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[Applause] a week hasn't gone by without me wishing i had a 3d printer now i did a lot of research and i narrowed it down to two models the creality and v3 and the artillery genius now those printers are budget printers meaning less than three hundred dollars and i don't want to spend more than that but i want to be able to make my own designs for amateur radio and download some also from thingiverse i'll put the link in the description i'll take this opportunity to thank my patreon subscribers because without them i wouldn't have this printer and i wouldn't have a lot of things for this channel so thank you very much you know who you are and you're awesome please go check out patreon.com link down below please subscribe and help this channel because i need it thank you so the creality and of v3 is what's called a bowden printer which means that the filament is the motor that drives the filament is not on the extruder so the print head so there is a plastic tube and the filament goes through a plastic tube and goes into the extruder which is fine it's uh it's a very good printer from what i have found and many videos and forum posts that i have read and i almost bought it but i'm also into drones now so uh for drones you print also with flexible filament it's called a tpu and for that a printer which is a direct drive printer is better so i went with the genius the artillery genius and i have to say i'm pretty happy about it uh i probably would have bought the under v3 if i wasn't i didn't want to print flexible because it's more well known so to speak there is a huge community that can provide you with information on that printer and if it was just for amateur radio i probably would have bought the creality not the artillery so but i got the artillery so i can print all kind of filaments including flexible now they do have a 3d printer at work but i just can't bother them all the time to print my stuff and i have in the past so now i can do it myself a 3d printer basically is a computer controlled glue gun and you know how i like glue so it's just uh an extruder a head which has the filament going in it's heated up to about 200 degrees celsius a little more actually and it just liquefies and the printer will lay a bead on a glass bed and build up and build an object you can print using different kind of filaments you know different plastics have different properties the most common is probably pla you can look that one up also tpu which is flexible petg there are many filaments nylon even carbon uh a wood uh kind of wood looking filaments uh even conductive plastic which is great for amateur radio because you can use it as a an rf shield basically and i have to buy one spool of that so all those filaments have different properties and 3d printing is not that simple it's not plug and play really so if you want to get into it you really have to well there's a steep learning curve and uh it's not easy you have to spend a lot of time on it and for me it's not a hobby i really wanted a 3d printer to print a useful stuff for my hobbies but in itself 3d printing is not a hobby for me as it is to some people so i wanted to buy a printer that was uh you know easy to set up easy to use and that you know i wouldn't have to tinker too much with it but of course budget printers you have to do a little bit of tinkering that's inevitable i have to say though the uh artillery genius was very easy to put together i didn't even bother filming it because it only took 15 minutes uh you just have to bolt uh you know but four bolts uh for the uh the assembly the crane kind of thing and that's about it really you plug in a few cables and you're done i think it's simpler actually that the anda v3 i'll put a lot of links down below so make sure you check them out for amateur radio you can print a lot of stuff you can print cases antenna parts insulators uh you name it you can print anything you can imagine i printed a sleeve that goes on top of my spider beam to to put wires through i printed a case for an mppt charger there's a lot of stuff you can print with a 3d printer that you know you wish you had or you don't have to wait to buy something you just print it and sometimes even to replace a broken part you just you know draw it in the in the software and then you can print it and speaking about software you have to use two softwares two pieces of software for 3d printing and i'll put the links again down below the first one is either you can go actually to a program called when it's a web page called tinkercad and i've used this in the past you can you probably have seen it in my videos extremely simple to use well you know there's a few quirks to it but you can learn to do it to use it in just basically a few hours other than that you have a fusion 360 which is a professional grade program and i want to learn it but it's it's daunting task eventually i'll get to it but so basically you design your 3d uh object in a cad program once you have the file uh the 3d file which is has a stl extension then while the printer doesn't know what to do with it so you have to slice it using a slicer there are a number of slicers available uh a lot of them for free but the most uh commonly used is cura and cura uh you can download free and it's again it's not easy to master you can get to buy with the basic settings and you'll see that but there is also a learning curve so once again 3d printing is not that simple but it's so useful now let's have a look at the artillery genius and i'll put a link down to it where you can buy it too so here's the printer assembly only took a few minutes maybe uh 15 minutes so it was very quick which might be an advantage compared to the under 3. and i'll show you a little more here we have the print head here and on top we have the spool holder now the first operation to do which is the most important is to level the bed and i'm going to click on tools level and it should move and it's the first time i try first okay back left [Music] corner i'm going to take a thin sheet of paper slide it under and we have wheels here at the bottom and i'm going to turn them until i feel a slight resistance and i'm going to do that on each corner and you do have to repeat that operation a few times because of course you change one it moves the others around so you have to do it maybe three or four times the printer does come with a one gigabyte usb key so i'm going to use this on my computer use the program called cura c-u-r-a to slice a model and then plug it in the printer and we'll try a print here is the mtr3b cover that i found on thingiverse so i'm going to download the files save them on my computer and then i'll be able to open them with cura and slice them so here we're putting that here i'm going to uncompress the file there's a bunch of files in there but the one you want is the one ending in stl so here it is ready to go now i'm going into cura and looking at the printers and the artillery genius is not in the list and that's a problem it turns out that i have to go to the 3d nexus website and download the profile file for my printer so it's fairly easy there is even a video that you can watch that explains where to install them so here i'm downloading uncompressing and here's the video and tells you where to put those files and they are in a couple different places once that's done you can go back to cura and uh open your file and here it is now i did change some parameters used the standard petg profile petg has to be uh printed at a pretty high temperature i had to go up to 270 degrees celsius sliced it and save to file this printer doesn't come with filament so i got myself some petg which is a little bit more uh a little stronger than pla which is the regular filament i have some pla as well now these filaments absorb moisture very uh readily so as soon as you use them you have to put them in a plastic bag like this this one came with the spool that i got on amazon.com now i'm gonna try to put this on the printer and drive in the filament the temperature is always printed on the spool and here it says between 230 and 250 celsius so let me try 240. time to open that up so the plug is ticking once you remove the plastic covering because the filament starts taking in moisture and you want to avoid that as much as possible but i found the print menu well it's moving not sure if it's a good thing i think it's setting up itself but the uh the filament just came out it's printing the skirt or trying to you can see a very thin line here it's very silent i mean this printer is so quiet i can definitely see some imperfections there but that's just a skirt so it's hard to tell now it's feeling uh it's filling in the inside interesting and the quietness of this printer is again one of the reasons why i decided to buy it because i have such a small apartment only one room that i basically sleep a you know a few feet from the printer so i have to worry about fumes too but uh petg is not toxic uh pla isn't toxic abs is toxic so no abs for me i'm pretty happy about the fact that i can actually sleep while this thing is running and this is what i had this morning when i got up and it's pretty nice it's not perfect but i'll just have to remove the brim here but for first print uh you know i'm pretty happy about it it's definitely usable yeah let's see it's very good let's see with the mtr all right bingo perfect and of course it wasn't my first print i just wasted uh a bit of material i probably had like six or seven of these so uh the last one was probably number six or seven i'm going to try pla it should be much easier to print and make nicer prints than petg which requires a lot of tinkering so let's hope that pla will fail a little better and i'm going to print my 18650 battery cell holder with the mppt charger solar charger so we'll see insert that into the filament detector which stops the printer when the if the filament runs out and then you can resume the print which is pretty nice i am first going to test the pla filament by a printing a whistle for my bugger bag so far so good wow this looks uh particularly nice much nicer than the petg that's for sure get it off the plate here it's not always easy to get them off very smooth surface really really nice all right i just tapped on it and it just came off let's remove the the skirt let's see if it works yep excellent i have to clean it up a little bit but really happy about this now i can print my mppt case back to tinkercad with my existing design for this case i have a video on it by the way so i want to make a little tab to support the anderson power poles so i'm making a box which i'm going to change to a flat rectangle so here i'm changing some measurements and it's 15 millimeters wide so i'm gonna change that and then i'm going to change to width which i'll say i'll put 2.5 millimeters so here we go and then i'm going to have to move it which is not always the easiest part i can move the design with the right mouse button and i just have to make it you know close to touching the uh the box here you can see the supports for the circuit board on the four corners so here it is looks good seems to be about in the correct position with no gaps so uh let's go and select the whole thing click on merge which will make it a single object then i just have to export it save it to file there we go okay and that's all there is to it now we are back with cura i open the file and check the settings for pla uh you always have to check make sure you have the correct temperature and everything else i'm not going to go into every detail but here i'm slicing it and it should it will tell me how long it will take to print and uh it's actually slow 3d printing is really slow so save to file and that's a gcode file once it is saved i can put that on my memory stick and uh plug it in the printer so now i can make my second uh 18650 cell holder and mppt charger like this one and it fits in the box perfectly and now i do have a support a little tab here to help to glue the uh anderson poles on so very nice one more project and uh i'll just keep on printing here i'm printing a drone part and uh those are prop guards but anyway that's not i'm at our radio and by the way if you want to leave the printer working while you're not home you really should have some kind of a monitoring device and i got this uh bagutte ip camera which can rotate you know up and down and right and left it's wi-fi so you can actually watch your printer from anywhere you have an internet connection now i also need to get a an ip controlled wall socket so that i can stop the printer remotely something i don't have yet but i can at least watch it so if you decide to get a 3d printer definitely start with pla plastic it's much easier to print petg uh it's it's it's hard you have to find the exact correct settings and that takes time and wastes plastic and well it's just a pain but i'm really happy i got this printer i'm probably going to print a lot of stuff only useful stuff though i don't want to get into a you know i don't want to print little figurines or anything like that i really don't care about stuff like that and just it's a tour for me it's a tool and it's a very good one at that have a good one you