Hey folks, Alan Mandic, MandicReally here.
If I asked you what the inside of the 3D Printing Nerd’s studio looked like,
would you be able to tell me?
Sure, you can picture
his backdrop, his desk, but what about the rest of his studio?
That's where I'm heading right now!
Like you said, my version of therapy is different than yours...
And what if I said we were ruining a meme by going and building a Voron
with a 3D printing Nerd?
I'm heading the Pacific Northwest, and I'm taking you with me.
Let's get to Seattle!
And just like that, we're in the 3D Printing Nerd studio.
Traveling via transition is the only way to travel.
It is vastly superior to hanging out at an airport, getting on a jet
plane, flying across the country, getting into a rental car,
driving from one state to another just to get here.
Anyway. Hey, let's take a look around the studio.
Okay.
Starting off at the front door in the studio.
Front door, back door. Indoor outdoor. Spinning.
It says exit, but that's only when going that way
and going this way, it's the entrance!
We will start, how about this?
We'll go to this side first because it's where I usually go.
A & B cameras are set up. I've got a GoPro over there.
For when I time lapse something.
This is the main studio area.
Well, I usually, usually
there's not a big old Voron on the desk, but I'll stand behind here
and wave my arms around and shout at the camera that’s right behind you.
I've got a couple of lights up, too.
Either side.
Beautiful woodwork on the ceiling.
Part of the reason why I got this space is because it just has this
uniqueness to it.
Filament wall over here.
This is the Repkord RepRack system.
I got to the tubing here with the,
these are the wood cut ones.
And then I used the 3D printed French cleats for the back.
Over here you can see I've
got lots of prints that I kind of save, a lot of Fotus Mint stuff.
There's some Maxi-Figs, Pickle Rick.
All right, Here are more prints that you've probably seen in other episodes.
So we've got the 3D print speakers.
There's the Hairy Lion.
My biggest and my first viral video there.
I dont know, stuff, stuff.
We have 3D printers, so we have stuff.
What's really cool behind here is the
secret passage to the print farm.
Follow me. Follow me.
Watch your head in here!
This is the print farm.
I have 18 different Prusa i3 Mk3S+ 3D printers,
and this is where we do a lot of print jobs.
It's used to be kind of Etsy focused with
CinderWing3D and Flexi-Factory and those kind of models.
In fact, I still have some that I'm going to sell at DEEP DISCOUNT,
but right now what I'm trying to do is batch and contract manufacturing.
For example, 3D Chameleon.
They use parts that I've made.
Alex Lend has made the hack cat and he's had parts ordered from me.
Danielle Boyer, She has the Steam Connection.
And I think, Alan, you actually got me doing a print job stuff earlier.
Yeah. Insert here That’s the print farm.
That’s 3D printing.
The print farm it always goes.
And this was a, this was a quick print.
It was 70 buttons.
So a friend of ours works for a school district
and they needed accessible buttons and they asked what I could do.
And I was like, of course, do it.
And so we got to print them in, well,
all sorts of
really cool colors, buttons and pieces and all that stuff.
So I'm just there were two pieces that broke during the printing process.
They didn't, they didn't print at a quality that I thought was okay.
And so we got to the very end of it needed 70 of them.
And so I just need two small pieces and one small piece.
Print time, 59 minutes, and then the print job is done
also.
Also handy this type of tool here, this.
This flat. What is this?
This is a like an artist's knife or just sort of spatula sort of thing?
It's really thin.
You can sharpen the tip just a little bit and it lets you get under
any sort of piece that's going to stick to that bed a little too much.
Oh, and just it's almost therapeutic.
Your idea of therapy and mine are different.
Yeah.
So a fun story that used to be the resin room
and it's stunk a lot and it made me sneeze.
We cleaned it up and you'll see the new resin later.
So directly opposite of the indoor-outdoor incoming-outgoing
door is a is a closet and it's not I mean, it's a it's a frigging closet.
Like who cares, right?
But if you remember, I did prints for Neil Patrick Harris.
I made a really big frame.
Two of them, in fact, to go on some
paintings that he had.
There were two frames.
I printed the parts for three just in case there was something that went wrong.
And so I have a full Neil
Patrick Harris frame all in parts back here,
and I'd like some suggestions on what I should do with it.
Should I auction it off? Should I give it away?
Should I paint it myself?
I don't know.
But I have those.
And so I thought,
that's kind of a cool behind the scenes sort of thing you get to see.
Once you
come through the door and you take a right, you enter this part.
This has been through some changes.
Just because large machines come and go.
For example, this is the gMax 2 Pro right here.
I have yet to get it out of the box because I haven’t found a lot of room.
There's some machines over there in materials.
Here is the Bambu X1 carbon with four different AMS units.
I'm doing a project with the Hydra for that and
the AMS units weren't working right.
And so I talked to Bamboo and they're like, Oh, yours are too old.
And so they're going to help with that.
Let's see.
Oh, someone I forget his name, sent this.
Look at this.
Ohhh, the “Baby Belt” the Baby Belts, this is the Baby Belt 3D printer.
So I do, I do have that.
There's a P1P, big Raise3D Pro there.
There's a gMax 2 still.
O MarkFroge machine is up here.
And move it up here temporarily to make some room for the Bambu.
Uh, remember I told you about that resin room.
Here.
Follow me.
This is not too bad.
It doesn’t smell too bad because the AnyCubic and the Saturn
both have those air filters inside of them and they help quite a bit.
But I've got my Nexa3D Xip.
Prusa SL1s A few different machines, even some boxes that I haven't taken out.
This is kind of in the resin room.
And part of the reason why I like this is because I've got a comfy chair.
I'm careful with the carpet, but I can take my time with prints too
slowly snip off supports and slowly sand and just make them look great.
So you get something like.
Like that.
Oh, no.
I forgot to glue her hand on.
But you get Kim the mechanic.
I know a lot of people print practical things,
and I know a lot of people print technical things.
I like it all, including stuff like this.
I think it's just looks it looks amazing.
This is modeled by Printed Obsession
and available via the Fotus Mint Patreon.
If you're not a member, highly suggest you take
that though, is really it.
Let's remember one thing about the studio tour we've got to discuss.
What's that?
Your camera set up.
What you filmed your video with.
This is where I shout at a camera.
I've got to Godox LED light panels on the sides.
My A-cam is right here.
It is a BlackMagic Pocket Cinema 6k camera.
I've got an F2.8 24-70 Canon lens on it.
I record via usb-c to an SSD and I shoot in BRaw.
My B-cam, and the camera that you see at shows
and conventions is the Canon C70.
And on this I've got an F4 24-105 RF lens.
I shoot to this Sony card.
What is it called? It's it's like the super fast one.
So it's got the extra set of pins.
UHS-II UHS-II.
See Mandic knows.
And on there I just got a simple Rode mic.
It's better than the onboard mics.
And so I pick up decent sounds with that.
So then for audio, typically at least
right now what I do is I record on this.
This is a Zoom F6.
It provides 32-bit float audio.
So if you scream or if you whisper, it can pick it all up and you can adjust it.
It won't clip and it won't bottom out.
Two Sennheiser's AVX receivers here.
I've got the transmitters here.
On this one I use a Sennheiser
MKE-2 lav mic.
MandicReally has a, what’d you have?
You had a...
ah right down here.
You had a Rode mic Yeah, a Rode lav mic.
And it works well.
This one picks up the tone to my voice a little bit better.
I like it better.
For up Close stuff I'll shoot it with the Canon R5.
Now it'll do 8K video.
I have to shoot to use a...
CF-Express Type-B CF-Express. It's not in there.
I was looking for it. I think it's over my computer.
So I shoot to the CF-Express, 8k video.
And then I can really push in, especially if it's locked off on sticks.
I can, I can get at it really nice.
it gives me the ability to push it.
And so if I'm doing like,
if you're filming B-roll of something that you've printed, you can get it in 8K,
and then it gives you the ability to not just push in but reframe the shot
and you can get extra sequences out of the same B-roll footage.
Oh, look at this.
I have a nice iFootage Monopod and on that is a GoPro.
And this is what I use to timelapse lots of things.
Also not pictured is a DJI Pocket 2.
I've used that to film some stuff.
The GoPro, actually, we've we filmed multiple episodes
from FormNext in Germany just with this GoPro Hero 11.
Yeah, that's let's see, what else do I use.
We talked about the F6, the C70, the BlackMagic 6K,
the lac mics, the,
the Sennheiser HD system.
I think that's it.
Well not a lot here so we make do with 1000 square feet
as you can see we try to go higher with some things but when you have machines
like the gMax or the Pro3 from Raise3D, you end up with that.
You can't go too high.
Power requirements to take into account.
Plus it.
It's a studio, it's a print farm, but I also I like to sit my laptop somewhere
and be able to to work on some stuff while I'm eating my lunch or whatever.
That's the tour.
That’s the a tour of the 3D Printing Nerd, Seattle studio.
I hope you enjoyed it.
This was a lot of fun. Alan, Did you have fun?
I've had a blast.
Alan had a blast.
Yeah. I don't.
Whatever is next, I don't know.
But I hope you come along for the journey.
You can look for 3D Printing Nerd on all the socials.
You can find me online at Joel Telling That works too.
This was fun giving you a tour.
I really enjoyed myself and I hope you enjoyed it too.
And that's it for a tour of a 3D Printing Nerd studio.
It's a little hectic as we had to wrap it up
at the end of the day right before I hit the road.
But thank you so much to Joel for having all of us
here to show us around this place.
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