 I just got my hands on the brand new Lulzbot Taz Sidekick 747. Today I'm going to give you a first look and show you how easy it is to set it up straight out of the box. My name's Jim and this is the Edge of Tech. The Lulzbot Taz Sidekick 747 is the newest in the long line of Lulzbot 3D printers. This printer debuted at Merf 2021 and I was super pumped to see it. The team was awesome to work with. It was really cool to talk to them about all the new specs and features on these printers and I knew I had to get my hands on one. The really cool thing is that a few people at Merf actually got to buy the ones they had there and take them home early ahead of production and I wish I could have been one of those people. Greg, I'll link his channel in the description below, was lucky enough to do that and put out some really great content ahead of everybody getting theirs. So check that out. So Taz Sidekick 747 is kind of a long name. So from now on in this video I'm going to call it the 747. This thing has a ton of features built in including being over 50% 3D printed and we're about to see that. It might be the most 3D printed production printer out there, I'm not sure. So let's get to the unboxing. So I got the box, I've got my trusty knife, let's get this thing cut open. Well the top one sucked apparently. Let's try that again. Bam. Bam. So I cut open the top of the box as you can see, this is what it looks like when you open it up. There's a remove all shipping fasteners before printing warning and there's little orange pieces it looks like. Also this giant piece of instructions which is pretty awesome, I'll get to that in a minute but for now let's pull this bad boy out. So also in the box attention, save all packaging, it is required if warranty shipping is needed. So save this box. So this is it. It comes all in foam like this, looks like it's packaged very nice, it's basically like a cube. On the back side is a box here full of goodies, it comes with a bag full of stuff. This pops open. It looks like we got instructions on how to unpack this, so we're going to do that. So we popped it open, we stood it up, we pulled off the side panels like you just saw. Make sure it's on a steady surface it says, check. So we've got to get all this packaging out. So in the back there's this orange piece, I believe you have to take that out, carefully it is printed, but it's a nice lock piece there, but it looks like this is being held on by these 3D printed bolts here. So we'll pop that off, there's one, these are really good prints too as far as keeping the stuff steady. There we go. When you get those done, this pops out and that pops out. So once you get that packaging out and you get those two bottom bolts, you pop this bad boy out like this, bam, there's your gantry. Some little 3D printed washers that are orange, I believe all the orange comes off just like the box said. They're shipping fasteners and they just have these really cool 3D printed knobs and threads here. So you get that undone, oops, and that pops off like that, check, I'm going to set them over here. Then we just have to pop all of the orange pieces off. So here's one in the back that I just dropped. It looks like here's another one here, there we go. So all of the orange has to come off at some point. So I'm assuming we might use the green again. There's my tool head there, there we go. It is, ooh, I'm super pumped for this. It is the mosquito with the bond tech on it. Here's another orange belt holder here. We're going to pop those, check. Here's another one on this side. We'll pop those and that's what it looks like so far. Next we want to fold out the screen. So I'm going to fold it out to about right there. Then I'll peel the plastic and we're going to fold out the power supply here. So there is a TPU printed clip here, a TPU printed clip at the bottom and then that folds open. Then you take your TPU printed clips and you push them back down and that keeps the power supply from swinging back. Next we need to put the Y-axis on and I was looking all around for two more of these black 3D printed bolts or thumb screws is really what they are. And I could not find them and I realized what they did on the underside here, right here, is where they actually stored those for shipping. So you unscrew them from here and you get the last two you need to secure this to the printer. So now we have two here, two there and we're going to secure our Y-axis to the printer. So we'll spin this back around. So the power supply is the back of the printer here. We are going to set this right over the top like this. There are four 3D printed brackets, two in the front and two in the rear. You take your thumb screws and you screw them right on. Make sure they're good and tight. Their threads pressed into the bottom 3D printed bracket so that's cool. And now the Y-axis is installed. Just what you want to do is find your big harness here and it's going to connect to the back of the bed. And I found it's a little bit easier to pull a couple, pull them out just a little bit and make sure they're in there right. The one that's tricky is the little one and that just pops right in. And then clip the two bigger ones in like that and then push your TPU printed grommet right over them so they stay locked in there and secure. The next one we want to plug in is this one right here and this is for the motor. It's kind of hard to see but it's down underneath this back piece and it goes in like this. So once you get that pushed in, push the TPU boot over the top and it's kind of a tight fit so be careful there. We got our electronics plugged in down below. It's time to mount the tool head here. This is the tool head I opted for. It has the Bontech extruder, the mosquito hotend. It uses 1.75 filament but they do offer a 2.85 tool head as well which is really cool. How this is going to go on is you're going to take these two little thumb screws here and this long one. It's going to sit back on the plate. They have right next to the BL touch. This is a real BL touch they're using and then you're going to take your thumb screws and it goes right down into the top and holds that bad boy on. So there's two that go in the top and then there's one that goes right in from the back and you want to make sure that they are all on. Just thumb tight as well, remember these are 3D printed parts and you don't want to over tighten them with a wrench or anything like that. Then your very long one that will go straight in from the back and that will hold that plate against the back like this. We're going to make sure that our cable is sitting in the channel here because it's always good to have it down in the channel. Once you get this mounted plug in the power and it only goes one way, it snaps together and it looks like there's a little loop under here that goes under this one of the thumb screws so I'm actually going to put it under there, probably a little security loop in case something were to happen and it probably keeps it nicely held down. So if I can get in here I'm just going to unscrew this quick and there's a little loop in the wiring harness made out of TPU it looks like and it looks like the screw goes right through you know the thumb screw goes through it and it secures that down. That way it does not move around on you and a little bit of security there, yep it goes just like that. So that loop is now over there and it just kind of holds that wiring harness out of the way. Alright the next thing we want to do is drop our spool holder so we loosen up but we don't take it out. We just drop it straight down like that and then tighten it back up. Now this does move about they say like 5 degrees ish to accommodate different sized spools if you need to so there's that. So we need to install the filament run out sensor behind this thumb screw so take the thumb screw out push it back in and then turn it in. Be careful there is a T-nut hiding in there that you need to use there we go so you can put it up wherever you need it and tighten it in like that so there we go filament run out sensor that I ordered is connected here. Now I believe that's it all we have to do is warm this bad boy up then we're going to pull this down and push it into our hot end here into the extruder and get it going. Now to connect the hot end let's talk a little bit about what else comes in the box. So if we look right over here we get a white box that looks like this if we open it up it comes with a really beefy set of Allen wrenches a bunch of different sizes there also so nano-gloop thank you so much 3d-gloop we're going to pull that out and there's a business card for them as well then you get a bag like this and inside that bag we have an SD card brand new SD card here. We have a Lulzbot sticker gotta love the stickers power cord of course you know what a six-foot USB cord that's a pretty awesome get right there it's a trip light actually which is nice you get two samples of the PLA it looks like one's a polymaker poly light one is a green the 3d fuel green just exactly what this printer is printed out of I believe there's a warranty form right inside there too so that's everything that comes with this printer and the next thing we're going to do is grab this power cord right here plug it in and get this thing rolling we're going to take a quick look at some of the stuff I ordered on mine because when you order one of these you actually include everything you want or don't want when you put the order in for the tool head I ordered I got the bond tech with the mosquito hot end that tool head is going to be awesome I love this combination and comes with a nice beefy part cooling fan here and of course the mosquito fan to cool down the heat break in there I also ordered the filament runout sensor as we showed putting it on a little bit ago so that's a pretty cool feature you can order as well I also ordered the screen that comes with it you can see it says test sidekick on there when it boots it actually shows the Lulzbot logo but you do not have to order this you can run this solely from the USB and that is okay and a lot of people do that in their print farms with their other Lulzbots as well it's kind of nice it actually swivels back and forth and you can put it in pretty much any orientation you want this right here is a printed dial for it it'll go through the menus just like a regular screen would another option I ordered was the magnetic flex plate here I love magnetic flex plates and this thing really holds down very well if I flip this up you're gonna see that the bed has built in magnets here and it goes all the way across the bed you can feel them a just a little bit but it looks like they inlaid them into the plate of the bed there and then basically you just take your bed you slide it against the back and you let it flap I don't know if you heard that but this thing really drops hard let's see so that should be a pretty awesome surface there's a couple different surfaces you can choose from that's the one I went with so I just went through some of the accessories are parts that I ordered for this thing and that's one of the coolest things about this you go on to the configurator you add the stuff you want you don't add the stuff you don't and you get the printer as you wanted it you don't have to add the screen for the extra money you don't have to add the filament runout sensor and there's a bunch of different tool heads you can choose from one of the really cool things is with the tool heads if you have any other Lowell's Bot taz is out there they all are interchangeable so if you have old tool heads out there from the Lowell's Bot taz it should fit right on this and you don't have to buy any other ones another cool thing is you could swap out this 1.75 filament tool head for a 2.85 tool head which is really awesome if you have extra 285 or you want to run maybe a tool head with a thicker nozzle and some bigger filament maybe have some laying around you want to get rid of anything like that it's really cool that you can be diverse like that with this thing something I didn't already point out this does have a built-in BL touch right here in the back it's already ready to go and we'll give it a test when we start firing up first prints this does have a 24 volt power supply which is pretty awesome and it's also running Marlin firmware as far as slicing goes it uses a rebranded Kira so I'm gonna get that loaded on the computer and I believe there's a firmware update that when I get it loaded on the computer will push to the printer as well so we'll get it updated to the newest firmware right out of the box as soon as I load the rebranded Kira on my computer this does come with a one-year warranty right out of the box and it also has this right on the bed and what this says is we respect your freedom to modify your Lulzbot desktop 3d printer however any modifications or attempt repairs that cause damage are not covered under the warranty so if you have issues call them first they're gonna help you they're gonna walk through it with you before you try to repair something and break it there are two different colors you can get when you order these you can get the Lulzbot green or the stealth black which are both pretty dang awesome I wanted the green because I thought it would pop a little more for the stream and I really like how it looks so far so stay tuned I'm gonna get this thing fired up we're gonna get a bunch of test prints going and see how they look I cannot wait to check this thing out I will use the leveling feet under here to get it nice and level before I print I think the parts look pretty good overall the machine is beefy it's built good and it's over 50% printed as you can see from all of the green parts and black parts here there's TPU this thing is just gonna be a lot of fun to print with and I can't wait to get that going so stay tuned we're gonna see what else comes off this 747 I cannot wait to get this thing printing I should know that Lulzbot did send me this as a review unit I'm gonna use it for a few months and I'm gonna package it back up and send it back to them unless I decide to buy it they did give me an option to do that as well but they did send it to me as a review unit so no money exchanged hands they're not asking me for anything they don't want to see the videos ahead of time they just sent this to me because they're awesome and they're gonna let me test it out and get some videos out on it I think that first actual print I'm gonna do is the mini gym that you can get on things and things as a sponsor of this video so thank you so much thanks for sponsoring this video if you want the mini gym as well go down to the link in the description below and grab it it is free it's on things and you can print as many mini gyms as you want after the first print when I do jump over to that mini gym that I grabbed on things I'm gonna use this coax 3d filament now coax sponsors the channel with filament they're awesome they're made right here in Wisconsin and this color I have not used yet this is lilac purple and I can't wait to see what a mini gym looks like in this purple so stay tuned because this is gonna be an awesome color especially on the mini gym who knows we might even jump into a torture toaster also found on things so thank you so much coax for sponsoring the channel with filament I really appreciate it and I can't wait to check out this lilac purple I hope you guys learned something enjoy the video and as always keep printing hey everybody I hope you liked the video today if you did shoot me that thumbs up hit that subscribe button right here if you haven't already done that and the 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