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So hello everybody Discord chat room Again, don't forget give certificates always available certificates and subscriptions to adafrux Or you can get an iocard for someone that's cool. That's a good one too. Yeah Lots of fun whippersnapper business going on. Yeah That's cool The next eight of bots Eight tab box is gonna be so cool. We're gonna right now Excellent All right, let's go ahead and jump into this week's festive themed project last one for the year This is a this is a 3d printed uh lamp with neopixels It's got a q-pi rp2040 running circuit python And what we want to do is we want to mix up some uh some acrylic To make this kind of fun animated effect. So I got the elite chase running here There's eight of these panels of acrylic. They're a quarter inch thick. So we got some chunky Um pieces of acrylic you can laser cut this you can cnc mill Your own kind of animated shapes I came I kind of came up with this simple kind of wave thing and I got this little circle going Around but you can do all sorts of different things like signs and other Graphics and whatnot, but the idea here is pretty simple. You get uh several pieces of acrylic And when you line them up on on a neopixel strip You can animate them to create this animated effect because the edgelet acrylic Is is quite fantastic at uh creating this visual light display So uh, this is a 3d printing case like I was saying We got the qt pie and just the single neopixel strip there It's just three wired connections. So it's pretty uh pretty simple in terms of like uh soldering and wiring It's powered off of the usb port right here usb c Got the rp2040 for the qt pie. So it's a it's a nice small inexpensive board But this thing's scalable, right? So if you want to make this want to add more frames or less frames You want to scale it up. You can definitely do that The CAD files are all open if you want to Modify the design you can totally do so we have a step file a fusion file and some other Things like stls if you just want to print them out, but As far as the parts go, they're you know, they all snap fit together There's no screws in this one. Everything just kind of press fits These little acrylic panels just pop out. They have a little 20 millimeter tam And there you can see where the where the led is So the trick getting this to work is to isolate each led So the light doesn't leak into each other. So that's kind of what I got there. I got a bunch of other shades and things We'll kind of run through them real quick. Just kind of share I also have some nifty tips if you're seeing seeing um, so Here's a good example of um engraving some letters. So this is the 2020 um Year You can see that so if you wanted to mix this up and add some messages You could do that if you want to uh, it's super easy and circuit pi to lower The speed so you can have this kind of Uh, you know, I take a little bit more time so you can see it But I I thought I'd do something like a little a little bit of festive things. I got happy Pie leap. Where'd the holiday one go somewhere? But you could do happy holidays whatever kind of thing if you have your own custom graphics Maybe like a walking animation be cool. I thought it'd be cool to do different shapes So I I got festive and came up with these uh, these little Christmas trees I tried doing some cool designs and things, but uh, I don't know. I just kind of left that alone. Um So I started doing some snowflakes on uh on these little triangle bits So I was just kind of experimenting with that. Um, but ultimately I thought Creating like a unified animation was like the way to go So that's why I kind of came up with I kind of left these waves here because I think that's like the best way to Kind of show what's possible with this Sort of thing Um, yeah, so that's kind of the demo there Um, I got some fun videos here that I want to share in terms of like how this came about So when it came to prototyping this it really started with just a simple piece, right? The goal is like, all right How do I get um a little 3d printed piece that can hold up pieces of acrylic and have the spacing like absolutely on point Uh for the neopixel strip. So this neopixel strip is your standard 50 50 style Neopixel LEDs You can get them in different densities. We have low medium and high density Um, the medium density is what we're using here. That's 60 millimeters per meter So that's the version you can kind of tell them apart if you work with neopixel strips a lot You'll you can you can kind of intuitively know that The difference between the three styles the high medium and and low density This is the medium density and they're about 16 millimeters apart In terms of like the pitch the distance between the two pixels So that's kind of how I came up with prototype. It's just a single piece Try to get the tolerances to fit uh for the for the acrylic so the acrylics a quarter inch That's about like six millimeters thickness So that's kind of what I came with just a really simple Little thing and then figuring out what else needs to go around it. So that's kind of how I started it So I did not laser cut these. I used the CNC mill. I got myself a little Banton tools desktop CNC It's really good for this type of stuff and and really um The kind of problem I had here is like well, I'm limited to my bed volume and I wanted to make these big pieces So I really had to think like what could I do with such a small build volume? It's not super small, but it's 100 by 100 millimeters And what I found is that when you create shapes you can you can kind of place them in a way where they're optimized So you can see these two triangle shapes You get more out of your material if you strategically place them where um, your your kind of cuts will kind of Feed into each other. You can see here in between those two shapes I have like no distance between them. So or just enough distance where the tool won't bite into the next piece So I'm able to get a lot out of material by just strategically placing them So if you're new to like laser cutting or CNC milling, I think that's a tip that's applicable Try to be smart about your material. Don't you got a big sheet? Don't cut in the middle of it You know, just use the top horn. That's something I learned from Jimmy DuResta. It's kind of my hero, but Yeah, that's one tip I got if you are new to uh, CNCing and and laser cutting Try to get the most out of your material and think about your bed and The build volume that you have what can you do with what you got? The next one is um after I cut those shapes. I uh, I thought well, let me play this one first so After I cut those shapes, I put I strung them together and I got this really cool kind of effect There's no engraving at this point in the design. I didn't think about engraving I was just thinking about shapes and having the edges of the shapes really define the effect So it looks really stellar without any engravings Um, and then you can see they're underneath there. So I'm starting to kind of figure out. How do I incorporate? A kind of a cover that holds the acrylic holder in place Um, so that's kind of the the second prototype And then once uh, because I've already cut all these shapes. I had I wanted to engrave some snowflakes Um, but to do that I needed to design a little well a little jig So I 3d printed a little jig um So that I can align it to the spoil board precisely in the origin And by doing that you can get a really good representation of where your artwork will go on your pre-cut piece So in this case, I'm using a little triangle piece and uh It's a good method because you don't have to like Adhere the piece to the bed like normally what I have to do is to double stick tape To attach my pieces to the bed But because the torches are so tight in the jig I don't have to glue it so I literally just pop it in and then pop it back out And it's just a friction fit. So the only uh tape I had to do was on on the actual jig here I just put two strips of tape here and uh, then you have yourself a little jig So if you're CNC milling creating a jig is almost like 60 percent of your work. Um, so you can see here I kind of recreated it for this tree shape. So the idea was I I uh paste this to the spoil board line up this corner here You can see I even got clever with the thicknesses of here It's kind of thinner in this area, but these lives are kind of these lips are kind of raised So that I can align it to the spoil board and then this just pops in Like a show and then when you mill it you can just pop it back out. So you got a real nice Uh, a real nice tolerance fit there So that's a really cool tip and uh, that's how I was able to create all of these kind all of these Fun snowflake shapes after I've already cut all the main shapes. So that's kind of a fun thing there I think folks that have like a glow forge like they don't have to worry about jigs because they have like a camera I think you just place it you just place it and throw it on there and place it at an angle It just it has smarts to realign it, but if you're CNC milling you might not have that those smarts Um, but very very cool. Um So that's the jig tape piece Let's see Um, so engraving CNCing is it's pretty uh What did they say about it? I don't know You know, so so bringing in vector artwork is going to be different on You know on however you're interfacing with your machine. So For me, I I used fusion 360. I brought in some svgs and I was able to uh lay out some toolpaths um, but you could if you have like a Like a next carpet. I believe they use something like easel So you would have to kind of do all that through the easel think about like kind of how the creakout works So you bring in and you interface with their creakout design software. So it's going to be different for everyone So that's why it's not really documented Um on this learn guide on how to actually do the artwork because it's going to be different depending on What machine and what method you're using whether it's laser cutter or CNC mill Especially with the CNC since you have to program every single path that is going on Yeah, and just like creakout design like you can pay Extras you know subscription if you want like pre-made artwork and and more features and you know bands and tools isn't um Doesn't shy away either like if you want some advanced svg uh toolpath um, you got to pay for it. It's like I understand and that's why uh You just kind of got to figure out like what method you want. So Yeah, there's different ways to do it But uh, yeah, there's some fun engraving there and I have a tip if you are a CNC milling you want to be very cautious about Your pieces and your tool bit what happened here is what happened what happened here is um, I Didn't clean off the gunk the glue adhesive that's on the double-sided tape So after so it just starts accumulating and because fresh shin and the way it's running It just messed up. So You know The tip here is just to like keep everything clean. Keep keep your tools clean too. Not just your spoiled bed um Some alcohol and a paper towel definitely goes a long way when you wipe clean Your tool bit get rid of that gunk even if it's just a teeny bit of like Adhesive it will build up and it can cause friction and if you're doing acrylic it can get really nasty. So uh, that's my tip. Let me just clean your tips That's my tip clean your tip Yeah, so for this project, you know, we had to we lost one of our tools Which is not a big deal if you got more tools on hand. So always have an extra spare tool on hand Um, yeah, that goes for any of the components that might break. Yeah always wipe down You get the bed of your 3d printer, you know, that sort of thing. You don't want your first layer to be terrible I honestly wanted to say make sure you have extra nozzles Make sure you have extra bacon motor motor breakout board. Make sure you have a multiple ble touch Multiple of the needles that do the actual testing of your bed. Yeah, make sure you're more than one tool It's for sure and material too. Like I had to get some more material mid project and I'm like sweating bullets. Oh, no so There's some tips there for you, but that's pretty much The project right so we're going to walk to the learn guide now and just kind of show you folks Um, how to how to go about building it if you want to build one So real happy that all the parts are in stock Mainly the cutie pie rp2040 this neopixel strip a little bit weird. I have a little message here This is this hundred dollar neopixel strip is for a full reel. That's 240 pixels You need eight for this project. You only need eight and if you click on this product There is an option in the sidebar that says one meter. It's only 26 $27 so I would I would get a meter if you haven't if you haven't played with the neopixel strips yet But this is like kind of your your medium density neopixel strip You can get it in a white pcb or a black pcb. It doesn't matter for this project But you just need eight So if you already have this style of neopixel lying around and you have eight leds despair These are great because you know, they have the pads where you can cut it You can create your own strips and designs by just cutting and stringing them back together So that's the the neopixel strip there and then some extra bits and bobs like the usbc cable for the cutie pie A ribbon silicone cable, which is our favorite wires and some rubber feet because it's a lamp and you want to have some grip When it comes to the acrylic sheets, I like to get my stuff from eventables.com But you can get it from your local supplier or whoever else as long as it's a quarter inch thick acrylic should be good But this edge lit acrylic from eventables is is good for cnc and laser cutting And it just it has some really nice diffusing particles as it says here cash sheets with a light diffusing particles And you can get it in different sizes here. I got an 8 by 12 You can go to tap plastics too and get pre-cut So if you want to have pre-cut to your to the bed of your laser cutter cnc mail You can do that too But it's so much fun if you're just getting into if you got yourself a laser cutter And you're meaning to do some acrylic stuff I think is a great project because you get multiple sheets like you just make one acrylic sheet Not I don't make eight of them So that's cool. Where am I? Here I am So those are the parts and that's the acrylic Let's check out the circuit diagram super super simple just three wired connections for your new pixel strip to the cutie pie You got a data pen Power on ground cutie pie is really great because it's got the five volt pen So you can do something you can power those new pixels properly And you know you can put this on a battery if you want, but I think people are gonna Keep it plugged into a wall adapter or their usb Hub on their computer Installing circuit python the key pie is super duper simple double tap the reset button Or no you hold down you hold down the boot select and then hit reset It shows up like a usb drive drag and drop A uf2 file to install the latest version of circuit python So this this right here kind of walks you through all of that and you have some status leds that lets you know it's good Code is really really simple. It's using the led animation library To kind of create this effect the chase animation Module is like the last year because you can quickly update the size and the spacing So the way this works is you have mainly four parameters that you want to change You want to change the speed So depending on how fast you want your animation to run or if you want to slow it down, you'll just play with that number Colors you can you can pick whatever color you want. You can create your own or use the built-in ones And then size tells you how many pixels you want lit at a time and then spacing how many Pixels you want turned off at a time. So I have one Size and then eight spacing and that's what gets you that one led on and running and chasing So I string a couple of them together and just change the color And then I string them together with the animation sequence module You're just kind of group them together and then in your while true loop. You just say animate animations and it animates So really really super easy and super customizable. So check it out play around with the different speeds and things Yeah, all right, and then for the CAD files Here's all the stls and the the source file So just a couple parts you got a case bond cover A holder for the acrylic and a holder for the strip two separate things You are going to need a minimum build volume of about 210 millimeters because the lamp is a little the case rather in the bottom cover They're a little bit big because it accommodates for the the actual board the cutie pie But y'all can download the stls and print them out without any supports PLA I use actually wood fill that's why it's brown and I uh, I used wood PLA filament it works fine might vary on different nozzles and stuff, but you know You y'all know what PLA you like these days And then when it comes to like the shapes the I have svgs of what I made like these three different ones I have like a triangle a tree and like the sign But the main thing you want to look at is the tab that gets inserted into the acrylic holder is 20 20 millimeters wide And it can be whatever tall so Um That's the svgs that I have for folks if they just want something to cut and get right away You can do that you can bring this artwork into Your glow forge or your easel and then you can put other svg graphics on top type Icons whatever I think the hard part here for an artist is going to be to figure out their workflow and getting those eight frames of animation Um, so that's that's going to be fun And then if folks want to use our our 3d models of the electronics We got a whole slew of them. They're available on the get hub repo page Just kind of a link there for everybody So you can get a one-to-one accurate model of the cutie pie and the neopixel and whatever else we have in that repo So check those out All right now when it comes to wiring pretty straightforward, um, you only have three Wires to connect the neopixel And you definitely want to solder the wire on the bottom Of the strip because you want the you want the the top surface of the strip to be flush with the 3d print Um, so that's why I recommend soldering from the bottom. But yeah pretty straightforward Wearing up the cutie pie Just using that a zero pin and the five volt and ground pin and that's pretty much it When it comes to the assembly, uh, no glue or screws required here Everything just kind of that fits together the neopixel strip like slots into the led holder. It's got like this little groove That keeps it in place. So that's really cool You can use tweezers to help kind of push it because as you push an led it kind of locks into those little slots So it's a really kind of a clever way to get a nice hold, but it's still removable It's still a modular so that's really cool. If you have burnt out pixel or something It's easy to take this thing apart and take it out So that's a neopixel strip Holder next thing is to snap fit the cutie pie PCB into the built-in holder on the bottom cover You got these little four corner snaps you want to put it at an angle And because the the the cover is like thin you can actually bend it slightly flex it So that those corners will will lock onto the edges of the cutie pie That way you have this really nice like you kind of came up with this actually the you know exactly That's a really good way to have a Like a really good hold on your PCB, but without any glue or screws and there's no mounting holes on this thing So that's kind of the way to do it and you have all these reliefs on the sides So that you can actually flex it open and take it out still So that's a really cool thing I hope to do it layer by layer in the future on how to model that thing because there's some cool Things you can do there to make it how much geometry goes into such a teeny tiny little piece geometry It really does it's got like different levels of lips and things and reliefs. It's pretty cool though All right, and then once that's stuck in place you can fit the the holder the led strip holder into the case It just has a friction fit it just kind of has a flush fitting as well And then there's a little opening on the sides for the for the actual wire So it's got that built into there And then installing the holder as just gets press fitted in like I said And then the bottom cover fits into the case And just line up all you got to do is just make sure you line up the usb port of the cutie pie with that usb Opening on the case you can also add some number of feet there for some grip And now the last thing to install Seconds the last thing is that acrylic plate holder that fits right over the led holder They're two separate things because I just felt like it would be nice to have a modular base So that you don't have to worry about taking out the strip And the acrylic so that's why I have them as two separate pieces then you can play around with different colors So you have a specific color scheme you want to do for your lamp You know you have you have you have the option And then it's only acrylic you just press fit them in if so, you know quarter inch all acrylic varies in thickness It's not always precisely the same So What I found is like on some of these pieces Uh, they were loose So what I ended up doing is adding some packaging tape to the tabs clear packaging tape That way it doesn't visually look terrible. So that packaging tape is right there. You can see I'm not perfect at it It doesn't need to be because it transfers the light really well Then it's not visible because this is what gets you know fitted inside You know fitted inside here Yeah, that is the whole build in a nutshell wouldn't that black hat do it? Super cute black hat Interactive cat toy build that now And that is the lord guide. Yay perfectly themed for I think all not just festive holidays For like offices you can have your nameplate on there or your company logo animated on there Or just your desk super cool way to remind everybody What to do? Yeah, like I said, if you got yourself a a laser cutter and you got some acrylic You're meaning to do some fun light up artistic stuff with it This is a cool little idea That's a reminder for me because I keep thinking we're still in 2020 for some reason Yeah, we're talking. I do something. It's like, huh like uh looking at like food in the fridge or something It's like 2021. This is still good. No, right did it six bars a month ago? Yeah Cool Happy holidays people saying in the chats over on the facebook Happy holidays Richard. I am super impressed with the facebook just launched this. They have real-time closed captioning going on and I'm amazed just looking at Looking at myself being closed captioned. It's like series dictating here. Yeah, this is so cool Hello, hello And what's funny is that it's uh putting in a lot of the product names correctly Ask, could I hear it well? I'm waiting for it What are you doing? What's all bro? I want to talk to him Oh, it does not know. It's like, I don't know what you speak Well, that was very fun. Thanks folks for hanging in there with us All right, let's go ahead and jump into oh look at it. Oh, wait. No, it did not translate any of that or type it out Yeah, it knows Just english All right, let's go ahead and jump into this weeks Prototyping well pretty much We're done for the year so I know I was sharing this prototype. I'm like all tired from the kids being home from school It's exhausting. But hey, that's the prototype You get a good look at how simple it really starts. Just one little piece Figure out is this gonna work? Is this a cool effect? And this is what drove me to like keep going It is really cool. I thought I don't know what else to say about it Well, Lamar Lamar saw this on a different if I don't know if you have the weights on yeah A lot of the ideas it's completely different. Yeah, I know, but that's like the spark of what you're right Yeah, what led us down to path to this a lot of these ideas. Yeah, they'll see somewhere like hey, we could do this Yeah, and you put your own spin on it, right? What exactly you so very cool Okay, we're gonna jump into shop talk. We had some fun new stuff here So I encourage everybody to check out prusa printers Dot com. It's a Alternative universe to Thingiverse really and you might think you know, I got Thingiverse. They're so popular That's where everybody downloads and that's where the traffic is So Prusa printers have been working hard to incentivize people to start using their site So what they're starting to do is they have this new reward system where the more you contribute The more points that you can get awarded and what's cool about these points Isn't like chalky cheese you get these points and then you can trade them in for actual goods So in this case, um, you can get filament Where do I click on again? Oh right here So you have like these point systems So we have 30 points right now and when you get up to 350 You can you can spend them and use some stuff So you have some prusament some PLA some pet g asa. I want that hoodie. You want the hoodie? What is the hood? 500 load up. No, no, no, what's the design look like? You can't zoom up on it. Not yet. It's still new. It just dropped, but there's a t-shirt and a hat I really like the hat design looks cool. I want to see that. I want to and they got that orange I think it's very very cool. So I'm I'm kind of excited to be honest. It's really cool and um, they are retro What is it called retroactively giving you points? I thought they weren't So we're level 13 Yeah, we're level 13. I got a nice, you know folks are actually using it So I'm glad you know that the putting the effort into Uploading your models isn't too bad. There's actually a finger-versed importer So you can just import all your existing designs Into uh into your prusa account. It's free to you know sign up So you got these cool badges. Let's you know what you know If they have I don't think I'm an expert but like I'm experienced They have gamified the they have gamified us. We got like badges and you can see how many points you're at I'm a prusa printers maniac, you know But uh, yeah, we have 210 designs currently I threw up there the this week's project the menorah and some of the other ones um, so yeah, folks want to Contribute you got you got a reason to try to use the site now. There's no ads here either There's no ads like thing a verse and the site's pretty much up all the time I don't see it down ever like thing a verse can get down sometimes Uh, so check it out. I mean in all fairness though. There is just the floodgates over at thing a verse Yeah, and our numbers here are really kind of low But I really like the prusa's, you know approach to uh, how do we get people to How do we ward people for contributing to the design and this is I think the best way I don't think anyone else is doing this the gamification right in terms of like Looking down all the sites out there looking down over at the what is this twitch comment by It's tyler. What's up? Uh, just uh mentioning. Don't forget my mini factory cults 3d. Thank you. Yes. Yes If you are a wonderful world with all yeah, the marketplaces are are really good like mini factory. We like cults 3d Art designs get up there as well. Yeah past couple of uh community make time elapsed tuesdays have been from Cult cult 3d paid paid downloads is paid downloads We definitely like paid stuff because the artists really should get paid for it Especially if it's really yeah badass design for sure Oh, and they break down what you get like what completing your profiles 20 points publishing a print is 10 points I kind of did the the math right so like if we need to get to 320 is that about yeah, I want that hoodie that's about 32 projects Um, so that in about 32 weeks. I hope we can get a hoodie or some filament That's literally how we can like schedule out like all right Because I'm pretty we're pretty much guaranteed to come out with something every week, right? If not multiple things. Yeah, and there's like a couple designs. I haven't like actually I was gonna say if you Jump over to our thing of our speech. We have over over 400 designs So, uh, there's so much stuff that we see, you know, you working on that you never even release or publish. You're like, yeah Oh, no, nobody would like it Although, um, I already know we'll we'll get that hoodie and they won't have it in my size Because you know how sizes work. Yeah, you know, yeah, but they're you know, they're in europe, so Should I I'm sure a small is like thing ever now. I don't I would goes that far I wouldn't say take them off unless you got a band data against them Put everything up. I've seen people like get really upset and take their designs. You're free to do so My recommendation is what you want to do The one thing um, have you tested seen if they've added any rss prusa bucks? That's a great name. So if you want to get some prusa bucks You know where to go So if anybody's out there So the way that I look for all of the blog posts and time-lapse tuesdays is rss feeds from a thing of ours I have tried to build one from prusa. Yeah, they don't have the rss feeds No rss feed. I have I use feedly. They have some new little thing that lets you create it But it still doesn't work their team is is very open to suggestions So maybe I'll tweet at them saying hey, we would really use the rss feed That's a good thing. Okay. I think colts need to do that as well. Okay, colts I think the only other one that does it is Ultimakers Oh, we do you imagine you imagine That's the only or no, that's the only way that I know that it's still even up because I see it come up on the feed Remember pin shape Pin shape was bought from formlabs Quite a few years ago. I don't know what happened to it It's hard running a database warehouse Yeah Nowadays, yeah Well, that's Let's go ahead and continue on to the community makes. Oh, no, that was shop talk. That was shop talk We're done shopping our suggestion is do it do what you put your heart tells you Like if you want to leave your designs, it's fair game um cool We're good ready to switch. Yeah. All right. Let's go to this community makes all right Another this time lapse is gnarly Again, I saw this because it came up on the RSS feed. Yeah, Tobias Frankie shout out to Tobias for Designing releasing such a stellar cramp crampus Cramp cramp cramp a crampus. So this is wearable mask. It's it's very um It's very wearable. It took three days and broke one of the printers I got new parts for it Yeah, the printer how devilish and you even ran out of filament and ran out of film at the top there. That's great So you're gonna need an entire spool of purple blue whatever Crumpets. Yeah, so mainly two halves. You're definitely some supports. Um, but hey, that's the name of the game He's lovely shapes and organ or ergonomic curves. Look at the curves on that extra points because it's wearable with glasses Yeah, so let's take a look Bias is how big this is I'm waiting for you to switch camera so I can show For scale Freaking giant this thing is wearable with your glasses and you have the eye slit so you can actually see what you're doing That tongue is not long enough That's the only thing I feel that it's missing from crampus Uh, one of the things you always see in illustrations and costumes is that long tongue. Look at the insides Very very nice show. So nice and thick smooth Nice and thick. Yeah, there's no sharp edges or anything We should Probably read how we designed it, but it's probably z brush or something that is uh Allows you to do sculpting because it is super smooth lots of really high subdivisions on it The only mess up here was the uh, the lower bottom tooth there that came off from the supports And uh, yeah, it looks like it paints very nicely very breathable It's very huge. You didn't scale this up at all. No, that's original size Kind of getting piccolo vibes Again, super happy that it works while wearing your glasses. It actually fits better on me With your glasses on because your glasses act like a little holder for the entire mask Put some sort of strap here. There are some not any Loops or anything you can just hot glue it there. I think you were going to read the description Right. Well, I uh, take a look at Tobias's Thingiverse. I feel like the horns I think need to be a little bit bigger too But that's something that you can go in and adjust yourself. Can you tell from the screenshot what that might be z brush? I don't know. It might be z brush But very very cool. So let me read Tobias is this a full wearable crampus mask It's inspired by the traditional crampus a fictional creature Philip avarian austrian or swiss alps the original master hand carved out of big pieces of wood This one could be pretty printed like a real crampus mask It has slits in the eyes which you can see through when you wear the mask the mouth is open Which has better ventilation than a latex or silicone mask in order to wear it All you need to do is glue some velcro or straps on the back side Put some soft foam under the top of the mask. You can make it fit your head In case you don't want to print the full-size mask. There's also a mini version And there's a mini version if you feel free to share your creations and if you're interested Um, you know you can buy Tobias a coffee. There's a little buy button here coffee And this was printed on a prusa mk3s Nice very cool recommended is a PLA Minimize the warping easier to glue the halves together Here you go use an airbrush To paint it. Yeah, which is a really good way to go out with your paint job so I wish I had time to do at least color in the eyes because there's so much very nice detail I think purple is really nice very on theme brand. You can see all the holes there like that like Perfect for after christmas nice little uh I like the duality of like, you know, like this saint figure and then like double It's like great yakin yakin. I know they need to do more crumpets Integration with the holidays because this is just so freaking cool. Yeah Got some goblin Feels too with the way the ears are Yeah overall and then I saw like phil b posted it too. It was like, yep Yeah, I was right in the middle of printing the second part when he posted that like almost bro almost So any uh any tips or anything that uh that off the top of your head that to help you Kind of get this thing printed. Um, I think the support settings on that uh, the usual things that I do Low density low density you got six percent No interface layer just the roof the um the width of the supports. I always use point two for the width So it's nice and thin easy to remove Yeah Point two five for the z Distance between the supports and the actual geometry to make it easier to have it not fuse at all Any support center for the horns those are printed so you can kind of see how the horn I can't take them off. I have to hot glue them on there. Okay. They are sunk into the bed about five millimeters Oh, cool. Yeah, you can see it flat now. Yeah, I noticed that Because the tips here have like some sort of you can see in the They have a bit of a registry key. Exactly. Yeah Oh the one thing that I uh, we'll have to point out He has these marked as a left and a right, but you're both like left So you have to go into Siri I have like some sort of a registry key the one thing that I I So you'll have to go inside of your slicer And Do a mirroring yourself, uh, because the left. Yeah, I printed both out and they're like, oh, no, these are both left They're both right. Whatever the heck it was. So if you're using cura slicer, there's a built-in mesh tool or no They're not built in it's from the plug-in the marketplace plug-in thing. Uh, no, it's just literally mirror. It's like built-in. Yeah Oh, cool. I thought you needed the mesh tools. Yeah, okay. Cool. So I think all of the the slicers have like a Mirror on the whatever zx Why cool one of those well good tip. There's a little bit of a mirror thing with the horns That's it. That's it. Well density for the infill And you got yourself a nice little crumpest mess little as a massive. I mean, you know, I know this is good for the Halloween and Christmas Decoration-wise and uh, you know orient them on you want on your bed. I just want to flip that Yeah, you got to flip that one on page. We've got that, you know, raise it lower from the bed Yes, pretty good. Like this would rotate it. So it's like that and then sink it five millimeters into the bed Okay Well, cool Yeah, it's this week's community to make Is that a free download? Yes. This is a free download If you feel generous you can buy to buy us a coffee. Definitely worth it Buy to buy us a coffee Oh, one thing we didn't talk about it. What did we I think it's listed in the time lapse. It takes about three days to print So yeah, hopefully I have more than one printer Right, or if you want it, you may be the bigger nozzle if you don't want the detail or something I could try that. Don't forget about big nozzles. Yeah All right. Well, we've got some other community makes that were sent to us So let's run through this quick to have this here for the time lapse. Yeah So this is a really cool one, you know, we like props here at data fruit And this one is a full blown remix of the master sword from the legend Zelda So, uh, check this out here by Thingiverse user mystique 100 Says this is a modified version of the master sword by Garrett Garrett is the original designer of the master sword that we remixed and it says here It has the battery electronics and strips and the printable on an ender 3 or a smaller printer This is highly inspired, but it's not a remix of the led Master sword from ater fruit. It's designed from scratch with the source And uh, Garrett actually shared his three fusion 260 Um design which is downloadable so you can like modify the source Main differences from the ater fruit version. This is smaller parts that are fitted for a A printer with a bed of 20 by 220 no broken geometry Apparently I guess there's some broken geometry Sturdier handle the larger walls and the key inserts into the guard two versions of the handle a classic version split in half like Like the other parts with a hole for the For the pommel and like a usb or dc jack and then there's a solid version for a usb c port And the pommel acting as a screw cap very very cool And then the electronics used a um, uh, arduino pro micro and like a lipo charger A bunch of other stuff Um, but you could also use the feather m zero and a prop maker to replace the power and circuitry Yeah, I recommend that too. Thanks for sharing that though And there's some more photos on uh on their website here So let's take a look at those Oh man things massive, huh? Yeah Yeah, it's cool. Yeah with that whole other section and it just makes it way bigger. Yeah So yeah, if you're a super fan of of this prop definitely, uh Check it out. There are multiple remixes now Everyone likes to kind of remix it take on the challenge to make fit your printer because like they fit our printer Really really cool and don't forget Garrett. It's kind of like the original creator of it. So it's really fun to see That's one thing I really like about Thingiverse. It has history and you kind of have the derivative history And you can see far back How far back has spread. Yeah, I remember somebody made a visual Thing where you could see like all like the nodes of all the derivative designs So that's really cool. Uh, so yeah, that's one thing. Uh, most sites can't do go back in time and Yeah All right, and then the last make here is a raspberry pi hdmi camera so we made a little three-printed case for the pi hq camera and webtechie.be posted up an article here on getting it to work with this uh, black magic design kind of camera switcher, so there's some There's some nice documentation with some code snippets here on how to actually get the raspberry pi hq camera working With that camera switcher and here's the little three-printed case that worked out really well For the rig. So very very good So, uh, yeah, check out the blog post here. We'll post it up Uh, later But shout out to webtechie for sharing that with us. Awesome. Cool. Cool. And this was actually posted on prusa printers The make I'm noticing more people are commenting on our designs trying to try not to get there Necessarily game the system, but you know get that's how you get the points, right? rate and comment Like and subscribe All right. Well, uh, that's kind of it. Thanks you everybody for sharing the stuff with us this year It's been really fun to see folks making stuff and remixing stuff and just Sharing and publishing Publish publish publish is what pts says all the time. Yes So that's this week's community makes The last one of the year So happy that uh, Krampus made it in yeah almost and didn't happen with uh With it busting the printer several times with the The nozzle the modem tube The uh, the breakout for the motor All right. Well later tonight We got a slew of shows. We got the back and back Show and tell every wednesday at 7 30 p.m. Eastern time. We hope to see you there We invite you to do so you can come on Through the discord server come into the live broadcast chat room and then like five minutes before the show Pt will post the link to the stream yard so you can so you can join in and share what you're working on all fair game um electronics arts and crafts sewing 3d printing Hand carving woodworking all that's all fair game Uh, even retro track. We like seeing retro tech. Yeah Right and make your spaces too. We like seeing people's make your spaces and stuff And then later, uh, return of well, they were on last week So asking janeer is at the same time slot tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern time. You get some free product You get a coupon code. I think Top secret the great search, right or no island pi and new products Yeah, open source news and more So that's uh tonight two shows I think john park is off this week, but he will return in the following week in january I think in january. Yeah in january 4th. We'll see jump park But normally every thursday at 4 p.m. Jump Park's workshop is on thursdays Uh, no, i'm not assuming scott has a show this week. I don't think he's gonna do on a christmas This is a holiday here in the states and in other places. Uh, so deep dive to scott will return in 2022 Hey From the desk of lady aida. She did one yesterday. No the day before yesterday on monday on monday normally she does them on sundays But uh with some family traveling and stuff. She's able to do it on monday So shout out to lady aida if you haven't seen it. Check it out. It's on youtube as an archive JP's doing the two stays. He's returning again next year Just a couple weeks. Don't worry It sounds sounds like a long time. I'll see you next year, but it's not that far away Um, and then we do the show every wednesday. That's our last show 352 episodes so far Um, how many episodes do we do a year now? Like once a week, right? And there's at least 52 at least 52. Yeah Maybe a little bit less. We take some times off there now and then and we hope you do too Uh, any last words in the thing before I close it out Sorry, i'm you y'all be real quiet. I like that. Everybody's quiet. That's fine Everybody's hanging out. Hope I haven't scared anybody away with uh, with some crampus-ness Okay All right, that's gonna do it for this year Uh, the video before the last would be just a little compilation of all the projects that we worked on 2021 I got used to saying 2022 now. Geez blew by I know, so That's the thing you always say something about the maker endeavors and oh the they forget to make them Yeah, we hope everybody stays safe out there if you have plans don't feel bad about cancelling though It's always better to not be sick quoting what the uh, you know, who world health just be safe out there Sort of cancel the plans try to be safe. Yeah Killing someone so yeah That's you know, it's it's very very sweet. We want to see everybody healthy. So Yeah, big shout outs to folks. Look, we got lovely comments. Jim Henderson. Thank you so much. We'll see you tonight. Liz. Thank you so much, too We'll help see you tonight Minnesota Ment it. Thanks. Thank you. Thank everybody for watching. We really appreciate everybody tuning in We hope you've inspired everybody to create some cool art weird stuff Whatever tickles Follow eat a fruit on all the socials. We'll post. Yeah, we'll be posting stuff Um for a single day. Yeah, so check that out Vince as well Happy happy. Thanks. Yeah, thank you Everybody's All right Well, we wish everybody, uh, happy holidays. Stay safe out there and good luck on your maker endeavors And with that don't forget next year to make a great day a great year Bye folks. See you next year. Bye. Bye Oh, I'm gonna play this uh music video if y'all haven't seen it get ready for it. Here we go