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3D printed bacon, houses and hats: Interview with 3D printing YouTuber Print That Thing aka Jwall

可爱的Youtuber很少见到3D印刷帽子……Jwall工作了50小时的工作,以支持他的频道的内容Print That Thing, and the projects truly never stop.

3D印刷行业赶上了Jwall,讨论了从3D打印培根到他的3D印刷房屋的梦想项目,以及预览3D打印的下一个大趋势。

3D printed Wolverine claw by Print That Thing on YouTube

The Maker community on YouTube

YouTube is an important medium for the 3D printing community and for Jwall“is where I fell in love with 3D printing technology for the first time.”He says one of the first 3D printing videos he remembers was the selective laser sintering of a functional wrench. After that he used the video platform to learn how to use Autodesk’s MeshMixer software via a video fromYouTuber Makersmuse

Since then, Jwall’s own channel Print That Thing has grown to a community of over 14,000 subscribers, and over 1 million total views. For him the most successful video to date has been the“3D Printing Bacon” video,他使用的Autodesk’s ReMake to model a piece of bacon,在他的露营车面的后面刚“煮熟”。

3D printing bacon with Print That Thing. (Note: Bobo the cat sleeping on the right)

The popularity of the video caught the attention of Autodesk which for Jwall, who has been using their software for years,“is a dream come true”.

3D Printing Bacon also features a cameo appearance of his cat Bobo, who may hold the secret to Jwall’s success. The cat armour Jwall made for Bobo in 2016 is still one of Print That Thing’s most popular videos, it’s easy to see why…

Bobo the cat modelling 3D Printed Cat Armour. Photo by Jwall
Bobo the cat modelling 3D Printed Cat Armour. Photo by Jwall/Print That Thing

Jwall’s next project featuring Bobo is of 3D printed cat bowls made using VR in Gravity Sketch. A preview of the bowls fromPrint That Thing on Twittershows that they are just a fierce as Bobo’s tailor made cat armour.

3D printed cat bowls designed by Jwall using VR Gravity Sketch. Photo via PRINTTHATTHING on Twitter
3D printed cat bowls designed by Jwall using VR Gravity Sketch. Photo via PRINTTHATTHING on Twitter

Print that: 3D printed house

Never one to shy away from dreaming big, one of Jwall’s goals is to 3D print his own house, which he assures us he is 100% serious about.“Got the acres of land, now just waiting to save up 3D print a house one day,”和he’s put together some rough designs in Tinkercad just for fun.

The 3D Shapes House idea uses the basic 3D shapes: sphere, cube, pyramid, & cylinder to create the 3D house. The cylinder being a slide pipe down to the balcony!

Who wouldn’t 3D print a slide into their house if they could?

Of course, Jwall is also realistic about the time it will take to get all the ideas together,“the vibe of the 3D house is still in development for the next few years”though he eventually plans to do a mini documentary of the process.

Becoming full-time

The main goal for 2017 is for Jwall to become a full-time YouTuber. He has set up a Patreon page where fans can每月仅保证一美元来支持他的视频,考虑到他的所有设计可以免费下载,这是公平的!

The next big 3D printing trend?

在3D打印行业,我们希望将手指放在脉搏上,并尝试打印所有东西(或至少尽可能多)。我们发布了今年流行模型的视频和照片,例如much “beloved” Baby Groot, Amao Chan’sfantastic Save Pangolins和of coursePrimoz Cepin’s Hairy Lion

3D Printed Baby Groot. Photo by Michael Petch
3D Printed Baby Groot. Photo by Michael Petch
3D打印保存PANGOLIN。迈克尔·皮奇(Michael Petch)的照片。
3D打印保存PANGOLIN。迈克尔·皮奇(Michael Petch)的照片。

Jwall gave us a preview of a project that combines the hairy lion technique with a historical figure well suited to跨度

偷偷摸摸地预览了即将推出的“毛茸茸的爱因斯坦” 3D印刷品。Jwall摄影
偷偷预览打印东西的即将到来的“头发y Einstein” 3D print. Photo by Jwall

Some of his current Patreon supporters included fellow YouTubersSparkyFace5烟花的设计。Sparkyface5的Tessa Nesci是#3Dblockzoo movement in Tinkercadto get more people involved in 3D design.

烟花的设计is a graphic designer known on YouTube for bringing logos to life through 3D printing. He’s also a key supporter of Twitter’s #3Dpinkmafia 3D printing all the things in pink filament.

A collection of J Wall’s 3D printable designs can be found on thePrint That Thing MyMiniFactory profile, where he’ll soon be uploading the model for a hairy Einstein. The video for hairy Einstein will be a tutorial on how to turn waste filament on 3D prints into hair. We can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.

If you’re a YouTuber looking to share your next 3D printing projects with the world we’d like to hear from you. You cancontact 3D Printing Industry via email here,鸣叫我们 @3dprintindustry或者send us a message via Facebook

特色图像在他的3D印刷世界中显示了Youtuber Jwall,其中包含印刷品徽标。尼克·劳(Nick Rau)的照片