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3d Printing

Best Web Sites for 3d Printing Designs

Now that you have a 3d printer, how do you find interesting and useful things to print? In this video, I walk through my top 5 favorite 3d model sites looking for both free and high-quality models.

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3d Printed Cookie Cutters

Countless people have many memories of watching Sesame Street and the Cookie Monster! One of the best advantages of 3d printing is that you can personalize anything in a short time.

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Personalizing a 3d Printing Model

Are you looking for a unique gift for the holidays, a birthday or family event? 3d print it yourself. Instead of just downloading models from your favorite 3d print site, personalize your downloads.

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Unboxing The Creality Ender 5

The Creality Ender 5 is a new 3d printer that sells for $349, but we have seen it on sale for $319. In this video, we unbox, assemble, and review the 3d printer.

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You can't expect that your 3d prints will come out absolutely perfect when they come off the printer. In this video, we will learn together how to take prints that came right off the print bed that might be full of strings and supports into beautiful 3d prints

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Enough 3d Printing Filament for the Print?

When preparing a 3d print you process it with a Slicer to convert it from a 3d model to a printable file. Current versions of slicers such as Cura 4.x and PrusaSlicer 2.x include both the length of filament needed for a print and the weight of the filament needed.

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Upgrades For Ender 5

I have uploaded to the DrVax YouTube channel a number of videos about upgrading your Ender 5. Here are links to some of the Google Slide decks used in those videos:

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Calculating Extruder Steps/MM

The following DrVax video explains how to calibrate the extruder on your new 3d printer. After watching the video you can use the form below the video to calculate your new extruder steps per mm (the E value):

Software

Installing Ghost on AWS

This tutorial and the associated videos are designed to both introduce the read/viewer to Ghost, an up and coming blogging platform, and provide sufficient detail so a novice with little to no experience with AWS can configure a blog, secure it, upload a theme and start blogging.