Hello, 3D Printing Friends! I got something cool in the mail the other day.
That's right, it is the Alien3D UFO Mystery Box, the July 2019 edition. This is
the one-year anniversary box. Yes, Alien3D has been bringing
happiness to 3D printer users for the past year. Stick around, we will open this
up and see what's inside, right after this. I'm Bryan, and you... are watching BV3D!
Hey everyone, welcome back! So like I said, I've got the Alien3D UFO Mystery
Box. This is the July 2019 edition. It is the alien-versary
edition. That's right, this is the one year anniversary of the box. They've been
sending this box out for the past year. I've gotten every single one of them and
I've done an unboxing for almost every single one of them. I think the only one
I missed was February of this year. I was sick, lost my voice... Couldn't talk, so I
just kind of skipped out on that one. But I enjoyed getting this box every
month. For me, it is still a good value. It is $36 a month; that includes shipping in
the US. Every month in the box you get four 20-meter samples of filament. You
get a 3D printing-related accessory, you get a project to print, and if there is
hardware or electronics that are required for the project, those are
included as well. You usually get stickers, swag, and savings (in the form of
coupon codes), and every month one random subscriber gets the Mothership prize. And
the Mothership prize is an extra value item that is either in the box or, if it's
too big to put in the box, gets shipped separately.
That's something from one of the boxes sponsors every month, so that's actually
pretty cool. I haven't won anything yet, although based on some spoilers that I
saw posted. I won a little something in this box, so... Let's open this up and take
a look inside, we'll see what we got. What do we have... Well, here we are, the July
2019 Alien-versary edition. Looks like the trifold is online as a PDF. There was
apparently a problem getting that printed for this month. We'll set this
aside. Aha! See, I told you there were spoilers
that I saw! So, I appear to have won the Avengers
Multipack of nozzles from E3D. A 0.4 millimeter brass nozzle, a
plated copper nozzle, and a hardened steel nozzle. That's cool! I'm looking
forward to that, because I can print some other stuff than what I've got going
right now. We have some Hello3D... Oh! Some temperature-change PLA! Changes from blue
to white. Extrudes at 190˚ to 220˚ C on a bed from 0˚ to 60˚ C. We'll set that right
here. We have some Alien3D Alien Ooze PLA. I did a review of that recently, and I
like this stuff. I will definitely make use of that. We have some FilamentOne
Pro Select Traffic White PLA. Extrudes from 195˚ to 225˚ C on a bed from 0˚ to
60˚. That looks like a nice, stark white. That's good, I like that. I have some uses
for that as well. And we have some 3DFuel Daffodil Yellow PLA. Extrudes from
190˚ to 220˚ C on a bed from 0˚ to 60˚. That's cool, too. I like that color. It's a
nice yellow. I'll set that aside. We have an Alien3D BuildTak surface. That's cool, a
branded surface. I might put that on the back of one of my other Wham-Bam
flexible build system sheets. That's that's kind of cool, because sometimes I want
a texture, and that gives me a texture. I'll set that right here. And even if I
don't print on that, I will keep that maybe as a backdrop over there where all
my prints are. This is parts for the project, and we will see what that
project is in just a minute. We'll get on the Alien3D website and see what's
going on. These are the three nozzles that I won. That is cool, I like that! I
think I can use those on my MK3. I'll set that aside...put that right there. We
have some popping candy, like pop rocks ICEE Orange flavor. My kid likes this
stuff, I'll let her have that. Uh, let's see, 50% off on MicroSwiss! I... I cheated, I
got in the box and I covered up that coupon code, because that's a one-time
use coupon code. So I'll set that right there. Same for the Wham Bam
Systems. I think I can give this one away, and I may do that,
because I've got lots of Wham Bam Systems stuff on my machines already. Got
some Wham Bam stickers, got some MicroSwiss stickers, got a ROFL Rolling On
Floor Laughing alien-themed extra-terrestrial edition comic. I think
I will take a look at this later. This is from Ash Can Comics Pub. Josh has
included comics from them before. That is cool. Now, this is another RobbieMaQ box.
Look for the Godzilla, see if you can find it. I'm gonna pack all this stuff
back in and then we'll hit the website real quick and see what the project is.
BuildTak... Filament... Nozzles... Filament... Filament... Filament...
Coupons... Info...
It's kind of hard to show this off the way I normally do where I'm looking
at the front of the tri-fold, which is here.But I suppose I can zoom in on
parts of it and we'll do it that way. So, the Unidentified Filament Objects box:
"Materials contained within may cause you to jump for joy, pop a bottle of
champagne, light up the sky, wake up with a killer hangover, and not remember the
probing. You have been warned!" Meanwhile opening the tri-fold up
would get us to here, on the left panel. So, we have the information about the
filaments, we have our Alien3D Alien Ooze by IC3D; we have the Pro Select
Traffic White by FilamentOne; we have the Daffodil Yellow by 3DFuel; and the
Blue to White Temperature Change PLA from Hello3D. The accessory this month
was the BuildTaK print surface, and Josh says, "I couldn't get a surface for
everyone's a specific printer that was customized with my logo, so I hope the
8x8 size I have included is enough to fit at least one of your printers, or can
be used for testing the BuildTak surface on any printer you may be able
to use it on." And then here are the project parts for a
flashing UFO lamp (see back for details). This month's UFO flashing lamp isn't a
project I came up with, it's something someone shared on Thingiverse, and I
worked with a local electronics store to sort of simplify it as far as
programming. While the wiring is still complicated with 30 LED lights, and 30
resistors, and 2 meters of wiring, I still think it's pretty awesome and worth a try.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have, and I hope to see your makes. Link to the
files at Alien3D.us/UFO013." There were... 13 Mothership prizes this
month! So, the Mothership winners got the 50% off at Wham Bam, and the 50%
off at MicroSwiss. Ten of the winners got a brand new, unreleased 3D printing
pen from ZYLtech. That is cool. Two winners received some E3Dv6 nozzles,
it looked like, and one winner received the Avengers nozzle pack from E3D.
That's me! I got that one! That is cool! And Josh leaves us with a thank-you. He
says, "When I first thought of the UFOs in April of 2018, I really didn't know if I
could pull it off. I'd never done anything like this before. I did know
that I love 3D printing, and I wanted to be able to try different things. I wanted
to use 3D printing for more than just cutesy models to sit on my shelves, and
decorate my home. I wanted to create things with 3D printing. Initially, a
robotic dragon. Eighteen months after I got my first printer, I still haven't created
that dragon. But this is the 13th month of projects in the UFOs, and while
they're not always the best projects, not always the best accessories, to me
they're the life of what I've always aimed to do: Inspire myself and others to
do something different. As we enter this next year of UFOs, I hope to continue
bringing smiles, joy, and inspiring you to do more." And that's it for the tri-fold. I
think it's about time to wrap this up! All right, so that's another cool Alien3D
UFO mystery box! This is the July 2019 box. This is the one-year anniversary box.
This... is the box in which i finally won something! So i'm looking forward to
making use of those nozzles. We got four cool filament samples in the box this
month. We got some Alien Ooze PLA made by IC3D, we got some Traffic White PLA from
FilamentOne, we got some Daffodil Yellow PLA
from 3DFuel, and we got some Blue to White temperature change PLA from Hello3D.
And we got that cool blinking UFO electronics project that we need to
print out the UFO for, get that stuff soldered up, get that installed in the
project, and plug in a battery, and get it lit up and blinking! So I will probably
have a video about doing that, probably in the next couple of weeks. I've got a
link in the description to the Alien3D UFO site, if you would like to go check
that out. Ok, we are pretty much at the end of the episode. If you made it this
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