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Hey what's up Nerdgasm fans Jerry here aka Barnacles. And as you can see I'm pretty bored
So we're gonna print some legos on the Ultimaker 3D printer because nothing cures boredom like putting little pieces of plastic together WHOHOO!
All right guys let's print some legos
So I went ahead and picked up a model from a guy named Wizard 23
and you can get more information on the model in the description of the video, but we're going to go ahead and open it up
It's a parametric model that you can pretty much size to anything you want
But the two most common Lego bricks were included so I went ahead and already created a whole array of them that we want to
put onto the platform, so I'm going ahead and loading that right now.
We're using Cura 13.06.4 which is their latest version of the software and man have they made some huge improvements
So here you can see the legos
You go ahead and move around and this is actually a representation of the Ultimaker build platform
So you can kind of see exactly what it's going to look like when you're done printing
And you can go ahead and look around it if you've watched my other videos you've already seen this
um, you can see you know they look like regular legos they interconnect using the same type of mechanics, so
Here on the bed
I went ahead and set these and arranged them in an order so each one will print one by one so this one will print
Then this one will print then this one will print so on so forth and it basically
arranged them in such a way that the printhead won't collide but it can complete an entire Lego
before it continues
And the main reason for doing that is it would take forever if I had to do one layer here print another layer move move
Move move that's a whole lot of unnecessary
Movement of the printhead so the idea here is that it prints 1 complete Lego
and then moves to the next which is much more efficient and saves a lot of time doesn't save anything on plastic or anything like
That but it does save an awful lot of time
I'm printing with the default settings although. I did set the layer height to 0.1 millimeter because when you're dealing with Legos
It's really tight tolerances and plus. We're printing in P.L.A
Which is a much more rigid
Plastic than A.B.S so in order for these things to fit together you're going to want those tolerances to be extra tight
So now that we got this laid out. I went ahead and already took the liberty of saving this to the S.D.
Card that we're going to put into the ultimaker
Controller so that the unit can print autonomous because I don't like leaving it connected to the computer you can leave it connected
Computer and have cura do all the printing for you can just literally go up to file and go to print
and it shows you some cool stats and everything
But I just don't want to risk the computer locking up or having a glitch or the program crashing and then wasting all that plastic
So for this I use the ultimaker controller you just put in an SD card
You say go and boom you're printing so let's get these things going so that we can start farting around with these legos
Alright guys. Well here. We have the finished legos that we just printed off the ultimaker 3D printer
you can see right here? I printed two different types. I have one that has hollow cylinders,
and then one that has solid cylinders because I want to see which one's work best
And there was two versions of it from Wizard 23, and the first thing
I'll tell you is the blocks fit very very snugly together so much in fact that I'm actually having a hard time
separating these three right here,
so uh, If you do print these blocks you will have to wear them in so connect them disconnect them connect and disconnect them and they will
eventually get really really easy to put together, but you can see right here
they're actually very very precise and
To prove out precise. They are,
I can snap them together you can see they're super super super snug
I mean to get them to get them apart takes quite a bit of effort which a lot of people would say is actually pretty
cool, so we'll go ahead and interconnect a couple of these
And just like that make a little staircase here. I'll even put the big piece up here on top
but as you can see
Yeah, just drop some shit on the floor
That demonstrates these actually are functional lego blocks and they are compatible with actual legos
I should say these are not legos these are actually lego like blocks um
But they actually will work with regular legos too unfortunately
I don't have any real legos available to me right now hence why I printed them because I want I felt like playing with Legos
so the little blocks
You see just snap right on
You can see the ultimaker printer prints to such a good precision that you can actually print out interlocking plastic blocks now
Legos have to be printed to a perfect tolerance to function and
As you can see here they do
But I was actually pretty surprised at how good of a job, It did. I mean these these blocks
They fit really snugly together not even printed in abs 2 printed in P.L.A. Which actually makes them much more rigid than A.B.S is um
But I could see I mean the potential for this being huge think about it
You could model your own blocks they could connect. You know like Lincoln logs in these or
Erector set in these you could create all kinds of conversion blocks that would let you
Intermingle different sets of blocks which you know Lego they wouldn't create those parts because they don't want people to use the competitors products
but you technically could um
but as you can see both the hollow and the solid pieces work equally well and
They do snap right together
The pieces are very very uniform and flat I printed with default settings
I did set the fan to come on after the fifth layer. I didn't say that earlier in the video.
Just to avoid some warping because if you look on some of these early printed pieces
I don't know if you can see that on the camera, but there's a slight slight gap
It doesn't affect how they connect together
But it was from it trying to peel away from the platform because the fan was coming on too early
but
uh with a little bit of tweaking depending on your environment your humidity and temperature you can actually get your printer print and stuff like this
That's ultra precise and come on
Let's face it if you can print a lego you can print just about anything because these things are so
Tightly fit together. I mean if it was off by more than a tenth of a millimeter probably these wouldn't snap together
And they do and the more you use them the better they work because they do actually wear in
But there you have it now. I could just print out tons of Legos and build something
Well there you have a nerdgasm fans yet another use for the ultimaker 3D printer
I went ahead and created my own Legos or Lego like compatible blocks mega blocks, whatever whatever
They call them these days, but anyways as you can see they actually interlock this does work with pla
Which is actually a big surprise. I thought that I'd have to use abs because abs is more flexible um
But as you can see here
It actually works
Here's some pieces interconnected they free stand on their own
And like I said you do have to wear them in overtime
uh
just keep connecting them and disconnecting and
Eventually they get really really well mated to each other and everything fixed just perfectly but you can see there
I've created every block. I've printed so far works and snaps together,
and breaks apart
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