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Week 39 - 3D printing with White Space Props
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This week Kieran was not available so I have brought on Thomas from White Space Props for insight into how he got started in 3d modeling and printing along with his advice for new beginners. Oh and a bunch of other stuff too. Hope you all enjoy this special episode.
White Space Props Links:
https://www.youtube.com/@WhitespaceProps
https://www.instagram.com/whitespaceprops/
Support me on patreron: https://www.patreon.com/c/garageavenger
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Introduction
00:00:01
Speaker
This is the Garage Avenger Podcast.
00:00:14
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Garage Avenger podcast. I'm Justin, trying to share the joy of building my non-street legal death machines in my garage in the hope of one day making a ah living out of it.
00:00:28
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And unfortunately, Kieran can't make it because he i didn't come up with a good reason, to be honest, why he couldn't make it. He's just, he sucks this week, so... He's busy
Meeting and Collaboration at MakerFest
00:00:39
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or something. But I'm joined by Thomas from Whitespace Props.
00:00:45
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Hello, Thomas. much Hello. um I'm the less handsome version of your less handsome brother. Yeah. Good to know.
00:00:58
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I don't think so. Thomas, you're a handsome lad, I think. Oh, thank you. I'm busy, though. I'm not single. so
00:01:09
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ah How did we get to know each other? I she i think it feels like a long time ago, but it wasn't really. It wasn't really. I think it was more like circumstance and me having heard of you, and I thought I would proposition you.
00:01:25
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No, it wasn't that bad, but it was at... I don't think it was like that at all. I don't remember like that. I remember having heard of you when we were doing the planning for the Makerspaces MakerFest.
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um And I thought you seemed like an interesting dude, so I wanted to do have a chat with you. And... We did. And then you came on pretty strong ah with a project.
00:01:52
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And the funny thing with that project is that when you first laid it out, I was like, nah, we can't do that.
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And then after thinking about it for a while, it was like, yeah, we can do that. And it turned into, yeah, we should definitely do that. And here we are.
World Rally Car Project Challenges
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But I think that was like almost two years ago.
00:02:16
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Yeah, I think it was... Summer? No, it was end of summer. Yeah. Yeah, so it was about a year and a half ago, really. It's crazy. now the air says The year has gone so fast, so... Because I don't know if I... i think... So the project we're talking about is the World Rally Car.
00:02:36
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Yeah. um I met you at Maker Fest. We got talking about 3D printing, and I mentioned that I wanted to do this, and i kind of was... I wasn't pressing you to do it. I don't think else I was more probing if it was even possible.
00:02:53
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Yeah. yeah You kind of got the the old brain fired up and ah thinking about it. And i the more I thought about it, the more I was like, heck yeah, this this will be really fun.
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um And you seemed like super stoked to do it as well. And for a long time, I've... I've been having this thought in the back of my head where it is like, this is too big of a project.
00:03:23
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We can or you can't pull it off ah because it's so it's just so big. and And then seeing that extended go car chassis, that really just brings it all together and like, holy shit, you're doing this and it's it's going to be awesome.
00:03:43
Speaker
It's going to be awesome. I can't wait. But it hasn't been without its challenges, that's for sure, dude. No, no, it hasn't. I think and just a couple of days ago, I delivered some, what I hope is the final fitment pieces. ah And pending approval, we can just start printing. But it will be, i think it said pieces um that i'll have to print around fifty kilos That's insane. It's it's a lot.
00:04:17
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But I would say, though, like yeah just from what i can see from the parts, it fits perfect. So I think we're good for starting to print. Yeah. And it's just been a bit of a ride, hasn't it? Because, you know, we were supposed print on your big, a large format printer, which is what?
00:04:37
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500 by 500? Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah And something happened with that. Yeah, it's misbehaving a bunch. And I can't probably get to tuning it, but...
00:04:49
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With me doing my daytime drop for 100% and then trying to do this side gig 100%, the time isn't there to fix it. So I rather went to your place when you weren't there and stole your printers. Now I have that in my office.
00:05:06
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I need it all the time. That's a crazy thing. I didn't realize how much you use it. Like for this small stuff, like little jigs and things like that. Templates and tool holders and stuff like that. i Just ah like two minutes before we started this recording, the printer finished printing a holder for airbrush paints for my
Thomas's Journey with 3D Printing
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my girlfriend. Yeah.
00:05:33
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Excellent. It's so useful, right? Yeah, it is. it is i i You would think that after doing this for an amount of time, you'd grow tired of it.
00:05:46
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But I still find myself watching ah the live view from the printer, watching it print and going... to check on it and just like having this joy really still. And ah I think that's a good thing, and especially if you want to do it like more full time, not having it be dredged, not having to do feel bored by it, but still having that that same joy. I started with 3D printing like 10 years ago.
00:06:18
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to To still have that passion for it is ah not something I take for granted. Well, you mentioned a couple of things there. You mentioned your day job, and you mentioned you started 10 years ago.
00:06:32
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so let's just start with what you do to actually make a living, and then how how did you get into 3D printing. Yeah. um So so first thing first, I'm a programmer and consultant. I work with programming ah lately. It's just been a lot of meetings, but ah I I code I code webla web applications um as a consultant. And that's all well and good. i really love the people I work with. um
00:07:07
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But it's um It's not a passion, I'd say. it's ah work It's work and it's rewarding when you make something that people will use.
00:07:20
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But it's not the same as this side gig. This side gig is ah it's something else. And how did I get started with the 3D printing? um I am a fairly an educated man.
00:07:36
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I went to ah the Jøvik High School, which is like ah to to get a bachelor in some computer related media related stuff.
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And in year two, I picked up um an optional ah program that was 3D animation. So that really piqued my interest.
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So the next year, i worked my ass off to get the money to go to this private school in Notre Dame, in Tønsberg.
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ah called the IDF school, which makes it did make some of the best 3D designers and animators out there. When you go out into the ah workforce with the something 3D, you're destined to run into some people from that school.
00:08:37
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ah Interesting. Yeah. and And I worked there for, yeah I studied there for one year, then I worked there for three years. ah Then I went on to work on a movie.
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So I actually have an IMDB page with two entries. Really? I did not know this. Oh my God. It is ah children's movies, but it was still fun to work with. Please tell me what they are.
00:09:02
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ah The first one is ah ah Elias og jakten på havetskull. It is the treasure of the sea, I think. um So that's the first one I did. And then I figured that it wasn't enough money there. So I started programming for... um and It was ah dad who had a kid in the same kindergarten as me, and I knew he did programming, so I asked him if I could join.
00:09:32
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ah And I did. when we When I did, we were three people in an office. Now we're 25. But I digress. ah I always had this three d um passion, this this desire to work with 3D because it's it's fun. I'm not the best modeler. I can't draw a straight line without the ruler and I usually include my thumb when I do a line. So it i don't I'm not very artistic of me. But 3D is something that is really forgiving in that you
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When you draw a line on paper, it's usually there. You have an impression impression of it. It's like stuck in the paper. But with 3D, you have all the time in the world to just perfect the curve or perfect the shape.
00:10:20
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So what happened was that ah when I were was working with ah but programming, their client ah weren't able to pay up. So they had to let me go for a little while. So that's when I got the second stint, when I worked on the...
00:10:34
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Pelle Poli Tibil, På Sporet. No way! I did not know this. Okay, so so those listening not in Norway, those two movies are pretty... Well, for kids, they were pretty big at the time, weren't they?
00:10:49
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Yeah, they were. and For the first one, I was a technical supervisor. And for the second one, I was ah lighting and renderer. So I... like the lit and rendered 25% of the movie or something like that. 25, 30%. Wow.
00:11:05
Speaker
That's really fun. And then it was a little while after that, but I've always wanted a three d printer. And then girlfriend gave me 3D printer for sixteen i think it was my then girlfriend um gave me a three d printer for I don't remember. it was I think it was for my birthday.
00:11:31
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It was so one of those crappy, cheap Flashforge finders from Klaas Ulsta. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Creative 3D Printing Projects
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It was shit, and it got me hooked.
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That's good. there is So ah ah fast forward forward now, nine-ish years later, I now own...
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10 printers, ah three of which are in active use. I had the fourth one in use, but that was a Snapmaker that was usually with the laser attachment.
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And now I'm looking to sell that one because we just bought a laser. Yeah, kind of feels like those multi-machines only have their place for a certain time until you to realize, like, wait a second, I want to do this properly.
00:12:26
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Yeah, the fun thing with the Snapmaker, it's a CNC machine, a 3D printer and laser. So it's ah it's a not good 3D printer. It's tolerable-ish CNC machine and it's a shit laser.
00:12:41
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So... ah but But for for real, it's it's a machine that will let you do projects, but it's limited in what you can do. It has, think, a 1.6 watt laser, diode laser.
00:13:00
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um And the one we have now is a 50 watt CO2 laser. And i think I think these two are measured differently. I think a diode laser is measuring the voltage or the...
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the strength coming in like the 1.6 watts and the CO2 is measuring it on the way out. So it's ah yeah, it's magnitudes ah stronger.
00:13:28
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And it can cut clear acrylic. and That's not something the Snapmaker can do. It doesn't see it. The diode laser doesn't see clear acrylic. So it's ah something new unlocked and a new product incoming.
00:13:43
Speaker
Yeah. So, you know, let's go back to when you first got into 3D printing. What type of stuff were you making when you first got started on this stuff?
00:13:54
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Silly shit? i know like i have everybody i haven't changed since that. I still make silly shit. um No, but it was ah like kind of cool things for my son.
00:14:07
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For... son ah for One was just a little, like, a labyrinth ah puzzle box. And then I made him... ah That's actually kind of fun, but that's one of the first things I made on the through of the printer.
00:14:25
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i um got this lantern with a skull inside and I printed it in two different materials. I printed a skull, of course, in white and and a lantern body in black.
00:14:37
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yeah And ah always being interested in electronics, I got an Arduino with ah some LEDs that I put inside the skull. So the skull had an like flashing animation and that was his Halloween costume.
00:14:55
Speaker
Ah, cool. You remind me a lot of what Jürgen Stray had made some Halloween stuff for his kid too, you know, and i think he he made some like a Darth Maul mask and lightsaber something like this. I can't remember exactly what it was, but yeah.
00:15:13
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ah It's funny how kids kind of end up but being the excuse why you build things. Yeah, well... I feel like it's the same for me. I've built a lot of stuff form you know in inverted corpans for my kids. Yeah. yeah wait You've been at my house.
00:15:30
Speaker
You've seen it my wall. Those aren't for my kids. Let's talk about those because ah you've got you become sort of, I guess, known ah for Your masks.
00:15:44
Speaker
Yeah, cosplay helmets and cosplay props. Yeah, yeah it's ah it's super fun to make. And it's like um a lot of people think that think that they're expensive. And to ah to a degree, I yeah agree.
00:16:02
Speaker
it's um It's not cheap. And of course, you can buy a cheaper one like from Outland or something. But the thing is that with ah when I make you a helmet, I make sure it fits you, and it fits you perfectly, so there's no, like, bubble head that it's uncomfortable to put on.
00:16:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can customize it however you like with the paint scheme and with the bells and whistles, but it'll cost you. ah I still have, like, a a fairly fairly low hourly wage when doing helmets but it's just so much fun so I keep on doing it what's the coolest helmet you've built What's the coolest helmet I've built? I think it either is one Mark 85 Iron Man that's currently in the States, or it might be an Ant-Man with a lot of movements and magnets and stuff like that.
00:17:04
Speaker
And the cool thing is that the the one, that the Ant-Man mask, it was for a customer down in Germany. And he got it, he was happy with it. And then I saw him on Instagram posting a lot of photos from a lot of conventions, like hanging out with other Marvel cosplayers and just having the time of his life. And then I saw him without the helmet and the dude was like pushing 60.
00:17:34
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like Yeah, you go live your life. I think he said he'd been to 28 conventions so one year, like
Recognition in Cosplay Community
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2024 or something.
00:17:46
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It was crazy. oh But he's a I something is making these helmet and hanging them up on the wall ah when they hang there.
00:17:57
Speaker
I kind of forget them. They're just like there. Ornaments, yeah. Yeah, and when somebody comes over, they're usually like awestruck. And then I remember, oh, Jesus Christ, I have these hanging up here. Okay, let's talk about them.
00:18:11
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah but But they're kind of forgettable in in that sense that they're always there and you just ignore them after a while. But seeing people wearing the stuff that I made, that's that's something else.
00:18:24
Speaker
Seeing cosplayers wearing the helmets I made, the swords I made, everything like with pride, that's something else and something that keeps me doing what I do.
00:18:36
Speaker
um and also Who's the coolest person that's worn one of your helmets?
00:18:46
Speaker
What can I say there without throwing somebody under the bus?
00:18:52
Speaker
No, I think like if you think locally, ah there's this cosplayer. She is... and One of the first big cosplayers to use me and for this, it's Silly Sikuni on Instagram.
00:19:12
Speaker
She cosplays a lot of stuff and I've made her two swords along with some other props. But one of them is a Kingdom Hearts sword and the other one is the Buster sword.
00:19:24
Speaker
and I made that bluster sword, I painted it with base colors because she wanted to do weathering and stuff like that herself. So she went to my house, ah picked it up, and she's a small girl and seeing her lift that sword, like using all her might, I was like, okay, she can handle it.
00:19:45
Speaker
Barely. But it it looked awesome. And then... and She took it home and then I didn't see anything until we were at Spill Expo, which is this yeah gaming exposition in Lillestrom.
00:20:00
Speaker
And then I saw her walking there with the sword and Jesus Christ in the full cosplay, like yeah with... the and
00:20:09
Speaker
Zack, is that his name? and The guy after Cloud. Anyway, yeah she was wearing that full cosplay with that sword and it looked awesome. So I got some photos of her and then I saw her on stage with it.
00:20:23
Speaker
And it was, yeah, it's it's super cool. And one of my creations has also been on national TV. and That's cool. Yeah, that's really cool. um It's for this drag queen um that starts the show in this like bulky black costume that like a lot of ruffles. like Looks like a trash bag, basically.
00:20:50
Speaker
And then with this big black helmet with massive horns. And then after a while, ah think ah she drops this ah trash bag illusion and has this gorgeous dress underneath.
00:21:05
Speaker
But with the the it's based on Venom, ah this head still attached. and then what ah ah What was ordered was that the helmet should come apart.
00:21:19
Speaker
So in in the performance, ah she takes the horns and just rips the helmet in half. And it's like a shock effect. It looks really awesome.
00:21:32
Speaker
So I think this was in Norske Talenter or Norway's Got Talent this previous year. There you go, your stuff's all over the place.
00:21:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's really fun. And it's it's fun being and being recognized as somebody who makes cool stuff and who is actually skilled at this.
00:21:58
Speaker
Just this... ah this winter I was in Hardanger Forke i Skoda, which is this like ah school you can go to after, after is it high school?
00:22:12
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Vidregåna? Yeah. And take a year there and and they have this cosplay course. And I was there for two days and and teaching what I know. And the students were really uh really wanting to soak everything up and that's really fun but that's been uh like that's been an interesting journey for you because like you start putting work you like out there and then all of a sudden interesting people start following you and then all of a sudden you you get like a email from somebody
00:22:48
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like ah Yeah, a cosplayer, YouTuber, whatever it is, they order stuff and then you have the potential for your work to be seen on such a bigger platform than you can provide.
00:23:00
Speaker
think it's really, really cool. It's been yeah amazing to see even just in the years that I've known you. yeah Things that have happened through that. It's great. So cool.
00:23:11
Speaker
I want to see say that you're kind of responsible for some of that because I know you've talked to NerdForge. ah I know and and no I've come up in those discussions. and And NerdForge is like, they're big YouTubers, right? Three and a half million subscribers and stuff like that.
00:23:32
Speaker
And they're based here in Norway. So I like I've always wanted to do something with them, ah work with them and and I don't know. It is a dream, right?
00:23:43
Speaker
It's something you want to do. I'm not taking credit for that, by the way. but i'm Not at all. I'm pretty sure Hansi, when I was talking to him, brought you up for some random reason. And I was like, I know that guy. oh yeah So I think you you were already on their radar before I was even involved in this.
00:24:03
Speaker
So you can pat yourself on the back for that. Well, was really fun because I was i was thinking about if I'm going to work with them, I can't just say, just contact them, say, hey, work with me.
00:24:16
Speaker
ah Because the next question would be like, on what? And I was just like, yeah, stuff and things. I don't know. ah So it's been nagging me, like trying to figure something out.
00:24:28
Speaker
But it's always been like a pipe dream. It will never happen.
Collaborations and Video Production
00:24:32
Speaker
um And then one morning I woke up, saw that my Instagram had a message and was like, Hey, and we're making this project. Do you want to work with us?
00:24:44
Speaker
And I was like, Hansi, NerdForge? Yes, please. I want to work with you. and that was... um ah
00:24:56
Speaker
like a pivotal moment in my YouTube career. And a lot of thanks to you as well, because ah I sent the first draft of the video out to a couple of friends and they were like,
00:25:14
Speaker
yeah, this looks great. Or yeah, this is OK. This is fine. And then I was on my way home from karate um sitting in my car.
00:25:26
Speaker
And then you called me and was like, yeah, listen, there's a lot. do Do you have an hour?
00:25:35
Speaker
And you critiqued the hell out of my video and I'm fairly sure that if I put out the video I first made, it would have not gotten anywhere near what I got when ah because of what you did to the video or what you ah yeah advised me to do.
00:25:58
Speaker
And I really appreciate that. Well, we did use quite a few hours on a Sunday night. Yeah, you came over and... Are you home? Yeah, I'm coming over. And then we sat there for, don't know, eight hours?
00:26:12
Speaker
Yeah, easily. It was a full day doing reshoots and re-edits and foley work and... Yeah, it's the small stuff, right? That makes a big difference.
00:26:23
Speaker
And that will one I remember leaving at like and midnight or something on a Sunday evening thinking, I hope this bloody works. Yeah, that was one of the my my first big videos as well. i I've I've been by that point, I've known about this project for a little while. So I um pushed videos out just to have something there, push some reels out your shorts and stuff like that. And the funny thing is that before I released that video, if you looked at the graph, it was like, yeah, something's happening. Somebody joined something, view something like that.
00:27:03
Speaker
And then I put the video with NerdForge out and everything before that is just a flat line. because it just like which went straight up. i had 235 subscribers before that video.
00:27:18
Speaker
Isn't that great tell How many do you have now? 12,000-something. You have more than me, you dickhead. I know. I have a video in the pipeline that I should have edited, but I'm so tired all the time, so I haven't had the time to sit down and
World Rally Car Project Updates
00:27:33
Speaker
and edit it. and But it should be really easy. It's just like...
00:27:37
Speaker
me and my girlfriend having fun testing out a new machine, the the ah hot press for for t-shirts um and making some silly mistakes and using the cry cut and everything. So it's 30 something minutes now. I want to get it down to less than that, um which shouldn't really be a problem.
00:27:59
Speaker
But it's just finding the time and finding the the energy to sit down and not collapse.
00:28:08
Speaker
Well, you've got enough on your hands with this stupid rally car that someone's asking you to print for. Yeah, dickhead. I know. But that's the fun thing. That is when I start doing something that's fun, I get the energy to do that.
00:28:27
Speaker
So it doesn't matter if I if I'm tired ah right now, I'll make sure I have everything lined up for the printer ah to go and then I'll just start printing and I'll I'll feel better knowing that it's happening. I'll i'll get the energy knowing that I'm delivering something for someone that will make it into something even better and make it into something really cool and potentially potentially a death machine.
00:28:53
Speaker
um That's for sure, dude. Right now with no brakes, 100% is a death machine. Well, even with the brakes, it's a death death machine. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But I'll...
00:29:05
Speaker
I'll come by and I will help you sand a little bit and I'll tell you how to sand and where to ah where to put your efforts in. But I hope I've made enough adjustments on the model so it's easier to sand because having protrusions from the surface you're sanding, that's that's hell.
00:29:24
Speaker
yeah So yeah, i've I've done what I can. The rest is up to you. It's going to be an interesting process. so The crazy thing is that I set this ambitious goal to try and take it to Rally Finland, which is the end of July.
00:29:40
Speaker
yeah I don't think it's real, dude. I don't think I'm going to make that, to be honest, because I'm also going for three weeks. Up north.
00:29:51
Speaker
Yeah. Bring some pieces with you for sanding. No, I'm not going to do that. I can't. It'll make me cry. Yeah. i'll um I'll keep printing like 123 parts divided by three. 40-ish parts per printer.
00:30:10
Speaker
I need a about a month, three weeks to get this printed. Yeah, I think it's going to be a close call. if yeah we can i doubt ah To be honest, I doubt it. Because not only that, we need to sand it, we need to paint it, and we need to get the decals, we need to get so much detail.
00:30:30
Speaker
I'm noticing you're saying we. I said I'd help you a little bit. LAUGHTER
00:30:38
Speaker
I love this. Yeah, I did rope you into this, didn't Yeah, well, I have some sanding machines that will make this cool go quicker.
00:30:50
Speaker
ah But it's ah it's a big project for sure. and I'm immensely grateful for the efforts and time you've already put into it, let alone...
00:31:03
Speaker
potentially what you could add to this project. It's going to be it's got to be pretty insane. Yeah, it is. And I need to order more filament soon. I only have 20 kilos of PETG here.
00:31:15
Speaker
we need to get We need to press Polymaker again. Yeah, I feel bad because I've sent them two emails. They haven't responded, and they said they were going to respond. so I think they want to pull out.
00:31:28
Speaker
Fair enough. I mean, it is what it is. It is what it is. And even though they showed like, holy the shit, we want to be part of this. And then I told them, this is what we need.
00:31:39
Speaker
And then radio silence. yeah I mean, my my point of view is potentially maybe even if you could they could support for half of it. ah Yeah. help lot, right? you know Yeah, yeah.
00:31:52
Speaker
maybe the fact is you could say like i've already bought 20 kilos so now could you help with you know 30. yeah yeah it's um and the good thing is that that the people i use for filament locally uh they they deliver so fast it's crazy I order something and the next day it's here. It's ah insane. so who's Give them a shout out to the locals listening.
Evolution of 3D Printing Technology
00:32:25
Speaker
polyalchemy.no Not only do they have good prices, but ah their service is unmatched.
00:32:36
Speaker
There have been times where their web shop but has had the wrong info, so I've ordered stuff. and some thing was some I ordered something they didn't have in stock.
00:32:48
Speaker
And then they call you up and say that, ah we don't have this. ah Is it okay if I substitute it with this ah more expensive product?
00:32:59
Speaker
ah Yeah, you that. Yes, please. I won't mind. I can only see one drawback with that, and that is if you're doing some color matching stuff.
00:33:13
Speaker
ah But to usually they have what you need and they have it in stock. So I believe you bought your printer through them, didn't you? No, I don't think so. I bought it direct from Bamboo Lab. Oh, yeah. So my first bamboo printer, at least.
00:33:28
Speaker
Let's talk about this because like I've got a Bamboo Labs, but you started over 10 years ago on printing. How has three d printing evolved in the last 10 years or so?
00:33:43
Speaker
I'm trying to figure out a comparison, but it's like you have this like safe phone that works sometimes, but you need to keep it updated. You need to do this to it. And sometimes it doesn't even want to work at all. Right.
00:34:06
Speaker
And now we're at this stage where you have this phone. It just works. It does everything for you. Don't even think about what it's doing. It just fixes everything for you. And that's like from the earliest printers that I had is you had to do so much manually and I, um you basically have two different ways of buying a 3D printer, like at least if you go back some years.
00:34:33
Speaker
It's you either buy ah an industry machine. Of course, that'll cost you like seven, eight, nine, $10,000.
00:34:46
Speaker
But you get support and you get what you need, right? Or you buy ah what I describe as a project printer. It's like you you don't have three d printing as a hobby, but the 3D printers itself are are a hobby. So you you tinker with them, you screw them together, you you make modifications, you tune them, then it doesn't work again, and you tune them, and you fix them, and you print a little bit.
00:35:18
Speaker
So... Starting out, ah like, I'd say, like, you spend 50% of the time printing and 50% of the time maintaining the printer.
00:35:30
Speaker
and And God forbid were adventurous enough to upgrade it ah because then you switched it from like 50-50 to like 70-30 with trying to maintain your shitty mods.
00:35:45
Speaker
um Because there was a big world for like modding, you know, 3D printers. There still is. There still is. Like, uh, The Voron project, which I'd like a printer, like a Voron printer sometimes. But it's like you can't really buy Voron printer. You buy the parts. It's like a curated bill of material ah that you will buy and assemble yourself.
00:36:16
Speaker
And that's like the... the the other end of bamboo lab printers because bamboo lab is like an iphone it's uh you you buy it you set it up and you print it's like uh when people talk to me at conventions and asking about what printer they should buy i say you get a bamboo lab because yeah there are some people that would be like oh yeah but But I feel like that, honestly, like if you don't know where to start, that's probably the best machine you could start with.
00:36:52
Speaker
It's hassle-free. Yeah. and The thing is that I want people to to thrive with the hobby. and Yeah. what I tell them is that if if the time from you starting to unpack the machine and until you've started your first print is more than 30 minutes, then you've taken a lunch break in the middle because it's so hassle free.
00:37:14
Speaker
It's so easy. And of course, there's some controversy ah surrounding everything as there always is. um I feel like it's a vocal minority that's the arguing against their changes in policies and stuff like that. But it's, for me, I don't really bother that much. um It's a tool. ah They're allowed to change it as they want. And if they change it so it's not usable, then they will lose the market share.
00:37:45
Speaker
Exactly. i i think um Pierre, the Swedish maker, he has a similar viewpoint. I think he just, he doesn't see the problem in the changes.
00:37:57
Speaker
He'll just use it because it always works. yeah There's very little failure on that machine. it just... Put the filament in and off it goes.
00:38:07
Speaker
Yeah, and I also feel like the the people that are arguing the loudest are people that shouldn't have a bamboo lab. there are There are people that want the printer to be fully open source and want them wants to be able to modify it as they want and control it as they want and yeah just do whatever they want to it and that is not a bamboo printer uh for that get creality printer get something else um and of course you can then uh um
00:38:45
Speaker
then make the argument that Bamboo Lab is based upon open source roots. But
Prototyping and Practical Applications
00:38:55
Speaker
again, um as long as they follow their licenses, they're not breaking any rules.
00:39:02
Speaker
I mean, they're a Chinese-owned company, aren't they? Fair enough. Yes. they What do we expect? Let's be honest. But they're really ah great engineers. So they're former DGI engineers. um So they know what they're doing.
00:39:23
Speaker
Yeah, i've I've just had a positive, you know, it doesn't matter what filament I have put in it, and some cheap stuff from Klaus Olsen or, you know, some proper filament, and it's always worked.
00:39:35
Speaker
Do you remember that blue filament you sent with me when I was in Stolioprinter? Yeah. Somebody didn't store that correctly. ah Who would that be?
00:39:47
Speaker
I don't know, but somebody didn't keep track of the end of the filament. Oh no, did I? I started printing. on and I was away from the from the house.
00:39:59
Speaker
And then ah just got a message like ah the AMS motor is over. It's not running anymore. So something's wrong. And I come back and I see like this tango of filaments on the spool. Like, ah, Justin.
00:40:17
Speaker
Keep track of your ends on the filament spools. I should have checked, but I was in a rush. so Rookie mistake. Yeah, yeah yeah rookie mistake. So, like, if you had to recommend, someone is thinking, like, ah, you know, maybe i want to get into 3D printing. I see a lot of people doing small stuff, like...
00:40:37
Speaker
Like I use, personally, i use it most for like building things that I can't build. and So everything.
00:40:47
Speaker
So, screw you, dude. But like templates ah for like, yeah, position of holes to be drilled or, ah for example, the wheel adapters for the World Rally car, right?
00:41:05
Speaker
Yeah. i could ah could design it and then send it off to PCBWay to get machined, but then i don't know if it's right, so I have to wait for them all the time to come back and then I get it and I'd screwed up a measurement and it doesn't fit.
00:41:24
Speaker
So 3D printing allows me to to make a prototype and see that it works before I send it off to get machined out of metal. So it's just pretty cool. ah We have different ways of using the 3D printer.
00:41:37
Speaker
I use the 3D printer to make stuff and you use the 3D printer to make stuff that helps you make stuff, basically. So, ah yeah, and that's... um I do that sometimes as well, but usually I make stuff that will be used.
00:41:55
Speaker
ah But like for rapid prototyping, you can't really beat a 3D printer. um And i it's I've seen everywhere where you've used three d printing and doing the science and doing iterations ah that would have failed like in the machining stage or not fail, but wouldn't have fit in but if you had that machined.
00:42:21
Speaker
And it costs so much money, right? If you were going to do it that way. Yeah. And you you save so much time and money like a 3D print that you make at home, like say $2 saves you 100 bucks and two and more.
00:42:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's insane. Yeah, I think it's a great tool to add to your garage. just I've been watching this guy called Boosted Life and he's been ah making a like Formula One cart. so it's not a Formula One car, it's a cart, but with the same type of geometry and he's using a motorcycle engine. I think it's a 600, but I could be wrong.
00:43:05
Speaker
And, you know, He's 3D printing parts to hold pipes whilst he welds it together, you know, like in the the height position and on the jig and things like this, and he can just screw it down. if you were to make that jig out of, i don't know, even just steel, right, it won't be as accurate because when you weld, it moves for one.
00:43:30
Speaker
And, you know, we'll, like for example, you know, for some piece to be able to cradle the the pipe that you're making or to weld or whatever,
00:43:42
Speaker
Most of the time you don't have a piece of pipe that's going to do that. So 3D printing is a great option because you can get the measurements exact and it holds the pipe where you want it and then you weld the bits and then you remove the jig and it's done.
00:43:55
Speaker
yeah And that jig only took like an hour and a half to print or something and had everything sorted. Yeah. There's also another thing that i I do a lot in my mind. It's like trying to optimize the workflow. ah I need to do that and do that and do that.
00:44:12
Speaker
ah And if you have a 3D printer, try to do that first because you set that to print that part. And then you go and do other stuff. And that means that, okay, the the bracket you're talking about took one and a half hour, right?
00:44:26
Speaker
But it didn't take one and a half hour. it took no time because you were doing other stuff while it was
Learning and Design in 3D Printing
00:44:32
Speaker
printing. 100%. So useful. you're You're just doing your stuff and then, oh, I need this. And then you go to the printer and it's done and you use it.
00:44:40
Speaker
So having this this way of para ah parallel parallelizing your workflow, having it the having the machine work for you while you work is... ah You save so much time.
00:44:54
Speaker
Like if you're going to make that bracket out of steel, yeah, you can do it in the same amount of time, but it will be your time, not the machine's time. So you have to use one and a half hours. So you lose one half hour doing the work you should be doing.
00:45:09
Speaker
Yeah, i'm I'm now contemplating building a proper welding bench. And i like my plans are that... Basically, in a welding bench, you've got lot lots of holes all over the place. You want me to 3D print the bench for you?
00:45:26
Speaker
No.
00:45:28
Speaker
It'll melt instantly. Giant holes in it. um And where I glued it glut it together with super glue, then I'm gassing myself.
00:45:43
Speaker
let's Let's not build it out. Okay, something shouldn't be 3D printed. Yeah, no, but more my point is like in a in a welding table, you have you a bunch of holes basically, and they're all placed exactly symmetrically, right? So that you can line jigs up and things like that, right?
00:46:02
Speaker
yeah So, you know, my opinion is that of course I'm gonna make jigs on the 3D printer that fit directly in those holes. yeah Those things you could build and reuse over and over again on for example, a welding table, yeah let alone other things that you're doing in in the workshop. So dude, it's such a useful tool.
00:46:27
Speaker
And I find it so mesmerizing that I like i was like against 3D printing for a long time. I was like thinking it was cheating or something.
00:46:40
Speaker
But I think it's ah it's a superpower. It's a great tool now. so Yeah. And I think Pierre, the Swedish maker, touched on this. Like ah the 3D printer is a really great tool. But I think for your kind of work, it's useless unless you know how to design things.
00:47:02
Speaker
That's a good point. Let's talk about that. Because design, that's a scary bit for most people. Like loading up Fusion or whatever program you're going to use to draw, it's a scary, intimidating thing. Just like, for example, video editing, right? Yeah.
00:47:20
Speaker
You sit in front of Adobe Premiere Pro, you're like, how the hell does this work? It's the same in Fusion. You're like, where do I start? I also have this um this voice voice.
00:47:31
Speaker
in the back of my head saying that you're not doing this right. Like when I'm editing videos, I'm constantly berating myself because other people would do this better. Other people would do this differently.
00:47:47
Speaker
I do that when I design as well. Other people would do this better. Other people would do a different choice than you made. But I try to get my mindset to the point that It doesn't really matter that other people does differently.
00:48:04
Speaker
The main thing is that I do it my way and I make a finished project, finished product. It's um it's so easy to be intimidated by what you think other people will think about what you do when in reality, most people don't give a shit about what you do and how you got there.
00:48:24
Speaker
Most people will just see you did it. That's great. And that's like trying to get that. Okay, you don't do that because you're like, there's a few things I want to change. No, no, no. it's an important thing to to acknowledge that other people would do it differently, but you're doing it your way and you're finishing it.
00:48:47
Speaker
ah When I look at my designs like in Onshape and stuff like that, They're not um optimal. No, they're super sketchy, and but they work.
00:48:59
Speaker
I can print them. I can do whatever I want with them. And usually they are fulfilling the need they were set out to do. And it's something I strive to ah to not being ashamed of what I did to get the solution that i arrived at.
00:49:19
Speaker
ah And that's something I think everybody needs to ah needs to come to terms with. it like You don't have to be perfect all the time. You need to finish stuff.
00:49:32
Speaker
Yeah, and I think that's the key, is finishing projects. Yeah. Because it doesn't matter how you got there. like If you can complete a project, you're way ahead of most people.
00:49:43
Speaker
Yeah,
Parallels Between Martial Arts and 3D Printing
00:49:44
Speaker
and it's like yeah when I was teaching at this school for for a couple of days this year, that's one of the things that i tried to hammer in. It's like it doesn't matter if you did it perfect if you finish two months late.
00:50:02
Speaker
A perfect project delivered too late is a failure. Right. But a finished project on time, that's a success. and And the thing is that ah I talked a lot about 3D printing during that time and how to sand it and how to make it look good.
00:50:20
Speaker
And the thing is, you need to you need to not be your own worst critic. You need to take into account how people will will view what you've made and have them um have that in the back of your mind and and work to that level. Because when you sand, ah like I make helmets, when you sand a helmet, you're like five centimeters away. You'll see every bump and every ugliness.
00:50:47
Speaker
But I okay in Seinfeld there's this close talker right. I don't really meet a lot of them in real life. So people are standing little bit away so they don't see those failures or those those ugly stuff that I see when I've been like right up to the helmet.
00:51:05
Speaker
People don't see that and and that's one thing they're too far away and the other thing is that there's so much else going on visually that they don't have time to focus on the on the ugly bits.
00:51:16
Speaker
And that's like one of the the things to getting stuff done is like accepting that it it's not perfect, but it's perfect enough for whatever it's being used for. so i agree. It's the same with like welding, right?
00:51:30
Speaker
Like you'd worry what other people would think about your dodgy weld, but no one sees it on the finished finished product. No one's going through your stupid chopper motorcycle that you've built.
00:51:43
Speaker
You're looking at your bad welds. Most people are just metamorized by the finished product. Yeah, if somebody comes to the World Rally Car and criticizing your welds, ah then I'll be surprised. They'll criticize your shoddy handiwork on the sanding on the bodywork first.
00:52:02
Speaker
No, they won't, because I've been learning jiu-jitsu by that stage and I joke them out. Yeah, you're doing jiu-jitsu.
00:52:11
Speaker
How long have you been practicing that? Since February. Oh. Yeah. So you're almost a threat. No. I'm pretty sure you'll kick my ass, dude, with your how many years of karate?
00:52:25
Speaker
i don't know. Eight or something? Yeah. no and Yeah. So pretty sure I won't get close to you. but but But the problem is that the most dangerous people in martial arts are those just getting started because they learn how to do stuff, but they don't learn how to do stuff properly and how to measure their engagement.
00:52:47
Speaker
so yeah So, like, when we do sparring in the dojo, um the newbies, the white belts and orange belts, they're really scared fighting ah brown belts and stuff like that because so they've they know so much.
00:53:05
Speaker
But we know how not to hurt you. But if you fight against another orange belt or a blue belt, they they might not know the same stuff that we do and not being able to hold back as much, and they will... they They might punch you too hard.
00:53:21
Speaker
It's been a crazy experience doing jiu-jitsu for me. who like This I got yeah i go i call it a but apparently Yeah.
00:53:33
Speaker
it was apparently it's called a mother's milk choke Is that better? don't know. So basically a bigger dude, he probably weighs in excess of like 120 maybe I reckon.
00:53:50
Speaker
Bigger dude, a bit of like um bulk i yeah I guess you'd say on him, not muscle, ah comes in and like he's got you in what they call the mount which is where like he's on top, but he's basically sitting on your on your hips or your stomach.
00:54:08
Speaker
And then he uses this move where he just basically lies flat on your face and you just cut you suffocate. You die. And he knows. And i like for example, this week, I was like, I couldn't breathe. So I tried turning my head and he just turns his body with you.
00:54:24
Speaker
Yeah. And you're just like, you're dying. Yeah. You're like, I can't believe I'm going to die man's chest. Yeah. in a man's chest It reminds me of the scene from um Fight Club.
00:54:42
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. yeah With meatloaf and yeah. Exactly like that. We don't do holds and stuff like that. We just punch and kick.
00:54:53
Speaker
Yeah, in some ways that's kind of Better. Yeah. And we don't feel like going to die. You can always like back off, if you know what I mean, like back away. Whereas if you're in the midst of it, there's no chance.
00:55:07
Speaker
just Yeah. it's a we have We do a special type of karate, shinky cushion, which is basically um punches to the face are not allowed.
00:55:22
Speaker
but you But you can kick in the head. That's a lot. Good to know. Yeah, but the thing is that you can wear, if you're allowed to punch punch to the face, you need thicker gloves for protection.
00:55:37
Speaker
But we just use thin gloves because we don't punch to the face. But we also have an interesting points system. Because like with the Shotokan and stuff, or if you look at the stuff that was in Tokyo 2020 Olympics, then they dance a little bit around and then they jump forward and punch or kick and then they get the point.
00:56:02
Speaker
and That's not how we do it. ah If you show signs of pain after being struck, ah the opponent gets half a point. If you show pain for more than three seconds, the opponent wins the match.
00:56:18
Speaker
What? Yes. That seems crazy. The only only tournament stuff I know about karate is from Cobra Kai. Yeah, well, we don't go up on one leg and kick. Well, that's from the original karate kid, but yeah.
00:56:32
Speaker
But that's the kind of karate we do. It's a full contact. um i i do fold I've been to one tournament, full contact with the with limitations. Yeah.
00:56:44
Speaker
So we don't have follow-through kicks to the head. Like you usually, if you kick somebody in the head, you would aim past the head, right? But we have contact to the head.
00:56:58
Speaker
as So that's enough to get a point. But the other other thing is is, yeah, you have pads on your legs, gloves, and some...
00:57:11
Speaker
some protection for your lower regions and a mouth guard. That's it. And then you just punch each other. So I was lucky enough to have two people in my class. I got my ass handed to me um but by one of them. He had multiple years of fighting ah behind him and the I managed to beat the other guy's ass.
00:57:31
Speaker
s It was, ah it's really fun. I have videos of them and I i look kind of intimidating going going into the ring. But the first match I was so stressed, like shoulders up well beyond my ears and breathing like in the top 10% of my lungs.
00:57:49
Speaker
And I was exhausted after one minute and we do three minute rounds. so um But it was good fun. And it's like you'd think that in in like martial arts and stuff like that, you you see in soccer, right? People are being mad at each other like the the opponents. that arere like not They're not nice to their opponents.
00:58:13
Speaker
And here we are punching our opponents. But if by some chance you miss and a glove goes up to the face... They're the first to apologize like, oh, sorry, sorry.
00:58:28
Speaker
And then the judges stop the match and then we hug it out. And so it's just like good vibes all around. And when when fighting and like and the guy that I beat, he kicked me so many times in the leg and I kicked him so many times in the stomach.
00:58:43
Speaker
And then afterwards, like, hey, we had fun. just It feels weird, but it's like ah some of the the nicest guys you you find and and some of the nicest competition you have is like in martial arts when you actually respect each other and and you're not there to hurt each other. You're there to to basically have fun and try to win the match.
00:59:05
Speaker
Are there any like parallels with karate and you know your joy for three d printing, do you think? No, it's just like the times that 3D printing doesn't work out, I go to the karate and punch people to get the frustration out of them.
00:59:21
Speaker
That's exactly why I started Jiu Jitsu. Yeah. no um I just keep on getting my art handed to me. I started the karate when my son started or my son started and then I was just like hanging around there and then there's like, why don't I join?
00:59:38
Speaker
And then me and my kid was doing karate for... quite a
Thomas's Son's Go-Kart Project
00:59:44
Speaker
few years and then he had other stuff he wanted to focus on and then I just kept going and I'm an instructor for the kids and sometimes for the adults as well so I've really spent a lot of time at that club. Nice. um worth but I wanted to ask one thing about your son. How's his go-kart going?
01:00:07
Speaker
he he okay He has put that idea on the shelf for now because he figures that the torque he gets from that engine he bought is way too much for his frame to handle.
01:00:23
Speaker
Okay. So he wants to give it another shot, but needs to get better and sturdier materials first. Has he thought about just downgrading the engine to something little bit more fun? No.
01:00:37
Speaker
It costs money. No. and Sell that engine and and build put something smaller in so he could actually drive it? Yeah, we'll see. and He's so just getting his second year of school done and will go as an intern for two years now.
01:00:58
Speaker
Yeah. and Being able to earn a little bit of money there, but ah yeah, you know how it is going from school to suddenly being 100% employed. ah you You thought school was hard and then you come to come to work every day and it's yeah he'll basically come home and sleep i think after after work um he told me he was at just like this ah ah practice like they were two weeks working for a a company that was a different company as they that he will start for
01:01:42
Speaker
in the autumn but uh on his first day he was he was promised he would be able to run the cnc machines uh or test them but he ended up moving think he said the four tons of steel from a to B because they were cleaning stuff.
01:02:01
Speaker
Yeah. And he was so tired and he hated it so much. And I was like, yeah, I understand. But that's the reality. You're the new guy. All the shitty jobs will be done by the new guy.
01:02:14
Speaker
Sometimes you'll be able to do something fun, but you are there to do the shitty jobs that they don't want to do. Unfortunately. Yeah, unless you go in for you know into business for yourself, then pretty much you have to deal with other people and working a shit job for a while. At least yeah you get some experience, that's for sure.
01:02:36
Speaker
And if you go do it for yourself, you'll start doing all the shit jobs yourself until you hire someone, and then they will do the shit job.
Cultural Reflections and Humor
01:02:44
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Story of my life, i just do shit jobs all of sudden.
01:02:49
Speaker
Talking about shit jobs, we normally have this segment in this podcast where talk about what's giving us the shits. Do you have anything that's giving you the shits at the moment?
01:03:03
Speaker
Well, currently everything. I was operated last year and removed my gallbladder. ah So I'm really sensitive to shit, that to say like this.
01:03:19
Speaker
So at least fatty foods that I struggle with. Number two.
01:03:32
Speaker
That gives you the shits. Fatty foods. Yeah. fighting plates yeah Well, I don't really have anything that's giving me the shits at the moment. I would probably say, I wanted to say the 17th of May, but it actually, it was actually kind of nice. Yeah. What did you do?
01:03:51
Speaker
Uh, we just had the the kids go to the parade and, we had actually a breakfast with another family, so we didn't have to worry about that, but we did have to get up early and then, uh, the parade and you went to the school for a little celebration thing and then yeah Chilling in bloody ah Eurovision. Oh, yeah. have in the evening yeah So you're you're an outsider. What's your thoughts on 17th of May?
01:04:22
Speaker
Look, I understand why people love it. It's really like a... ah From a cultural side of things here in Norway, it's really important. A lot of these len these sort of ah specific celebrations such as Christmas, you know that's important because it's basically where it's the darkest the most miserable and it's something to look forward to.
01:04:49
Speaker
And then you've got Easter, which is kind of like the change from summer from winter to summer, you know that spring feeling. And, you know, that's something to celebrate, look forward to.
01:05:00
Speaker
i think on the 17th of May, it feels like that in between, between summer holidays and Easter. That's like, uh, you know, we're not celebrating the summer arriving, right?
01:05:12
Speaker
and Cause it's never arrives here. Yeah. Well, summer was nice last year. It was on a Thursday, I believe.
01:05:25
Speaker
Yeah, i forget sometimes how high up we are, right? You know, in in the world. You know, looking on the map, you're like, holy moly, like, we're all the way up here. No wonder it's cold and miserable.
01:05:36
Speaker
Yeah. When we get a day here with like 18 degrees, you's like, holy shit, it's so hot. It's summer.
01:05:43
Speaker
It's so crazy.
AI's Role in Project Development
01:05:46
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Dude. um We also have a section in our podcast where we talk about things that are blowing our mind. Yeah.
01:05:55
Speaker
Is there anything blowing your mind at the moment? Yes. thomas Yes, there is. ah And this is kind of controversial due to the the people I'm surrounded with.
01:06:08
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ah So I'm in both camps on this one, but it's AI.
01:06:19
Speaker
Mind blown.
01:06:23
Speaker
What about AI? um Okay, first the negative, the image generation. It is trained on people people's art who haven't given their consent.
01:06:37
Speaker
And like using AI to generate an image that is a prototype for the art that you will make, that is, in my mind, okay.
01:06:51
Speaker
But there are people who generate AI images and just sell that AI slop as their own work. And that is not okay. ah So that's like the the bad camp. But the good camp, the the where it blows my mind in a positive manner, is coding.
01:07:12
Speaker
It's so insanely good at starting and making a project for you that solves your issues. I've made ah two projects now with AI, one of them being a syllabus for the karate that allows you to say that I need the moveset for this and this belt, and then it shows it to you what you need to train on.
01:07:37
Speaker
And I'm currently working on something that I hope will be a product someday that is a table tennis tracker. that is hardware, firmware and software.
01:07:48
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um Basically some stuff you attach to a table tennis table that allows you to push a button, register that you got a point and then you have some LEDs showing the score of each players and everything there is synced up to a web server so you have a live score view and you log in using an RFID tag so you can track your stats and scores and We are looking at building in some yellow system for it. And yeah, it's ah really fun to be able to do that and just being able to tell the AI that I want this and then it delivers.
01:08:25
Speaker
It's insane.
01:08:29
Speaker
um There is a company in the US s has these like ping pong, these table tennis ah gyms. Yeah. Like they're like they're basically just building with a bunch of ping pong tables, you know?
01:08:44
Speaker
Yeah. I know some of them uses cameras for and a AI to determine the score. Yeah. and you And you can stream to. Yeah. It's kind of cool. This will be more ah for singular tables ah that you can adjust attach and attach to the table. And yeah.
01:09:07
Speaker
make make work yourself. And also I used AI because for this system I will have like a panel on one side a panel on the other side and some controllers on the in the middle.
01:09:19
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I asked it to recommend some connections to go between there to to power everything and and make everything work. And it said that I could use something called. ah and What was it called?
01:09:32
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ah j s sir six or something. Let's see. It's called it. a
01:09:42
Speaker
GX 16, like a really rugged connector, like for air airplanes and shit. cool It has a locking mechanism and stuff like that. And I countered with any other suggestions. The GX 16 looks really heavy duty and I'd love something more similar to an USB C. And um what it suggests like yeah it responded with got it.
01:10:11
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If you're aiming for something more compact and sleek like USB-C, but still modular, pluggable and reasonably robust. Here are some excellent alternatives to the GX 16. Number one, USB-C connectors. Yes, actually USB-C.
01:10:24
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It gave me sass.
01:10:28
Speaker
Fucking AI. So now we're making this with USB-C to connect parts. And that's ah nice because you can get cables really ah readily available in in the lengths you need.
01:10:41
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But that's the thing, like, unfortunately, AI is flawed as well, right? So, you know, ah here's some news for the listeners. I have finished the first video for the World Rally Car.
01:10:55
Speaker
i I'm not going to put it out for a while, but um basically in this video, I use AI to work out the gearing for the go-kart. How does that work out?
01:11:07
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Not so good. um The thing is that you need to pair the AI with your own own eye. um And if you don't have any eye, then it will give you falsehoods.
01:11:22
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So I knew that I could use an USB-C. and Basically, I just wanted the AI to confirm it. I will also confirm it with another guy and to make sure that I'm on the right track.
01:11:34
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You know what's blowing my mind this week, Thomas? No. World Rally Drivers. Okay.
01:11:46
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Mind blown. I don't know how they get in that car with balls the size of watermelons. Like, I was watching some footage this morning and I was like, holy crap.
01:12:01
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like They're doing like 170 kilometers an hour with inches either side of these big-ass trees that basically, they get it wrong, they're dead.
01:12:13
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Yeah.
Appreciation for Motorsports
01:12:14
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out um we're We're in different camps on this. I'm a Formula One guy. You're a VRC car, a VRC guy. But I think that the...
01:12:27
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The level of skill is comparable. They're insane. ah Like Formula One cars, they are so on the edge that doing something wrong sends you in the wall 250 kilometers per hour.
01:12:43
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and And then it doesn't matter that you're just inches away because you don't scrub 100 kilometers an hour going over the gravel traps. ah Like I saw yesterday with the qualifying where Yuki Tsunoda crashed and was upside down for a little while rolling over the catch fence or along the catch fence.
01:13:04
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um But Being able to drive those rally cars on roads that are like, this is a 50 kilometers per hour limit road, and they go there in 170. It's like insane.
01:13:18
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and Not only that, is it's like the track is changing all the time. yeah it's not It's not just they drive it once or twice and they write notes and they can remember. Yeah, they remember.
01:13:29
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But if a car before them pulls a rock out, in the middle of the driving line they have to adapt to that yeah so realistically the road is never the same it's insane it's pretty impressive and i it does blow my mind yeah and it's a it's really funny the the difference between formula one and world rally car because i i don't i haven't seen much world rally car but like with a formula one car you almost always have grip that's what you live and die by having that grip if you start slipping you're way off but with a world rally car it seems like if you get the grip you're you're fucked you you just slide around every turn everywhere you go you need to have a little bit of slip a little bit of spin in your wheels to be able to slide around the turns like you do
01:14:24
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Yeah, I mean, it depends on what surface they're driving too, right? They drive tarmac as well and then you don't want that. No, fair enough. I mostly see gravel. Yeah.
01:14:35
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So I think it's a great sport. I still love it, even though it's pretty much a dying sport, to be honest. and There's not enough manufacturers in it. They're changing the rules for next year.
01:14:47
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2027, there'll some big changes. there'll be some big changes Hopefully and that'll bring in a lot of different cars, but you know, who knows?
01:14:59
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It's a, it's a very difficult sport to get into. Cause you realistically, the only way you get hooked is by going there and watching it. Yeah. So if you have a local rally in your area, that's how you get hooked.
01:15:12
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Yeah. And and with the a lot of, I think all sports, like if you watch the sport for the sports sake, you will not get hooked. You need the drama, you need the and off play issues, the the tension, the stories ah to make everything interesting.
01:15:33
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Like i I can see like getting my girlfriend to watch a Formula One race. It's like, yeah, there's cars going around the track 70 times. But when you know the people and you know their stories and you know their internal battles and you know what to look for, everything becomes so much more interesting.
01:15:52
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I think that's why Drive to Survive was a game changer for the Formula One. Yeah, yeah for sure. yeah It allowed people like your girlfriend to be okay with watching a race, you know? Yeah. ah the The problem with Drive to Survive, I think I've mentioned this to you before.
01:16:07
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It's like... Yes, it's amazing at creating drama for first time viewers. But if you've watched the season and then watch Drive to Survive, there's so many ah inaccuracies, so many dramas being made up just for drama, not for anything else.
01:16:28
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And just like it's fabricated, it's really fabricated, but it's like entertainment. You can't look at it as a documentary. and You can't really. It is entertainment. Yeah.
01:16:41
Speaker
Dude, I think we're going to wrap this up, but I usually also ask Kieran for a recommendation. So have you got any recommendations around, maybe about around 3D printing? Any recommendations there?
01:16:53
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um For a 3D printer? Well, that's easy. ah If you want a printer that prints by a bamboo lab, and then people ask, yeah, but which one?
01:17:04
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It's like, find your budget by the most expensive one you can afford. Yeah, it's that easy. And it's ah and and the thing is that the 3D printing community is, as far as I'm aware, very open and very kind and very sharing. So don't be afraid to ask. it Contact me, contact anybody and ask them about advice. I am an open book. I have panels about 3D printing and how I do creating stuff so I'm not afraid to share what i know and what I think I know awesome well the other thing i'm going to recommend is that you go see my new motorcycle video that I just released yesterday so there you go go check that out it looks so tiny on you
01:17:54
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shut up stop saying that you're a big man i know that's the worst thing i keep on building small things thomas you need to get compensation somewhere you need to be yeah buy a bigger uh next time i wish but it looks awesome and it sounds awesome at least once you get it in gear yeah Have you figured out the rattling yet?
Conclusion and Listener Encouragement
01:18:22
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Yeah, yeah, I've worked that out. Oh, nice. Yeah, so it turns out because I preloaded the kickstart because it was hitting the exhaust and you'd have to kick it right under the bike to get it started.
01:18:37
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I preloaded the kickstart, which means it's kind of little bit engaged. And that's that, right? Ah, understand. So, yeah, that's fixed. Nice.
01:18:49
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So thank you everyone for listening in. And I hope you got something from Thomas and what he does and the amazing person he is helping me with my project.
01:19:02
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It's my pleasure. And anything you want to leave the audience with, Thomas? No, just the take a page from printing nerds three d Printing Nerds book. Be awesome every day.
01:19:16
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the Be a good person. Yeah. And print some stuff. And print some stuff, yeah, for sure. i'll I'll start printing the VRC card now.
01:19:27
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Yeah. No. All right, guys. Thanks for listening. We'll catch you next week. Bye.