As far as the oscilloscope tutorial goes, I think it will be evergreen content that people will come back to for years to come. I know I certainly plan to use it when I eventually am able to get my hands on an oscilloscope. I know that doesn’t help you in the algorithm right now but I hope it doesn’t discourage you too much from making helpful tutorials like that.
This is the part many people seem to miss (my theory: ADHD and delayed-gratification pull against each other). Unless you're really pressed for money, and need immediate liquidity, evergreen contents are objectively better worth for your time. Case in point: (there may be more/better examples, but) @Afrotechmods' youtube channel... the guy literally retired after making some evergreen content & can now live off the revenue as passive income and do whatever he wants to with the rest of his life (including, and not limited to making self-reloading nerf blasters, if he wants to).
Yeah, I think he is underrating the value of his in-dept content. His dive into the technical aspect is how I found his channel in the first place. As far as monetization goes though, perhaps this 3D/tech niche is cut-throat and he is planning on minimizing the script next? He can go on for an hour about the most interesting topic, but if his dialogue is rife with idiosyncratic quasi-intellectual, arduously precise, obviously erroneous big words that probably confuse most people RU-vid; he will suffer ad-sense degradation if the thumbnails aren't soyboy lit.
I am an Electrical Engineer. I know it doesn't make you money but I hope you do more of those oscilloscope tutorials (like with other things) as it was comprehensive and wonderful to see someone be able to dumb it down. I have already sent it to 3 of our new hires and you trained them instead of me which was great on something like how to interface with the machine. Now I can focus in imparting knowledge and design guidance.
The surface area of this fractal tends to infinity, every recursion step takes away 20% of the material and adds 25% to the the surface area. Literally the best looking printed fractal I’ve seen
Zack is the King. His word magic is second to none in the 3d print geek realm. I rewind to just listen to those strings of syntax oozing out his cyborg orifice. His obession with tautogrammic sentence structure is why I hit the bell. He literally alliterates too! A quirky smile after a double entendre because he knows he rules. Yes Zack is the King of the 3D print geek realm. Sit back and shut up and be entertained.
I liked your oscilloscope tutorial but that type of content might be better off on a second channel. It really helped me learn more about the scope my university made me buy but never use
Zack! Mindblowing! Thanks so much for featuring my "Wormhole Chessboard" and "Hooped Kinetic Sculpture" These are both super challenging prints and I am so impressed by the amount of time and quality that you put in to these videos. Thank you! Favourite line: "Transdimensional butthole"
So in case you don't know, the fractal vise is a model of a Real Machinist Vise. It first showed up on the Internet because of "Hand Tool Rescue". Its actually surprisingly popular now because CnC machining makes it much easier to make, and therefore much cheaper than it was in the 1800's.
Glad to see the sundial getting more exposure (pardon the pun). It is a phenomenal design that has been around for at least 5 years I think. Newer makers need to be made aware of it. Really cool design.
Regarding the oscilloscope video, I haven't watched it yet but I am super excited to watch it. It's the type of content that I want to wait until I can give my full focus to watch because I don't want to miss anything. Come to think of it, I'll let it play in the background to boost its stats ❤
Holy moly my mind was in fact, blown. At the last'n. I constantly forget we live in a time where 3D printing is just like. A Thing. and then I watch your videos and just get absolutely stoked. I don't think I'll ever have the lifestyle to be able to print anything, but dang do I love seeing how cool this all is!! :)
Personally, I think the “modular hydroponic tower garden” on thingiverse is one of my faves. I have three, 5 foot towers, each growing 20 plants (veggies, fruit, herbs) for the past year. Great addition to my kratky hydroponic setup…
just a heads up, I watch you for you, your personality and your unique perspective and twist on things. the specific content you make to me doesn't matter as much as long i can digest the content. DIY, 3d print, electronics projects, and design are all great, and i enjoy seeing your take on things! I didn't watch the oscilloscope video only because I don't know this machinery. Just my one perspective, but i think it's good to tell your fav creators how you feel so they can get feedback! keep up the awesome vids bro
I’ve always been interested in making that fractal vise since I know I’ll probably never find a real metal one worth getting, but it just seems like a lot of work for something that can’t really be used like a vise in a lot of cases or would be easier to just use bendy arms and alligator clips.
Holy crap. I remember that digital sundial from back before I had a printer - it was there back in 2015. I had added it to my Thingiverse "must print" list and dreamed of the day when I would finally print it... and I never did. Excellent prints you've shared here.
Wow, I haven't seen this channel in a couple years. I am so glad to see it blew up. The quality this guy was putting out for only a few thousand subs was crazy
I'm sorry people weren't interested in the oscilloscope tutorial. I really enjoyed it and it was useful since I'm planning on getting one sometimes soon. I also shared with a friend of mine that can use it to intro people at his company. Maybe you need another channel to post non-3D printing stuff? I enjoy your mixing of techniques and your advice when building projects.
I love how many crossovers there are with my other interests. Fountain pens (a muji), nerf, captain slug, drac, overwatch, NieR Automata. I kinda feel like these videos are made for me. I’m also into mechanical keyboards which I’ve been impressed with zack’s designs. It’s been so cool to see him branch out to all these over the past few years.
I've printed (and fired) 2 Glocks (a 19X and 26X) and a Taurus (FOSS Cannon) and am currently in the middle of building an AR-15. I know this isn't the channel for that type of content, but average people would be amazed at how far 3D printing has come!
Um, wait.... that orange hood is amber for a reason. It blocks the UV spectrum, keeping the top layer of resin from curing while you're printing. Keeping those hoods off might not play out well.
@@nathanhart9523 idk about you, by my UV lights are LED. And is sure looks like he's using plenty of LED down in that basement. If any of them are full spectrum, he's gonna get curing. Look, I might be blowing the horn for no reason. It is possible he accounted for that and got lights that don't admit light in the UV range. But, until otherwise stated, it's equally possible that it wasn't accounted for and he's going to get a bunch of funny looking prints until he figures out his mistake.
13:07 - Next time you shoot a Nerf blaster at the camera, try a shot with the camera pointed at 90-degree-angle mirror. That way you can aim and fire the blaster directly at the lens's reflection in the mirror, and still not damage your camera itself. Choose glass mirror (and slow-motion video recording) for awesome distortions and/or shattering effects, and choose an acrylic safety mirror if you want to more safety (acrylic-ly). Bonus visual points for revealing a cool-looking thing behind the broken mirror, after the dart is fired at it.
I think the oscilloscope is a learning experience showing that your viewers don’t like… learning. I think the majority of your viewers are interested in projects with a little learning peppered in. Great video as always though!
As someone who just recently found your channel it had been well worth it. Full of useful tips and tricks not 5 min crafts BS that doesnt work so thank you for every video you make because it is continually worth my time and actually my husband and i love to watch your videos together and find ourselves both laughing and actively learning with every video in quality time together. In essence dont change who you are or how yoh teach its wonderful
Sort of, yeah. Depending on the humidity and plastic, you have to dry it before printing. Personally, I like to dry my filament as needed, and then print right from it. PETG - dry it! TPU - dry it! ASA - dry it! ABS - never used it, 'dry' and see PLA - don't, unless the filament is brittle.
Possible this basement is a climate controlled space sufficiently dry for most filaments, not all plastics are equally bothered and a comfortable temperature and humidity range for humans overlaps with those spools requirements. But some filaments really can't ever be dry enough, so for those actually printing right out of an active drybox is to be recommended for best results.
@@Elmojomo that’s crazy. You should try it. Food dehydrators are cheap and work well. I think you’ll be impressed by the quality difference if that’s a factor you care about. All filaments absorb moisture, just some faster and more dramatically than others. (Nylon is notorious for absorbing enough moisture to cause issues within seconds to minutes in your sort of humidity. Even PLA, which it’s extremely common for people to say doesn’t absorb a meaningful amount of moisture (to the point it affects print quality) absolutely does. Especially if it’s near 50% humidity around you, it only takes a matter of hours to a day for it to absorb enough to affect perimeter surface finish and stringing.
Great video as always, though there is a very quiet ringing / hissing in the background that's very distracting for my young ears, in the event you can't hear it (don't worry, even cyborg augmentations degrade over time), you should try figuring out your hearing range and mute everything outside it in your editing software, this won't have an effect on audio fidelity / clarity as your videos are mostly vocal commentary that sits way lower on the audio spectrum. Also, have fun at opensauce!
Hey Zack, I spotted that Bambu Lab printer in a shot or two. Did you acquire it for your lab and if so, is it worth considering for professional printing of hundreds of intricate technical parts? Cheers
Can't speak for anyone else of course, but I have an X1C and it's been the best printer I've ever owned, by a large margin. I had a Monoprice Mini, and a (highly upgraded) Creality CR-10S, and neither could hold a candle to the X1. I absolutely love just being able to send a print and not wonder if it's going to work or not, it just does. I've had a grand total of maybe 5 failed prints since I've been running this machine, and 2 of those were my fault. I HATE walled garden devices, but this thing just produces flawless prints one after the other.
I was just thinking about trying to print a fractal vise after seeing Adam Savage's video on his super cool fractal vise, definitely gonna try the one here soon.
Fuller really did have some fun ideas. I just saw the Fly's Eye Dome in person the other day and it still seems like something from the future despite being made from the same material as the car I travelled in to see it.
15:15 you can't easily reload them. if you fire a marble in backwards harder than it was fired out in the first place, it is possible it will reset, but its more likely to explode. it is essentially like trying to un sort a deck of cards by shuffling them. i've been messing with these accelerators for probably 20 years now lol
To reload magnet launcher: as a kid I had a marble set with this piece and I actually had the same idea to make a track that could reload and after about an hour, I did, but what you want to do is use a path alternator to launch the first one as usual then send another down to take a reloading path on the other side of the alternator and the third marble you send down will only cause a slightly weaker launch
To be fair, while the NieR:Automata content may be of *questionable* canonicity at best, it *is* endorsed by the game's creator. Gods bless that man, he is an agent of chaos.
Hey zack, I recently started 3D printing and found your channel... EZ sub... you do great work and i hope this comment serves as motivation for you to continue doing such great things for the community.
"... most of these models aren't exactly consistent with the established cannon" You say that, but Yoko Taro (Nier Automata's director) asked on twitter for a zip file of "collected artworks" to be sent to him every week
One day maybe I'll test my printers abilities to print out some hextraction stuff. I have an Anycubic Kobra Neo, It would be a real fun review printer I think. It has some... issues. The new fume hood looks pretty cool though!
😂😂😂 you should open with the same line Capt Xavier does. "Hello there. This is void star labs where we are a shamlesss group that loves free stuff!" 😂😂😂 I mean that in a nice way!
3:54 ok now I need to see this with CPG Gray's hexagon chessboard that would be so chaotic, then go five dimensional time travelling with that board in short good luck lol
