excited. The video we're gonna put out tomorrow is a hoot. She, we were waiting for me to be ready to film something and my husband was standing here behind and she was here. And he said, do you wanna say something? So she starts working with this and the dice tower and she just goes. Nice. It's an entire video, one take, it's so funny, cut. And my husband was like, we're letting that, we're releasing that one. That's so good, I love it. And it's awesome that she was ready to put everything out there and talk about it. And I think it, like you said, it's gotta be such a scary, confusing, especially when you're that young time. And then you realize, like you said, like this isn't really how it goes, my friends aren't doing this too, right? And I can only imagine as parents, in your head, I'm guessing you're thinking like, we have to do everything we can to try to save this, right? This is probably not easy on you guys. And man, I commend you guys for just the whole way you handled it. I know it probably was not easy at some time. Oh no, it wasn't, yeah. But now that you're going forward, it's so cool to see that she's gonna be playing with. Yeah. Oh, you said like a video a month, hopefully. I think we're gonna do a video. What I said to her on the car on the way to school this morning, I said, you know what we should do? We should pick a date so that we don't let this slide by. And then we can pick a topic earlier in the month. And if I have a couple, because she actually had some she wanted to talk about. And we know there's some that are like low hanging fruit like the dice was the one I wanted to tell first because that was how I really got connected to clock spring because I sent him a message on Patreon. And I had said, hey, I wanted to tell you the story and the teachers at her school have been very grateful for it. And the middle school, we were years away from middle school and she's going to middle school next year. I can't believe it. I said, could we, could we have one? And I was like, yeah, we'll go print you out one. And I'll drop it by even though I don't have any idea who you all were, I dropped them off. But classic thing, right? They had video printer at her school and the middle school that they didn't have anyone who knew enough to use them. So yeah, but if I can get in there and get in there and be like, hey, I'll teach y'all. So here's a good question. Jerry was asking, can she see any light or blurry objects in front of her at all? Or is it all, is she fully blind? Yeah, she tells us that the way she tells left from right is that her right eye is completely blind. There's nothing that she can see on the right eye. The left eye, and that happened pretty early on. In fact, the specialist that we were going to Detroit to see he did some, yeah, when you're a high-end doctor, you know what the heck you're doing. You can gain information so fast. He went do, do, do, do, do, and he said, okay, so the right eye, she can't see anything in. And then we'd been, and we were like, what? But the left eye, she still had residual vision. And he said, we're going to see if we can get some vision back in the right eye because her left eye is absolutely precious to her. And we don't want to mess with that in case we make things worse because her eyes are very delicate. And we never got anything back with the right eye and the left eye just went downhill more and more. It's, I can ask her what she can see with it. She says, I rarely use the vision. She, because she uses everything else. So she does, you have to be, as a parent, you know this right, like I remember my son, he's a year older, and I remember him because they get, when they first start walking in and they do this and then they can run and they basically run like this, right? And you are ready for them to fall. And I would get that shot of the adrenaline when they would fall. But oh, yeah, but it doesn't bother them. They just roll over and run again. But you have to let them live their life. You have to make sure that it's not overly set. But if she is, if there's a car, she will hear it before anyone else is gonna hear. So I'm not worried about cars, but she can ride her bike because she knows what it's like to go from our driveway to the next door neighbor's driveway and she'll go back and forth. But yeah, really interesting. We've had her walk around the block with her cane because she was doing that as an assignment from her orientation and mobility teacher. And we had to send a note out to the neighborhood Facebook group and said, okay, she's doing work. She's okay. You can ask her if she's okay. And if she says she's okay, then you can let her go. If she needs help, you can bring her home. She doesn't need help, right? But yeah. I just, real quick, it's not prerecorded. I did see your question. I posted it a couple of times. I don't think I'm able to post links on Courtney's channel. So that's probably why you're not seeing the link. But if you go to Patreon and you type in clock spring 3D, you'll find it, but it's not prerecorded. So someone has to first prerecorded. I'm guessing because, no, it's okay. I was responding in the background and realized, I don't think I'm sharing that on your channel, which is fine. I just wanted to give you that heads up. And then let's see, what else do we got here? I see Geek Toybox, hey Geek Toybox. Yeah, yes. We were short shorts. And then, JC production, I would love to speak with you because of the National Federation of the Blind. I want to showcase stuff with 3D printing and tactile arts. And I think this would be great to work together. So I imagine, reach out to... JC, I think JC is in the asylum. If you are in the chat, I thought you were, can you send an email, or can you guys get in contact? That would be great. So it will be asylum life, or I think it will be asylum life makes for something with asylum, he is my producer. And let me tell you something, he is amazing. I have, my 3D printing life is like actually, I was, it just gets overwhelming. And it's very bizarre because you're doing one minute of content a day. And you think that can't be that complicated. But when it gets, when you get to having like, because you were running two channels, right? And you were doing all kinds of stuff, it just gets, yeah, it gets complicated. Yeah, yeah, well, and I was trying to do, in the beginning of the year, I was doing a short a day, plus long form once a week. And that wore out real quick because you're always planning for your videos. And then the shorts, you have to consistently be printing or doing a project to film that short, right? So like every single day, and like Ben, I have no idea how he does that. Oh, I know. Like you, I mean, you guys come up with the stuff like this, but I still work full time at a hospital. So it's a little bit more tough, but no, you guys do an amazing job and we'll have to talk offline about producer. I knew, no. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's talk. What else we got? Let's see. So get in touch with a JC production or get in touch with Courtney is what I'm trying to say. Actually, yeah, JC, okay. So JC, I'm calling that that is, let's go with his name that he would be on here, would be asylum. If he's not in here, then I will absolutely stay here because I want to actually, you know what? Send an email to info at, can I type in? I can type in here. Okay, hold on. I can type in here. Send an email to info. Oh, I have a Band-Aid on info at filmestories.com. Because absolutely. So Sean says, I was born legally blind and appreciate your method of not being overbearing when raising a blind child. So that's pretty awesome. It is something that you find we are okay with it. And I think some of that is, and thank you so much because that is something that I think you have to let your child, oh, there's JC is here. You have to let your child live their life, right? You have to do it. And so we had the best next door neighbors. And I remember I was standing there talking to Steven and she had some more residual vision than she does now, but she was riding her bike and going back and forth. And I said, oh, Steven, I got to go inside. She's going to fall and I don't want to see it. And then he said, she won't see it either. Oh, that's okay. She won't see it either. And he hit me on the shoulder and it hit me on the shoulder and I busted out laughing. And he thought about it later and he messaged me. He was like, I am so sorry. I hope I didn't offend you. And I'm like, are you kidding? That was like, great. It's like, we have to be able to cope with things. But she gets very frustrated because if we are somewhere, a parent that she's with other, they won't let her do something. They won't let her do something. And the reason they won't let her do it. And I said, you have to understand that as a parent, that parent, because you went to the pool with a neighbor and their child. And that's always something, are you okay taking a blind child to the pool when there is a lot of danger and hazard, card surfaces, fall over, hit your head? It's a very scary thing as a parent to take a blind child to the pool when you have no idea because they're relatively new neighbors. What to do? And so I said to Greg, are you okay? And he said, yes, okay. And I said, if you don't feel comfortable, let me now come over. He said, okay. But I said to Reese, as a parent, we are very worried because we are responsible for you as a child. And they cannot imagine what you are doing. They don't understand it because they have never spent any time blind. It's still hard for your dad and me, but we know you. And so we know your capabilities, but they're just trying to keep you safe. That's all it is. But it does make her frustrated. She's like, oh, he wouldn't let me go off the diving board. Oh. I'm not gonna lie. I'd be scared too in that situation. It is true. We do have a couple more questions, maybe not on that topic, but off topic. Has Courtney heard about the Filament Color databases? That's what Marcus was asking you. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, so FilamentColors.xyz. Yes. In fact, Joe, the Filament Librarian, is a wonderful person. And he, yeah, any great. So he, I found out about him a long time ago and was so excited to meet up with him. And he and I chat from time to time. He was not at our Murph, but he sent his stickers, which was really great. And I keep meaning to message him because we had, I mean, I said, you know, hey, come over. We don't have much. We'll have stickers. And we had stickers and some stuff, but that was basically it. And we were just getting a chance to talk to people. But we were like, here are stickers from the Filament Librarian. Do you know about the Filament Library? And I was like, Joe, this is great. We gave out about 1,000 of his stickers. And he sent like 3,000. He wanted to make sure we had enough. But I have them. I'm gonna bring them to Murph. I'm gonna bring them to Murph. And I think having those. But he's done such a great job because he has like 1,200 filaments in there now. And the thing that he's added in recently is you can go in there and you can add an RGB color or up. There are different ways. If you go in there and search, you can search for, if you have a, and I look super smart. Somebody was like, hey, my mother works for BLU, the company that does the e-cigarettes. And I wanna find a filament that matches that. Do you know of any? And I was like, the lemoncolors.xyz. And I got the logo and I grabbed it and I'm putting it over here and I was like, well, here are three that are close to, it's like you're amazing. And I'm like, okay, I can't take credit for it. But that is a feature that he's added relatively recently. But he's a great guy. He's got a regular job. And he also has a Patreon to support that filamentcolors.xyz. And it's one of the ones, my husband was hopefully not listening because I have a problem with Patreon. I love Patreon, I love supporting people. And when somebody was like, how much is your Patreon bill per month? I was like, I don't know. And then didn't let him have the login information for a while. But he does such a great job. But I know he is about 500 swatches behind because a lot of people brought him stuff at IRF. I think I brought him over a hundred at IRF. Oh, wow. Yeah, and so people have, he says, I can even pay for shipping if you look on there. I would love to have it if you see that there's stuff that I don't have. If you are thinking of mailing him a bunch of stuff, let me know. I need to put like message me on one of the platforms because he has a second link that is a list of the Davis of everything that he has acquired. Because in order to put it up, he does this very, very precise, well, he doesn't swatch. And then he has a very precise color matching so that he gets the color true. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So I just posted the filmicolors.xmez in there. And then also there's somebody, let's see, here we go. I lost my sight when I was 16, 11 years ago. I work as an engineer now. I was able to get to where I am because my parent did not enable me. She was really happy to hear about your approach. Yes. That's awesome. I'm really happy to hear that too because I think that I tell people, hopefully my son's not listening, but I tell people that my daughter is going to, as soon as she goes to college, she's gonna be gone, right? I am not worried about my son may find out that being a gamer and viewing YouTube is not a viable career. But she has so many things that she wants to do. She right now wants to have a pet store where, but not just a standard pet store, she wants to educate people about different animals, which is why Jim, right before, my daughter came downstairs with our guinea pigs and you were telling her about the pets you have and she was, I think she thought she needed to get out of the room. And then I was like, they have sugar gliders. They have sugar. Anyway, so I need to tell her about, I would love for her to feel them. But something that is, and I was in a live stream last night and we got a little bit on the, I'm like, are we all adults here? Because there are things in life that as much as you think she might know about, she may not. Like one day I said to her, did you know that there are things on top of the different pieces of furniture in the house? And she said, no. And I said, well, let's, because she doesn't want to knock anything off. So we went into the dining room and in the dining room there's like, what do you call it? The buffet or whatever the thing that has all the stuff in it. And I said, let's look at what's on top of it. And she felt very carefully because there's delicate things. She had no idea. In her mind, there was an area to avoid. Really? And I thought, how many other boys in this house, because she can run, she can run through the house. You would never know she's blind in this house because she's mentally mapped the whole thing. Right, right. But how many areas does she not know that something exists because she's just, Hi, Lisa. Thank you for popping in. Yay. Oh, thank you so much. I have, I have gotten, I have got to do a reply video because the amount of response and support that we have gotten from that video has been so amazing. I would tell you that I sat there and cried. I was so happy, but then I would like, so let's just pretend like, okay, I did right. But I mean, I was sitting here and watching the number of people that were saying, this is close to me either personally or I know someone or I'm so glad to, that you are involved in this because my daughter said, I want to see if I can be involved in the community more because she's now 11 and she wants to be, and I was like, this is great. So I am really excited. I can't wait to see more. In the videos, they're gonna be so much fun if you wanna check them out and you haven't seen this yet, jump on, is it gonna be across everywhere or just on your YouTube? Well, the, wait, which one? Hers? Oh, her video is short, it'll be on everything. Yeah, the short, yeah, it's gonna be short tomorrow. It's gonna be my daughter again. She was just like here and I'll do a video and we were like, sure. Because for a while, and my husband said, I mean, there is with YouTube and anything with social media, you always wonder, is it safe to do things? But how many people do I know that are 3D printing people? That their channel is their name, Thompson Ladderer, right? Chris Riley, so many people, it goes on and on. And so when Joel telling, we did a video with him two November's ago or December, yeah. And he said, Chris and Courtney Blum, Chris was like, they said her last name and I'm like, Han, we're gonna have to get over that because nobody's gonna call me Phil in the stories. And so, it's okay, but it was one of those things. I am very proud to have her come on because she wants to be involved, right? Right. That's so cool. We are running way behind, but I have a few hot makes I wanna check out. Oh, yes, hot makes, do it, do it. We're kind of rock through them and then we'll get rocking. No, no, you're fine. I love the conversation and this is the best balance with Caleb because he usually keeps me on track and I'm just like, let's throw it out the window and let's talk. I know. Let's do some hot makes. Here we go. Hot makes. So let's not spill the water. I didn't spill the water that time. First one comes to us from Tom Lama. He says, oh, that's a hot makes. So this is the most satisfying ring I've ever made. Now this is someone called modern deal official. Not sure who they are, what they do, but I can tell you what. I watched this, it's only 30 seconds long and it is ridiculous. What? Yeah. It's all, I mean, like handmade and all the gears are put together and this thing is sick. Just like all the moving parts, look at that. Oh, that's amazing. Oh, and diamonds and the gears. As somebody in the maker community and 3D printing community, that is phenomenal. I absolutely, I absolutely love that. Nice work. I have to give that five out of five hot makes fire trucks because there you go. Yes, that's what we need. How many hot makes fire trucks? How many hot makes fire trucks? Look at this, it's a clock spring ring. Yes, yes, there you go. Let's see. Okay, next. Yes, Marcus says, if you let us, we talk about our kids all day. Absolutely, we would. All right, Chris Travis, the Securo box by clock spring. I didn't even know clock spring was gonna be in the chatter or anything tonight either. Of course, it is very uncommon to find a hot makes where we didn't feature a clock spring print. I'm just gonna throw it out there because so many people love it. All right, this is also in yellow. Yes, for the yellow, all right. Chris Travis, this is the Securo box and let's check it out. There you go. And there you go. Nice work. Looks like it was printed on the Prusa in the Jesse yellow bird. Loving it. That's one I haven't printed yet, I should. I like those boxes. I love boxes. Zombie hedgehog, who's that anyway? I don't even know who that is. Speaking of that, he's right there, there you go. Printed a few birdhouse feeders for Mother's Day gifts. A huge hit printed with a UV-resistant polymaker 3D polytera and is a good use of the Easter pack colors. Check that out. Gorgeous, by the way. Oh, that is nuts. Wow, see, now that's good stuff. I just like send it to the front. Wow, that's really nice. Nice. These are really cool looking. I mean, do they use the front door? Do they just open it up and walk right in, Austin? I love it. They're awesome. Is this Lincoln here? I might need to print some of these. Where did you find these? There's another one, there you go. There's the printables link. Boom, thank you. Now I'm gonna have to come back and check out that printables link because those are pretty cool. Bird feeders. All right, next. Joe Mike, a reason 9,567 that I love having a 3D printer. I can make crap like this, hashtag hotmakes. And here you go. This is a drawer or more like a slide for a laptop under a desk. So you can basically push it in and it sits right underneath your desk. And dox it. I love that. Functional printing. Boom. Wow. So he made it so he can push it right in. It docks automatically it looks like and then it has a little eject there. There's the mechanism. So the cable must be USB-C is sitting back up in here. And when he slides it in, it's lined up where it hits that USB-C slot. Super cool. Nice work. Oh, there's your little eject. That's cool. I didn't see that on the first time I looked through these. That's a cool idea. Nice work. If only the diamonds were hexagonally cut. Yes. Next, Marskismov. Speaking of Marskismov. This thing is just sick. Oh, man. After many years of trying a ton of gear, I finally designed my own filament cart which checks all of my needs. So there is a YouTube video on this, but I wanted to show, you know, basically show the picture here. This thing is pretty awesome. He's got everything he needs right built in there. A couple of Blackmagic devices with ATEM Mini and the board there for audio. He is very good at being very... And I love that video because he showed mistakes, right? He was like... And then he was like, ah, that didn't work, but yeah. Yes. If you have a minute, go check this out because this cart is super cool. That might have to be six out of five HotMakes Firetrucks. Yeah, there you go, six out of five HotMakes. I think we're gonna have to start doing that. Like how many fire trucks is it? Like vote in the comments for the next couple. How many HotMakes Firetrucks it is. And then like LiDAR extended or... No. Good. Oh my gosh. Yeah, is it? Oh, that might be better. Yeah. A half extension or a full extension. You know, is it... The cart is the size of my studio. Zombie Hedgehog says... Oh, all right, here we go. Next up, hey, fix them dude. Happy birthday, by the way. So I was at work and I printed this little fix-em-dude sign. I don't know what you call this thing. Anyways, I printed that and then I had to take this quick because I wanted to make sure I got the fix-em-dude happy birthday out there. But happy birthday. I hope all the best. I know who else birthday was it today? Earlier, we talked about somebody's birthday. Now I'm going to forget because we've moved on from... But happy birthday. I know somebody else's birthday was it today. Oh, it was Josh's, right? No. I don't remember. Yes. Oh, it's the Bugman Kick Card. Yes, there you go. Also, speaking of fix-em-dude, Michael Grigel, $10 on the PayPal's for the dry mouse fund. And Dennis Crawford, thank you so much. No Oreos, no water. $10. I saw those. That's funny, but happy birthday. I don't want to like my own. I totally missed fix-em-dude's birthday. I actually printed the Calla Lily, which actually is a lovely model, and I did it in the past and I didn't send him so belated happy birthday. There he is. That's that. Next, Kit KMT-82 design or KMT-82 design. Now, Kit tagged like 15 of these. I couldn't show them all, but I wanted to show at least one 3D printed action figures. I think Kit is coming up with these, like making them themselves. And it's super cool design. Let's see if I can throw up this. It's a pretty fun mech and nice work. So I know you had a lot of them, you tagged a lot of them, I couldn't show them all, but this one I really liked. I'm having a hard time. I want to give them all a lot of hot-naked fire trucks because these are so good. Yes. Justin, that's right. I'm sorry, Justin. Justin, Justin. Happy birthday, Justin. Justin. That's right, that's right. Look at that. I don't, I... That's like, my wife says my brain, my ADD brain is like a whiteboard, right? So I write all over it and then, gone, it's done, it's over and then I write something else. Oh, we understand that. Yeah, I agree. I love seeing Courtney's joy and happiness. Keep going. Yes. All right, Chris Travis. This is a Halo Master Chief. This is in this beautiful model, by the way. Polymaker Sparkle Green in PLA and Srytech Faster Resin. So let's pop this bad boy. There we go. Oh, that's big. Polymaker, yeah. And then boom. Oh, wow. Got the head on the inside. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of creepy. I'm not gonna lie. I feel like it's so good and that resin is watching me. Yeah. But very nice work there, Chris. Man, it's so cool. I do feel safer with the helmet on. Yeah. So good. All right, nice work, Chris. And, well, you get to... We should start doing that. Like, I should start posting, like, thanks for the post. You get four fire trucks or something, you know? People will be like, what are you talking about? What are the fire trucks? Oh, speaking of, here, wait, I'm gonna press... I'm gonna put it in the cat. It is phenomenal, by the way, yes. There is... Now, it's on my manufacturer, but I just put a link that should work. I hope I didn't get the whole thing. But it's on printables. I think it's on... Boom. Did I get it? I might have gotten it. It's on my manufacturer. I'll copy that link. And let's see. Anyway, so I just interrupted your hotmaking. No, jump in there. But let's go. We've got to get some fire trucks. Okay, that one, I think. See if that works. I may have messed up the other one. Carry on with the next one. See, if I type in clock spring on printables... No, it's hotmail. Yeah. Oh. No, go ahead, you're right. See if you can get it. If you go clock spring on printables, it should pop up. I see the torture toaster. I mean, like, very cool, very cool design. I just want to throw it out there. I'm clicking the link. Clock spring. Sven, have a great one. Thank you for jumping in. He says, I got to jump off. So, hey, have a go on. We'll talk soon. We'll have to get you back on soon. Thank you, thank you. Hey, thanks for making this so much fun. All right, clock spring. Check you later. I was the first download on printables printing on Maker Deck. No, I better check. I wonder what I did. Nice work, Liz. Thank you. Thank you. And Sid is phenomenal at modeling. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, next. Last but not least, this is ridiculous. This is our horn and road art. If you know this is fabric, it says it looks pretty good. But if you don't, it's hard to tell. I think the square edges are a problem. All printed with only layer swaps. So check this out. See if I can. I'm going to get closer to this. Oh, wow! Whoa, that's not what I thought it was going to be. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's so cool. Is that absolutely ridiculous or what? Yeah, it looks like he's holding just a nice a picture or something. I'm not even sure what I thought it was when I saw it. I was just like, oh, he's holding like some sort of picture. But this is done with filament swaps. Like what? I can't even. Wow. I can't even. I'm going to have to give this one another five out of five. I'm just so impressed. I see this every time I watch these hotmakes. There are so many people doing absolutely astoundingly beautiful or complex or just interesting things. I love it. So someone asked him to explain. Said, sure, let me show you how Hue Forge saw it. I'm not sure what that means. What Hue Forge is. I'm going to have to look this up. Source image on the right, generating a model with files or with swaps. I'm sorry. Let's see. Source image is on the right, generated file with follow, swallow. I'm thinking they mean on the left either way. Black is treated as zero height or transparent. Sliders at the bottom have colors and layers or millimeter values. What? What? That may have been over my head. I need time to process. I think my brain just broke. And then I call it Hue Forge. It's an application I wrote to calculate filament blending. Hue Forge, HUE, it's calculating the huge and it's forging. I mean, I would love to, I will stand there and swap the filament in order to do that. By the way, I do want to say something. Also, as we're sitting here talking and I realize we have some visually impaired people that are in this live stream. And one of the things that I also forget is that sometimes using descriptive words about what we're seeing is really helpful. And speaking of Joe, the filament librarian, he has a whole other group he runs called transcribers of Reddit. And if you've never heard of it, it's really neat. It's people, there's like, I don't know, several thousand people on transcribers of Reddit. And if someone who maybe they're visually impaired or maybe they have some reason that they can't, it could be color blindness and they need some piece of media written out in descriptive words or just written out in any way. So they put a request and these transcribers of Reddit, they thousands and thousands of pages. And I need to get more involved in it, but that is another thing that he does. And it's a really great thing. And he just gives his time to do it. That is amazing. He just donates his time to do it. Whoa. Yeah, he's such a cool guy. Well, until you said that, I didn't think about that. So I apologize if we have not been describing things, especially if you're watching and you can't literally watch because we're seeing, we're over here going, wow, this is amazing. But I took the granted the fact that you're, when you're listening much like a podcast or radio, you can't, you can't see what's going on. So, I don't even, how do you- I think we're all guilty of that though, because- Yeah. Right, we're all guilty of it and it's not something that you raise your awareness of. The other thing is when I, when Reese was first blind, I was afraid I could use the words see and look, right? But they are words that we use to indicate understanding and awareness. And so we just, she uses the word still, but still you can say this looks like a piece of beautifully flowing material in blue. And then he rotates it and it is almost entirely flat, like what, two millimeters thick? Yeah, it's very thin. And it's a complete optical illusion that he's done using a way to layer. I don't know if it's just blue and white or if it's blue and then multiple blues, I'm not sure. But I would love, if he's got an example, like the full control XYZ, I would be all over this. I, you did a phenomenal job describing that by the way. I did put in the chat, I typed the link and I just threw it in our private chat too, so you can come back to it if you wanna snag it. Okay, cool. But that is something that we need to see. But that was our hot makes. I know we're running way behind, but thank you. Everybody who submitted hot makes, don't forget, if you wanna see something on the show or you wanna show us something, point it out, whatever it is, hit us up. Go to, I am really trying to find the banner. What the fuck, is it this? It's not that one. It's not that one. I'm trying to find the ticker, that shows here. There we go. Find anything out there on the Twitters or whatever and hashtag hot makes and it shoots up right to us automatically, especially on Twitter. And then we will show it on Mondays. We're here at 6 p.m. Central every Monday. And we have some really cool stuff. I, Courtney, I know we're going long, but hopefully that's okay with you and- If it goes too long, then I don't have to put the kints to bed. Actually, that's just not, you know what, they said that years ago, but now they're older and they're like, no, I'm gonna stay up till 10. Right. Well, I tell you, I have something coming up, but before we get going, one more time, let's go through who you are, what do you do, and most of all, where can we find your awesome work? Okay, so I am Courtney Blum. I am Filament Stories. I'm one half, the other half that does the hardcore work is my husband, Chris. And he's somewhere, but he got this setup and he's still getting dinner for the children. So I love Filament. I mean, every Filament has a story and my goal is to take all the beautiful Filaments that I can get my hands on and try to show them in prints and up close so that as a person who might be interested in buying Filament or becoming addicted to it like I am, then you could say, oh, that's something I wanna look at. So I just love doing that. And I have the great good fortune at this point. We just sort of did it for a while and companies are now interested in working with us, which is fun because we find out about stuff in advance and whatnot. Yeah, but I do wanna say something. I did post the link to the non-torturous fire truck. And it is, you can find it on my manufacturer, yeah. But it is free to download, so please download it and hopefully your children and friends will enjoy it. But I am really excited that Juan Carlos, he said, this is JC Productions and we're gonna get in contact absolutely afterwards. But it is, he said he wants to collaborate with people who are doing 3D printing and we've got 3D printing, right? How can we collaborate? Because it's such a great tool for people. And I will tell you a secret that I cannot really share but my daughter wants to have children like coloring books, right? If you can't feel, if it's just a piece of paper, but you have to stand in front of the printer because it's one of me's day, but if I put a piece of card stock down and I can actually print on the thing and so she's like, make me more coloring books. But it's really tough, there's not a lot of blind people. So finding resources, there are a million coloring books but there's only two that we found for blind children. And so she did them, she's done, I need more, right? And so just interesting ways to use 3D printing but I don't really want to put a video out and this says, okay guys, put a piece of paper on this thing that has really hot nozzle and then just start to print and walk away, right? But yeah, we've come up with interesting ways to do things. So I absolutely would like to collaborate with people. This is exciting for me. I've been wanting to talk about it. So, Jim, thank you for having me. We definitely appreciate it. And I love your stuff. Check out Filament Stories pretty much everywhere. You can just find them. There's links in the description of the video. Asylum Life, talk about Sunday night. That's good. Sunday night, oh, Asylum is always so good. So Asylum and I have a thing, we're calling it sliced because it's just, we're gonna take, look through, I mean, just take a deeper look into Filament and things related to Filament and the industry and it is going to be on my YouTube channel and I think we're gonna have a couple. You know, we're gonna do a couple like here. Sure. And Asylum Life will have that. And we're gonna talk, is it eight? What time is it, Asylum? Can you say what time it is? I forgot, I can't remember if it's eight, six. In any case, you'll put that down there and I'll put another video up there. Yeah, because that was a lot of fun. We found out that the first time, Jim, we just went on for three hours. And so the second time we're like, we're gonna have, we're gonna have an agenda, which is fine. But you have to stay to the agenda. Yeah, yeah. And so this time we're gonna stay to the agenda. I feel that. I feel that in my soul, I think. But no, I really appreciate it and it's super cool. It was awesome to meet you in person. And I'm glad that, I know Caleb reached out and said, hey, let's get you on. And I'm sorry, Caleb couldn't be here, but he did really want to be here. And hopefully he can join us and we can do it again. 8 p.m. Eastern. Okay, good. So let me ask you a quick question. Are you guys going to be at Murph? I should be at Murph, yep. Okay, so we're gonna be at Murph. And Murph, clock spring, if you like his stuff, not like we haven't talked about him a lot, he's coming to Murph. Sven is coming to Murph. I love it. He's coming to Murph. I love it. I should be at Murph too. And then I'm not, I don't know about Smurf. Smurf's the tricky one. Yeah, that's the tricky one. But yeah, Murph in 32 days, Liz is reminding us, oh my gosh, that is only 32 days away. Also, and I should be at Murph as well. So yeah, I can't wait. I think I'm having a table. I think we have a table at Murph. I can't remember. I think so. Murph is a tricky one. Don't you have to like dive in and grab onto your table? Sometimes, yeah. I mean, it's like the Wild West of 3D printing shows. So there's that. Every fourth Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern. That's what- There we go. There we go. Real quick, next week, I do not know if we have a show yet. It's on hold according to my notes. I'm not sure if Caleb found yes or no if the person was available. So we're going to pause that. I'm not sure, but we'll announce that soon. June 5th, Alpha to Zeta Industries, they were at Murph. They had the really sweet prop, like giant prop weapons. That giant, yes. That would be cool. Let's see, what else we got? 19th, Studley Avocado. We'll be on and not the little one, the Studley one, of course. The Studley one, yeah. June 26th, we're going to talk about that one because that's right. That's the Monday after Murph, and I'm not sure we're all going to be home yet. But that's supposed to be RetroMaker, but we might push RetroMaker back one. And then, Photos Mint, soon. We have a soon. Oh, Photos. No, scheduling and process. Again, Caleb wasn't here, so I don't know if he updated this or not, but soon. So that's what's coming up. Hashtag HotMakes on all of the things, and we'll, well, mostly Twitter. We'll find you. Mostly Twitter. And check out HotMakes. And print your download and print your fire trucks. Yes, so if you're still with us, we got almost 90 people still here. Print the fire truck, find the clock spring fire truck. What was it called? Anyone, what did they call it? What do you call it? Yeah, it's a, hold on, what? And if you do, find us on Twitter, tag us at, hashtag HotMakes, and we're going to display every fire truck shown next week. That could be a day, it could be, come back and get me, but we're doing it. We're going to display every fire truck shown. It has a short name. It's called the Flippy Ladder Fire Truck, Filament Stories and HotMakes. The Flippy Ladder Fire Truck, Filament Stories and HotMakes. Filament Stories and HotMakes. And I'm just looking at it on printables, but yeah. And yeah, it has, it has a kickstand. And it, the ladder is all down and it's compact. And if you lift the ladder up, because you need to save somebody this tall and up there on that second floor, you have to kick, there's a little kickstand right here. I love it. And you do that and then you can safely climb up and save the day. And it's got, it's got HotMakes logo right in here. Yeah, yeah, HotMakes. This morning, he said, because I was doing stuff and he told me, he said, I spent a half an hour trying to rasterize this, your logo. Cause I said, here's the logo on everything. And he said, and then I remembered it was on the torture toaster and he suspected. He still has it on the torture toaster. Well, and then don't forget, don't forget on the back. That's right. I'm filling in stories on the back. And then, you know, yeah, holding up the fort, we'll call it, you know, it starts at the bottom. But, well, everybody, thank you so much for being here, Courtney. Hang out right there. I'll be right back with you, but everybody else, you guys rock every Monday at 6 p.m. We'll be here on HotMakes. And again, Courtney, thank you so much for being here. We appreciate it. We're super proud of you. Welcome back any time. The energy was amazing. People in the chat all night were commenting about they need to catch their breath because your energy is so awesome. So thank you so much for that. Now, hey, you, you, the same thing. I told people, I'm like, I don't know how you did it at armor. I don't know how you did it. You had so much energy. You're amazing too. So that is a good, I'm not sure how I did it either. I had like 50% voice when we were done. I'd call it, which was fun. It was, it was so much fun though. It was a lot of fun. So, but everybody, yeah, thank you everybody. Thank you guys. We will see you next week right here on HotMakes. Bye everybody. Bye.