I 3D Printed a Custom Keyboard... (So you don't have to) 

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wow hipyo im so proud of you thank you for struggling and wasting over 30 dollars of fillament great work hipyo

Your z-height looked a bit too high on there, but overall, super solid work. Especially considering you're not super versed in 3D printing. The hardest part is starting and not knowing what you don't know or how to ask. One cool thing you could have done was use the 3D pen to fill in the seam and then take a soldering iron with a flat tip to melt the plastic into the seam and then sanded it smooth. That's what I do to bond stuff together when I don't want to use glue or get rid of seam lines.

Ok working with an ender as a full 3dprinting noob, hats off. They are very cpapble machines but theres a WHOLE bunch of what you need to do to make them work right. I'm like 90% sure it was temps. The lack of extrusion quality and TERRIBLE layer adhesion indicates you were not printing hot enough. Teaching Tech, Makers Muse, 3-d Printing Nerd ect all have great guides on how to dial in new printers.

Don't use glue, just clean the print bed properly with 99% isopropyl alcohol and ensure there are no draughts blowing near the printer (that's usually what causes warping).

As someone who 3D prints a bit, that case did come out quite nicely. I might build my first keyboard this way because of you :)

Genuinely Impressed with the print quality and model assuming you had all the parameters set correctly the first print. Genuinely takes myself and others at least a few iterations before getting the measurements correctly for your model! Now I’m very curious about making my own custom keyboard, hopefully if I go through with it I can make something as nice as yours!

Good job Nola, you're doing great Nola. Keep it up!

Hola Hipyo, Your filament had absorbed too much moisture and needs to be dried. The water in it is turning to steam in the hotend preventing bed and layer adhesion. Also, cyanoacrylate (regular superglue) bonds PLA really well 👍🏼

Proud of you for taking that first dive into printing! I had a bunch of the same issues! Some things I noticed (though you probably already sorted this out lol) is that you definitely needed to dial in that first layer, its not adhering enough, and thats how you are getting the print peeling up in later parts. Basically the printer IS printing on top of filament, BUT the lowest later of that portion isnt touching anything, so its curling up as it cools! It may help to level your bed while its hot as well as during the print. Here’s what I would do. Set your printer to 200c for the nozzle and 60 for the bed (assuming you are using pla), and then level each corner as well as the center a few times, going around the bed. Use a business card or something of the like, maybe just a post it note, and make sure theres friction, but not too much! Then, when you are in cura, switch from a skirt to a brim, so it actually connects to your print. You dont have to, but it helps. The biggest part though of this step, is also to increase the number of lines on the skirt or brim! I do about 10 lines minimum, that way I can do some micro adjustments as the brim keeps printing, and I pull off the lines that aren’t adhering well so they dont get caught up and mess up good lines later! I hope it helps!

3d printer here. If that marble filament was new and out of the box and the rest had been sitting, you were probably dealing with filament that had hydrated, filament needs to be dehydrated from time to time since it absorbs moisture.

That marble filament looks good. Weird suggestion, but maybe you could do a Lego keyboard with Lego keycaps. They make flat panels that you could use for the base, maybe with some cutting, and I wonder if you could cut out the center stem from square blocks to use as keycaps. It would probably sound crunchy, and if you've ever played with Lego you know what I mean, but it would look cool.

The new song is so fire. Ive listened to it in loop for i dont even know how long

Good job Nola, You're doing great Nola, Keep it up.

from the clips you showed it seems like your nozzle is to far try adjusting the z offset either on the printer during the print or in the slicer, also maybe the heat is to low on the nozzle, and the bed should also be heated to the recommended temps for the filament, if you are still having problems reduce the speed of the printer, never had a ender 5s1 so I cant say much more then that lol, great work hipyo, at least you did not waist $100 worth of filament

I have learned after many crappy 3D printers that if you like 3D design and actually PRINTING things, get a Prusa. They're not the fastest or fanciest or have any super fancy brag-worth features, but what they do have is bulletproof reliability and many many many years of research and pedigree and userbase behind them. I went through several printers before I just broke down and bought a Prusa. The other printers were like what you experienced, lots of struggling, guessing why X wasn't working, stuff breaking or acting funny. The Prusa just works! Get a Prusa if you like just printing stuff. Get a cheaper printer if you like tinkering.

Welcome to the wonderful world of t/s 3/d printers, on a side note resin printers make great tools for making your own personal "artisan" Keycaps. I personally love my Shenron with the hollow eyes and mouth, makes for a great effect with the led backlighting. Might I also recommend using an exacto knife on your kill mats, might make it easier to fora cleaner for fitting mat.

As someone that's a bit over a year into my 3d printing journey I feel the pain. My tips for those that hasn't taken the plunge yet is to not get something with a few bells and whistles and not the cheapest possible. I have a elegoo neptune 3 pro and the auto bed leveling and direct drive extrusion saved me a lot of trouble.

Hipyo when are you going to drop your next batch of keycaps? They are genuinely the only keycaps that I find pleasing to look at. Amazing video btw, your voice is so calming to listen to.

Finally time for the keyboard and 3D printing hobbies to unite! You should try printing keycaps now (and get an easier/more reliable printer to use like the bambu A1)

I have multiple 3D printers, and idk why, but the marble filament always prints the best, never had any failures or issues with marble. Heavily relate to 3:36 , you can change nothing and the marble filament will magically save the day. Until the marble flakes clog the print head, then the magic dies along with my sanity.

I know this video is a good bit old but heres something fun infill would definitely play a large part in how the keyboard sounds so different infill patterns would result in very different sounding keyboards and unlike injection molding this could be customized to taste very easily especially since nowadays printers like the bambulabs p1s exist and making printing custom stuff super easy.

to fill the crack you should've used a plastic welder to join the pieces together and used wooud filler to fill the gaps than sand the whole thing and then paint it

Sometimes those glue sticks don't stick right away with some printing. Maybe the glue had time to get dry and sticky and it started to work better for the printer? When it started to work better. It happenned to me before with hairspray, it legit needed time to stick, and i was starting the print too early which made the print go haywire because it was still slippery. I don't necessarily think it fixes everything but, it was one thing that happenned to me. 3D printing is a tedious hobby, I think you did great.

Checking the z height and a glass bed can make a huge difference. i dont even have to use glue for my glass bed.

Good job Nola, you're doing great Nola!

Looks fantastic. I feel the only thing I would have done after 3d printing and designing for a long time wouldve been to use a bowtie seam to fit the pieces together on the bottom instead of the hinge.

Howdy hey! I own 6 printers, most of them from Creality and Prusa, so I feel like I have enough knowledge, Just a heads up, check your temp, and the temp specifically for that filament, and if it’s warping, that either 1. Not enough infill. 2. Bed adhesion. 3. The bed is over the temp for 5hat filament, I keep my heat bed temp to about 60° and I know the Creality slicer presets to 200° for the nozzle! So keep all that in mind, but otherwise you did really well!

wow hipyo im so proud of you thank you for struggling and wasting over 30 dollars of fillament great work hipyo

Custom colours with the printing!

Looking back at this video, If I ever build a keyboard, might aswell use the one I've got at home (can't remember what type of 3D printer it is, as its also modded) but it has a printing area of 50cmx50cmx60cm (L x W x H), which is really big (plenty room for printing a keyboard case), then again it can do really high quality prints, and to prevent warping, its also enclosed in a giant insulating box.

Maybe you should've gotten Gloop PLA bonding glue to combine both sides together. It would've looked prettier

Lower the z of set, it’s under prepare, and in the slicer increase the build volume.

Why glue on the build plate? I know that some people swear by it, but it’s far from being the expected way of printing. I’ve never used a glue stick. I just make sure that the bed is clean and print away. Works basically every time. At least with PLA.

this is a good marble filament worthy 3d print

This was really cool to watch and i'm excited about the outcome! great first try. i'm excited to see you in this new hobby!

That's pretty amazing! Good job! Now, for your next print, try a Gundam...

Hipyo I am proud of you for trying and not wasting, but learning by using 30 dollars of filament

3d printed case + kilmat = best sound. What about printing some keycaps? :)

The cat's arms crack me up 5:21

Your 3D printed case sounds waaaaaay better. Well done, hipyo. I plan to get into resin printing and might give printing a case a go once I do :)

Dude my bet is that you need to put isopropyl alcohol on the print bed, every time you do a new print. marble filament might have had a better ability to stick than the rest of them, and because it wasn’t cleaned with isopropyl alcohol the rest of the filament separated.

I'm so happy you did this. I've been looking to 3d print my own case for a while now and was really hoping you would do this. I will be doing this exact build for my next board.

that cookies and cream texture makes me want to eat this keyboard

Good job, Nola. Great job, Nola. Keep it up! ❤

you should use a soldering iron to fuse the peices stronger

Is this video when you realize how simple building keyboards is compared to most other technical hobbies? xD

Good job Nola, you're doing a great job Nola. Keep it up.

PLS 3D print a keycap set that would be so sick

one of many errors you made in the first attempt with 3D print is to use a glue on the bed. If you have a heating bed, you don't need glue, like NEVER Hipyo... trust me... also your cat agree with me, look him in the eye. BTW very well result, I think I will try it, thanks

Need a part two where the key caps are 3d printed

I would recommend you to try Prusa Slicer. For me it works much better than Cura Slicer re-skins(such as a Creality slicer that you used). In my opinion Prusa is just much prettier and easier to use, and it also has a lot of nice features. Happy printing!

You need to make a V2 now that you have done this. The sound and looks is pretty impresive. Also I'm a kb noob so maybe it's trash I don't know better but I like it.

wow hipyo im so proud of you thank you for struggling and wasting over 30 dollars of fillament great work hipyo the sound makes me pretty optimistic for my own three-way-split 3d printed keyboard sounding pretty decent

Для сварки ручкой надо как и при сварке металлов надо подготовить кромку. Желательно на стадии моделирования. Клавиатура до нуля из-за утолщений на углах. Появляется они из-за торможения головки принтера. При этом пластик выдавливается с той же скоростью что и везде. Есть программные способы лечения. А Можно на модели в том месте делать уже и скруглять углы.

first layer sharp corners are a nightmare if you don't know what you're doing.

That sound test was (surprisingly) quite literally good better best for me (and yes I do think the unmodded 3d printed one sounded better than the modded aluminium one.)

I got out of 3D Printing 4 years ago. It's kind of a little bit hilarious to me that people are still having the same issues with it, I definitely got some flashbacks from prints failing and the frustrations of why it wasn't working. Great video!

Good job Nola!!

Proud of you and Nola

Hippo, try cleaning your build plate with isopropyl alcohol and no glue just set the temperature higher like 70c

Honestly really decent for knowing nothing about 3D printing. Everyone has to waste at least $30 in filament starting out so don’t sweat it. Cheers!

Good job, Nola. Good job, Hipyo Tech.

3d print since 6 months and i love it

sub'd and liked, where them plants! Been watch'n your vids as they pop up, but those plants. gotta see them plants!

Good job, Nola!

“I really don’t blame Creality or Ender” BUT YOU SHOULD If you want to 3D print get a printer from Bambu lab

It's time to print some keycaps good sir 😄

Hipyo you should do a video where you make the lightest mouse possible and the mouse casting is 3d printed

you had tu curate the plastic with alcohol for a better texture ,also use glue , and if you sanded it you could have painted it with your fav color from an aresol can , of course use a paint that includes primer as well,.

4:54 thought you were talking about lubing them and giving them some... *cream.*

Good job nola

hiypo the song is actually fire and the keyboard looks great

can you do one with a number pad :P I think you need a matching set! Plussssss I would love to see what products you use.

Good job Noah. Great job Noah. Keep it up!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nola, good job. Good job Nola.

Good job Nola, we love your nakey little body and chaotic nature

Instead of filling in the plastic with another gun, I would have tried connecting the 2 pieces with a soldering iron

wow, time to 3d print my own board now

Exactly what kinds of filament were you trying to print with? It's suspicious that one of them randomly worked perfectly. If you were trying to print with ABS for example, it was definitely not going to work on that printer without an enclosure. It melts at a sort of similar temp to PLA (usually 20-30° C hotter, but it will still melt at PLA temps) so you would see some extrusion (though it would likely underextrude at PLA settings, which it looked like it was doing) and it def would never stick to the bed.

Good job Nola

Bring back the thock goober plez.

We need the hippo keycaps to restock

Z layor was way to high, and the skirt needs to be attached to the outside to keep from warping. Depends on nozzle size, I run 0.6, so my skirt is 0.4 away from the object.

Please do show us your plants Hipyo the one you showed us is very friend :))))

If it printed fine by just changing the filament, your problem may have something to do with the temperature or print speed.

Good job Nola 🥺

now you have to 3D print keycaps

3D print a few different keyboard holders and review.

Nicely done.

i built my first keyboard about 2 weeks ago. i used a barebone called pulsar PCMK hotswap iso 80%.

Good Job Nola

Holy… The 3D printed one really does sound better.

Much proud

It's noice, I'm proud.

good job nola

wow hipyo im so proud of you thank you for struggling and wasting over 30 dollars of fillament great work

Genius!

10:24 there goees the poor lad's monetisation :D

Print ergo keyboards, like dactyl or corne)