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[2283.34 --> 2289.22] And, you know, there's so much in my life that is, you know, open source, you know, working for Red Hat, obviously. |
[2289.68 --> 2293.28] Open source is at the core of everything that pays my mortgage. |
[2293.28 --> 2299.04] And, you know, it's been a huge factor in my personal journey with Linux and everything else, you know. |
[2299.04 --> 2306.30] So the fact that I can also buy a piece of hardware that is totally open, 100% open, |
[2307.04 --> 2313.38] and the vendor has shown a commitment to doing everything open for a decade or so now. |
[2313.98 --> 2318.22] For me, Prusa is just a, you know, I'm a fanboy. |
[2318.32 --> 2319.00] I'm going to admit it. |
[2319.10 --> 2322.14] But Prusa is pretty much untouchable, in my opinion. |
[2323.08 --> 2323.28] Yeah. |
[2323.28 --> 2326.16] I mean, Prusa does a lot of good things, right? |
[2326.20 --> 2330.46] They even have their own prints library, similar to Thingiverse. |
[2330.46 --> 2339.80] But in that same vein, the Ender 3 from Creality is open source and open hardware. |
[2340.76 --> 2342.96] Only because of Prusa. |
[2343.90 --> 2344.38] Absolutely. |
[2344.56 --> 2345.64] Well, they set a bar, right? |
[2346.00 --> 2347.00] And it didn't used to be. |
[2347.22 --> 2357.82] If I recall correctly, it wasn't open, and then Creality bowed to public pressure and eventually released drawings that were of a questionable quality to start with. |
[2357.82 --> 2359.34] And then they've improved with time. |
[2360.34 --> 2361.94] Well, I mean, I don't know about that. |
[2362.06 --> 2364.24] I haven't, you know, I'm not here to bash on Creality. |
[2364.34 --> 2369.00] But I'm just saying that they also have open source their hardware, you know. |
[2369.00 --> 2379.80] I think that it's good to have someone like Prusa in the market to help push those narratives and to help push the way that things should maybe be conducted in an ecosystem, right? |
[2379.90 --> 2385.56] So by making these things open hardware and encouraging others to do so, I think it's awesome. |
[2385.56 --> 2397.08] I think I look at this through the lens of drone racing, where there's an awful lot of commodity parts put together onto flight controllers and things like that. |
[2397.30 --> 2400.54] And Chinese clones are a real problem in that industry. |
[2400.54 --> 2412.54] You'll have a lot of guys in the West that put a lot of IP into developing specific, you know, radios and flight control algorithms and all this stuff. |
[2413.12 --> 2419.08] And they will put that board out to be made at a factory in China at a decent price. |
[2419.22 --> 2426.48] And then two weeks later, a complete copy clone of that thing is floating around for half the price on the internet, you know. |
[2426.48 --> 2434.34] And for a while, I kind of felt like Creality were in that similar space of just copying IP. |
[2435.06 --> 2438.70] They have proven me wrong, I think, in general. |
[2439.76 --> 2445.40] They've done a lot of stuff to open source a lot of their drawings and stuff like that. |
[2446.16 --> 2448.00] But there's still a way for them to go, I think. |
[2449.06 --> 2450.94] Definitely think there's a way for them to go. |
[2451.02 --> 2453.74] I mean, I think there's a way for the entire industry to go as well. |
[2453.74 --> 2463.28] And I think, you know, going back to kind of why I had ended up going from Ender to Prusa. |
[2463.94 --> 2465.58] Prusa has a lot of nice features, right? |
[2465.60 --> 2470.74] It's got auto bed leveling built in with a really accurate probe. |
[2471.38 --> 2478.86] It's got a really nice bed that comes with it and the steel sheet to put on the bed. |
[2478.86 --> 2483.52] And Drew had mentioned earlier that it draws a mesh, essentially. |
[2483.78 --> 2493.18] So, mind you, all of these printers, regardless of which one it is, the bed is not going to be manufactured perfectly true. |
[2493.48 --> 2495.42] It's basically impossible for that to happen. |
[2495.54 --> 2502.96] That's why you see people use mirrors on their 3D printers is because mirrors are generally more true than a piece of glass. |
[2502.96 --> 2508.96] Because if you had a mirror that wasn't true or flat, then you would have a funhouse mirror. |
[2509.44 --> 2515.08] And I don't think, you know, everyone wants to wake up in the morning staring at a funhouse version of themselves while they brush their teeth. |
[2515.22 --> 2519.44] So, there are a lot of nice features that come with the Prusa. |
[2519.60 --> 2525.98] You get the direct drive extruder, which you can also love this feature, remove the filament. |
[2525.98 --> 2532.06] So, instead of, say, with my Ender, I would heat up the hot end and then just yank the filament out. |
[2533.18 --> 2539.52] With the Prusa, it will heat up the hot end and then reverse the drive gears in the extruder to pull the filament out. |
[2539.68 --> 2541.98] And I just pull the filament out of the top of the extruder. |
[2542.20 --> 2542.88] It's pretty nice. |
[2543.26 --> 2544.62] Super nice, super clean. |
[2545.98 --> 2553.18] The steppers and the drivers for the motors are, or the steppers themselves and the drivers for them are super quiet. |
[2553.18 --> 2557.14] I hear the fans more than I hear the motors, which wasn't true. |
[2557.24 --> 2563.04] And I'm sure, Drew, you can attest to this, that the original Ender board that you had in your Ender 3, |
[2563.70 --> 2569.30] the sound from whenever you upgraded from the original board to the version 2, |
[2569.96 --> 2572.20] just the drivers for the motors. |
[2572.58 --> 2573.70] Dude, it's night and day. |
[2574.52 --> 2575.04] Absolutely. |
[2575.86 --> 2580.16] Yeah, it's ridiculous how loud the Ender 3 Pro is out of the box. |
[2580.16 --> 2585.20] So let me ask you both, what kind of stuff do you print these days? |
[2586.04 --> 2593.70] So I've been printing lately things like cases and stands for various items that need them around the house, |
[2593.84 --> 2597.78] some things for some musical instruments and things of that nature. |
[2598.20 --> 2602.90] My wife and I, when we first started getting into 3D printing, |
[2602.90 --> 2612.24] part of the goal was to design things, print them, and then use her Cricut maker to print vinyl, |
[2612.74 --> 2617.70] which could then be 2D printed to have her designs on them, |
[2617.84 --> 2622.24] and then go on to the 3D objects to sell through her store. |
[2622.66 --> 2623.50] That's very cool. |
[2623.82 --> 2626.14] So that's coming. |
[2626.76 --> 2631.08] We both need a little more experience with our individual parts. |
[2631.08 --> 2632.66] Like I need to get a little better. |
[2632.78 --> 2636.84] I haven't designed anything yet as far as 3D printing is concerned. |
[2637.24 --> 2640.12] That's, you know, that's the next level up, right? |
[2640.42 --> 2641.92] That's a whole nother bowl game, man. |
[2642.10 --> 2642.54] Absolutely. |
[2643.02 --> 2646.48] I'm getting used to making the filament do what I want it to do |
[2646.48 --> 2650.12] before I try to make it do stuff that we're going to sell. |
[2652.34 --> 2652.82] Understandable. |
[2653.46 --> 2653.98] Absolutely. |
[2653.98 --> 2662.82] For me, I've been printing, well, shortly after, I would say maybe four months after we got our printer, |
[2664.36 --> 2665.34] COVID hit. |
[2666.12 --> 2669.60] And like many makers of the time, Alex, I know you're one, |
[2670.24 --> 2672.96] and had encouraged me to get onto the bandwagon as well, |
[2673.02 --> 2677.56] started pitching in and making face masks or shields |
[2677.56 --> 2681.78] using our 3D printers and some other materials. |
[2682.54 --> 2684.22] So I spent a lot of time doing that. |
[2684.42 --> 2690.34] Printed a ton of those for schools and nurseries and random public places. |
[2691.00 --> 2695.14] But I enjoy printing cases, little electronics projects. |
[2695.14 --> 2698.42] I think after seeing your recording sign project, |
[2698.42 --> 2702.26] and it also got me kind of into microcontrollers. |
[2702.26 --> 2705.50] And I think 3D printing helped kind of drag me there too. |
[2705.72 --> 2714.16] So like I've printed a little project that has a 0.96 inch OLED screen |
[2714.16 --> 2718.54] that basically connects to Octoprint, tells me the progress of a print, |
[2719.30 --> 2721.88] sits on my desk, it's powered by five volts. |
[2722.14 --> 2726.76] Just recently finished printing a case for a stream deck |
[2726.76 --> 2731.08] that I'm planning on making using a Arduino Pro Micro, |
[2732.06 --> 2737.94] some sliders, and actually some of the jade switches |
[2737.94 --> 2740.26] that are left over from the launch keyboards. |
[2741.66 --> 2745.66] Sometimes in our shipment of switches, we get bent pins. |
[2746.28 --> 2748.40] And so we have like a bent pin bucket. |
[2749.26 --> 2752.34] So I raided the bent pin bucket and found some switches |
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