look at that it's a brand new year which means it's time for a new season of fan mail friday
there you are this is awesome um you know i've got this camera up here i've got some packages here's
the box right there i actually have a second angle and a coffee that you can see me in cheers
2020 was an unprecedented year for everything and even with all that happened we as a community
were able to raise a bunch of money for the one big give that bender hosts for
seattle children's hospital and i can't be more proud of all the work that was done in order to
bring some much needed monetary help to those who may not otherwise be able to
afford it but enough about that listen this is a new season a new year let's let's get to
that number let's surpass that number let's do whatever we can to help those who need our help
we've got some stuff here to open up i'm kind of excited about it let's do it the first one is from
oh hey hometown tacoma inside we have oh look at that there's a letter a u.s one dollar bill a
self-addressed stamped envelope well let's let's dive in dear 3d printing nerd my name is mark
i'm from olympia washington i have been watching you when you make the ghost with the tongue that
goes in and out from your fan mark hey thanks for that mark that's really kind of you right there
you sent a dollar you sent a self-addressed stamped envelope do i still have the ghost
mark just for you look at this here it is it's time to get onto business first things first
mark thanks for that trip down memory lane that was a lot of fun
and uh thanks to that dollar and a self-addressed stamp envelope you get mark you get a sticker
next up we've got this envelope right here this is from portland oregon neighborhood
sort of look at this idea for print mill okay could be exciting let's take a look inside
and inside well we have okay
to joel hi i am john i have an idea for what you should print on naomi's print mill it's a
ramp from my lego max train the size of the ramp is 273 millimeters long by 134 millimeters wide
by 22 millimeters high i thought this would be an interesting challenge for the printer if you do
want to accept the challenge then contact me at my email address if you do decide to make it please
send it to me my original one i printed out had an unforeseen design flaw your fan john c let's
take a look oh he doesn't have the design flaw but there's a picture that's cool well hey i've got
your email address maybe i'll reach out thanks for this john i'm excited for this one this is from
chris's basement oh yeah chris riley an amazing content creator on youtube and probably one of
the kinder people i know also taller than me look at that happy holidays 2020. chris's basement well
this is fantastic look at this this is great thanks chris i'm sorry i didn't get to open
this until right now chris if you're watching this please leave a comment down below tell people how
they can get some of your wonderful stickers last certainly not least oh look look look look look
i know what that is perhaps you've heard of fixum dude he sent a box ooh it is packed well look at
that let's do let's do this okay okay oh there's stuff okay we got we've got stuff hold the phone
okay there's a little thing right there look at that feel free to read on air i like those notes
for seattle children's hospital okay oh some fix some dude stickers oh here's another oh
you know what this is i think yes look at look at that so you see that look at that yes oh i
love these cardboard i mean it says 1ad i don't think that matters and at the very very bottom
a self-addressed stamped envelope perfect let's open up this first this is wrapped nicely and oh
look at this they're uh keyring keychain kinda do hickeys but here i'm gonna hold it up right here
look at that it's got it's connected via a key ring and uh it wiggles
there's also this one look at this 3d pn 3dp and it's got the little joelbot at the bottom
and uh the print quality is fantastic i would imagine these printed in place of
course these are awesome thank you for these and for the shuttle thank you shuttle oh my goodness
joel i've enjoyed you and your channel for several years and i wanted to send you a little something
as a thank you the flexible keychains bag tags are one of my original designs printed in the
awesome proto pasta high five blue you sent me along with the enormous thai interceptor
thanks again for sending it you've made me a minor celebrity at the office that video was so much fun
and i forced everyone i know to watch it at least once well thank you for that that does help with
the algorithm i've also included a pre-release print of my new star wars imperial shuttle kit
card along with the instructions sorry i can only print it in normal human sizes of course no fan
mail would be complete without a little something for the seattle children's hospital thank you for
that and because you've helped inspire so many of us rookie makers out there over the years
you joel you get a sticker i love it thanks for all you do high five michael grugel aka fix some
dude brilliant absolutely freaking brilliant and then a little something for seattle children's
hospital look at that 20 40 50 50 us dollars for seattle children's hospital fix-up dude fix some
dude thank you so much uh with this obviously we have to get down to business first things first
i know i like to fix them dude but michael thank you very much you're a wonderful awesome person
in the 3d printing community and i'm very thankful that we were able to interact i was
i'm i'm honest to goodness i love that model of yours that i printed and i'm i'm happy i
was able to send it to you and congrats on your minor celebrity but because of your generous
donation to seattle children's hospital and this self-addressed stamped envelope you michael
you fix them dude you get stickers and just like that this episode of fan mail friday
is over thanks again for joining us on this brand new season episode one in the can and just on
a on a side note obviously these are recorded before fridays uh today the recording date is
february 2nd and the reason that that's important is because three years today i put in my notice at
adobe on the after effects team it was my last day there because i was going to explore being
a full-time content creator and there is there is no way the past three years could have happened
without support from viewers like you so um honestly truly deeply thank you and just like
that don't forget to hug each other more practice kindness aggressively and as always high five