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Published:
2018-12-02 21:21:27
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2026-06

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I don't want to subconsciously bias you towards one area or another, so here's the question:

"What guides or experiments are you personally interested in seeing on my channel?"

Leave your comment below!

Comments

Sequoia Alexander

I’m interested in 3D printed robots. Can you find some good simple 3D printable robots your followers could make?

Ts3dPrints

Octoprint plugins. Lights, cameras heaters.

ANTONIO RIVERA PALACIOS

I'm interested in designing and building high quality big volume FDM 3D printers, such as Delta and Core XY (Voron style). Thank you for asking Thomas!

Tinkerman

Since "building the ultimate 3D printer" is on top of my list for quit a while now, and because it is one of your strong points and in line with your expertise, I would very much like to see a series of videos, where we start of to asses the situation of the moment and decide on what the ultimate 3D printer should consist of and then start designing it and in the end build it en test it... That would be a very nice contribution to the entire 3D community IMO. The "ultimate 3D printer" should not be the cheapest of printers, but of course there should be a fine balance between price and print quality / versatility. I know it's a demanding project, but it is exactly your forte to do this. No one else can do this as well and as unbiased as you can. That is why I think you are the one and only youtuber to be able to pull this off.

LKM

Heat creep. Impact of fan type and size, ambient temperature, print temperature, heatbreak design, heatsink design, fan shroud design, etc.

toms3dp
>>17664575

Great idea for a project (series)! There's a nice range of robots that we could make - from simple line-followers to entire robot arms.

toms3dp
>>17664838

I very much want a stupid large printer, too. If only I had the space...

toms3dp
>>17664840

Well, I'm blushing ;-) But you're right, that would make for a great series with lots of deep-dive potential!

toms3dp
>>17664877

I do have that thermal camera that is just waiting to be put to use. Let me order some hotends to try out a few things!

ANTONIO RIVERA PALACIOS
>>17664838

Hehehe! It's more or less the same for me. I've got 3 3D printers (and I'm doing two more but they don't fit here) in my tiny bedroom plus many other things, such drones, computers, lots and lots of filament spools... I need much more space for my projects.

Ts3dPrints
>>17664820

I've been working on hacking a Crock-Pot into a filament dryer. That could be cool to see as well.

Jonathan Charnas
>>17664838

@Thomas I would suggest doing that kind of stupid large printer in a makerspace or fablab. They generally have the space and need for such machines, but often lack the expertise or motivated people to build them right.

ANTONIO RIVERA PALACIOS
>>17664838

Have you seen the Voron 2.1? I'm in love with it! It's a core xy fdm 3d printer with fixed heated bed and the X and Y axis also moves up, so it's also Z axis. It's very neat for big volume 3d printers.

Jonathan Charnas

Filaween was a great hit imo, so something similar but for different types of printer parts? I know, for example, that E3D's new "Nozzle X" design claims superiority over something like the Olsson Ruby, but how well does it stack up against the MicroSwiss ones, etc. I'd love to see something like this also on the steppers side, if you can think of a way to validate the quality of a stepper? And a big one for me would also be comparison of different thermistors, and how do thermocouples stack up. Why choose a PT-100 or a K thermocouple over a standard thermistor? Which thermistors and how accurate they are?

Nicolas VATRICAN

Hi. A few things you could do : Testing differents platics' mechanical properties in actual examples (e.g folding designs w/ and w/o hinges, print in place tricks, gcode tricks (add pauses, filament change with temperature changes, beeps for special events) transparency values depending on thickness, platics bonding compatibility on single extruder printer). Projects using FDM as a complement to other techniques (molds for plaster/cement, silicone), embedding electronics/cables mid-way through prints with a pause (like a self contained lit frame with Qi Charger pad). And guide that show how to get from an idea to a finished product through functional/pratical analysis (like you did on the garden hose roller and the tablet stand). You could finally maybe do another Octoprint episode showing how to use to most popular plugins. Another episode you could do is on the state of Open Source in today's FFF landscape. How are "newer" techniques like SLA, SLS or inkjet hampered by ongoing patents, or the way companies releasing open sourced hardware (or proprietary) are impacted by cheap knockoffs). Thanks a lot for the interviews you do of the brands/makers that give us an insight on the future of the industry. Keep them coming ! :-) And thanks a lot for inspiring us through your channel !

Byron Hameline

Investigate tuning slicer settings for production. Making prints faster while keeping strength for the application. Reviewing infill speeds and geometry. Looking into different nozzle sizes and specs for print quality and all other factors listed before. What do you think?

Justin Flugum

I like the Prusa clone build that is what got me hooked on your channel, along with marlin info guide.

Tinkerman

Yes, with "the ultimate 3D printer" I (also) do mean a large scale FDM printer. We all know that the real challenges come to life when exceeding the dimensions of approx. 400 x 400 mm, and so why not go up to something that would still fit on a table (let say 750 x 750 x 750 mm) and still fit in our small rooms (because we want it so much).

toms3dp
>>17665143

Filaween is meant to provide a consistent testing baseline across a wide range of materials - not sure how well that would work for individual categories that only have a handfull of products each. But the idea of pitting products against each other is nice!

Mike McGee

printer upgrades - bed leveling options; best, easiest to implement: optical, proximity, touch, or ??

Mike McGee

I am also interested in Tinkerman's Ultimate 3D printer suggestion.

Paul Arden

Configuring Linear Advance in Marlin would be a nice one. While there is a lot of information out there, with now two different versions of linear advance and several different pieces of Marlin documentation and tools it is sufficiently confusing at this point so as to benefit from a guide (including describing why you would even want it and whether to bother with it on a bowden system). Usage of the K-factor Calibration Pattern tool Marlin provide would also be helpful.

Matthew Byrd

How to slice and connect really big models. So often our desires are too big to print in one go. Other than that, build the ultimate printer... Big Tom... lol :)

David Turner

I would like to hear your impression of the Prusa multi material upgrade. Perhaps a quide about different nozzle sizes and how they might affect slicer settings.

Eric

For me as a MK3 and MK2.5 I am alwways interested in better quality durable part and faster prints. Mods hacks updates better materials. I am currently using PLA+ or pro like crazy to make fixtures and work holding parts that are durable! I love experiments.

Carlos Varas

Having used many printers, built a few with students and my current disappointment with the ultimaker 3 I’d love a guide on understanding setting in slicers in concert with specific materials. I was hoping filaween would go this route. I like Prusa because their slicer paired with the materials they tested produce great results. I’d love to understand the specifics of how they figured it out so I can apply that knowledge to exotics like architectural clay filament. I know this is rather specific but I’d like to know how she’ll thickness relates to material flow etc.

Paul Arden
>>17665662

Haha, and only just now I heard your remark in the live stream about some people not wanting Marlin videos. Perhaps a survey of the current most popular firmwares would also be a nice one, e.g., Marlin, Smoothieware, Duet and ones I haven't heard of yet. Be interesting to see a bit of state of play with regards to the firmwares that are out there now.

Julian Schu

Since 8 bit is somehow at it's limits, how about a duet series? basically just the same as with the marlin guides just for the 32bit world (e.g. the duetwifi).

Julian Schu
>>17665721

just searched for it... a site made with wix.com and some shade profs with a preferred gmail address... also a note that some people may identify it as virus because they didn register as Microsoft devs. Also not open source... But they want 10$ for this PER YEAR? no detailed videos on how it works... found out on youtube: it just cuts and stitches the stls. use meshmixer, this will do the same.

Fishysan

One thing that's rarely discussed in today's printers is the true importance of the Nozzle diameter and layer thickness. Does it matter, or make things worse if you use layer thickness that's a step of your nozzle diameter? AKA typical 0.4mm, then layers at 0.8mm, 0.12mm, 0.16mm etc.etc. Thanks!

AstroIdea

Were you going to build a diy printer to your standards? I'd like to see that

Phil Maddox

id like to see your method for dialing in temp and extrusion multiplier for a particular filament

Nathan Prewett

SLA supports: software options, manual vs auto, and the best way to support intricate models... and for a bonus the best way to remove them and cleanup the finished part.

Paul Arden
>>17665662

I had basically the same thing in reverse on my standard CR-10S, slipping extruder, then went for the Bondtech and since I needed a firmware change anyway to reverse the direction I figured I'd just update to official Marlin in the process. The Bondtech is a beast, I am running it with a 1.2mm nozzle on a Volcano and the thing just eats filament (in a good way), super consistent. I did do the Cap tubes before that as well with the stock extruder, man the state of the standard PTFE they had in that hotend, what a mess. If they must run the tube all the way to the nozzle they should at least use high temp PTFE. Still, a very serviceable printers though.

Nate Stuart

A through look at breakaway and soluble supports. What works, what doesn’t, and tricks to maybe mix and match media to get similar effects without needing specialty support material as well.

Danilo Majhenič

Any guide that would make my preinter more reliable. First ive had a chinese printer and neeeded to fiddle with it every few prints... After that i bought the prusa i3 mk3 and i still need to maintance the printer every lets say 20 prints... What can i do, to make the printer more reliable?

toms3dp
>>17665662

Linear advance certainly is an interesting topic (I've not played with it yet). The other topic of comparing extruders is something I've been thinking about how to do properly, so there might/will be something along those lines coming up!

toms3dp
>>17665721

Good idea for a topic! Lots of printing involved, but I think there are enough printers around here to take care of that ;-)

toms3dp
>>17665940

Just started working on a nozzle size comparison! I don't have a MMU2 here, but still need to put the MMU1 through its paces.

toms3dp
>>17666460

I'll finally put my Duet Wifi to use in the MPCNC build that's coming up

toms3dp
>>17667777

That sounds like an incredible misunderstanding somewhere - there's no reason you should be limited to discrete layer heights. Yes, there is a max and min limit to where a particular nozzle size is useful, but I don't see why you should be limited to a handful of usable ones withing that range. I'll look into what those ranges are in a nozzle size comparison!

toms3dp
>>17667978

Still a bit too high-end to do in my workshop, but certainly interesting to look into

toms3dp
>>17673086

Ah, yes! Easy, reliable supports are one of the big "enabler" technologies within 3D printing. Definitely worth diving deep on them!

Randel Niemann

How about a focus on enclosures and filtering any harmful off-gassing from the FDM process? Venting to outside air is nice but not practical for most of us. Syne Tech looks promising but pricey.

Mitch Mabbutt

I've moved from ABS to PETG (no chamber required and no fumes!) It prints OK but how do you tune your printer to make it better? (Bridging is a bit 'floppy')

James Koch

I would like to see as a dumb sometime new user a new filament dail in settings guide. I have some random filament that tells me temperature settings then take this to something that is moderately tuned. In a dumb form not skipping steps so i can follow a guide and get results. E..g right now 1) print a cube first with default settings - in middle or tuned to printer if a bit hot or bit cold. Measure cube of horizontal offset 2) print a benchy. check guides for what is going good or not. 3) temperature tower, tweak loop with benchy. Etc. Something where someone who is new with an Ender 3 or alike (working but maybe not fancy) printer can get good enough results with generic filaments.

Pasi L.

Love to see more Filaween, but same time understand that take very much time of yours. Other thing what like to hear your opinion is "part cooling" things. Nozzle, what kind of nozzle (round, square, many holes, couple big holes?) What kind of fans "turbine fans" with bigger static pressure or more silent "basic fans" weaker static pressure (can you put too much fans or fan power to part cooling). And overall opinion is there much differens printing quality is there one fans blowing about righ place or very good designed part cooling nozzle and powerfull fans?

broken_coder
>>17690769

I second that one. Tuning for Dummies. Sometimes I think I manged to improve print quality by shear dumb luck.

Frank Arens

I'd like to see a guide that deals with "The limitations of 3D printing and how to overcome them". I mean: The fact that it is an additive manufacturing process gives new freedoms (hollow parts, curved tunnels, small series production, hinges printed in-place, etc...) that other ways of manufacturing could not deliver, but also poses new challenges/limitations (overhangs, time constraints, reproducibility, etc...). Something that makes people aware of what makes 3D printing different from other manufacturing processes.

David VerHage

2 topics I am currently interested in are; 1. Auto Bed Leveling and troubleshooting inconsistent compensation and drifting Z-Offset.

MAdi78

As a total 3D printing noob I would very much apreciate if you could make a tutorial series of steps on how you diagnose prints and which would be reasonable steps to eliminate/combat them. There us a lot if material out there but a lot looks to be very dispersed and/or requires already existing knowhow.

Pasi L.

Hi Tom. I think very good tutorial is get new Slic3r Prusa edition new quide, that is changed so much over times. Just updated new one and there is so much more settings compare before. Of course different slicers interest too, but i love to use Slic3r, and of course original Slic3r is updated after long time too, but think Prusa is put so much efford that Prusa edition there can be better solutions, just wondering :)

David Henderson

hi Tom love you videos i have an anet a8 would love to see more tutorials on seting up merlin lick 20 teeth belts and v6 upgrades config for them in merlin as id did try to upgrade with no sucsess had to go back to old setup

Daniel Crosslink

Thomas, maybe make a series about specific printing techniques that exist. This would of course mean also industry standards and more expensive solutions but also could be a great chance to look what companies do that offer professional 3d printing machines.

Richard Hall

An actual linear process for tuning a printer for any specific filament would be nice. Not every filament "just prints nice"... Some seem really hard to dial in, at least for someone that's been working and studying 3D printers for several months now...