Category: Community

Community

Bambu has won

I don’t think I need to say it, but yeah, Bambu has won. They’ve got an option that you don’t need to think twice about getting in every segment now: From the A1 Mini that is competing even with no-name machines on price, the P1S as the ‘just get this one’ option, and now the H2D as a do-it-all high-end solution. I haven’t been covering them on this channel as much as I probably should have, so with all the attention the H2D has been getting, I think it’s timeContinue reading

Community, Science & Technology, Tips and Tricks

3D printers are worse than I thought. Time to do something about it!

Do you smell it? That smell, the kind of smelly smell. A smelly smell that smells… smelly. ABS!  We all have smelled that before, that sticky, sweet, plasticky smell that you get when you’re printing with ABS. Common sense would tell you that that’s not something you want to breathe. So we now all print more with ASA, which smells a lot less, if at all – but if you look into it, it turns out that ASA is often found to emit more harmful particles and VOCs than ABS.Continue reading

Community

Open Source isn’t sustainable anymore

Brothers. Sisters. I want to apologize. For years you have put your trust in me and for years I have led you astray. Not by evil intent, but by misguided conviction. And for that, I am sorry. I believed open source and the free sharing of information would bring upon a new age. A new age of innovation, creativity and community. And, with a hopeful heart, I preached its benefits to you and reprimanded those who would twist the spirit of free and libre development. But I could not succeed.Continue reading

Community, Science & Technology

Patents

Let’s talk about patents. You know, one of the things I’ve learned is that when there’s something that I’m conflicted about, the best and most civilized place to get input on that is the YouTube comments, so I do want to hear your opinions on this – but before you start typing out your take on what the current patent system does or doesn’t do well, hear me out. Because, you know, the situation of patents stopping specific products from existing is something that has been bothering me and aContinue reading