Transparent 3d printing resin looks really cool! And it's perfect for shining LEDs through it... if one can find out how to keep it transparent đ
Music in this video:
Very special thanks to my friend, who created the intro song (âWhat Happens in 20 Minutesâ) and the crystal song (âRelaxed Crystalsâ) for this video!
- âWhat Happens in 20 Minutesâ by drabulux
- âRelaxed Crystalsâ by drabulux
- âAces Highâ by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
- âSour Applesâ by RAGE
- âContenderâ by TrackTribe
As with every project, I wanted to improve things. And I'd say I did improve. Especially compared to the previous video. I believe this one is way more humorous and does more interesting to watch. I also think that the lighting is better and I actually paid attention to keep the camera focus where it was supposed to be. Also, the audio quality is better than in the last video (but not as good as it could/should be). I also played around with my animation skills and I'm quite happy how they're progressing.
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Resin printers have a reputation of being complicated and ... unpleasant to use. In this video, I go through a simple project to show how it really is.
Music in this video:
Joey Pecoraro: Jazz Apricot
Corbyn Kites: Staycation
Kevin MacLeod: Aces High (incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
The Mini Vandals: Who's Using Who?
The draining holder on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3841061
My video equipment:
Camera: Panasonic LUMIX GH5
Lenses:
Panasonic Lumix G H-H020 20mm f/1.7
Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 7-14mm, F4.0
Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6
Main light: Viltrox L116T and a self-built studio LED panel
Fill lights: Godox LED64
Micropone: RĂDE smartLav+ and RĂDE Wireless Go
With every video, I'd like to learn something new.
This time, I have a new workshop. And I learned that the acoustics in there are far from perfect. There quite some noise from outside. The floor is creaky. It desperately needs sound absorbers. But: I do like the wooden beams in there and I'm quite satisfied with the colours in the video.
On that note: I finally looked a bit deeper into how to do colour grading in Davinci Resolve. And while I definitely have a long way to go, I think I got a lot better at it.
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My YouTube channel passed 1000 subscribers đ
To celebrate, I built a subscriber counter that is also an automated cat toy.
3d-printable bearings :O
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4851975
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I made 3d printable art together with a friend. And you can get it for free!
Visit https://haptic-bytes.art/ to generate your own sculpture.
This was a video that I wanted to tackle for a long while. Finally, I got some extrinsic motivation by needing to deliver some footage about the 3d printed art.
I had some difficulties packaging it into a nice video and I definitely learned that I should think a little more carefully what I want to show in my videos. Because I actually would have liked to show more 3d prints, but couldn't figure out a way how to edit them in nicely.
On the bright side, I am getting more comfortable with using Davinci Resolve's Fusion to get interesting animations. I know they're not super impressive, but I've definitely improved a lot already.
I also realized some ways to make the thumbnail pop a bit more. E.g., by adding these white outlines and some drop shadows.
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Have you ever been amazed by the Spidercam or Skycam systems that are used in sports stadiums? I have! And I decided I that I want my own camera robot that works like this.
In this video, I present my first prototype. In the future, I hope to improve this a lot and add a ton of new features.
You can find this project on GitHub: https://github.com/matou/CableCamera
Thanks to David for helping me with this video. Find David's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0FWNSkss4z5l-yn20lbtrQ
You can find scanlime's Tuco Flyer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU6omrP2iFU
This was an eventful month full of learning moments for me.
The first thing concerns video editing. For the last two videos I had issues with my computer being quite unresponsive during editing. My computer is pretty old and cannot handle editing very well. I was using Davinci Resolve and had recently upgraded to version 17 of the editing software. There are ways to get smoother editing by using optimized media or proxy media instead of the high-resolution footage during editing. However, in the past, I couldn't get it to work reliably. So I decided to give Blender another try. Blender is a 3D modelling software, but it is also a decent video editor and I've been using it before I switched to Davinci Resolve. I edited a test video to see if it works for me. The editing is fine and also worked smoothly when using low-resolution proxy media. However, the final render takes forever in Blender. It uses only a single core of my CPU and doesn't utilize the GPU. So a 15 minute video took about 8h to render in 1440p. This is unacceptable. So I went back to Davinci Resolve and had another look at the proxy media feature. Resolve somehow fails to generate proxy files for most of my footage. However, I was able to convert the files manually with ffmpeg and tell Resolve to use those as proxies. That worked splendidly and I couldn't be happier with it.
Another major thing was that this was the first video that I didn't film by myself. My friend David helped me out with it. It was a very interesting experience and I was pretty nervous as I had to prepare pretty well in order to use the time we allocated efficiently. In the end, it worked out well and I'll probably do some collaborations like that again in the future. Although, I also learned that doing everything myself is pretty cool, too, because I'm super flexible.
I bought an action cam (the Insta360 One R) for this project. And somehow it didn't occur to me earlier, that I could have been using my phone as a second camera for some of the shots. Anyway, I will probably be filming a second angle more often in the future.
I am quite pleased with parts of the audio this time. The sound is pretty good when I'm on-camera and also in parts of the voiceover. I changed how I wear the lapel mic in this video. I think this is better, because in the last video, I had some noise from my clothes rubbing against the microphone.
Some of the voiceover isn't as good as I would like. I'm not sure why. I will have to continue improving my audio recording.
This is also the first time, that I had a more serious look at the animation features of Davinci Resolve, called Fusion. There is still a lot to learn for me, but I think I got the basics and I'm pretty happy that I can do some simple animations now.
One thing that I learned during the publication: I don't want to schedule the premiere on YouTube right after uploading the video. For one, the video got a dislike right after publication of the link, even though (or maybe because) the video isn't available, yet. It also got a spam comment. Also, if I first mark the video as private, then I have time to check how it looks on YouTube.
I always wanted to have a robot that can play chess; and now my 3d printer can. It even throws a tantrum if it looses (though, I have a hard time winning against it).
You can download the 3d models and source code from Github: https://github.com/matou/3d-printer-chess
Crimson Fly by Huma-Huma
Gypsy Dance by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
The Heist by Silent Partner
Park Bench by Gunnar Olsen
Horses to Water by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Okay, so what were my improvements in this video? First of all: I believe this is my funniest video, yet. At least I am entertained, every time I watch it :D
I finally fixed the colors in the intro animation (I think). There should no longer be color artifacts when watched at a lower resolution.
For this build, I have a new studio light. I actually built this one myself. It's a big LED panel with a mixture of daylight, warm white and ice blue LEDs. Really nice light.
I also used more sound effects in this video. Not sure I should be having many sound effects; but it makes me giggle.
I also experimented with some panning shots on a motorized slider. The camera had a wide-angle lens and I stabilized the image during the editing so that it (almost) looks like its panning and sliding at the same time. Being a one-person crew, I think it makes shots more interesting.
This was also the first time, I created a 3d printing time lapse with the Octolapse plugin. This stabilizes the printhead to a configurable position, so that it looks like the print appears out of nowhere (used only for the pink gripper print). It didn't work perfectly (most likely because the camera resolution was too high for the Raspberry Pi to handle it well), but it looks cool.
I also had to modify my 3D printer firmware to enable cold extrusion.
Furthermore, I really love the color of the pink filament and I want to use that more in the future.
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I have a broken bowl and want to repair it the Japanese kintsugi way... but I want to do it faster and with less effort.
My video equipment:
- Camera: Panasonic LUMIX GH5
- Lenses:
- Panasonic Lumix G H-H020 20mm f/1.7
- Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 7-14mm, F4.0
- Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6
- Main light: Viltrox L116T
- Fill lights: Godox LED64
- Micropone: RĂDE smartLav+ and RĂDE Wireless Go
Music Credits:
Outlaw's Farewell (part II) by Reed Mathis
Serenity by Audionautix
Running Waters by Audionautix
One Fine Day by Audionautix
The music by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com
I want to improve my film making with every video that I create.
For this video, I added a Røde Wireless Go transmitter to my setup, which wirelessly transmits my microphone signal to the camera. In the previous video (the 3d printing one), I already used a lavalier microphone which sounds pretty good. However, I recorded the audio on my phone, which lead to a lot of issues. A few times, the recording suddenly stopped without me realizing it, so I had to redo some of the scenes. Also, I had to synchronize everything in post, which is super annoying. So now I use the wireless transmitter to have the audio directly in the video file.
Additionally, I worked on cleaning up and improving the audio more professionally. Specifically, I did some equalization, noise reduction and compression to the audio recordings.
I also quite like the thumbnail for this video. I definitely put a bit more thinking and effort into this one.
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I'm making a 3d printed lamp and dive into the steps that are required to achieve this.
Link to the lamp that I am making (the design is not by me, I'm just printing it): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4659384
My blog post on 3D printing: https://matou.de/getting-started-with-3d-printing/
Where to download 3D models:
Thingiverse https://thingiverse.com/â
MyMiniFactory https://www.myminifactory.com/â
Video by Maker's Muse on where to get free 3D models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLRWCtQ5KZY
Free slicer software:
PrusaSlicer https://www.prusa3d.com/prusaslicer/â
Cura https://ultimaker.com/software/ultimaker-cura
List of hackerspaces https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
List of some makerspaces in Germany https://www.offene-werkstaetten.org/werkstaetten
Octoprint/Octopi for controlling your 3d printer https://octoprint.org/download/â
Music and sound effects:
Blop sound by Mark DiAngelo
Jazz Apricot by Joey Pecoraro
Crazy by Patrick Patrikios
Staycation by Corbyn Kites
Road Trip by Slynk
Outlaw's Farewell (part II) by Reed Mathis
My video equipment:
I want to improve my film making with every video that I upload.
For this video, I switched to a lavalier microphone, which improved the voice quality a lot. I also set the camera to a higher shutter speed to get rid of the light flickering that was visible in some earlier videos.
Finally, I switched to recording everything in 4K and uploading to YouTube in 1440p. The main reason for this is to force YouTube to use a better codec for the videos. Uploading in 1080p resulted in horrible image quality through the YouTube re-encoding. My camera cannot film in 1440p, so I shoot 4K instead. This has the additional advantage, that I can crop/stabilize/... the footage if I need to.
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I already 3D printed a hydroponics system a few months ago. This time, I'm addressing some issues with that system and design a completely new and improved variant.
Download the designs at: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4669184
Music:
- "Starmachine2000" by Wintergatan
- "Marble Machine" by Wintergatan
Free license for Wintergatan music available on wintergatan.net.
My video equipment:
- Camera: Panasonic LUMIX GH5
- Lenses:
- Panasonic Lumix G H-H020 20mm f/1.7
- Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 7-14mm, F4.0
- Panasonic LUMIX G Vario Lens, 14-140mm, F3.5-5.6
- Main light: Viltrox L116T
- Fill lights: Godox LED64
- Micropone: RĂDE VideoMicro
I want to improve my film making with every video that I create.
This video is the first one in my new workshop. I think the setup improves the videos a lot. I also tried to make the story more interesting and added new camera angles. Also: better lighting (or at least I thought about that).
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Our cats learned to open the water tap đą. So I built them an alternative: a water fountain.
Link to the 3D files on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4639888
The hydroponics system I designed earlier this year: https://youtu.be/FEDWGKrZ9ns
I want to improve my film making with every video that I create.
In this one, I was more careful with the lighting. I also explored new and more interesting camera angles.
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