 Let's do that again. Ready? What's up everybody? Welcome to HotMakes right here on HotMakes. I had my mic muted because I was coughing. Oh my God. This is Shannon. How are you doing, Shannon? I'm helping. I don't get like infected by you. I know. Yeah, you're gonna, like, it's, it's gonna come through the microphone. So, um, heads up everybody. I am still rough. Like, if I go into a coughing fit, you might see me silent my mic and like go off to the flailing to the side. But we have an amazing guest tonight that you won't even notice me doing that because you're gonna be like dazzled by everything that Mike does. Yeah, I can't wait. But what have you been up to? I saw from social media you've had a lot going on lately. Yeah, I'm very, very tired and honestly, I'm like in a lot of pain at the moment. I'm not sick guys, but I feel like I could be because I work myself way too hard. Let's see, because we weren't here last week. Right. So I'm trying to remember what I did last week. I was down for the count last week was rough and it hasn't gone away. It's, it's not great. Whatever this is, plus the bajillion high pollen count right now is not helping anybody. But, but yeah, you were at, you were at some games, right? I was. I was at the penguins events before we lost and nobody talked to me about it. If I see any comments about it, I will leave this stream. I woke up today, just somebody going, your team isn't even good anyway. It's just get over it. And I was like, Oh, immediate block. Nice. Um, yeah, that was last week. I wound up being at the Pirates game in Iron Man, like I did for the Steelers. So the Steelers was just like a fan event, but this was like an actual game. So this is myself and then another member of our local charity team, Pittsburgh Avengers. So we got to do that and walk around. Um, it was, it was really fun. It was just exhausting because I feel like I did, uh, you know, go through those back to back and Iron Man takes the tool of me. It hurts. And then I was in the sun painting all day too. I finally painted this. I don't know if I'll show this to guys. I finally hit this with paint and I wound up being so good with it until I brought it in the car to come home. Uh, because I paint elsewhere and it touched the side of the backs. Now, like in the middle of the back, there's just this like black dot and I'm just, I don't think I'm going to fix it. I think this is going to be like a table prop because there's a lot of, um, cracks and stuff in it. Like you can't see it on here, but there's, it didn't print the best even with the filling and the sanding. So it was a good test run. What it looks, it looks awesome from here. That's what matters. Yeah. Awesome. That's finally painted. I think that's all I did. It sounds out that multi-tone came out great. That's what Kieran said. Yeah. Grads, yeah. Um, yeah. So I gotta say someone a minute ago said, um, what do you recommend for a first time 3D FDM printer user with a budget around 1K? I will tell you this, look at my Twitter in the last 36 hours. Uh, you will know what printer I recommend immediately. And I don't even have to say anything. Just, just trust me. It's worth it. Um, that's all I'm going to say. Look at my Twitter. Um, but yeah, I've been rocking. I put out a video yesterday with some community prints. I wanted to show those off here. I know, uh, we have, you know, Mike on today and I don't want to take too much time because he's an amazing guest. And I'm super pumped to talk to him, but, um, I, I did a video about some cool stuff that some in the community had sent. Um, Paul Feeney, Andrew and David Wilson, um, sent me some stuff and check out the video on my channel if you want to check it out. It is really cool. And I gotta say, uh, this one right here, Andrew, and by the way, thank you for the $10 already. He said, I believe his cold beverages is what he said. So thank you so much. Like, wow. That's right. Council member 008 of the Council of Andrews is what he, what he put. And this is such a hard color to get across on, um, on camera. It's like, this is a, man, this stuff is, can you see the red? You can kind of see the red in there, right? It's kind of like, uh, If you look like in the highlight, you can see it. Yeah. This stuff is phenomenal. Um, this is our friends at Greengate 3D. It's a PETG that's recycled. Um, this is a Rook that he designed and super awesome. Man, I love that color. It's one of my favorites. It's just, it's so hard to get the color across on the camera. I don't even know if this will help. Let's see. Yeah, a little better. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, it's purple. It's kind of, yeah, it's like, uh, man, it's very confused at like what it's supposed to focus on. It's like grape jelly ranchers, kind of Andrew Rogers. And thank you. Um, yes. And then Paul Feeney shot me over this, uh, this awesome bust right here. Let's see if I could drop the head like I did in the video. If you didn't see that, it was awesome. And, uh, as always Caleb rocking the sound effects and the funny moments for me on the videos, but, um, such a great, such a great print. This is in person, probably one of the better FDM 3D prints I've seen in a long time. Yeah. Nice work, Paul. Look at the hairline. I know, the little hairs, the forehead wrinkles. I mean, it has eyebrows on FD. I mean, that's such a good print. Yeah. Very, very smooth. And I almost dropped the head off again. By the way, I could just pull the head off and show you. I mean, even just kind of funny that that pops off. Yes. Well, he hits two pieces printed and he upscaled it. If you're with us, Paul, I didn't see him in here yet. But if you're with us, tell us what size. Um, and last but not least, David Wilson, uh, he sent me over one of these phenomenal clocks. Wow. This thing is, this is awesome. It's got all like a ton of gears in the back. If it's actually spinning right now, I'm holding it all silly, but it all, it all moves. Let's see if I can see if I can get it to turn. There we go. This is when Jim breaks it on stream. I hope not. I hope not. Um, I will see David, this print, everything on here looks great. Um, let's see if I can get this up close and personal a little bit. Super nice. Great job on the printing and the magnetic, uh, mechanism here for the pendulum is pretty cool. I need to work with David and dial that in because it's not quite, it's not quite right. But I just, ever since I filmed it, I've been sick. I think I was sick when I filmed it. Um, that clock, I know, right? So thank you guys so much for sending that in. It'll go back on the shelves like you saw in the video, maybe in different spots because I didn't like how this one looked on the red side. I'm going to put this on the blue side, maybe pop it a little more, but I'm also going to work on lights on those shelves that I learned that all green gate, all green gate as well. So yeah, green gate, 3d, the recycled, phenomenal stuff. So our friends over rich, rich is an awesome dude. Um, but thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, I know we've talked a lot and we're almost 10 minutes in. It's time. I, I don't want to wait anymore. I know how excited you are. I am. I'm excited as building a lightsaber. So real quick, real quick. Before we go anywhere, any of the hot makes you see tonight, just find them in the description below. All you gotta do is find the Google doc, look for episode 103 and we'll get you moving. And I believe we're everywhere again, right? We are everywhere. I'm actually pulled up to see how many subs we have on the main channel right now. Guys, we're still under 700, but we're nearing slowly nearing that one game. So make sure you're sub on the main channel. I saw that mic mute. Um, yes, but we're on Twitch, on Facebook, we're on YouTube, everything. So nothing has changed on that front, but we welcome you guys from every, uh, which part of the internet you might be coming from. And Carl, I absolutely need one of your night sabers here. Um, just a heads up Carl, Carl Chattermeade said, Hey, did you get my hot make yet? You tagged at hot makes the show, which is the channel, which is awesome. Do that. But you got to check hot hashtag hot makes for me to see cause anything tagged with the hashtag hot makes goes into a spreadsheet automatically in and I go through all that. Um, so that's why I didn't see it, but I did grab it Carl. I have your, I have your thing. I'm not going to show it off. But all right, without further ado, I am super pumped and excited. We've been talking with, uh, with Mike for it seems like months now. Uh, finally the stars align. We had the blood moon last night and, uh, the amazing eclipse. And ladies and gentlemen, Mike, how you doing? Hey, I'm very well, very well, really, really into come on. I would, I would love to say your last name, but we already established that I can't. So it's, it's Mike. What was, how do you say it again? It's my bodily, bodily, bodily. All right. I'm going to go with Mike. However you want. No, that's awesome. I just want to make sure because everything you do is under like your full name. Right. And, um, if, if you guys are not familiar, if someone's not familiar with you, we're going to give you a few seconds here right in the beginning of the show. Tell everybody who you are, what you do and, and where we can find you. We're going to do that again at the end too, but just right away where, who are you, what you do and where we can find you. Yep. So, uh, I'm Mr. Badley. Um, you can find the links are scrolling across the bottom really. So if you just kind of Google Mr. Badley printed droids or printed droids on Facebook, you'll stumble across, uh, across me. And for about seven years now, I've been, um, designing rather large 3D printed droids, robots, props, these kinds of things, everything from something this big through to some of the little ones, which are kind of little cute ones, definitely kind of in Star Wars area, but lots and lots of other ones where they're either mixes or, uh, or kind of mashups of other things. Uh, and I have to say amazing, amazingly designing nose. I mean, um, full disclosure, I'm, I'm one of your patrons and, um, I'm one of the like 3,100 and something patrons you have. So congratulations on that. Cause that's, that is awesome in itself. Um, it is, it's awesome. It speaks, it speaks to what you do. Um, you do such a great job with everything from the designs to the bombs, to everything. Um, I guess I don't want to dominate this. So Shannon jump in whenever you want. No, I will. You know, what's funny is, um, as soon as, as soon as you, um, we're holding up the little one, you're like, look at how cute this is, the cute ones. I was, um, pulling up your Instagram and I was like, Oh my God, they're so cute. Like at the same time. Yes. Yes. I actually have one of those in a bunch of pieces. I just need to put it together. I have everything. I just need to actually put it together. Um, that is so, that is so, so how did you, how did you get started in, in building droids and designing? Yeah. I inherited a makeup, a replicator, terrible 3d printer. Well, it's actually probably about seven, seven years ago. And I printed a few little things out and then I decided that I need to design something rather than print something out. Um, rather, I chose the dome of R2D2. Um, so I just chose to kind of 3d print a full size version of this bit really because it's, it's just a ball cut in half. Right. It's that easy. It's that easy. Um, and, um, then I was building and, um, kind of designing and building, designing. I put some of the things onto Thingiverse, uh, and then put the dome on and, um, the R2D2 builders club, which I didn't know existed at that point, which is a bunch of, a bunch of lunatics that, that build, um, full size astromechs and full size R2D2s kind of went, oh my God, this is fantastic because they can fabricate everything else out of wood or plastic or whatever. But a dome is quite a difficult thing to make for the scratch. So, uh, immediately followed by telling me how inaccurate it was and all the things we need. Great job, but not quite. Yeah. So, uh, so from that we, um, we kind of refined the prints. Um, I got told a few times that it wasn't possible to print the full size R2D2 because all the stresses and things like that. And of course, um, that's a challenge, isn't it? So, uh, I had to do a full size build. I did, uh, I've done three versions now. So I did the very first version, then I did a B2 and then done B3 and I'm just working on the fourth version now, but in between 15 other stuff in like these, like chopper heroes, another very, very popular one. Oh, there you go. Nice. Nice. All the builds are all kind of animatronics and they've got things that move around and, you know, and come on noises. So, yeah, it's, uh, they're all, you know, good fun, great fun. So loud, isn't it? Yeah. Um, so if you're watching right now, uh, a lot of people are saying they wouldn't be even 3D printing if it wasn't for you. Um, a ton of awesome. Comments all accolades towards you. And if you have any questions for Mike at all, drop them in the chat and, um, Gary will star them and we'll come back to the questions as we see them. Um, copyright. Someone says maybe, um, uh, it is, it is so good. So you have a chopper right there, right? I do. Yes. This is chopper. Let me, let me pop. I'm going to do this just to take over for a second so we can see it a little better. That is so good. Oh, I love that. Oh man. Yeah. So do you, you know, you have the, oh. The arm. Oh, so good. Um, yeah. Tripods garages with us. Um, he said he built an egg bot and two smaller droids and building another. Nice. Um, I think you did a series with a couple of other guys. If I remember right, tripod, I think you and Jerry and somebody else did a series on building those. I'm trying to remember that was like last year, the year before. Um, and that's like the first time I started seeing these mini droids because I'm terrible with keeping up with stuff. I was like, wait a minute, they're doing a, they're building these together. I need to check this out. And then we, when we had Sam on, it was just like, um, yeah. So some of the first guy I met from the R2 builders club. So I was kind of designing and throwing things up. And I think he'd contacted me on Facebook and asked me, uh, if I could design a gear for the, uh, for the dome, the inside of the dome. And I was, it was about, it was about 9 30 10 o'clock at night. I was just going to bed and I thought, oh, just quickly do the gear before I go to bed and send it across. So I designed this gear, chucked it across to him. Um, and, uh, he, I think he was getting married and he's asking me where I lived. And I said, oh, I love this kind of area. And then I turned up one day and there was a keg of beer sat on the, on the front door step. How do you do it? You know, of course. So, uh, some was the first guy that I met from the R2 builders club and he supplied me free beer. So we've been friends ever since. Nice. That is a real friend. Magic gear on the doorstep. You can't wish for much more than that. Carl, uh, from Knack 3D Designs has, uh, the belt printers, you know, and doing a lot with the belt printers. And he said he's been asked more than once if you could print some R2 legs on the white night in one piece, like one go. Um, that would be a great idea. That's a great use for that too, Carl. I love it. Um, I wish I had one of those. There's so many things you could do. It was tripod, um, Sam, Jerry and DeWitt and off access that were all building droids at one time and then they're all building your droids, which is really cool. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that's like a community standard now too. Like so many people want to like get in the 3D printing, just your printing droids now. It's just something I've heard a lot come up like in the last. It's madness. It's madness. We've got, well, just under 15,000 on the Facebook group. Oh boy. And that's just the people that are like really dedicated to it. Like, because I know people that don't even know that that existed. You know, like I did it until now. I want to do that. So that's crazy. That's a lot of people. Marcel says, ask him about the BR2U droid. Oh yeah. That's the, that's the beer, the beer droid. See, there's a bit of a theme going on here, isn't there? Oh my gosh. He gets up and the room just gets better and better. This is the BR2U droid. So nice. And so what this, this one that kind of drives along and he steers with his arms. So the arms kind of move. Oh, that's cool. Like that. And it's kind of like that. The best thing is it's got a beer delivery system. Yes. You get two cans in there. This is on servos and it lifts the cans up. So great for barbecues, drives around, stops and stuff. Oh man. Outcomes some beer. So is that like remote controlled or do you have it like on a timer just kind of? It's remote controlled. So yes, it's all, it's kind of our RC controlled. Be good on the timer. He has an RFID track. It drives over to his fridge and then it comes back around like every 15 minutes. Exactly. If it could just show up, you know, and like replenish the drink every half hour, it would not be upset. So I got to say like, so how do these designs, do you design the ones you see? You design stuff like this, but you know, you just made up, right? How does that come to be? Where do you start with a design kind of take us through your process? Kind of. So it depends on what references is there. Somebody mentioned something about copyright before, it's quite an interesting one, but the R2D2 Builders Club have got a really strong relationship with both Disney and Lucasfilm and they provide some of the droids for the movies and they do some of the red carpet events and charity work and all that kind of stuff. So they've been given access to the original blueprints for R2D2 and the original models. So R2D2 is incredibly well documented. Chopper, again, there's lots of reference material out there. So the first thing I tend to do is block out the character. I personally would like to go down to crazy amounts of detail to get these things accurate and the Chopper, this Chopper is literally pixel perfect to the one that you'll see in the animated series. So if you're designing and you're a little bit OCD, Chopper is not the robot for you at all. Every angle is slightly off. It's madness. So if you look at this light here, this light sits between two or three panels. It's slightly on the skew. It's not perfectly square. Everything in Chopper is slightly off. Just because he's a cranky character and he's a little bucket of bolts when you're trying to design it, what I was struggling with was trying to fix things. I thought I could just make it all square, but that's not the character. So I started off with that blocking it and then once you blocked it, then it's a matter of trying to squeeze everything in, which from an animation perspective, kind of come out. And of course in, because it's an animated series, the original Chopper doesn't suffer from physics. He doesn't have to have because the animators would go, I'll make his arm. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. You're trying to get everything to work but compromised. The sophisticated animatronics models, they've got lots and lots of servos. I think this one's got about and they've all timers so that you can get all of the different animations and stuff. I was curious earlier when he popped the arm out, how that was rigged up if you were hitting something or if it was just set to go. They're running on a sort of animation timer, so what you do is you set the time off running and then the time comes out. Is the timer triggered by your radio there? It's an Xbox controller. I love it. It's an Xbox 360 controller. It's acceptable. You can run it through RC or whatever. The Xbox controller is pretty cool as well. That's awesome. I'm not going to lie, I've never even thought of using an Xbox controller. That's the only acceptable use for it now. From now on. I think so. There's another one. Real quick. Michael Griegel, $10 cold medicine fund. Thank you so much. Fix some dude. Any advice? Shannon, do you have a question? I keep jumping in. I wanted to know those electronics. That's the thing that's in my head right now. I see the little BB-8 head in the background too. That's what I wanted to make if I made a droid. It's on my bucket list at some point in life, but I'm not as dedicated as you guys. I would start it and then just leave it there. That's probably what would happen. The BB-8 is one of the most complicated and probably one of the most expensive ones to build out of all of them. It sounds like something that I would pick. That's a good choice. Is that because of the mechanism inside? The amazing thing now is the access we've got to technology and the price of it. I don't know if you've played those things, but they're small electronic controllers and I don't know, $15 or whatever, really cheap. You can get. All you really need is an Arduino, a few servos, a few LEDs, there's some great Adafruit lights. Sounds like rescue. I can do that. It's doable. These little babies, these ones here, you've got three servos in. There's a tiny servo which does the dome and then there's two servos that do the drives on the feet and that's it. Effectively, in a basic RTD to a full-size one, that's what you've got. You've got two foot motors and you've got a dome motor and then you've pretty much got the character. They look complex, but they're not too bad, really. It's so good. How many I'm not on your Patreon yet? It seems like half the chat's in your Patreon which is amazing, by the way. But if I'm not there, how many models, many or otherwise, do you have out there for us to come and jump into print? Or do you know? I don't know. I have no idea. There's thousands and thousands and thousands of files. The reason for that is if you just take RTD2 for example, there's 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So you can put different domes on them. You can paint them different colors. So just on the Astromex you've got a load of combinations. There's a couple of versions of choppers and then there's all of the small ones. You're up to the couple of hundred different kind of varieties. I did see it. It's fun because you have fun with the domes on the mini ones too. You'll do pumpkins and just random stuff and that's so cool. I was looking at Instagram how your last post is at Frankenstein that's on the top of there. That was the Halloween ones that we did. Nice. Tech Dad, 47, ask him about the D0 droid. It's so cool. The D0, yeah. So that's the D0. Ask him about the one under the shelf. It's not powered up but effectively it's a single wheel as you can see that actually is fully controllable and steers and can spin round. Wow. It's quite a complicated one because this one's got a small what's called an IMU which is a sensor that can tech if it's tilting and then it self balances. That's cool. It's basically a big self balancing wheel which has got about a kilo and a half of lead shot in it so it's quite heavy and then it's got the head and the controller on top of it. But the domes on here are printed out of LWPLA which is the lightweight PLA because quite a lot of weight at the top so that kind of takes some of the weight off the top of it. And it's quite clever the secret of D0 is it's actually what's called a tank drive so the two drive tires are these two here and this is just a pretend floating wheel that's in the middle. So that's how it kind of you can start to steer and move around and see. Like a little dog, he's lovely. I love it, that's so cute. So yeah, it's very popular from Rise of Skywalker from that movie there. If anybody has sweet droids you want to shoot over for the shelves if they fit on the shelves I will put one on the shelf I should measure, I should probably give measurements like what size these shelves are because I'm going to, you know, someone will show you. No, we'll just put everything on it. There you go, here let me I got this so in the background we got this share this there you go there you go there he is, yeah that's so it drives around oh that's phenomenal yeah, yeah it's it was an interesting story I think it was just when they announced the movie The Rise of Skywalker they had Dio roll out on stage at celebration at one of the big Star Wars events and my email went mad as everybody's like well you've got to do that literally I thought yeah I'll have a look at it and then I went to bed and I woke up the following morning and one of the guys had got the model on Thingiverse like, you know, this was while I was sleeping fully designed, kind of up there so I didn't touch it for about four or five months and then I was just thinking one day and I thought the balancing mechanism and getting it to drive is really, really difficult, really tough nobody's going to do that so that's when I started to do the first one I got the first one out in time for the movie which didn't have a self balancing mechanism, it used to kind of get speed up and then slow down so that it didn't rock too much and then once I've got the self balancing mechanism and you can do, you can have great fun I mean it literally you take a car and it'll go on to one wheel tilt over and tilt back again it's great fun to do with the sound chip of his little like one liner he does there's about 12 there's about 12 sounds of 12 voices if you like that's in there so and it's all controlled by little switches and then there's a variant which is very popular this one's called Dobby so Dobby's Dobby's effectively a DO really so you can basically take the head off and these two side skins off and convert it back to a DO so the idea with this is if you've printed and gone to the trouble of building all the electronics literally one connector and you can actually swap the head and make it look you know completely different the challenge with Dobby is driving him to know which side which way's front because his head spins round so it effectively can reverse the controls if that makes sense which can confuse how our people which is why he's got shoulders that are different so you can at least have some indication of where he's going for hold on up that's awesome Caleb said wasn't that the concept design for BB-8 yes yeah it was one of the one of the concept the concept's artwork is great for kind of inspiration for building some of the remixes and some of the ones that are quite unique do the poppy one do the poppy one is Tito he's a cute little fella aww so this again is another one that was based on concept art got a head that turns all on servos he's got the most useless track system really because the idea of tracks is supposed to all stay in contact with the floor but this one's powered from the shoulder and then there's two flexible threads so it's like tiptoeing it's tiptoeing yeah and then he's got a printed cast on the back so is that track all printed in TPU yeah this is I think it's ninja flex and is it all one piece or is that like separate pieces that's all one piece but I did do his big brother we've also done which I'll show you the track of that one holy that's the track of yes well done came so that's one of the tracks of the full size version of Tito so what's that how much skill in it was that that's what I want to know just that one the track there's probably there's probably about at least half a kilo if not three quarters of a kilo on that TPU I believe it so when you're doing those TPU tracks what settings do you print them at like I made the mistake apparently Sam called me out I printed some last night on a very very fast printer to see if it would actually work and I use like 50% infill he's like whoa too much too much when you're printing those individual tracks and they all piece together what do you use like settings wise for us new people into this the statement I always use the TPU is hot and slow so if if you think it's too slow slow it down a little bit the problem with TPU is it's kind of like spaghetti so it can wrap around your extruder so if you slow it down and the nozzles hot it's not going to back up I mean I do mine at about 20% infill and about four or five outer layers wall thickness just really because it gives you that extra wear and tear but to be honest I've got the R2 that's now seven years old and it hardly looks warm I mean the TPU is incredibly hardware and it's fantastic stuff nice, now I know I've only ever printed one thing out of TPU and it didn't go the way I wanted it to because I didn't mess with the settings and I think I just did everything to either too much infill or whatever it may have been because I didn't really pay attention at the time and I don't remember now but it was the neck for rescue for like the Iron Man rescue stuff because I was like oh I want to be able to bend that way because I think I filled it too much there's different types of TPUs because there's what they call shore ratings which is the hardness of TPU I think it was just the standard ninja flex stuff like you had just mentioned it was a good like two years ago it's like a floppy wet noodle that's it the ninja flex is kind of 85A which is like wet spaghetti they also do ninja flex cheetah which is a lot harder I think I'm using the polymaker 95 I believe that's the one yeah the polymaker and so we had a couple quick questions Ed see how does he decide what he needs for the electronics by research I'm reading lots of things and working out every mechanism is different and to be honest when I'm building I've built some designs purely so I can get in the head round and create new mechanisms I quite enjoy the different styles and different ways that you can solve a problem there's some great resources there's some great YouTubers as well James Bruton who I followed for years I don't know if you've seen James but he's this mad English guy that does all sorts of incredibly complex electromechanical robots he's a great source for new technology because he'll say wow I found this and I found this you're trying to solve a problem with something when actually there's a perfect component out there the best kind of advice I can do is just grab lots and lots of different components and play around with them I've done loads of YouTube clips just on and I'm not a YouTuber I just throw these things out and I tell people lots of YouTube clips on starting with electronics because that's one of the biggest kind of ramps everybody goes about oh how would you do that and you do it by buying some components blowing some stuff or making a bit of smoke and then eventually learning what you're going to do with it that's awesome that's pretty much everything you just got to dive in and learn as you go the Facebook group is huge for help in your Patreon when you open the files step by steps you have all the good stuff in there so someone said ask him how many have failed there you go all of them all of them the design process is just like crazy so the first thing you end up doing is getting parts that don't fit together to get mechanisms up and running and working you don't work out exactly so you probably go through 4 or 5 iterations chopper's arms were one of the hardest things to design the problem with these are so thin so I had to create this cable control system so that they were doing this then you've got weight the biggest challenge I've got is weight even what you think is going to be light you start to throw more things at it it gets heavier so I end up creating loads of prints that you end up iterating and changing and then kind of getting to the point that works but we've got a good community who likes to test new stuff so and then someone else let's see here techdad 47 he also is doing a baby WALL-E a baby WALL-E a baby WALL-E he said let's roll there's still more on the other side I envision your house full of toys around you I love where to walk this is the start of baby WALL-E as you can see there so again this runs on servos this isn't a motor it's got a servo drive this is quite a complex drive it's got these two are both direct dies it's a two wheel drive off a set of gears but obviously one's bigger than the other so one's got a spin faster so it's a bit gearing inside there's a single print flex belt that goes over that so there's two drives either side and then you've got this rather mad arm which kind of goes in and out up and down it actually rotates as well and then it's got a little gripper at the end which will open and close there's loads of animation on this one so I've got another one to go on that side and then there's a I don't think I've got the head mechanism somewhere in the shed I think it might be in the house actually but there's quite a complex kind of head and neck mechanism that sits on it as well super cool actually I lie, I've got it over there I've got the neck mechanism $3 a super sticker thank you so much thank you, thank you Marcel this is the start of the neck mechanism this is quite an interesting one because it's got a kind of a lift which you can see there and this is for the net so that lifts up and down but that was quite a complicated build because I don't know if you can see there's some gears in the middle that make sure that this stays perpendicular with this but it can still lift and it's got to be strong enough to carry quite a heavy weight you see behind the scenes here I like it, I like it it's a lot of work the head's a bit big on this one actually so I may end up reducing the head just because of the weight on it but yeah so Wally's Wally's a working progress at the moment I mean it looks like you're building a mini Wally but it's really going to be like not so many when you're done I mean how big are you envisioning this thing for your mini R2s or bigger it'll be probably about the same size as Dio that kind of size the problem I've got is every time I start to design something somebody in the group goes I hope his eyes are going to move and I hope his head's going to move and then you're under pressure of course it is I love animatronics I've kind of watched the making of movies because it was small and so you know to have all of these things where you can do fully animatronic stuff your fingertips is brilliant I love that you can still do it especially like with how many movies not necessarily Star Wars but just in general that are going full CGI instead of even having a base so I love being like that's something that you can still create yeah I mean I've always been interested in the practical effects and then when CGI came out I've got to say because the magic is creative and then just recently they've gone back to practical effects which supported or augmented with CGI so that's so cool they're actually back to building big now the makers can actually make stuff and then if you want to enhance it with the augmented reality or whatever throw it on top which is great because then you have the best of both worlds right I feel like it's even I don't think it's better but I think that it just proves how much more creative we can be though we're out here replicating these things and making them real without CGI YouTube's made a massive difference because it's connected makers all over the planet and they're learning off each other I think if you could get some 1970s or 1980s filmmakers and see what people are making in their shed now they'd be like wow this is fantastic they're doing stuff that's film quality really in a lot of cases and just the finishing and painting like the Green Goblin mask you show before it's magnificent this kind of stuff that people are just fabricating in the house really prop building 3D printing in general has really blown that up as well because you can make stuff now that you can't make any other way some stuff you can't print some stuff you can't make any other way but being printed there's stuff that has to print from the bottom up and form together otherwise you'd never do it and I absolutely love it I think that also accessibility to 3D printing because it's come a long way especially without cheap like the printers can be now it's like a starting printer I think that Maker Deck is Chris that's lurking in the chat just so we're aware we do have Star Wars Chris Chris Perillo is a huge huge Star Wars fan and has a ton of awesome Star Wars memorabilia and all sorts of cool stuff and super awesome guy he does something called Maker Deck which allows like if you're printing something you can actually drop it on Maker Deck while it's printing and you can tune in while it's printing from all over the world so what we're getting at is somebody in the chat needs to tackle a mini-droid on Maker Deck yes you can build a mini-droid with your mini and then show my gear progress yes so I think we got about 15 minutes left on the show we do something called Hot Makes which is anyone out there can submit something with a hashtag Hot Makes on the twitters and we show off some of that stuff and this week it's a little bit abbreviated because Mike is here and he's such an awesome guest all you have to do is look to the side of him right there that picture says a thousand words and I'm sure if anyone else is like me they're like what's behind that one what's behind that one I mean you just proved it was behind all of that yeah I could show you loads of things there's all sorts of kind of buildings but he's just like hang on I got C3PO right here and he pulls up like a full you know if you pull up a C3PO I'm going to freak out here not the mouse drive oh there you go awesome full size mouse drive this is quite big actually I didn't realise the dome on this well not the dome the shell on this wouldn't fit I'm a 500 bed so this doesn't fit on a 500mm bed it's massive it's quite large that's a that's quite a cool one and also I mean it's interesting because these are old 1970s printed circuit boards that you have to kind of research what they look like to create the STLs so you're actually you know you're printing technology from the 1970s to get accuracy of the actual make in the building that's cool Chris says that's not a mouse it's an elephant but yeah let's jump into some hotmakes let's see what is going on this week in the hotmakes world and let's do it ladies gentlemen let's do some hotmakes alright we got about six this week I think right around there we're going to start with Sophie Wong she said she's all sewn together now soft helmet headdress thingy printed in Matterhackers Quantum which is at multi-colour and it's on nylon tool it's all sewn check this out so good all of that is like sewn into it looks like the nylon tool onto a silk backing that's the whole you know what I'm wrong this is printed on the nylon tool okay that's like the stuff that David Shuri does too they're printing it right on the tool and then they're sewing it onto a silk backing oh okay that's still like a whole new stuff just 3D printing right there though kind of so David Shuri let's see here we go no it's phenomenal she's they're doing the light behind it I was seeing so David Shuri and a lot of other people have been playing with printing on fabric for a few years and this is just stuff like this you can take to a whole new level but nice work there Sophie but that's like a whole new thing because that's not even just flat that's like yeah that's a lot I wonder how heavy it is like how much the infill right we were talking about infill earlier I wonder what like you put that on and it's you know two pounds or five pounds of PLA alright what we got next Allison 3D continuing to experiment with light texture and color and shapes nevertheless 3D printers can provide such sensory stimulation I'll just do this check that out I think I saw this or rendition of it earlier in the week as well and I sat there and I just watched it do its thing for a very long time that's I could probably watch this all day and the transitions there were very good Allison yeah David printed a couple entire dresses someone was pointing out there you go that is so good nice work there Allison 3D I gotta love those alright what's next Grafite so this is sculpted by Sid Nick correct me in the chat I say it wrong every single time I apologize there I'd wear it nice so this is printed it's resin printed on a phenom with psorietech resin and check that out obviously painted right I don't know if it's the print though or if it's the painting skills there but it's probably both both Grafites like that very first picture yeah so good I mean just the texture and the hair and the this is right here over the hair man there you go so we I'm amazed by how you finish your droids like behind you right here and I suck at painting so that's something I'll have to figure out but excuse me but I imagine that's a whole other part not only you have to build it put it together make it work animatronically you gotta paint it and make it look good too right no the whole Facebook group is a sounding and filling that's all we do that's pretty much that's pretty much all the Ironman group is too and it's obnoxious and I don't want to send anything ever again but I do in the UK we've got this magnificent stuff called spray putty which you can't get anywhere somebody said something about that the other day and I was like I can't get that here madness because I mean literally like chopper was straight off the printer about five six coats of spray putty and then probably about 45 minutes worth of sanding and then painting and that was it I mean is wow because all your oh it's brilliant stuff it kind of goes on thick but it doesn't it doesn't take any of the detail out the print so it kind of it's weird to describe but where you've got details and edges it'll just stop at the end it'll pool around the edges so it doesn't take the details out and then when it dries it dries and it takes all the layer lines out so when you're sanding your own sanding the spray putty back you're not actually sanding the plastic it's been revolutionary to be honest but it's just a nightmare you can't get it in the US so I think I wrote to the company that made it which is in the Netherlands to see if they would export to the US but they're just not so seem to be interested in it there you go you can make some well I now I need to check this out spray putty I might have even watched that video I'm trying to remember I think that video went around this week because I do remember seeing something on it I don't know if it's the same one that Chad's mentioning though we've all got like 60 cans of it in the UK everybody's got 50 cans of it sat around what do we got next here Ethan's dad when I wasn't looking these guys started a band what would you think they should name it let us know in the chat what you guys think that these guys should name their band what's your first what's your first thing what would you name the band if you saw this Mike that's perfect oh no that's a good name for a band so it's a collection of Bob London's if I look to it yep with a Viking thrown in everything should have Vikings in it yeah I like that little moon night yeah so good Wester's Wester's bottles are so good um what do we got roughly drifters let's see the toolbox Thunder Malmoons that's funny I always wanted to start a band called we're done so in the very beginning you could come out the crowds cheering you were like thank you we're done and then just turn around just for fun just for fun one time oh boy yeah dad jokes you could play at the bar called puzzles um um um that went like over everyone said I'm just gonna like age myself and then just leave you're good where I went to the city I went to high school there's a bar called the library so you just go yeah I'm going to the library and like nowadays people will be like what what's that what do you mean you're gonna go to the library but back when it was actually created you know that was a fun a fun thing you tell your parents I'm gonna go to the library um um hey one person three blind mice somebody said mooting you I love it all right what do we got next first layer here you go the first layer said the battery's charged um the DO's battery was empty therefore he's a little too late for may the fourth be with you but uh looking at this awesome model but this this looks like one from uh oh you know what I bet you this isn't animatronic um this looks like it's one from WF 3D printing um yeah it's a good print though it's beautiful very cool and I need to know who this person is and follow him there we go nice oh there's some more pictures very nice look at that the uh the first blurry pictures when it when the movie came out he was a it looked like he was about as thin as um as thin as a dime uh not not kind of fat wheels so a load of builders made really tiny thin ones like plate wheels until the actual film came out yeah that's interesting how that uh evolution is right everybody's like okay let's make it and then you see the movie and you're like total redesign all right you know but people jump on that not even just Star Wars but like cosplayers do it and it drives me mad because even I've tried to do that and I'm like but it's not gonna be right why does everybody want to do this because you know you're gonna have to make changes to it it's a speed like I said you know overnight there's designs coming out as soon as something comes out it's crazy now absolutely I'm brilliant someone lost in Alexa that's funny that made me laugh all right last but not least um Willow uh Willow Creative she uh she's put she's just she's phenomenal in the cosplay maker world here and um this one that she's working on if you can say the name of this let me know how that says Savathun Savathun facial movements and this is it looks like a destiny to uh cosplay and so this is all there you go it's all moved by your jaw see wow I love it I love it I love it that's like the only games that I play so nice couldn't tell you how to say that though because I haven't played it in forever but yeah she does some uh you know phenomenal work as well and um if you haven't checked out Willow you gotta check out Willow Creative such an awesome maker in the community there um let's see oh this is the inside let's go look here so that's the inside so the jaw you know you put your jaw here and when you open your mouth it does all the movements with the jaw I wanna I really am curious like how the vision is out of that if there is I was just gonna say if there is any you mean because yeah because at least in the helmets that I make you know you still can see I just covered like the LEDs with webbing or something so it's not like shining back at you but there's like nothing to even see here in that I would say the two side ones but like the LEDs are right in the middle there yeah I was wondering let's see here's the LEDs three simple LEDs she said it's crazy um but nice work there Willow I know we're uh we're running here I gotta see this one more time there you go so good so good uh well that was the hot makes of the week um I know we're up against the the clock as well I know we probably we could talk to you for another two hours I know it's also about one in the morning for you so it is um what she said she says small crack around the LEDs to see past that's still like such a small amount of space though because I know I have like the whole lens to see out of and I still can't see what I want to see that's that is crazy well before we go you can do that right Mike I don't want to keep it too much longer than we promised but before we go one more time can you tell everybody who you are where we find you and um all the good stuff we'll just leave it up to you whatever you want to say this is the time is yours yeah just to do a search for Mr. Baddler's printed droid it's scrolling along the bottom for patron but join the Facebook group um we've got about 14,000 members the main thing about the Facebook group is it's a community of really really really nice people uh we work very very hard that everybody in the Facebook group helps everybody else out so uh it's not just kind of a builders group it's a group where people kind of support and help so uh and that's me and I say it's scrolling across the bottom of the screen which I think everybody can see and there's links on the stream as well yeah definitely links on the stream for everybody else celebration the Star Wars celebration in Hammerheim very soon which is very soon it's a week and a bit of time I'll be there for the four days um I'll probably be in the steam room because I'm doing some talks on Chopper um this little fella here um about the character about Chopper and the building of Chopper so uh we're probably going to say hi oh very cool you're actually talking at uh uh celebration are you bringing Chopper with you no look well no somebody else is bringing one of the one of my design Chopper so I can use that as a talking point I don't need to smuggle it onto an airplane I think it would take a seat on its own it requires his own seat um yes that's awesome well I hope if anyone's out in that part of the world or can get there when celebration comes they came they come and say hi I am jealous I wish I could go out um but yeah you have not checked out uh his his his Patreon or patron Patreon uh you gotta do that there's so much gold in there even if you built one thing it is totally worth it to see everything else there and just jive in become a patron and and build some stuff that that right there you can have an army of gritties oh don't test me ooh now it's what I want to do but I need to paint like an army of droids that are Pittsburgh colors right great to see you uh mr b it's a good to see mr b cursing you as I order four rolls of tpu for Wally track he's an emotional support droid you should bring him on the plane there you go there you go awesome well everybody else uh thank you so much for coming tonight thank you so much Mike for being here um Shannon anything else before we go uh that's really it I'm exhausted guys but thanks for coming on and I I enjoyed this because I really um when I first started printing I wanted to do a droid and it just never happened yet so now it's like you guys like peer pressuring me to do it so yeah I'm gonna help you we can share we'll support you jump on the I'll try to do it later this year jump on the Facebook group and uh and they are awesome out there as well but everybody else thank you so much Mike stay with us we write back with you and everybody else have a great week get get healthy and Shannon don't blow away uh we will see a morning um if we start seeing everything shake well you know we're good but everybody was 10 minutes ago oh nice um have a great week everybody we'll see you next week I guess later bye everybody