Hey, folks Alan Mandic, MandicReally here for studio revamp number three!
The third video in the series where I'm turning this space
into a Ultimate MakerSpace, 3D printing, YouTube studio.
I've got to get right to work in this video
because I actually have a friend on his way
over to help me move big heavy stuff I can't move by myself,
and I didn't do the preparation work ahead of time that I needed to do.
So let's get to it.
We've got to move this couch loveseat.
Which means that, that filament needs to move and we've got to move this
full Dell server rack with 2 servers inside of it down to the studio.
Actually, the couch is coming up here.
You see, this used to be my office where I edited all these videos, did
all my 3D design work, and we decided that it makes more sense
to turn this into a bit of a family game room and move myself into the studio.
Also, the acoustics in here are awful, so let's go back to the studio.
A little over a week ago we decided to try out me moving my workstation,
so my computer, one of my monitors
and, I’m hooked up to the TV that is usually in the studio here
as a second monitor, and actually try it out for working in here,
editing my videos, doing my design work, everything in the studio where I film.
My fiancee
and I both own our own businesses and we are not good at not working 24/7.
So we're trying to create a healthier work life balance.
So the couch needs go up in that space so we can have like a VR and gaming setup,
which this now means that all of the work I'm doing here in the studio to revamp
things has to change even further so I can fit an office in here too.
We just got to start moving stuff. Let's go.
And not on
the dog...
And with that, the big stuff is moved.
It's amazing how much easier things go when you let other people help you.
There's one more big thing I need to move.
I need to do some construction work on it.
I need to insulate it with that Rockwool back there.
I need to paint it, and then I need to move it.
And what I'm talking about is...
Okay, this is not the big thing that I meant, but this just arrived.
This is the Elegoo Neptune 3 Max,
and it is also a big thing that I don't know
where it's going to end up in the studio.
I'm probably overusing transition to this point.
Let's just go to the other thing I want to show you.
This is what we are talking about.
It is my resin printer bench,
a workbench I built specifically for resin 3D printers.
I don't resin print that much.
It's taking up a lot of space and I want to put my desk here
so I need to move it over here.
In the main shot of the studio, looking at my normal backdrop.
The printers on those shelves behind me, that shelf full of 3D prints, the banner,
it's all going to get
replaced by that workbench and then re set up on that workbench.
Let's just go ahead and clear that thing off so I can show you
the updates that I want to make to it so it becomes the new backdrop.
Before I pile stuff in front of the server rack and enclose it again.
I should show you some of the functional 3D prints I've done inside of here.
We might as well start off with the ugliest thing.
It's this QNAP switch mounts that I have in here.
It's a 2.5 gig switch.
When I ordered it, it was the cheapest 2.5gb I could get
and it said it was Rack Mountable, but it wasn't.
So I had to make my own rack mount for it and I just stuck with it
rather than returning it and finding one
that was actually Rack Mountable and paying more for it.
Then up here in the corner is this POE injector mount
for my Ubiquiti access point that was in my office.
I actually had to take this out of here and put it back in my office.
But the most functional thing is probably
this rail design that I created down here.
If you buy any server rack stuff, you'll find out it's ridiculously overpriced.
This shelf up here is like $75-$100 for it, and I wanted something
like that to support my smaller NAS case because it's a shallow NAS case.
So I couldn't use brackets at the back of it to hold it up.
My bigger case for my main NAS, I have on these drawers slides here
making it easier to take in and out and service,
but they again are not cheap and they're really not the nicest slides either.
I really don't want to pay another $60 for slides and didn't particularly like.
So what I did here is design up some 3D principle mounts
the mounts in a 1U space on the rack
and allow me to use some 2020 extrusions and I cut the length
to act as rails to fully support the server
that sits on top of them between the prints and the extrusions.
I'm significantly cheaper than even the cheapest of shelf brackets
I could have gotten on Amazon to produce this shelf setup.
First things first, I need to clean off the workbench so I can move it
and make the changes to it that I want to make.
And with that,
this thing is cleaned off and ready to start making the modifications
that I want to make to it.
One of the first ones I want to do is get some paint on this thing.
I don't want to have this brown
wall of wood behind me in the backdrop of the studio,
so I got to get some color on this so it’s
going to fit the aesthetic of my space a little bit better,
but there is at least one
or two modifications I need to make first so that those can then get painted.
The first change I want to make is I want to put a leg in the middle of this.
I'm not worried about the strength of the bench.
You just saw me sitting on it. I had the Elegoo Jupiter on it.
That thing is a heavy printer and it was well supported on here.
But I want to be able to maybe put some doors on this
and have some shelves underneath here for some hidden storage yet.
So having that middle will allow me to have some place to hinge off of for doors.
That also means I need to set up the miter saw and make some cuts.
And I know there's a piece I need for that.
So with the miter saw set up here, the problem is dust.
You might have noticed I've put down carpet in the studio.
Now I'm moving my office set up in the studio.
So dust, dirt and that kind of stuff, as I start to do more
workshop projects, is going to become a pretty high concern.
This all has a port on it for dust extraction.
I believe it came with an adapter to go to a shop vac, however I've misplaced it.
So I had to jump into Fusion 360 where I designed up this adapter piece
and then I threw it to my Voron where I printed up this part in about an hour.
Now it's time for the “Moment of Truth”,
because I haven't actually tried fitting this on here yet.
Nope, too tight.
I know what happened there.
There's a step on this adapter piece where like the dust bag clips on too.
And I used that to actually make a clip on design for this piece.
So it's securely retained on there
and it was just a little too much give for this to slide over it.
I might have been better printing this in PETG
which generally has a little more give and or putting the relief slit
that I put on the side of it
to go a little higher and let it relieve a little more.
Or open up the tolerances inside.
However it cracked, but it's still on there
and I had intended to put a zip tie around it anyway,
so I think it's still going to work for what I need.
I just might have to
revisit this in the future with an updated design for long term use.
With that out of the way, it's time we got some wood
cut. With that leg screwed in, there's more
I want to do to this thing, but I can get primer on it for now.
Now is definitely a moment where I wish
I had somebody to hold the camera for me because I have to keep stopping
and taking gloves off to adjust the camera so I don't get paint on it.
This is definitely a factor I have to think about moving forward.
I just realized at this moment
I'm making a YouTube video about watching paint be applied and dried.
So let's move on to
insulation.
If you're not familiar, this is Rockwool “Safe’n’Sound”.
It's a mineral wool insulation,
so it has an insulating factor, but also a sound absorbing factor to it.
A lot of folks use this material to make their own
sound panels for studio environments such as mine,
I primarily use these moving blankets you'll see all around my studio.
They're just there to cut down on reverb
and they're a lot more cost effective than the panels made with this stuff.
However, I'm
putting this on the backside of the workbench
to have a little bit of an insulation factor.
As I've noted numerous times, this space is not well insulated,
but also to have a bit of a sound absorbing effect.
You will be seeing more of that in future studio revamp videos.
For now, let's just get this onto the workbench.
Traditionally in a house if I was installing Rockwool I'd be doing it
behind drywall and it would act as an isolation barrier between rooms.
In this situation, I want it to more actively absorb noise
so you need to be a permeable layer
for that noise, vibration, the wavelengths, to travel through.
Drywall would reflect the sound.
I need something that will allow it to pass through into the Rockwool.
There are plenty of materials I could choose from,
but I want something fairly neutral.
And I recently saw a video by a creator named Michael Alm
who chose to use something that I probably wouldn't have thought of before.
I'd seen the video
when they were making sound panels for their office, drop cloth for painting!
When I picked up the Rockwool at Lowe's, I picked up this as well.
I was able to get a gray one.
Most of them are kind of a tan canvas, which is not what I want.
I don't want that warm color.
I'm definitely a cooler colored person.
So this is going to fit pretty well for my application.
I started by insulating the top of this thing.
I might as well have as much insulation in this area as I can to dampen down
the machines that are going to be running on this.
I'm looking at you Bambu X-1!
For the back portion of this, I decided to build a mini wall inside of there
so it had studs and would fit the batting of the insulation
in between there properly.
I'd be lying if I said I left the space at the top and the bottom of this piece
on purpose. Measure twice cut wants
or don't...
That said, though, I think I could put an LED strip
at the bottom of it and light up some glow underneath of it.
To have a nice look to it.
So it's not all lost.
With the canvas on the front of it, the wall in place, I came from the back
side with the pegboard off and installed the installation that way.
Then I can put the pegboard back up
and of course the finishing touch is the MandicReally banner.
If it's going to go on there for now, this is actually going
to hurt the sound dampening effect because it'll act as a reflection point.
But it's what I have for my branding right now. CHOM
So helpful.
By the way, since the start of the video I have unboxed the Elegoo Neptune 3 Max.
I did a live unboxing, check out the link up here to catch the VOD of that.
Review on this one coming
as soon as I can get some testing done, which is going to take a while.
Now I need to swap out all the stuff behind me
in the backdrop here with the workbench, but I'm not going to make you sit through
all of that. Let's just jump to the finished product
with that.
I no longer have a cold block wall behind me.
I have a more solid workbench for these printers to live on.
I have a better place to display my designs and 3D prints
in all of their glory, as well as having a better storage space
underneath of the bench.
For the moment
anyway, it's not all junked up and it has some sense of organization.
Personally, there are plenty of things I still want to change and more steps
in this project.
The storage on the shelves to each side of me absolutely needs to be addressed.
Those shelves themselves now look kind of out of place
with this center one behind me,
but I still like the step forward that my backdrop has now taken.
There is one glaring problem, though.
This empty space over here where that workbench was
and where my desk is going to end up, where I'm going to do my design
work and edit these videos where I need to feel inspired...
Is just an ugly garage door with a couple of moving blankets
hanging on it and an empty concrete spot.
It simply isn't inspiring to the mind of a Mad Scientist Maker such as myself,
so I need to address that.
But that's for the next studio revamp video.
I'm gonna leave you with the 2 previous episodes in this series.
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