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Hey guys, so just for fun I thought I'd get myself some business cards! I'd been telling people about my little hobby (No, not that one, 3D printing you filthy minded animals) and it was getting exhausting having to spell out web addresses or look over their shoulder as they tried to find the correct Instagram page.  So I decided to mock up some basic cards that had a QR code for my  Instagram , Facebook and this blog.  I ended up liking the simple design so much I went ahead and ordered some cards! The QR cards make it a breeze to get people to the right pages, especially on Apple (urgh) as the native camera app picks up the code when pointed at the image with no other apps required (Android still requires a dedicated QR scanner app, come on Google! Sort it out!).  I used a free online QR code design tool and stuck some mini logos in the middle of each so people would know which code took them where. I paid a little extra to get the cards with raised print and double

Hey guys, as I haven't done a print of the month in a little while, I thought this week I'd just share with you all a few of the prints I'm most happy with from the past couple of months.  If you follow me on Instagram (If not why not?!) you may have seen these before. I'm going to split this post into tree sections; "Functional prints", "Projects" and "Just for fun". Functional prints Both of these prints are for the redecorating of our second room, which is currently in full swing.  We both have new desks and have converted the space where my wife's old desk was into a workspace for projects!! I will definitely do a post with photos when the room is finished, but for now I have printed a couple of items to help keep the room nice and tidy.  First we wanted to mount the Google Home Mini to the wall like we did in the bedroom, so I printed another "invisible" mount; It looks great and keeps the speaker firmly in plac

Hey guys, gonna preface this with I have not been paid or asked to write about this project, I just thought it was cool and wanted to share. I have never paid for a model to 3D print before...  With the plethora of models that are free on various sites such as Myminifactory and Thingiverse , there has been no need.  But I came across this Kickstarter a little while ago and thought it looked so cool I had to donate. The Kickstarter in question is being run by Joe Larson AKA The 3D Printing Professor and he has been creating instructional material in the 3D Printing space for years. The Kickstarter is to allow Joe to produce a bunch of low poly (polygon) dinosaurs and having seen some prints done by early recipients of the models they look amazing. I was sold.  I had to print these models...  I went to the campaign page and initially pledged $10, which would have got me a base set of models including the Triceratops and T-Rex and at first I was pretty happy. 

Hey guys, slight disclaimer here, I don't actually own a Photon.  I would love to, but at the moment it just isn't on the cards.  One of my friends, however, has just bought one and i wanted to take a moment to talk about the quality of the prints. ( Go and check out his Instagram here! ) If you remember back to my post about the different types of 3D Printing you'll remember that DLP is the process of curing resin one layer at a time using a UV LCD screen.  Meaning that can be faster than both FDM and true SLA.  I do feel it loses a bit of sharpness on the details against a print on a true SLA machine like the Form2 but for nearly a tenth of the price (less than a tenth if you factor in the curing stations from Formlabs) you can't really complain. At the time of writing the Photon is for sale for around £410, which is insanely good value for a resin printer that can produce prints of this quality. Another huge benefit of DLP printing is that it cures an

Hey guys, this week I wanted to draw attention to the Patreon of a guy on the Battletech Discord. He's a freelance 3d modeler and is doing some really cool stuff for tabletop Battletech, Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons communities. As I know him from the Battletech Discord (Come check it out by the way) I'm going to showcase some of the models he's put up on his Patreon in relation to the game with the big stompy mechs!  All of his models are created by him from scratch and they look great!  I won't put any names with them, for copyrighting reasons, but I'm sure you Battletech fans out there will be able to figure out what's what. I picked a small selection of his models to show here, but go check out his page for the whole lot and he is releasing new models all the time. Tanks 'Mechs If you don't see what you like or if Battletech isn't your thing, he does commissions for custom models so it would definitely be wor