I poorly described Bambu Labs influencer policies in the video so here’s a bit of clarification: Here's a direct line from their very short Influencer Relationships Policy: "You have full creative freedom with it. We don't impose creating any content but we would obviously love to see content about it if you decide it's worth your time as it will help us grow and reach more people." There's more in that policy about reviews, where once again they have no editorial control and encourage feedback, including negative feedback. I was trying to imply that Bambu Lab was very chill with their policies, but that came out poorly. I was fully in my right to criticize this unit as much as I wanted.

To misquote Maker's Muse: "The secret magic of 3D printers is that you can now make a bracket to attach anything to anything else."

@queen6201998

2 ай бұрын

hi

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

Indeed! haha

@GRAS_gadgetsRepairAISimulators

2 ай бұрын

***makes bracket*** ***attaches milk jug to PS1 chassis for water cooling project***

@senritsujumpsuit6021

2 ай бұрын

@@GRAS_gadgetsRepairAISimulators brain to large body break

I can afford a $250 3D printer. I *can’t* afford all of the home lab projects that a 3D printer would enable 😂

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

Yep...

@Andy-fd5fg

2 ай бұрын

i don't have the space.

I absoluterly love the fan clip you made for your 10G card. Love it. I zip tie my fans just like you did prior, but now I find myself seriously considering a 3D printer, mostly for all my fan-related-shananigans.

Congratulations on your new all-consuming hobby! I love the new Bambu Labs models. They have really moved 3D printing to the next level. With my previous Creality printer, I was spending as much time maintaining, tuning and general futzing with the printer as I was actually printing stuff. With my Bamby P1S, I just enjoy printing stuff. I am jealous of the A1's easier ability to change nozzles, which you would want to do for finer detail. Have great fun!

@zuko9085

Ай бұрын

Yeah, part of me wants to upgrade because I feel like I spend most of my time troubleshooting as opposed to printing.

As someone who just put together an unraid NAS in a optiplex 3020, thanks for the 4 bay caddy link!

When you discover the Gridfinity project, your life will never be the same

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

So far I haven't been that complelled to give it a shot. Most of my storage issues are with larger things that also don't work well in drawers

@NickFajardo

2 ай бұрын

@@HardwareHavenThat's where the "Honeycomb Wall Gridfinity Shelf" can come in handy

@Karrfis

2 ай бұрын

Zack Freedman owns my workshop layout

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

@@NickFajardo DON'T TELL ME THAT!!!

@Gryfang451

2 ай бұрын

I need a Gridfinity project to sort all of my Gridfinity parts. They have taken over every surface, every drawer, and even wall space. I am sinking in spools of filament turned into cubes with convenient shapes tops. Damn you Zack Friedman! Lol

Honestly with all the tiny mods and holders it really already paid for itself by reducing daily stress. At least that's what this video conveys :) Some niches I would like to see with 3D printing: - Cable Management / Routing inside chassis for reduced clutter, improved airflow and such - Fan Ducts (OptimumTech did a video on Fan Ducts for a Gaming PC and I find it interesting to see if it makes a noise or temp difference inside Server Stuff (like HP and Dell do it on their Pre Builds) - (partly) 3D printed NAS Case maybe? There are a lot of scenarios I'd love to have a 3D printer myself and the only two reasons not to get one (yet) are space (or the lack of it, there is no surface or corner left in our flat to place a printer) and my kids... They would try to interact with the printer all the time. They almost messed up my real printer once so no trust currently! 👀

3d printing cable management clips, tools and channels… gets addictive. That and drawer inserts.

There are so many little things I've printed over the years that I don't even think I could list them all if I tried. So yeah, they are incredibly useful and a lot of fun too!

Adding 3d printing to your content can be really usefull! You can share models you make for some special projects, you can do from now and then some tips and tricks you learn from your experience. I dont mean to change the direction of your channel but a couple 3d printing videos each year or so can be cool.

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

Noted!

2:29 real OG's going to notice that Antec Three Hundred. Nice.

Good video! Ive been kinda afraid to get one but you now have given me the confidence i need to jump into it!

Welcome to the community. My A-1 Mini just arrived yesterday. Now I have 4 printers.

@kahrlozt

Ай бұрын

which one would you recommend. I don't want to spend much

@partsdave8943

Ай бұрын

@@kahrlozt The Bambu A-1 Mini. Easiest to use and great quality for the price. $ 250.00. Worth more than what it sells for.

@kahrlozt

Ай бұрын

@@partsdave8943 okay I'll look into that one. Thank you.

Welcome to the club! The A1 mini is one of the printers I recommend most often. the major one I tend to recommend is Sovol's SV06 most of the bells and whistles and big enough to print most anything. Even without CAD skills, a printer is a handy thing to have around. With CAD, it unlocks the true potential. The custom solution. Brackets for mounting anything to anything else is a big one.

@seljd

2 ай бұрын

the problem with A1 mini is that you're limited what filaments you can print since the bed won't go over 80C

@dtaggartofRTD

2 ай бұрын

@@seljd depends what materials you want to print. it's entirely adequate for PLA or PETG. Other materials would be miserable to print on an open machine like the A1 mini anyway. It doesn't really end up being much of a limitation.

@UnifiedInfo

Ай бұрын

I run abs+ on my ender 3 open with little fuss but in an enclosure its way better

@dtaggartofRTD

Ай бұрын

@@UnifiedInfo I printed an ASA voron on a pair of Ender 5s in a makeshift enclosure. It's doable. not sure I'd advise it though. The printers practically ate themselves running that hot for that long.

@UnifiedInfo

Ай бұрын

Ya thats pushing it to the limit lol👌

This is such a level up. Looking forward to all the cool content this channel can make with this! I've done stuff like printed squashball feet for my synology to make it quieter. if you have enough useful designs then i'll support you on printables!

3D printer is _so_ incredibly practical. Whenever I need to buy a part these days, I always have an internal debate: "Which is easier/better/faster for me and my time: buying X and waiting a day or two for it to arrive, or finding/designing a model and printing X?"

Welcome to the 3d family. Its a great feeling being able to just make that specific little thing right on the spot. Interesting to see you went for Freecad but hey, if it works out then don't overthink it right.

Oh, man! I'm so happy you got a 3D printer! With your tinkering skills you have to have one. All of this stuff looks amazing and I can't wait for more 3D printed stuff!

Thank you for spending some of my money today. Your video was the one that pushed me over the edge to finally get a printer, something I've wanted for the last 5 years. Your practical use cases were just the push I needed. Thank you.

I've had my A1 Mini for just over a week. And seeing your video brings me so much joy! I'm looking forward to your unique projects and perspectives.

It's a slippery slope. I'm 2016 I got my first printer, a tevo tornado, followed quickly by an ender 3 and I then quickly modified both printers with all metal hotends and bed leveling sensors, and raspberry pis for printer management and webcam monitoring. Maintenance became an issue and bed flingers are heckin slow so I built my first corexy printer 2 years agofrom a kit, a 350mm voron 2.4 and man is that a fast and easy to use printer. Last year I replaced the tornado and the ender 3 with a k1 max and a bambu p1s+ams (both corexy and both fantastic) and multicolor printing is great! 2 weeks ago I built a tiny 120mm voron 0.2 for rapid prototyping. It heats up and prints super fast, early Fastest printer in my stable. Maintenance on the v-wheel bed flingers were really annoying but the corexy printers i have now are easy. Some lube on the rails and lead screws, making sure the screws are tight, and a belt tension check every 4-6 months, and swap out the nozzle when it gets worn. Wash the print surface if filament soda stocking to it with some dish dish and water, is an it takes. I print everything from art statues to various clips and hangers and mounts to jbod das enclosures to arcade parts to display pieces like helmets to purpose designed project boxes for various electronics and radio projects. There's a ton you can do with a3d printer. But I would at least recommend an enclosed printer so you can print abs and asa which has much higher thermal tolerance if you're printing computer parts or parts that might see sun or the inside of a hot car. Pla likes to melt at very low temps.

Hell yeah man, awesome to see you take the leap. I wish more people would give the hobby a shot, you do a great job of selling how simple basic CAD can be, I think people would be really surprised with how much they could accomplish with a cheap pair of digital calipers and some basic MS Paint level rectangle tool skills. Looking forward to this things continued appearance man, cool stuff!

Welcome to the 3D printing family! Looking forward to being inspired by what you can do, sometimes you just need fresh ideas from other to come up with solutions yourself! Love the Noctua fan mount for the ethernet card, would you make it available for download?

I have an A1 Mini. It is wonderful tor things you need to quickly print. Printed a 4 drive cage for my NAS build just yesterday.

Same here man. I got an A1 Mini at Microcenter. Printing things for work and for kids.

7:14 - That's a very great idea. A big "thumb" up on that 👍 Besides the oopsie in the garage, have there been any other moments of frustration using the printer? I need to make room before considering it, but I do wonder if there are any "PC Load Letter" equivalent moments in the 3D printing world.

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

Hahaha... Not too many frustrations. I had one failed print that I still don't know exactly what happened. I also stabbed my finger with a scraper trying to get PETG off the bed, but that was me being careless haha. Mostly it's been pretty seamless.

Nice, have the Bambu P1P myself, it just works, been flawless. Though I've run out of some things to make. I'm most of the way thru making all the parts to build a lowrider cnc.

I was on the fence about getting a 3D printer, but with a lot of ideas you just showed here, it's exactly what i would/could use it for .... my kids are going to love it for sure, just need to sweet talk my wife a bit lol. Thanks for the video again man (as always)!

Welcome to the 3D printing club!!! Is that model of mini the one with the fix power cable?

I've wanted a 3D printer for such a long time but I've never really had the room for one until recently... Haven't been sure what one to get but honestly this one looks really appealing (mainly for the price). Great video!

That's why I'm here, janky, homemade & DIY. Cheers from Poland!

For those who don’t want to fork out the cash for a printer in case you don’t like it as much as you thought, check out your local library! My library offers 3D printer services and you just pay for the filament. I believe you just send them the schematics you want and they contact you when your order is ready.

@natperXD

2 ай бұрын

Honestly, I agree and this is how I decided to get my own printer. I would use my school's free 3d printing often enough that I decided to get my own just so I get my prints faster. And felt kinda guilty printing a lot at the same time for personal projects. Mainly because they took 10 days when everything is working or that it takes weeks cause they forget to tell me that the printer is broken or the print is done. Plus, I would lose this access once I graduated so why not start learning how to use my own.

I've had an ender 3 for years at this point but it requires me to fiddle about with the bed height pretty much every time I want to print. And also I just don't have the patience for that most of the time. I've been considering one of these Bamu printers for a while now and didn't know they made a smaller, less expensive printer so thanks for sharing. I think it speaks volumes how easy people can just get to printing with these things

It's actually awesome and usefull, can't wait to see more 3D creations in action.

You already made cool stuff with this printer. Well done.

As I maker the bambu makes 3D printing easy. I would recommend move up to a P1S or A1 (not the mini). It as a bigger bed and the p1s is enclosed

about time! you can make so many useful things!

That hex wall is awesome!

Oh your life be changing now. I used to have a Creatility but im holding out to later this year when I will be picking up a Bamboo Labs X1 Carbon. I miss all the crazy useful stuff I could make. much like you just stuff that helps around Homelab or Tech related assistant prints

3D printers are the gateway drug to harder forms of engineering. 3 FDMs and 2 SLAs later, all I can say is, "Congrats!"

I bought my first Prusa i3 MK3 back in 2018 and it was a game changer for me. Since then I had as many as 10, but I sold them off and kept a single one. Not so long ago I had an idea to use a SAS backplane from a Dell PowerEdge T320, which could hold eight 3,5" drives and use that to make a 3D printable JBOD to have it run off of a PC, which draws less power than the actual T320 (although with a Xeon E5-2470v2, 8 HDDs and a GeForce GTX1650 for video transcoding it's still only 120W according to iDRAC)

Looks like a great way to stack additional layers to the Seeed Studio.

I have been evangelizing 3d printers for a good long while as a way to fix things that break and make things that improve your life. Then this a1 mini came along and made it a no brainer. I use these in a print farm and they are amazing little machines. Welcome to the club! Can’t wait to see what you end up doing moving forward!

As a 3d artist and computer nerd I can only apreciate the content of this video 🙂

The thumb is the definition of, "If you have a need for it, it's not stupid!"

I got the sovol sv-06 because I didn't have time to calibrate it or diagnose issues either and for only 240 dollars I think it's the better value since it is open source and has a 220 x 220 x 300 print bed

You can use the 3D printer to make a cable pusher to push cables down to make sure there seated down correctly

Great video as always! Could you say what settings and filament you use for your printer? I got a similar one (Ender 3 v2) but never managed to print "complex" things like the flying thing from the start of the video

What do you mean? This channel is always the same. Pumped out awesome content and it will keep pumpin out awesome content.

ive always been interested in 3d printing and i will still keep interest. idk if/when i'll bite the bullet and get one but i hope some day soon i will.

Awesome ! You can maybe 3D print a top part for the HP prodesk G3 mini that is tall enough to fit a low profile single slot graphics card, that might be very fun and I would love watch you do it ;)

I'm very glad you found a 3D printer that works for you. You might want to check out some of the information coming out about Bambu Data collection. Considering you are a tech guy, I assume you have already looked into it and made your decision.

7:04 wait untill you discover gridfinity

creative way to not forget the thumbnail

Great video Thanks for always sharing them with us!💖👍😎JP

Being about to print fan ducts/shrouds for server gpus might open up a lot of projects.

helpful video! i'm still on the fence about getting a 3d printer

Yay! It's about time! 3D printing has gotten a lot easier over the last few years, and Bambu Labs makes some great printers.

I just got the Bambu X1C. I love it. 😂

These are just some of the reasons i got my hands on an Ender 3 printer, welcome to the club of 3d printing.

Best part of a 3D printer is that it’s great in the modding space

I always wanted one for my diy projects too lol

I want one!! I’ve been printing off of treatstock, but the turn around time would be so much faster at home… if i had the space. Seems like you printed some decent size things on it?

Welcome - to the real world :) I just wanted to say that when making stuff to be used inside a computer, better stick to PETG or even ABS or ASA. PLA softens at around 60°C that's often not enough inside a computer. PETG can handle around 80°C and ABS/ASA around 100°C. However, you'll have a hard time printing with ABS/ASA on that printer, since it's not enclosed. Good luck printing! roy

I re-purposed a RPi to run OctoPrint, a webserver for my Elegoo printer. There is a OctoPrint plugin for Home Asssistant as well that I haven't touched yet. Would be awesome to get your take on those integrations!

You finally did it!!!

Want to just throw my new obsession into your brain. I’m working on mounts and plates to build out a 10” server rack. Super great size for all us really small home lab users that love those micro form factor PCs.

A pretty cool looking ... ghetto NAS (blaster) 4:30 ish xD

Make a lackrack :D It's lots of fun!

I'm more suprised of the kind of stuff you can find to print... it never ocurred to me xD I need those 3.5" HDD Shelves asap!

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

It's honestly great! I ended up printing some clips for my current project and saved a trip to the store lol

A 3D printer is on my to-buy list, it's just that I don't know anything about 3D printers and I can never save enough money to buy one. I have several mini-projects in standby that could have been finished by now with one of those marvels of technology.

Old Net/Sys Admin here.... Heck! Last I checked, cheap 3D Printers were still about $1200. Love how you are using it so far! What comes to mind for suggestions.... (1) Cable Management (In and Outside the PC Case). (2) Clippable Motherboard Standoffs. (3) Custom Slot Covers. (4) I/O Shields.

@HoloScope

2 ай бұрын

no

one of us! one of us! one of us!

.....hehe. First Ocrtoprint came to me. Later it became Klipper *i love it* on an old RPI 2. It was previously running on an RPI 4 but it just got bored. All you can say is welcome to the 3D printer club =)

not sure if youve messed around with nvidia tesla gpus, but if you do you can use a 3d printer to make fan ducts to keep your gpu cool

My printer inspires me to do new projects ie building a diy nas thats how i found this channel

i've seen a cool system of cooling with 3d printing, maybe you can make a video about that, he make some pipe to force the airflow in the cooler improving the idle temperature

Wish that I could’ve had the same results. I had issues with my prints not sticking, and eventually my extruder gummed up after leaving a job unattended. It’s collecting dust these days.

Printing little toys and gadgets is cool and all but by far the coolest part of 3d printing is making one off parts and tools to fix things that would otherwise turn into garbage

I really really want to buy Ender-3 v3 KE, it has really nice future possibilities

@BSOE3058

2 ай бұрын

Just needs enclosing...

Personally, I really just enjoy tools that have many varied uses. This is how I became enamored with computers and you could say 3D printers are simply another entry into my list of 'A' tier tools that can do far more than most realize. If you find yourself walking about your house thinking... "Hey, I can fix that now" or "I wonder if thingiverse has a model for one of those", the condition is already terminal. The only treatment is more filament.

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

So true!

How about modding old computers with replacement side & front panels that allow decent airflow? I'd be curious about the performance uplift.

I am curious how well it can print some of the logitech g305 shells so I can get into the custom mice game ;) - If you could test this it would be wonderful before I drop the money on it.

3d printing is contagious you'll have multiple printers and something like an X1 before you know it!

you need to play with the sizes a bit they will fit perfectly if you account for shrinking after they cool down'

As weird as that sound, a lot of woodworking techniques to join parts to make larger ones work really well with 3D printing. Things like dovetail joints and the like. It's also interesting that you're using FreeCAD instead of what everyone else seems to use (Fusion 360). One thing 3D print can be really usefull to do along with the usual brackets and the like are fan shrouds. Granted you could always to them with cardboard and tape in the past, but 3D printing them gives more options.

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

The issue with fusion3D (if I remember correctly) is that, because I run a business and make profit from the content I make, I think I would fall outside of terms for the free license.

So what's kept me from getting a printer was concern around learning design software. How difficult is it to learn/use? It's been near 30 years (shut up) since I've touched CAD software so I'm more than just rusty...

On your last video in the Acrylic NAS rack I told you to contact Bambu lab, and I think they contact you back instead 😂.

Wow! Only 5 days has gone by since you made his video and the price went up $150 (using the affiliate link). At $250 I was thinking of how to pitch it to the war department (the wife :-), but at $400 I'll have to wait for congress to approve the budget. EDIT: DOH! I hadn't noticed that it defaulted to "A1 mini COMBO (with AMS lite)". The A1 mini is $250 so I can bypass congress on this one.

Dude, you are doing all the stuff I want to do! Now get dual tesla p40s and run LLMs!!!

yeah, I'm in that group, not real sure, but you may convince me, good video.

So, a 3D printed NAS case upcoming?

Servers and 3d printing!!!!! I’m 3d printing hdd sleds and racks right now! My dream is to do a rat rod like 2 or 3u server build

The first thing I made with my 3d printer was a network rack

10 inch rack to mount your stuff in?

Gets a sponsored ad

I would like to get a 3D printer but don't have the cash. One thing would be cool is to 3D print a custom PC case for some of the mini PCs like the HP prodesk.

FreeCAD? You're braver than me! I might go back and try again if they resolve the project-breaking issues it has...

Quick tip, before you go all in for printing brackets and Hard drive holders for PCs make sure your filament can handle those temperatures. A printed holder looks a lot better when it doesn't get warped by the heat

@HardwareHaven

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I used PETG for anything with a chance to get warm