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In their first Podcast episode Tom and Stefan talk about current projects, Prusa’s recently announced SL1 resin printer and discuss whether they would prefer a much faster or a much bigger 3D printer. They also answer community questions about lasers, warped beds and cheap V6 knockoffs from China.

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This episode is full of weird 3D printers, starting with a 3D printing simulation from Spee3D. Tom and Stefan further talk about a new dynamic build platform concept to reduce the support amount and a Japanese project that converts a 3D printer into a production line plus the Thermorph concept that allows automatically folding 3D prints using a smart combination of PLA and TPU. Then they discuss the morality of selling a community firmware as their own and that the popular Dragon Hotends that seems to be wiped from the market as a result of SliceEngineerings patent on it. The Q&A section covers the question of when slicers will finally support real CAD data in the form of STEP or IGES files.

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### SHOW NOTES ###

3D printing simulator: https://spee3dcraft.com
Dynamic build platform: https://hackaday.com/2021/04/10/dynamic-build-platforms-for-3d-printers-remove-supports-and-save-material/
3D printer/printing production line: https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/scientists-convert-low-cost-fdm-3d-printer-into-all-in-one-production-line-called-functgraph-188243/
Thermorph: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3173834
Creality firmware as “own development”: https://twitter.com/sebazzz91/status/1383855322440163343
Slice engineering vs dragon hotend: https://twitter.com/xarbit/status/1383721631374184455?s=19

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3D Printed “meat” is the hot topic right now! Stefan and Tom cover two approaches that aim to print texture into vegan “steak” and “salmon”. Both look promising, but like with most 3D printed food, the hard challenges remain to be solved.
Can a huge show like Formnext happen in the current pandemic? Apparently the answer is “yes”, as TCT Asia has just finished.
Staying with Asia, Creality is reporting record shipments for the month of march – but might be infringing on a patent with their latest model!

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SHOW NOTES

Printed salmon
Printed steak
Creality’s shipment record
Potential conflicting patent
Slicer tuning is 3DOptimizer and CNX-Software’s tool

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Episode 36
2:24 What Stefan & Tom were up to
6:25 PV Solar
17:40 Printed Salmon & Steak
59:54 Print settings auto tuning
31:50 TCT Asia & Formnext Germany
36:17 Creality’s shipment record
44:19 Patent conflict
1:17:49 Questions

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Tom and Stefan talk about the upcoming events that they’ll attend including Malta Maker Fair and MRRF2020. Both recently released a material testing video and discuss if resin prints are really isotropic and why lattice or porous structures performs the way they do. Tom got kicked from the Amazon.com affiliate program and explains how that happened. Stefan got a new Pellet Extruder and expresses his first experience with it. Both talk about the impact of the Chorona Virus on the China and the 3D printing industry. The Makerbot Classroom Sketch was unveiled recently – is it worth $1800? Questions cover copyright on Thingiverse uploads, ceramic hotend liners, dimensional issues of high prints an the Dragon Hotend.

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Intro Jingle by Thomas Herrmann: https://raise-uav.com

### SHOW NOTES ###
Pellet extruder: https://mahor.xyz/
Ceramic liner in the IVI hotend: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ivi3d/ivi-the-closed-loop-3d-printer Makerbot
Classroom Sketch: https://www.makerbot.com/3d-printers/sketch-classroom
Lattice scaling law: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lin_Cheng45/publication/325132246_Design_testing_and_mechanical_behavior_of_additively_manufactured_casing_with_optimized_lattice_structure/links/5c13c5414585157ac1c1a755/Design-testing-and-mechanical-behavior-of-additively-manufactured-casing-with-optimized-lattice-structure.pdf?origin=publication_detail

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Tom finished his VORON 2.4 build live streaming marathon and talks about his experience and the choices he made, for example using a DUET 3 with Reprap firmware instead of the usually used Klipper configuration. Stefan shows the latest Make magazine Germany in which this Podcast got featured. Both discuss the “Jugend Forscht” winning entry where ultrasonic modules are used to heat and disperse resin for better prints. Then there is a talk about the suspension of the Torshn Kickstarter and a still on-going crowd funding campaign on a 3D printed bike helmet. The questions cover topics on how to make 3D prints watertight, Siraya Tech resin availability in Europe and RRF on other boards besides Duet.

NOTE: A small correction we need to add: Even though the TMC5160 stepper drivers would be capable of handling 48V supply voltage, the DUET 3 board is only rated up to 32V!

Drop your questions for upcoming episodes in the comments below or tweet them @TheMeltzone (https://twitter.com/TheMeltzone).

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Thomas Sanladerer: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasSanladerer?sub_confirmation=1
Stefan (CNC Kitchen): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiczXOhGpvoQGhOL16EZiTg?sub_confirmation=1

Support us on Patreon
Tom: https://www.patreon.com/toms3dp
Stefan: https://www.patreon.com/cnckitchen

Intro Jingle by Thomas Herrmann: https://raise-uav.com

### SHOW NOTES ###
Jugend Forscht: Ultrasonic heating of resin: https://www.htwg-konstanz.de/hochschule/magazin/gratulation-an-jugend-forscht-bundessieger/
Torshn Kickstarter suspended: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/torshn/puzzle/description
3D printed bike helmet: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kavsports/kav-the-bike-helmet-reinvented
Mellow FLY-CDY V2 board with RRF (affiliate): https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_ASiCfD
Anker Powerline Cables: https://geni.us/2XZHI

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