Buy a Printer or Use a Service: The Honest Cost Comparison
A capable 3D printer now costs less than a mid-range phone, so why would anyone pay a print service? And if services exist, why would anyone buy a printer? This episode runs the numbers properly: what...
30 Sep 30min
Resin Printing Explained: Liquid, Light and the Finest Detail You Can Buy
Resin printers build objects upside down, out of a puddle of liquid, hardened one hair-thin slice at a time by violet light. The result is detail that filament printers simply cannot match: raised tex...
30 Sep 16min
Multicolour 3D Printing: How It Works and Why the Waste Bin Fills Up
Multicolour 3D printing looks like magic: one machine, one nozzle, and a figurine comes off the plate already painted. This episode opens the lid on how that actually happens, from the filament change...
30 Sep 28min
3D Printing File Formats: Why 3MF Is Taking Over from STL
STL, OBJ, 3MF or STEP? The file you upload decides whether your print arrives the right size, the right colour and without a "non-manifold" error. This episode walks through what a mesh actually is, w...
30 Sep 23min
Layer Height Explained: What Finer Layers Really Cost You in Time
Two identical tugboats, same file, same printer, same plastic. One took an hour and a half to print, the other nearly three hours, and the only setting that changed was layer height. This episode puts...
30 Sep 26min
Infill Explained: What the Percentage Really Buys You in Strength, Weight and Cost
Every 3D print is mostly air on the inside, and one number in the slicer decides how much. In this episode we pull apart the infill percentage: what it is, why printed parts are not solid, and what dr...
30 Sep 25min
Choosing a 3D Printing Material: PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, TPU and Nylon Without Regret
A phone holder that slumps on a Sydney dashboard, a garden fitting that goes chalky in one summer, a "flexible" case that snaps: almost every disappointing 3D print is a material chosen for the wrong ...
30 Sep 29min
How FDM Printing Works: From Spool to Part, One Layer at a Time
Most desktop 3D printers are, at heart, a very precise hot glue gun on a robot arm. In this episode we follow a spool of plastic all the way to a finished part: what fused filament printing actually i...
30 Sep 19min
