 I may be a little late to the game, but this is a Sidewinder X1 from Artillery. And these are five fun prints you can do as soon as you build it. My name's Jim and this is The Edge of Tech. The Sidewinder X1 has been out for quite a while. This printer actually came to me from Banggood. Thank you so much Banggood, I really appreciate it. They sent it to me for review and you know I don't do a ton of review videos. What I do do is fun print videos. So what we're going to do is show you five really cool fun prints that you can do on the Sidewinder X1 or any other 3D printer that you may have laying around. I'm going to throw in a bonus 6 print because it came on the SD card and I wanted to test it. I have wanted one of these since I've seen one and if you know anyone at Artillery send them my way because I want to check out more of their printers. Now I put this printer together with Brian Vines on a side-by-side live stream. He put his together, I put mine together. This is the V4 version of the Artillery Sidewinder X1. We both got that version and you can tell because there's a little reset button down here next to the screen. We had a lot of fun in that video putting this thing together and I've had a lot of printers to get through. Actually this is my third video of the day and if you look back carefully you'll notice that I'm wearing the same shirt because I forgot to change between videos. But back to the Sidewinder. It has a 300 by 300 build surface 400 tall which is really good. I think that's a great size for someone that doesn't necessarily want the smallest or the biggest 3D printer. It's very similar or the same as the CR-10 or the CR-10 V2 one of those. It has a glass build surface. The thing about this build surface is it's not removable and the heater is actually adhered to the bottom. So if you break it or anything like that you actually are going to have to buy a new one. But that doesn't happen a lot so just be careful. There's a whole bunch of cool things and we're going to go over that in a minute. I'm actually going to do this one a little bit different. I'm going to walk through some of the cool stuff holding the camera and show you some of the features of the printer. And then I'm going to dive in to some of the really cool prints I did. As you can see, Clarkspring, Clarkspring and Clarkspring made the list again. Clarkspring, I love you guys. You rock. Keep up the great work. With all that being said, let's jump in. I'm going to show you some of the features of the video real quick. We're going to go through some fun prints and we'll be back. So this really has a unique direct drive extruder setup. As you can see it's gear driven and I really like that. It runs really good and the fan setup actually does a really good job on the cooling from what I found. Something else cool about this printer is that it uses ribbon cables. They do give you a couple extra in case they break. But if you do it right, they should last you a good long time. I know a bunch of people have had issues with these, but there's a lot of other people that say, hey, these lasted me a couple years now. So just be careful with them. Maybe a little dielectric grease and in the ribbon cables you'll be good to go. As you can see here, it does have a filament run out sensor on an adjustable spool holder. So there's a couple screws in the back of the spool holder. You loosen them and then you can put bigger or smaller spools in if you want to. It is kind of a pain in the butt, but I really like the spool holder. Once you get it on, it rolls really smooth. I like that they give you a full-size USB stick to use. I think that's a great idea and it makes it really flexible. Now you can use a microSD, it goes right here, but I prefer to use the USB stick that it came with. It does have a touchscreen right here and so far it's been really good to use. It's super simple and definitely on the better list of the ones I've played with. Something to note, this case is pretty huge. As you can see here, it takes up a really good chunk of space. The bed being 300x300x400 is a big-size bed, but the base here takes up a lot of real estate. So beware of that if you're going to buy one, but definitely worth it so far in my testing. The extrusion for the Y-axis is enormous and I think that's a great thing. I think it's going to hold up and be really strong in the long run and it's really cool to see such a wide Y-axis on a printer. Now it does have dual Z and they're both motor driven, so if you back up here you can see they're both driven right there and they do go up and they're actually belt driven up here as well. As you can see, there's a belt that goes across here and a pulley right in the center. So not only are you getting that dual Z here with the motors, you're getting the belt drive to keep them in sync as well. To go along with your Y-axis, the X-axis is also really big. As you can see, they use three wheels in a triangle fashion, like we see on most of these printers. I think the Sovol SV01 actually used four, but this one came out much before the Sovol, so I'll give it props. This is a super, this is a really big extrusion here for the X, but as you can see, everything's really sturdy on that X-axis and that's not going anywhere anytime soon. Something to point out, the installation of this was super easy. The full gantry came as one piece here and then the base came as the second piece and Brian Vines and I did a live stream and put these together so you can go back and check that out. It'll be linked above right now, but all you do is you drop the gantry here right onto the frame and you put four screws in from underneath and that is done. That's all you have to do to put this thing together. It was super easy, about 15 minutes of time. If you've never put a printer together, maybe 20 minutes. Once you get that done, you put your spool holder on and you are good to go. So the first thing I printed was the artillery test cube that came on the SD card and I did this on a live stream with Brian Vines when we assembled this printer. This came out really good. I really like the print and I like the cube in that Arianne orange filament. So the next three things I printed right after assembly were three clock spring prints that I get from clock spring on Patreon and that's in the description below. This is the first one and this is a really cool print. It prints exactly in this orientation. When it's done, all of these just fold up and they make a nice little box that you can store stuff in. I screwed up the settings on this one. I used a .3 and it got a little thick on these layers here on the underside, but I'm going to reprint this in a smaller layer and I know it's going to come out great because all of clock spring stuff comes out awesome. I really love how these print in place and how these hinges work. The next thing I printed is this box right here. You've seen this before on an Ender 3v2 video, but this turns like this. It prints in this, oh, there's stuff in there. Look at that. So it prints in this orientation just like that on the bed. As you can see, the layers look great. Everything prints underneath really good. He designs these things so no supports are needed. And when you're done, you flip it over, you lock your box and you walk away. Clock spring box is rock. This is the next clock spring box that I printed. At the time I printed this, this was just coming out and I had to check it out. I love the design. It prints super good. It actually prints standing up like this on the bed. And everything printed in place, just like all the clock spring stuff, no supports. When you turn it over, you actually use this one here and it rotates like a gear all the way up like that. And then it opens your box so you can put stuff inside. You could take and dump a bunch of stuff right in there. And then you just close it back down and you're done. But I really like the layers. Again, the Arianne Orange Filament came out great. I love how he spaces these gears out. I love how the direct drive extrusion on the Sidewinder X1 makes these boxes look. It is super clean. The layers are awesome. The Sidewinder X1 is actually becoming one of my favorite printers to print on. The last print I did in Orange Arianne Filament is this vase right here. Now this vase is super tall. It's almost as tall as the printer will allow. And that was the biggest print I did so far on the Sidewinder X1. And this vase is actually one of the biggest vases I've printed yet. Something that helps these very tall models is that the Sidewinder X1 has dual Z. Both the motorized Z-axis is stay in alignment. That keeps everything aligned. I really like how it printed. It came out great. I really love this vase. You've probably seen it on my channel several times before. I changed the Filament out to Coex Ocean Blue for the next prints I did. And as you can see, I printed a whole bunch of these little cable management clips. I did these all at the same time on the bed. And these are really cool. You actually lay down a cable, say you got a cable right here, and you want to run that along a wall or something like that. You would just lay your cable out. You would set these little cable management clips and there's different sizes you can get. I just printed the biggest one for what I'm actually going to use it for. But you would run your cable like this and then you would put these along the way and you would put screws into here to hold them onto the wall. And that would keep your cable managed along your wall and holding it nice and secure. Again, there's different sizes that you can print. I printed the big ones because of the cable I'm going to be running through is much larger than this USB cable. But I think these came out really nice. It printed all these at once. It did them on the side, but there's still some good bridging in here with the screw hole and this right here. I tell you, I really like these little clips. These came out great on that direct drive extruder. And another cool thing about these clips is you can actually run a zip tie through them and zip tie your cable right to this if you really want to. But really cool print. Awesome and functional print right off that Sidewinder X1. And that was the last thing I printed for the video and they turned out really good. All right, we just walked through some of the really cool features of this printer and some of the awesome prints I got off this thing. If we look back, we actually looked at five awesome prints. This vase included that you can print on your 3D printer, especially on the Sidewinder X1. I hope you guys got an idea of what the Sidewinder's about. If you have the chance to grab one, I do like this printer a lot. I do recommend the printer. Just be careful with those ribbon cables and you may have to upgrade the firmware in the future. Just watch that because you never know. I did have a couple quirky things and a firmware upgrade actually fixed that for me. So just be careful again with those ribbon cables. They do give you a couple extra, but you just you want to make sure you put a little dielectric grease on them before you push them in. That stuff will help the longevity of those cables and don't be tugging on them. Don't catch them on anything or anything like that because if they rip out, you're going to have to start over with those cables and you only get one extra set. Other than that, this thing has been printing like a dream. It has very quickly became one of my favorite printers since I got it. I have not done anything, but use the Prusa Slicer profile that's in the description below to change this printer at all. It has really printed super good since I got it. So I hope you saw some really cool prints today that the printer is capable of and I hope you learned something and as always, keep printing. Hey everybody, I hope you liked the video today on the Sidewinder X1. If you did, give me that thumbs up. Hit that little subscribe button and the little bell right over here if you want to get notified. Next time we go live on Mondays for hot makes or when we put out a great video like this one. Thank you guys again for watching. I really appreciate it. Did you see this video yet? Have you seen this one?