 The maker movement is just on fire right now, but these things are too expensive these home 3d printers But it looks like new matter might have a solution for us, and I'm talking to Steve Schell of new matter That's right. The mod T is a very affordable consumer 3d printer. It's just three hundred ninety nine dollars Making it definitely one of the most affordable 3d printers on the market today It's also really designed to be used in the home as you can see it's very aesthetically pleasing It's very quiet, which is one thing a lot of people don't realize about most 3d printers They make a lot of noise I'm going to move the mic down by the printer even though it's loud here. Can you hear it? I Can't hear it, and I can't even feel a vibration on the table, and it's running right now Yes We've really put a lot of effort into making it friendly to have in the home or in the classroom And along those lines you actually see we just recently announced a grant program where we are donating $200,000 worth of product 3d printers and accessories to schools over the next three months. Oh, wow That's pretty cool, so I'm going to describe it for the audio listeners basically It's what is it about maybe 16 inches high 10 or 12 inches deep and then Maybe a foot and a half wide. I said that in three different ways. That's good But it's very very small, and I'm watching it move back and forth. What is the what is the technology for the materials themselves? So it's depositing a plastic called PLA, which is a very household friendly thermoplastic It doesn't give off any nasty odors as it's PLB you got to be worried about right Yeah, exactly. No, there are some other 3d printing plastics like ABS that make a lot more odor Oh, okay. Yeah, so PLA is a very friendly one So we can print objects that are up to six inches by four by five in size Of course, you can always do larger objects like this one by printing them in multiple pieces and gluing them together This of course was painted after the fact but it was printed in about three or four different parts Very cool So you said 399 and our is this shipping yet? It is shipping right now go to new matter comm You can order it there today and now you said the name fairly quickly But it what is the name of it again the print the printer is called the mod t mod e-t mod t and how expensive is the is the The filament we sell filament in two different sizes the small size, which is what you see printing here That's a half kilogram for 2499 a full kilogram twice that big is 34 or 39 99 So go make your CAD model calculate up the volume and then see how many kilograms that is and then you can tell How much it costs right exactly most of the prints you see around here It's really just anywhere from maybe 50 cents to a couple of dollars for a print like that. Oh, wow It's very affordable. I need one of these Steve. Can I have one? All right, thank you very much Steve terrific. Thank you. It's nice meeting you