 This is the Ender 3 3d printer and it's been a fun toy We actually got it last year and I was going to review it and then going to review it And then we just kept upgrading it and I said hey after that next upgraded that next thing we learned That's when we'll review it and there's been actually quite a few upgrades Oh, no, we haven't upgraded in a little while So now I feel as though it's worthy of a review and boy We've had a lot of fun with it including printing things that are practical like holders for my GoPro Impractical but awesome a glow-in-the-dark So yes, that is a you don't know what it is. I do know what it is. It's Zelda It's the Hyrule Crest Hyrule Crest I was at a loss for words of what it actually was But that and including some really intricate parts you can print on there Because we have a thing for octopuses and this particular one Has a lot of little articulating arms and you printed them and it is it prints all as one piece and interlocks them as it's going Overlapping them by overlapping them. So it actually prints the articulating arms and of course One of our favorites. We have printed countless and countless one couple dozen Oh, yeah, including such a request a glow-in-the-dark Yep, but the inner three is actually not too difficult to use but there is a learning curve of it So Steve did most of the learning so kind of give a quick overview of how you get the 3d prints on here first Well, so what you do is you can go to various sites like Thingiverse and find STL files that you can then Import into your slicing program and that basically creates all the code that this is going to use and All the commands for it to make the print. I use Cura I forget some of the other ones out there, but there are a handful and Then you can even look at if you want to design your own pieces like I did for the Xiaomi scooter we have I wanted a better slide plate for so I actually went on Tinker CAD AutoCAD has a free-to-use site for designing for doing basic designs and you can also do Imports like the yes the LTS logo. I made you. Yeah, you can do an import of SVG files and then start creating them So there's a lot of options. It's it's actually kind of a flexible system And a nice thing about 3d printing is you don't have to be a 3d expert that took that came much much later I'm still not yeah, just not just going to things like Thingiverse You can find tons and tons of things that people have created taking the time to upload and you can just download them and make them We made these for example. We made all our monster hunter low icons Yeah, so we have that and then the device itself this right here this little holder and guide for The filament that's an add-on actually this whole back side is an add-on the whole I'm gonna slowly twist it this way We've even made these like tracks that hold the wires, so they're not just kind of flopping here So these are once again goes back and forth that moves with it Yeah, it moves with it because this it goes up and down so it's pretty simple the way that works And there's the tools that come with it and these are add-ons. It comes straight up. Yeah, okay Oh, it's crack. Well, let's print another one. Yeah, we broke so if you crack something you break something You can print another one. Now. What's the resolution on this Steve? This is one in terms of the 3d printing This is a average. Um, no, it actually has a wide range. Okay, they I Can't remember if it does less than point one because I haven't tried but I knew no it will do 0.1 millimeter and I think it goes all the way up to I I don't know how high it goes. I usually do between 0.1 and 0.2 millimeters It does have that control so we can determine just how smooth you want to make something or how detailed or in-depth you want to get Yeah, now one of the other upgrades we did is this is the original and it's kind of got the scuff marks on it The plate because the plate has to heat up to its perfect temperature It's a little bit of the tuning that you have to do and we swapped it out for a glass plate Which is a lot easier you said to deal with and yeah You you have to worry less about it like getting the gouges that this have So when you know your nozzle is a little too low and you're trying to get it to bind You do I did find you do have to heat the glass up a little bit more to a higher temperature to really get a good adhesion But I haven't had to add anything to it the glass. It just seems to adhere right to it Well the new ender thread in fact the new ender 3 X model comes with a glass bed. Yeah, so that that was one of the common Complaints about it. Yeah people didn't like the fiberglass that you had to then heat You had to heat the fiberglass peel the old one off and then put the new cover on and so people complained about that So the newer version comes with a glass plate just right out the gate right now in the other thing too when you're doing like this here This is actually three different colors and this is a single filament system So once you do each layer you have to swap the filament for it So this is just a note that that's actually so these are actually printed in different parts and then pieced together Yeah, but yeah, you can actually I didn't see the setting in Kira, but I know some of them support this There's a way to give the printer a stop code where it will stop the print retract the head And then it gives you time and it stays warm and you're supposed to swap the filament out And then you give it to command and you push the button and tell it go Yeah, so in a couple things about this review now I we if there's enough interest will do some getting started videos and dive deeper into it But one of the things I wanted to comment on was the reliability We have this thing has it's even up running it at his house because it would just run non-stop like yeah I didn't I didn't want to leave it here overnight running without being able to like check on it So for larger prints like this that may take I think this one took like 14 hours But I'm not here 14 hours, so I took it home and I could start it You know in the morning and let it go throughout the day as I did housework Yeah, because what you don't want to do is in case that something happens with the 3D printer or a nozzle gets stuck It makes kind of a mess and you don't want 14 hours of mess that you clean up So you kind of want to keep an eye on it But the overall reliability after a year and countless hours of use is great now another thing that the early models But this is goes back because you'll find if you do some googling like under three problem with a couple connectors burning out Etc the very early additions did seem to have those problems. Yeah, I remember people had mentioned me like hey Does it have the right connector the right cord? That was around the era we bought ours ours. We looked it up was after that So we didn't have to make any modifications to the electrical, but that's a long since gone problem So if you buy one today, which it's like it's still a current relevant one Those are not really the concerns that you have anymore. It's also not that noisy I mean it makes a little sound, but it's not annoying I don't know if you'd want it in your bedroom while you sleep, but it's not like I've slept through it Yeah, it's really that loud it does wake me up when because what it does when it finishes printing the head lifts up This comes all the way up and then at the same time the bed will come all the way forward the sound of the screw gear turning To constantly to bring it up makes a bit of a high-pitched squeal and then the bed going forward that I have actually been woken up By a print finishing. Yeah, so it wakes you up when it's done You know it makes a little bit of actually noise, but we'll leave links We have some affiliate links where you get this and where we in which filaments we used with this particular model and I'll leave a little bit of time lapse video where of us making something and Take some pictures of things we have made in the past and How they held up because it's been it's been a lot of fun to play with and I'm gonna say Yeah, you know after 11 months of use. We've had no breakdowns. Nothing's come loose or broken I've had to clean the nozzle out. I think twice because The the inland gray. I'm struggling with printing. Oh the gray doesn't print as well It so oddly enough do even doing these like bigger flat prints the gray here seemed to do fine But when I tried to do this in gray It doesn't seem to want to adhere very well because the small parts want to dry and curl up off the bed for some reason Yeah, so then that is some of the fine-tuning that you just learn when you're playing with this is Dialing in the temperature, but once you get it, it's all those things keep your notes Keep remembering. Oh, yeah, this is the temperature I said it you things like that like glow in the dark because of the Phosphorus in it. You have to print it at a higher temperature. Yeah, the goal of dark had a higher temp and that So there's still a little bit of learning curves and some fine-tuning you have to do But there's a lot of documentation you can find out here and like I said if there's enough interest We'll do some getting started videos with it You know, but we'll leave links to the software that Steve's been using to get the designs and of course, you know Thing averse I'll leave a link to that as well And like I said, we'll have an Amazon link where we got this is all purchased on Amazon along with the filament and everything That you can get there. 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