 uh, chatting about because that wasn't the only giveaway that they do like that from what I'm learning. It wasn't the one off. So I'm excited. Um, I just popped this on to the the other tech channel too, if that's okay. It has to be okay. I just popped it over there. Absolutely not. Um, awesome. I'm pumped. I'm super excited to talk to these guys. I didn't do too bad, did I? These guys, these guys, these, this team will say this team. That's a better way to say I'm, you know, you did good. Okay. It was, it was like right before the show starts, Caleb, let me do the intro. Let's do it. Well, cause I never do it. It used to be when, when pooch was hanging out to you, like you guys would swap back and forth every week and I'm like, man, that's it every week. No, it was like, it was like three, maybe like five times he did it. It wasn't very often. Okay. Also, I just saw your text. I'm glad I noticed that because I put my phone on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not just here. No, it's okay. Hey, whatever, whatever you want on that one. Um, but no, I think we're super probably sent us a banana. We can't see it on stream yard, but on YouTube, it's a banana. I love bananas. Wait, what? Uh, 49. Thank you. Super sticker. There we go. Sticker. Um, hey, uh, you know, we haven't been here in like two weeks. So happy. I haven't been here two weeks. Well, you haven't been there in like three weeks. Yeah. Cause I wasn't here for the film stories one. Man, this house stuff, it keeps like stuff comes up after like a last minute or something like that. And it's like, okay, this has to be figured out by 5pm tonight or 530pm tonight. And then by the time I'm done with that, I'm just kind of like, I can't do a show. I'm exhausted. It's hot makes man. I know it's been exhausting and things will go back to normal once we have a house, you know, but no, it's awesome. And, uh, you know, things are hopefully, um, I don't know what you're saying about this looking up on that front. We'll say it. I'll leave it there if you want to, but hopefully, hopefully we're looking up on that front, right? Yeah. Yeah. Things are, oh, look at that. Thanks, Andrew. Um, love it. $10. Y'all missed me. I can tell. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. Not you. Thank you. Thank you so much. We missed me. No, I'm super pumped. Um, so, so I recently, um, let's start there. Things are looking out. What, let's, let's finish that out because I just was, I went down a different rabbit hole first. Well, no, there isn't much, I mean, there isn't much, because I don't want to get too excited or like celebratory about things. We're just moving forward with something. We got a bunch, a bunch more steps to take and hopefully, hopefully I might have some good news by the end of the month. That'd be awesome. The bad news. Well, I'll have some good news and some bad news. If this ends up pulling through, I have some good news and some bad news. I think I already told you about the bad news. Maybe not. Uh-oh. May not have told you. Moving on. That was awkward. I'm just going to go ahead and this is the last month of hot makes and no, no, no, no, no, that's not. No, hot makes is forever. Oh, Jesus. We're also 150 episodes. This is 140 hot. Oh, wow. All right. Yeah, what do we have? 149, man. 149. So, I was on this crazy, like, path, right? So, if you're out there and you use this, then that. I don't know if Shane is watching. For a long time, Shane trying to figure out the APK for Instagram to shoot us. Hashtags automatically to, like, Google Doc. Which really needed to be at some point. That's what Twitter does. Well, I thought. And then, like, a week and a half or two weeks ago, however long I got to look at the date, it stopped doing that. I noticed today because we didn't have a show last week. And I went to, if this the net I signed in, and it looks like they have a paid service now. And what we were using, which searched Twitter for hashtags and automatically dropped everything into a Google Doc, right? Is a pro feature. So, it just stopped working. I didn't pay attention because why would I? And I didn't have any, I had, like, five hot makes or something tonight. Actually less than that. And I had to go search. I saw I searched for a few of them. So, we're short on the hot makes night, but I did fix it. I did a free trial and I did the upload thingy. So, it downloaded everything. But while we're in the show, if you're doing other things in the background and listening, jump on if this and that, if this then that and see if you can find if they fixed Instagram to Google Doc. Maybe there's maybe there's a new thing there. You're saying if Sean's on. Who? Shane? Well, Shane was doing it, but I'm talking about for anybody out there. If you want to explore if this and that. Hey, if you're on the show, stop watching the show and go do this thing. I mean, in the background, I mean, you know. So, okay, but not if you are John Stern, who was listening while driving. Do not drive safe, sir. Yeah. Yeah. Don't don't search while you're driving yet. And I mean that. And I'm saying that in the most stern tone of voice. Right. I like it. The print house is here. How you doing the print house? A lot of those jokes. Um, so, uh, the print house with your logo. You get that weird? No, no, it looks good. I like it. I like the I like the colors. Yeah, the colors are good. What's Andrew Rogers talking about? Oh, no, I like it. Who's attending Murph and book the quality in? Yeah, yeah. Um, so I heard that the quality in, I believe has been shut down for code violations, but they're not like ceasing to take reservations on like the reservation sites. The not so quality in the not so quality in and the quality out quality is out if you're booked on the quality in and not, um, have a hotel is what we're trying to say. So there's that. Um, so yeah, but yeah, um, last but not least with time. Oh my gosh, it's already 10 after. So, so if you booked the quality in and you're going to Murph or you know somebody who's going to Murph and may have booked the quality in, talk to them ASAP. You got to rebook somewhere else. As of now, the hotel is not reopened and I don't believe they have a plan to know that firsthand. I never called them, but from everything I'm hearing and seeing, they're not and they're, um, unfortunately, um, maybe that's what it was. Maybe they didn't actually close. They just saw how many nerds were going to be there and they were like, we're not putting that bill, that cleanup bill. No, unfortunately, um, a lot of people, they're not refunding people. Oh, be careful. Be careful. There is, if you booked out on another site like hotels.com, that kind of crap from what I heard in the Twitter verse, people are not getting refunded. They're like, Hey, this is your reservation is good. The hotel didn't tell us their clothes. We're not refunding you. So the print house actually, I feel bad when I first found Jim, I almost thought he took my logo design. Yeah, he messaged me on Discord and I was, it was a good conversation. It was. Jim told somebody else's logo design. I wasn't going to bring it up, but he, he, um, he chatted me on Discord and he's like, Hey dude, who did your logo? And I was like, actually I had it done like 2019 by someone named Robbie. And we actually started talking. Super cool dude. Check out his videos. Anyways, last, last, because we got to get these guests in here. I got about, I got about 10 hours this weekend, this monster, which you can barely see behind me. It just looks like a piece of filming equipment from here. Well, there is a tripod in the way, right there. Tripods are there with you? Yeah, tripod. Well, well, but this, this one has three legs. So it's a compensating. Um, anyways, this, this cube here, uh, Rat Rig 500 baby. Um, Rat Rig 500. That's awesome. Spoiler alert. I am not filming the build. Just doing it for funsies. Doing it for myself. Just for funsies. I will do a video on the printer later, but this one, I'm actually having a flippin blast building it, and it's a lot of fun. So well, and it would probably take you months if you were filming. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. I tell you what, we got some amazing guests with us tonight. Um, Alpha, you guys ready back there? Industries. Hopefully they're good to go. I gotta, I see they're gonna go up. You want to introduce them? Go ahead. Uh, yeah. Here they are. I love it. How's it going? Nice. So we met, uh, we met Anthony at the Alpha to the Zeta at, at, uh, remerf. And he was doing a, you were, you guys were doing a giveaway there. And I was immediately on board because we had Darryl, uh, uh, offer 3D on just a few weeks before remerf. And, uh, I got really excited about his ODST kit. And I was like, man, battle rifle would go great with that. And you guys were giving away a battle rifle at remerf. That was cool. I still didn't receive it. I just want to let you know. A few weeks ago, actually, so I was watching the mail. So it's, let's talk about that in a second, but for now, for the people who might not know, uh, who you guys are, tell us about who you are, what you do, and where we combine them. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm Anthony. This is Zoe. She's the other half, uh, combining our Alpha to Zeta industries. We do 3D printing, cosplay, props, armor, uh, you name it and we'll try to print it. And if we can't, we'll figure out a way to do it. Um, but, uh, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, all by that name, Alpha to Zeta Industries. We also have a, uh, Etsy shop that we do. Um, we sell a little, uh, small props here and there. Um, but long story short, our big whole thing is to make cool stuff, but also be extremely transparent with it. So we did not learn everything that we learned in a vacuum at all. We learned from a lot of great makers throughout the cosplay community in the 3D printing world. And so we're big on sort of showing the whole process. Like you won't see, you'll see the finished products on our social media channels. Um, and we love sharing those, but we tend to also share a lot of the build process. You can kind of see where it goes, how it goes and the techniques that we use, uh, as we go through. I'm sure as everybody here knows the 3D printing community is extremely, well, 99% is extremely helpful. It's a community. And when we were starting, it was, it was awesome how helpful people were. And as people who have been in it a little bit, we want to give back and we have tips and tricks, but we also really enjoy using our printing when we have opportunities to, to give back to the community as larger, in a larger way. We also find that like it helps connect a little bit. People, we, you know, we have 3D print prop replica, non-functional guns that do not have barrels, but it's scary to some people and 3D printing can be scary to some people. So sometimes going out and showing, showing our items, saying, Hey, take this up, you know, well, with our permission, take this up and take a look at this. And this is where it can end up. And this is how it starts. And, you know, you can, you, if you donate to this cause, you can have a chance to kind of take this home. And we've had people who liked the charity donated for a second. And then later on said, well, this is really awesome. And messaged us and say, what printer can I use? What can I do? And it's larger circle. And so it's, we find this a really awesome way to connect with our community in a larger scale. And yeah. I love it. I appreciate that a ton. It's that, that extra layer of you're not just doing cool stuff, but you are focused and like one of your priorities is the transparency of it. So that people can learn. I mean, there, there are a lot of people who show tutorials on how to do things and then show the finished product afterwards. You're kind of going the other way where you're like, here's something beautiful. And here's how we made it. Absolutely. And everything that you see when we post on our socials, like it's borderline, like on the 405th, a, look, gosh, new group, it's very common to make no logs where guys post and they just list out all the stuff they're doing. Our social media was kind of emulate that to where, Hey, today we sanded this piece and here's the stuff that we use, or we assembled this piece. Here's the technique that we use and you can kind of see the progress on stuff. A beautiful finished product is intimidating. Seeing something starting out pre sanding. So especially in a world where you guys are replicating things from the Halo universe, which there's a, there are a lot of things that look pretty realistic as far as like weaponry is concerned. I mean, the company weapons are big purple and pink blobs of bubbles and stuff, but like the UNSC stuff is very realistic looking. So showing the process of how it's made can kind of, and also kind of like explaining, here's, here's, you guys had multiple levels. You guys had like something that was unfinished, something that was being worked on, something that was finished. And like showing off every, yeah, so cool. Oh, wait, wait, wait. So I see, I see a saw, I see a, what is it, the rail gun? Yeah, I got the rail gun and the commandos sitting here on the wall. The commando, yeah. They're kind of in order of when we finished them. The answer, the saw is the oldest one, and the commando is the most recent, but like you said, the saw is massive. Everything's one-to-one scale. That's the only scale we're working. Yeah. So okay, so that was going to be one of my questions was the one-to-one scale stuff. Yeah. Jim sent us some messages in the background. Jim, no, I don't have their socials up for pictures, you can pop them up. Word. Word. Which by the way, that reminds me, I was going to say earlier, all of their socials and their Etsy shop and everything, everything is linked in the description of this video. So feel free to check those out. It's all there. I forgot where I was going with that. Welcome to Dead Air Central. Yeah, yeah. What's up? You were asking about the really realistic... Oh, the scale of things. So the Halo universe has a weird scale. Yes, it does. Because if like in some media, like in the books, Spartans are like nine feet tall in the games, they're definitely not nine feet tall, but they're pretty close to like that seven or eight foot thing. So like I've seen some things before where when somebody makes like a needler, that's supposedly one one scale, it looks like a little like pistol or like a small rifle in Master Chief's hands. But when you hold it, it looks you're like holding it like this, you know? So what do you... So that being said, when you hold the things you're making, you say it's one one scale, but when you're holding it, it looks like a normal scale. It looks natural. And I know you're not nine foot tall. So what do you use for that scale? Where's your reference coming from? So a lot of the scaling reference actually, Halo has a really good source books out there. The inside of the various versions of that, there's been like three versions that have come out over the years. And Halo PD, the website actually can go on and write a lot of information. So we kind of start there with the scale stuff. Okay. For example, the behind me right now, we just need a, you guys just need a portable camera. So this guy has 36 inches for one to one scale in the Hydra. And I'm about six too. So you can kind of see how it's big. But then when Zoe holds it, I would love to see her holding a sniper because those things are like seven feet long. Sniper is about six, seven feet long. And it's kind of, it's something we, I prefer sometimes to scale it as if to try and make it look scaled to me because I am, I've considered being world's smallest Spartan, but I think some people will fight me for that title. But, you know, sometimes it does get in point where I literally cannot hold the carbine. The carbine is big. In armor, I'm just, so that's kind of a, he prefers it to be. I'm a very big lore nut, so I want him to be real. Yeah. And see, I would be battling that in my head where like, Yeah. And to be honest, like we're going to, we are going to adjust that rule. It's not really a rule, but that guide of the one to one scale, like she's going to, we're going to make her a gravity hammer for her new armor that we're working on. It's not going to be one to one. It'll be brought down a little bit. We should make the pieces of the gravity hammer the right size and just shorten the handle, like the staff. So it's just, it's less of a gravity hammer and more like a gravity like spatula. I mean, for perspective here. I mean, that's there. Yeah. You can't just put that rifle in your hands and make it look scale anyway. For, I guess, description, right? So everything you see Zoe wearing, except for the energy sword is 3D printed, all of them are printed. For mine on the, on the viewer's, I guess, right side, the black and orange, everything is printed except for the helmet. The helmet, we got it, one of our friends in the 405 made a helljumper helmet that I kind of adapted for this cause, but all the armor pieces are printed, the rail guns printed. And we actually had, for everything there, we adapted the game files from Halo 5. For those, a lot of background work to make those livable in the real world. And then the rail gun came from the Halo 4 game files, if I recall correctly. Never a lot of lessons learned on that. And yeah, we've made some adjustments to how the helmets are so that they're less claustrophobic because I, I had, I went, I ended up capping it. So, and I've noticed, like, like the Halo costume community was kind of the original, the original pioneers of solving those problems that you have, taking costumes that are, or uniforms that were not designed to fit on the human body and making them realistic. Because, like, everybody's talking about that now with clone trooper armor, because there was not a single actual clone trooper armor that was made in the prequels, every, all of them were digital entirely with, you know, there might have been like a real face that was motion tracked on it, but every clone trooper was digital. And then, so that in the, in the 501st in the Star Wars costume community, when people wanted to do real clone troopers, they had to start kind of redesigning those outfits to be as screen accurate as possible, Rossview would be worn. And then there was a big, like, a big discussion point of, like, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series was about, like, and, and or was about how they, they modified those clone trooper costumes to make them realistic and real life. And I'm like, well, the 501st was doing that for a while and the 405th was doing that for them pretty much. Like, well, the 501st definitely predates. It definitely predates, but I feel like, I feel like it's more than they did. Okay. Let me rephrase what I was trying to say. I feel like it was more difficult, because at least, at least the clone troopers were on, like, somewhat proportionate people. Yep. Spartans are not. Soldiers who are in peak physical condition at all times. I don't know where you were coming from. I just, you know, Sorry. No, I appreciate that. But, but to your point, Caleb, like, so this is one of Zoe's gauntlets. This is a, we're working on a Mark VII suits from Halo Infinite right now, and we're going to debut on that, uh, San Diego Comic-Con this year. It's our plan. But when they, in the game, it... It clips, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. When you work with game files, you kind of see in here, it's really hollowed out. So you went into the, I went into the 3D model and really trimmed this as much as you to save one for comfort and two for weight. And then when you're working with these kind of armors, the most important thing you can do is scaling. Scaling and scaling and scaling, because we don't have clipping, right? But armor inside of our poppies, like video games characters do. Like, if you just look at, if you just look at any version of Master Chief that's been out so far, like even just the main character Master Chief, you've got those big chunky biceps, and then like pieces that go underneath the ribs. And in the game, he just sets his arms down. But if you did that in real life without scaling it, you'd be C-3PO everywhere because that's all you can really do. Yeah. And there is always going to be movement limitations. And you'll get tons of what we call armor bites, where the armor starts hurting you as you wear it. You'll learn lessons about how things, your legs actually function in a, because when you're walking around your house, but there was a moment at, it was outpost discovery, and I was coming down off the stage. They had stairs, they did not have any other options, which is something I think they learned later for later. Yeah. But my thigh, because I've been sitting and standing, and then my thigh, as I went down the stairs, shifted down, locked into my shin. I can no longer bend my thigh, and then I fell forward into... One of the employees from 343 who was on crutches, by the way. Oh no. And then after that, every time they called us all back up on stage, and they're all like watching me on the stairs, and I'm kind of holding my thigh up. So some of us can't learn till you walk around a little bit. But that's the beauty of this little costume game, right? It's you're constantly iterating, and you're constantly learning. So no one's done, unless if you want to go out and take any, but you're always learning and that kind of stuff, you're making better and better and better. If the Hydra was the first thing that we made, it's heavy. You guys saw the show, it's heavy, it's not the best. And then the Commando's the most recent, and it just looks very pristine, and it's very light. And we're learning these armor sets that we're working on, are probably armor sets seven and eight, if I had to recall. And so it's just a lot of learning as we progress. So it's point space has a really good question. He says, do they make files or modify game files extracted with programs like Ninja Ripper? Ninja Ripper. When it comes to armor, I kind of made it earlier that we're very big on accuracy, with a card named Halo. So yeah, we absolutely do utilize the game files, but we have to modify them like crazy to make the real world. And we also make our own stuff. So our Etsy shop is where we sell a lot of our own stuff. So this is the the pistol from the game control. So we sell kits for this guy on the site. Yeah, that is so cool looking. And this was modeled in a Fusion 360, very painstakingly modeled to get all the lines right. Yeah. And then we also got on our site, see if you can see him. Oh yeah, I saw you were making the AI dudes. Our little AI guys that we. That is so cool. They light up, as you can see, but we got every AI except for the big new vanished one or at us just because it's getting real challenging to figure out how you translate some of the real world. Yeah. But we got everyone else on there. And we're working on adding another one. That may not be on the game yet. So how cool would it be if you did that? And then they contacted you to put it on the game. So it would be pretty cool. Yeah, you're like, yeah, I'm not going to comment on that because there might be something going. Yeah, it might be something going. So this is your Etsy. This is what we're talking about. We have the AI. AIs from Halo is what you're saying. And it looks like you have like a moon night. So you were about to say something about 343 and I'm assuming. They're very awesome with us. Preaking out about like, do they know you're doing this? Yes. They're very smart of the community. We're not taking up any market space from them. They're not, you know. The costume community in the Halo world has actually been able to keep a very awesome relationship with the report team. We've developed a, I want to say like a personal relationship but more of like a different relationship, if you will, in terms of a, we know each other. We talk and all that kind of stuff every once in a while. With you guys at the studio and. They've donated before. Yeah, they've been awesome. We'll go, we did a charity event over in your, if you're familiar, Egmont Air Force Base in Pensacola when we used to live there. And Xbox, Team Xbox was there. With the supporting guys and everything. And in some of, one of the, couple of the 343 guys and they recognized us and we were like, hey, hey guys, we're in your chat and all that kind of stuff. That's awesome. Yeah. We're lucky enough to have some of them follow us on some of our social medias. And it's just pure transparency. And but the fact of the matter is, is anyone who works in the cosplay space, you are in the gray area. It is what it is. So if anyone comes up and says something a little just, but it's, it's a good relationship right now. And they're, they are so good about reaching out with, do you need to like, they donate to USO. They, they do a lot of USO stuff. When we used to do operation supply drop, they worked with them, but that's no longer, it got absorbed into USO gaming. So. Yeah. What type of printers, what printers do you use when you're doing your models? How about I just show you, here you go. There you go. I like it. So we, the resin is not going to see, but we have a little spot test here. I apologize for being closure. It kind of had to mishap. That's it. But it's massively modified from our friends at, it works 3D, Zach Ruder and his team. So it has a linear rail modification in an Arkham 32 bit board, a few other stuff. Team Lollsbot actually hooked us up. They sent us this Taz Pro XT that we've been using. That is so cool. Three effects. This thing is a monster. And you could see that chest piece that was next to it. It allows us to print armor pieces in very, very few pieces. And it looks like, what are you printing in Polymaker? Polymaker PTG primarily, yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. We got Taz Pro right here that we got off a friend for a really, really good deal. And then you can see in the back our Prusa i3 Mark III that we kind of used for product making our AIs and stuff like that. Awesome. And those are kind of our primary ones. We just upgraded our resin machine to a Foson M3 Max. So. Oh, geez. Okay. Resin machine just upgraded there. Can you do that? Right, please go first. Yeah. And so that's going to be open up a lot of capabilities for us here in the future. That's awesome. Thank you guys. But we, and when it comes to machines, like, it's all personal preference, right? And what you find out on what works and no machine is necessarily inherently better than the others in terms of like, hey, I want to build with a CR-10. You can absolutely do that. So just make amazing stuff with CR-10s or any Cubics or Prusas or whatever. We kind of jumped off the deep end when we first started. And so that's when we got the six, about six years ago. And then we loved the reliability of them. They just go, like, this six has about, on the current motherboard, about 280 days of print time on it. Wow. And it sets every time you change. Change the board, yeah. Yeah. So it's on how many? Third board. It's on the third board, yeah. One was a mandatory upgrade, because me being dumb, I shorted a separate driver, and the other one was the Arkham upgrade. Man. The fourth upgrade. But they just go. That's the cool part about them is we just, we constantly run these guys constantly, especially when you're in the sprint to a con, and they just go. Con crunch. Really helped with quality of life there, because they used to be a little bit loud. Yeah, probably. Yeah, quieter. Ben, I was just talking in my voice. You know, we could actually make that happen. There we go. There we go. I like it. That's probably better that way. I was going to cough, and I muted myself quick. So, you know, you said something that resonates with me, and probably a bunch of people here. You said it doesn't matter what printer you have, if it works for you. I mean, really, I can tell you 100 times what I think the best printer is, but to be fair, the best printer is the one you have in front of you that you're using that works for you. I don't care if it's $150 under three, $1,200 or $1,500, you know, whatever. It doesn't matter what it is. As long as it's in front of you, you're using it, and you're having fun, and you're making things. That's what the best printer is. It's the one you have, the one you're using. Is that on fire? Yeah, it's not on fire. You know, that would be good. But I think that's important to say, because I always ask, what printers do you use, that kind of thing, right? And I think there's this thing out there, like, oh, we use that, but it doesn't matter what people use. Just print and have fun. And we're all part of the community together. I don't care if you're using an under three, or a Prusa, or a bamboo lab. Yes, I said those next to each other. But I mean, it doesn't matter. Just have fun. I mean, if you're Ben, it's boy in space, you have a thousand bamboo lab printers. Or the Sculptor 2. The Sculptor 2 just flew off the roof and landed on the trash can. If I could just say, just to kind of, I guess, reiterate too, it's the same thing with cosplay, right? Is cosplay in and of itself can be so intimidating. Yeah, like, hey, you see all these people wearing these amazing things, like conventions and whatnot. Yeah, I would really love to do that. But I can't do that. I can't do that. It's like, we said the same thing. And then we were just, and I have, I do not have an engineering bow to my body at all. And to be able to come in here, like, I've taken apart this test six, probably two or three times, just for upgrades and stuff. And if you asked me six years ago, anything you're going to be able to take part of 3D printer, essentially a glorified CNC machine and do it, I would have laughed at you. So it's, anyone can do this. It's just, you gotta just stay learning as you should and you try. And there is a community. I mean, I like to think that we're a helpful part of that community, but there's a community out there. Ninety-nine percent are helpful. Yeah. Not a lot of percent. Right. I actually think it's one of the few places up. It's kind of like a part of the internet that is a higher percentage helpful than the other advantages, which is a, it's a unique thing. And maybe they just have great moderators going on, but it's a relatively, you put a question out there, someone, you're going to get 12 answers. Two of them are going to be right. You know? So you just, One of them is going to say level your bed. You know, people are looting it, like a zombie hedgehog anyone can cook. The thing is you're right. You can't do it until you do. Yeah. I mean, you can't do anything. You don't start. One of my favorite things that Sarah taught me, like, that I had not thought of, you know, before her and I met was that it's not that you can't do it. It's that you don't know how yet. It's nothing you can't do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You just haven't learned. That's part of the fun. Yeah. That's, that's, I mean, Just like Persta. Persta. You had to spell it wrong in case the AI is watching. No, I'm just joking. But I mean, he did steal all my ideas. God, joke, joke. Too soon. Too soon. No, I think, you know, and that's something that I love about the cosplay, the community. I don't care which verse you're in, which fandom you're in. Like everybody tells you the same thing. I didn't think I could do this until I started, you know, and then all of a sudden now you have this suit, you have all these fun weapons, you have all this cool stuff, and you have an Etsy store and a business. And it's all because you took that step and started. So whether you, you know, you just want to print a cube on a bed. It doesn't matter. Or a fun articulating like a marble thingy. You know, it doesn't matter what it is. Just, just, you know, start. And that could be cooking like zombies said. It could be, you know, trying to sew. It doesn't matter what you do. But I love, I love the fact that you guys took the leap and you're here, you know, you're where you're at, which is more than I can say about cosplay. Because I suck at all the other parts, like the painting and all that stuff. It would be like a stick figure. Okay, there's something else that I learned a long time ago. My buddy Pete, in my first graphic design, like intro graphic design, he was like, who in this room can't draw? And like a bunch of people raised their hands and he was like, I can't draw either. And he just drew a stick figure on the board and he's like, that's a drawing. Technically, I can draw. Every single one of you can draw. There you go. And it's so cool that you guys are, I mean, I forgot, I just closed the window too. Because when we saw you guys, Kayla like disappeared forever. And then he comes back and he's like, dude, I saw this booth. We got to check it out. I'm like, I haven't even walked around a building yet. I still don't think you saw everything all weekend. I didn't. I definitely didn't. And the best part is like everybody's like, oh, you can just walk around and do announcements. It was the craziest busy weekend for a lot of us. Your voice started to go towards the end. There wasn't much left. Not. Yeah, I think all of ours did though. Yeah. But it was a lot of fun. And we met you guys and we met a ton of cool people. And I think their booth is right below this. Yeah. The next couple. That's what the Bulls by guys, right? I was at Team Bulls by, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to blow your window up so we can see it a little better. Caleb, there we go. That did not help us. Hang on. Hang on. I'll fix this later on too. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to see it a little better. Yeah, John. John's a good dude. I said hi to them like twice. I mean, like it was very, I didn't, it was like, hi, how you guys doing? Good to see you. And I kept moving. Really? I wish I had. So you kind of see the, like, you bring these really cool racks in the back that you can have anything on. Yeah. I think they actually have a picture of that further. Yeah, there we go. There it is. Yeah. There's the, so right behind your head there is the battle rifle. Want to talk about that and the giveaway you guys are doing? Yeah, absolutely. So, there you go. We go to an event. We tried to do something for charity, something for a cause. And so for this one, we were supporting canines for warriors, as you can see right there. So what they do is they get service animals to veterans suffering from PTSD to kind of help combat veterans suicide. So we were raising money for that, the whole game, because we're at a rep rap festival, right? Want to have a little fun with it. So the game was essentially, I'll tell you the print stats and, hey, you guessed how long it took to print the battle rifle. And then whoever was closest won the prize. And I went to I think a gentleman in Denver that worked really well. We raised, I want to say, over $400 for canines for warriors. I went straight to them. Literally, you went to their website, that's where all the donations occurred. The reason we did that game of the guessing time is, and one thing I'll put out there for anyone who wants to raise money for charity, always look up your local laws. So some states don't allow raffles, for example. Don't allow this, or some states don't allow that. So we did a lot of Googling. And then we ended up actually talking to some people at Colorado. I forgot, it was like the department, I forgot the department name, I apologize. Yeah, but either way, long story short, we talked to those guys and kind of gave them the scenario and they're like, yeah, that's great. You guys are good there. That won't be an issue. And so just kind of keeping those comms open. But we've done canines for warriors. In the past, as Zoe alluded to previously, we would really support a company in a charity called Operation Supply Drop. And they would get vegan consoles, games, stuff like that downrange. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. Service members. Nice. Yeah. They kind of, they got absorbed. Oh yeah, I guess not unfortunately. But it did make it no longer a viable fundraising option because the USO is a whole... USO game, you'd absorb them. So they did that. And then we lived in Florida and New York, Pensacola before moving to Albuquerque. And if you're familiar with that area, there's a big special operations community in that area. And so another charity that we supported in the past was the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. And what these guys do is they, first, if a tragic event happens, a service member dies overseas. Give charity. They weren't raised money for their children to go to college for free. And so that's what they do. And so they give scholarships to Gold Star families so that they can go to school with no cost. And we raise money for those guys a lot back as well. So, you know, there's a lot of veteran charities. I'm a veteran myself. So that's why that kind of goes that way. It's important to find causes that mean something to you. And then also work with that cause. You need to talk to them about will you let us fundraise in your name? What will you let us do? How do people normally do this? Do you have any connections in the state already when we try and find out how to not be arrested for fundraising for you? I do recommend if you're going to do fundraising on your own, if you're going to use a 3D printer or any other way to try and do fundraising for a cause. Yeah, your first goal should be don't get arrested. Your donation is complicated. The second tip I give you is and Anthony discovered this. Canines for Warriors has a really awesome setup where they use QR codes. If you're going to start handling cash, you start getting into the realm of tax certificates and proving things. But if you can find it, if you can make a good relationship with a charity and say, I want to fundraise for you. How do people donate? How do we do that? And it's beautiful. They can just be like, hey, donate directly to them. See how legitimate and not arrestable we are. Not arrestable. Yes, it is. So I'm like blown away by this because in my theory, I'd be like, hey, we're raising money. Everyone dropped five bucks in this jar and I'm going to hand it to them at the end. You know what I mean? I never considered any of this other stuff. How many people out there, let us know in the chat too, would even think about contacting them and saying, is it okay? Because you'd think a charity you want to fundraise for is going to be happy with anything they get. But it's actually pretty smart to be down to say, can we use your name? How many people call yourselves out in the chat? How many people have accidentally done this totally illegally in the past? Send us your name, email address, address, phone number in the chat. Let us know what state and province you're in. I'll tell you, in terms of talking to the charities, it's just, yeah, you can have some really cool unintended benefits. So for example, you can ask them, hey, do you guys have a shield that you usually give? Is there some sort of education that I can get to my members? Because we've done this with the 405th, right? As a people, our organization was like, 10 of us at a boot. And that's the other piece is, you can ask them, hey, do you guys have any literature? Do you have anything that we can hand out? So operations, send us stickers. Special operations work foundation is the same. And it was really cool because we could have that stuff at the booth to be awareness about that charity. So if you ever know what you get, it's just talking to dudes and being open about it and seeing how it's really smart. And I forgot, speak with your event organizer before raising money at their event as well. That's also fair. Local government, the organization that you're raising for, and the organization that is hosting you. Those are the three groups you need to talk to before money is involved. All things I've ever considered. I will say too, like, even like, doing the guessing the print time thing as a solution to making sure you were following the local laws, actually, I mean, they made it way more fun than just a donate money, you get a name in the raffle thing. Yeah. Because what I stood there for like 15 minutes, trying to figure it out. And then Sarah helped me guess and then we were like, maybe a third of the actual print time, I was nowhere near it. So I'll tell you, just because a little sidebar on the print time thing. So reprint everything with two millimeter walls and 5% infill for strength and rate reduction. So like, these things are monsters. Yeah. And that makes the print time like three times what I was expecting it to be. A lot of people did, a lot of people did not take into account the two millimeter walls. Yeah. The print time takes longer, but it really adds to strength. Geez. Two millimeter walls. Which was so sneaky, because you were like, yeah, I'll even tell you which printer I printed it on, you know, but you weren't like, you weren't... That's a new piece you're working on, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's time to get it. Yeah. Well, now we know. But you figure like, these things are light. This thing I think combined is probably about 700 grams of filament, maybe, and this little piece, you know, it weighs nothing. Yeah. That's good. So less than my lens on the camera I'm using. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. You know, that's crazy. That's awesome. Janelle says, I remember when I was in college, we wanted to do a restaurant takeover where a portion of the proceeds go back to the group during a limited time. I remember needing tax docs. What? Come on on. You'll find some odd rules. Like, we're just trying to be transparent with the people that we work with when we go to events, and sometimes you'll find some odd rules or like forms and whatnot. It's like, ah, okay. And at that point it's kind of awkward because like, if there's a bunch of hoops and steps you have to go through, and you're like, wow, that's a lot of work, but if I back out on it now, I'm going to look like I didn't care. It's a balancing act. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's where we come up with workarounds and talk to people and see what they say. You know, and it's one of those nobody ever, nobody doesn't want you to, but it's also, there are legitimate reason these rules work. I've heard horror stories. Some people are not. Truthful. And so I understand organizers, the event organizers are being hesitant. Hang on. Do I hear a dog? Sorry. Yeah. Eddie's making a cameo. What's your dog's name? What's that? What's your dog's name? Eddie. Eddie. Sorry. Iron Maiden. Oh yeah. That's fantastic. He's like, I don't want to be. So cute. Why are you picking me up? He does make some appearances in our social media channels. He's a person. Yeah. Do you have a crowd with him? The crowd is not handy. I saw that while I was like, I was like, that's amazing. Dog tags. That's what that was. He has to be nearby when everyone's here is all talking and people hanging out. I love that. I love it. Nice. Well, do you guys want to hang out and check out Hotmix with us? Yeah, absolutely. About Hotmix from this week. The ones that we have because like Jim was saying, it's there was an issue with the bot thing on the rig. We got some stuff though. All right. Let's do Hotmix. I'm in. All right. This first one is Zombie Hedgehog. Who is Zombie Hedgehog? I don't even know. Anyways, wow. The new Clock Spring Flippy Ladder Firetruck is such a cute print. Definitely Hotmix Live. Yes, two weeks ago because we weren't here last week. It was amazing. We have Filament Stories on. Amazing. They came up with a sweet like three branded firetruck with Clock Springs. So it has Clock Spring Filament Stories and Hotmix on the firetruck itself. This thing is the last minute thing too. Literally that day. That morning. Sven was like evil genius, you know. And there were like four or five iterations of it by the time we. Yeah. So it's really. Because I remember Courtney from Filament Stories reached out to us on Instagram and was like, hey, this is like a two and a half hour print on a bamboo who has access to one. Like we could get this done before the show. Yeah. I was like, I'm at work. Let me just shoot it over. And I had no idea what Filament was even. I can't remember what Filament was loaded on my P1P at the time. And it was yellow. So I printed a yellow one. But I love. I absolutely love the little firetruck. And this is this is Mixed Berry's Polyterra. That's cool. Yeah. From Polymaker. Shout out Polymaker. So super sweet. If you have not printed this yet, it's free. Go do it. And we're going to have more on that in a minute because I have something else too. So next one is Denise. Okay. This one blew my mind. Yeah. Yeah. So do you take a hold? I totally forgot. I chatted you. I think I tagged you with the person who came up with this idea. We got to get them on. I think I put you in a group conversation too. So I'll get with you after the show. Okay. And anyways, this wrote. I can't remember. I apologize. You forgot your real name here. Anyways, they came up with this way to do this. And we showed it last week. It is. It's crazy. It looks gorgeous. I know. There were some that they were posting that looked like. Like I just thought. This is a .4 layer. It just straight up looked like a relief sculpture. It's just too cool. And like the astronaut ones too. Yes. Man. They were so cool. And there's the. Yeah. Like that. Look at that. Color-blinded reliefs cameo. It looks like it's carved out of marble. Yeah. That is nuts. Here's the file. That's what the file looks like. Let's see. That's what I love about this stuff. It's like even when you think you've seen everything, somebody comes up with something that just blows your mind and you're like that is an entirely new method that I haven't seen before. And you know like now it's going to blow up and everybody's going to be like interested in it and doing it. But like somebody had to come up with that in the first place, which is the mind-blowing part. It looks like Zombie might have came up with that. Nice. So I have to check it out because we need to have these guys on the show. We need to talk about this because this is sick. All right. Amazing. Next. Chris Travis. Chris Travis. This is a Halo Master Chief speaking of Halo by the way. This is one heck of a fun model too. Here you go. Silver team. Okay. This is weird. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Drop the resin head in there. Take the helmet off. I think we showed this two weeks ago. Next we need a 3D print of Master Cheeks. That's what we need next. Maybe for April Fool's one year. There you go. There you go. I'm not following Polymaker. Weird. Wow. I love it. It's a little bit creepy though. Like I don't mind the helmet on but when you take it off it'll be a little bit creepy to me. Yeah. It's a very nice model. Like it looks very realistic. It is. I feel like it's painted it. It looks like Bob. Here you go. Looks really well. Yeah. Oh yeah. And there's something wrong with these links. I'm clicking the links. Sorry. I like to repost the links or the posts as we're looking at them. And a lot of these aren't working. The links that you put in the docs. So I might need to do that afterwards. I love how they combine resin and FDM. That's one of the cool things that we've been pushing for a lot lately is you've made some match methods and you can make some really cool stuff as we see it. Yeah. That's a random person named Polymaker. Is it? Is it really? Really? It is. Oh I am not following. Yeah okay. You just fell for it. You just fell for it. Your random Polymaker-ness has been unfollowed. I'm going to take my Twitter name to the edge of check. Yeah I was like how am I not following? All right. Next up, Abby P.S. in the Licks Live. Posted the new and super fun way to start the summer. This is awesome. This is Smarties. Yeah and then you put them together in a wrapper. Come on. That is so cool. Come on. I love that. That's a 100% scale for Halo. Yeah. I'm going to cheat. Yeah they're- Yes. That is a Spartan-scaled Smarties right there. Yeah the Spartan scale. I would absolutely eat a Smarties this size. Just saying. Jesus. It's literally you're just holding a giant block of sugar. Yeah yeah. But I would eat it. The colors are so good Abby. Yeah. I love these. It looks delicious. I love them. That would be simple pantrores. Tasty. Oh yeah. Okay. Abby, the challenge has been tossed. She's with us right now. It's 12 times the actual size per Smartie. Awesome. So yeah, the gauntlet has been thrown. We want to see this with like a drawer compartment. Like a secret drawer that untwists in the bottom. Sparties. There you go. Sparties. Sparties. I love it. That would be awesome. It's so fun because if you look at those when they're blown up like that, it's such a simple shape. It is. It's just a- But the shape is so specific and the color adds to it that you know exactly what that is when you look at it. Absolutely. That's cool. Kayla would be off the edge of tech. That's funny. Off the edge of tech. That's your tag name on Twitter. There we go. That's one for you. I think you're absolutely correct. It's the colors, the pastel colors or whatever. That you just look at this. You instantly recognize it. Someone in the chat says we need Neco Wafers. There we go. So for some reason, I just pulled a gym and in my brain I read that as Neco Wafers. I love it. Cornstarch mold. I love it. Okay. Drawers. Hmm. Not drawers. Like, I don't- They're not really drawers. Like a twist-off bottom. Drawers like underwear you can put on. Like a compartment, you know. And then you put all your smarties inside the big smartie. That's great. There you go. What? Genius. Smartie section over here. Also, just below this, there was a whole- There's apparently a whole discussion about like other names for these. And I'm- Oh, what? Oh, is that anything? Fizzy Sours. Fizzy Sours. Hey. Fizzers. Fizzers. And snippets. No, fizzers fizz though. They're not, they're different. Ooh. That just sounds like- I've had stars. What is the, what's the, what's the like, medicine? You throw it in the, you throw it in water and it fizzles? Is it Alka Seltzer? Yeah. It's basically like, there's candy cigarettes and then fizzers is just candy Alka Seltzer. That's funny. It's training Alka Seltzer. It's like a store-bought candy. Yeah. That's kind of cool. Yeah. So, we could smelly cat creation. It says smarties must be totally different thing here to smarties in the UK. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's fair. All right. Nice work, Abby. Next week, we'll shall see the smartie drawer. The smartie compartment. Yeah. I don't want smarties. Yeah, I know. I'm probably gonna grab something on the way home. I used to include, I include a little pack of smarties and things when I sell them online, just for an added extra little. So, if, I love this video, by the way, if you- Pop rocks. Can you imagine pop rocks at that scale? It's just a firework at that point. I love it. Mentos and Coke. All right. All right. So, if I took this giant roll of smarties and I put it in your master chief leg, like the actual model you wear, right? Would that be smartie pants? I love that. I love it. You could probably haul this out and make it a smartie armor. Actually, I was going to say, you could probably hollow this out and make it a smartie armor. It's about that size. Yeah. It kind of looks like the Michelin man. You remember the Michelin man? Michelin man. Yeah. That would be hilarious. All right. You're buying this one. Yeah. Oh, we got re-mixes. Yeah. Let's go back to that. The smartie man gets out of his van and says, hey kids, get in. All the show. I don't like where this is going. I don't like where this is going. Stay 50 yards away from the school. In the time that we've been on the air, fixemdude has come out with a remixed police car and ambulance to go with the fire truck. That is so cool. All the little flames on the front. That's adorable. Remix the design and drop a new design out with the police car and the fire truck. These are so cool. Check out fixemdude, available on printools.com. Can I get one that's a hearse with a little Ghostbusters logo on it? I love it. These are cool. Yeah. But maybe for Halloween. Yeah, exactly. I just don't think the hearse should go. It's an emergency vehicle. You see ghosts? It's an emergency. I think the emergency is over at that point. I'm not going to lie. The emergency is over at that point. When the fire truck didn't make it in time. These guys are here to help. And then you might go real fast. All right. Oh, man. Liz says she has done multi-color. Yes. Oh, that's cool. My cheeks hurt right now from laughing. Okay. Last but not least, I know we're up against the way. Take a ride on the Benchy wave machine. I think we've shown this in the past, but it came up again. I had to show it again. I don't recognize this at all. If you have a Benchy, you probably need to make this. This is cool. I mean, why not? You know what I need? I need a Benchy as a tugboat, right? Yeah. What do tugboats do? They tug around other things. So we need an attachment for a Benchy that's like a little barge type thing in the back that it carries around like a trailer that holds smarties. Right. I like that. That's blended. That's interesting. Liz, give me one second. I got you. Oh, yeah? Liz, no, Liz, Liz, I got you. Oh, Liz. Oh, yeah. I saw your comment. Give me one minute. Where is that? Where is that? I got you. Oh, yeah. Just give me a second. Have you guys seen this? Here. Let me, I don't know why it's doing this. I know what he's pulling up, and it's amazing. Let me just drop this in there. And then, hey, I love the Benchy ocean, but let's just let's just do this here for a second. Let's see. We want to see. Oh, no. Have you looked at the whole render? There's got to be pictures. Click the Facebook. No, no. There was another link down there. Yeah, there you go. Go see. So, so Sam Print has put together an Amish cart. Here we go. There we go. There we go. He won't strike. Perfect. I love he put together an Amish cart to pull behind our death racers, battle racers, whatever we're calling them. Here you go. I love this. So he wants to have a race with the Amish cart. The Amish Buggies. Yeah. I mean, look, here you go. Here you go. Let's just. The problem is everybody behind them is going to have to slow down. Yeah. There you go. Oh, man. There you go, Liz. I dropped it in there. You have. Yeah. We'll have to fix the things. You are. Yeah. But here's the cart. You can print it. Sam, Sam would love if you did. And then, and then this is Ritik. I love it. So I told, so Sam and I were talking about this and he was like, oh, I'm excited to the buggy and stuff like that. But I have friends like I'm from Indiana. So I've got friends that are up there and they told me like a week before Sam pushed this out, there was like a buggy accident where like an Amish lady got really injured or possibly killed in an accident or something. So I'm sorry. And I'm like, Sam, you might want to wait a few weeks before you push this out, have an Amish buggy death racer. I could go bad. Oh, jeez. To Shay. To Shay. To Shay. To Shay. Timing's bad. I love it. Well. Oh, there we fill it with donuts. There we go. Crack donuts and Amish buggies. How far is the range on those things? Can we like Amazon delivery drone like drive the little Amish buggy over to Ryzenroll and they can fill it with donuts and then we drive it back to us? That is one heck of a ride to Ryzenroll. That would be awesome. But Dan Adams says we need 100% scale. There you go. I tell you what I'll do. When I get the Rat Rig 500 back here up and running, I will make a whatever size will fit on that bed. I will make that size and we'll mess with it. We got guys playing Lamborghinis, man. You can print an Amish buggy, right? Yeah. I'm telling you though, I'm telling you though, you got to make it realistic. And if you print a full size one, it has a max of like five miles per hour. That's all you get. I don't know. I'm going to have to print the triangle that goes on the back though, just to slow everybody else down in the race. I love it. All right. We've got an hour here. We're a little bit past. Thank you guys so much. This has been so much fun. I love learning about, we love learning about what you guys do. I appreciate the work you guys put into making, not just the charity work, but also making sure people see how you do what you do. So that other people can take that and build on it. Yes. Very cool. Much appreciated. This was a lot of fun. Thank you very much. I'm just reading the comments. Yeah, I know. Before we go, can you guys tell us one more time who are, who you are, what you do, and where we're going? Yeah. Fantastic. I'll save you. I'll save you. Yeah. So I often say in history, so you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Etsy, all by the same name. We, like we said, we three print products, cosplay, armor pieces, you name it, we'll try it. You'll see on our social media is all the very idea things that we printed and we strive to be very transparent in how we make things. And then whenever we go to an event, we try to raise money for charity. So you can find us on our socials, all the big channels, and then if you have any questions of making anything, feel free to message us on those channels. We'll happily, happily answer any questions or guide you where we can. And we'll next be appearing at Duke City Con. In Albuquerque. In Albuquerque, New Mexico. We don't know yet what we're supporting there, but... It'll be Kenneth's word. Yeah. So we can answer warriors again. We're still working on what we want to be and make be the prize. More to follow. Okay. Okay. Oops. Wrong button. There we go. You're good. I hit the wrong button. My bad. Awesome. Again, thank you guys so much for hanging with us. It was awesome to meet, well, I mean we've met before, but to meet you like this and go over a little bit more about your business here. I was good meeting you, Jim. Yeah, it was great. Great meeting you guys. So what's funny is when you guys were like deep into conversation with somebody and we were doing hot makes, I like right behind you and look what we're looking at and he's just talking to somebody. I'm like, all right, we're going to leave him alone now. Thank you. Appreciate that. But he had a special helper because I couldn't be there. So he was only one of us there. So it was a little bit harder to, which you did wonderfully. And our helper also was a big help, but also maybe not the right person to talk to for 3D printing. It was great. I mean, it was a fun show and I'm glad you were there because we met you. I'm glad Caleb found you because he was like, gotta come see this. Like he was very adamant when he came and found me. So real quick, next week we're working on a guest. We'll announce that soon. Two weeks, the Studley Avocado. Yeah. He was also the Winby One and this is the Studley one. Yeah. And then in three weeks, we'll see what we're going to do because that's the Monday after Murph and Retro Maker is supposed to be on, but we might push that one week because of Murph. I might, I'm not sure. And we're going to have Fred, the 3D print. I still don't know how to pronounce. Is it Fred? Is it FR3D? FR3D. Whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have him on here soon because he was sick a few weeks ago. We had to cancel or reschedule and we haven't actually rescheduled yet. So we might end up giving him the 12. I like it. Or Retro Maker. I don't know. I don't know. And don't forget if you're going to print the buggy, print it in Polymaker. Someone says, yes, all the poly, they make a really good buggy color. I'm just going to throw it out there. The buggy colors. Yeah, buggy. It's called Amish Buggy. Go look it up. You'll find it. Anyways, you guys have a great night. Stay right there. We'll be right back with you. Everybody else, you guys are awesome for being here Monday, every Monday at 6 p.m. Central. Thank you so much. Most of the time. Caleb, you started us out. You take us out. Okay, Mike. All right. Sorry, guys. That was a very quick and unceremonious goodbye. So what I meant to say was,