This week we are joined by Dan Barousse, Co-Founder and CEO of @Slice Engineering . Dan is a mechanical engineer that was turned to the Dark Side of Business, i.e. sales and marketing, when he started Slice Engineering. He is passionate about using 3D printing as a tool to help people bring their ideas to life. We are going to be discussing the history of Slice Engineering, what sets them apart, and maybe some fun beef with E3D ;) Slice's Story: When it comes down to it, we’re engineers. And whe...
Apr 18, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week we are joined by the Pitch Master General, the Cafeteria Commander himself, Alex Abell of Lunchpool. If you are looking to raise money, do a kickstarter, or need to work on your elevator pitch, Alex is the powerhouse you need to hear! Do you have a pitch deck, do you know what one is, and do you know the basics of a good pitch? If you answered no to any of those questions, this is a podcast you do not want to miss! Defender of the lunch hour, the story of how LunchPool survived the pan...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week we are joined by Boris Garbe, a former teacher of Grant's that has gone on to inspire thousands via the Mills Gallery here in Central Florida. Boris has a no BS attitude about art, stating that he does not give a sh!t about the art, but cares only about the artist, and well, that resonates with us. Each project that comes through 3DM has it's story which is greater than the sum of it's parts. We will be talking all about his history, what it took to open an art gallery, and how this id...
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week we are joined by Andrew Mayhall of 3D Gloop. His company makes some of the best adhesives and chemical bonding agents for FDM 3D Printing on the market! Their product, 3D Gloop, is used throughout the industry as a bond that is SO STRONG it is more sturdy than the 3D Print itself! They have multiple formulas as well for most general types of FDM and FFF 3D Printing applications! Andrew Mayhall is one of the creative minds behind 3D Gloop!. 3D Gloop! creates unparalleled adhesives and c...
Mar 28, 2022•2 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week we are joined by Lisa Lloyd, an award winning inventor and someone who made a DEAL with SHARK TANK's Daymond John! Check out her channel @icaninvent ! Lisa’s success began with her idea for a barrette. While working for the CBS affiliate in Tucson, AZ she often wore her hair up in a French Twist. Friends and co-workers regularly asked how she fashioned the professional up-do so she began to scour stores to find a barrette that would help. When she discovered there was nothing on the ma...
Mar 20, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week we are joined by a man with a golden voice, Mr. Michel Petch of @3D Printing Industry .com He is their Editor in Chief and is responsible for most of the news stories we have covered here. Michael's ability to tell a story so eloquently absolutely fits him into the category of Making Awesome. Without him and the entire 3D Printing Industry crew we would know MUCH less about the happenings in the 3D Printing world! subscribe to their daily emails: https://3dprintingindustry.com/newslett...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Season 2Ep. 26
This week we are joined by Mara Hitner of Matter Hackers! Mara is the Vice President of Strategic Partnership for MatterHackers, a California based 3D Printing retailer, the largest in the world in fact! An advocate for 3D Printing, Mara spends her weekends being a rockstar, championing others in the industry! She is immensely involved with Women in 3D Printing as well as an Ambassador for America Makes. After 16 years in advertising and ad tech sales, Mara became obsessed with desktop 3D printi...
Mar 11, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This week we are joined by metal filament manufacturer The Virtual Foundry! Tricia and Brad make up the top execs within the company and strive to make metal 3D printing accessible, yes, even to users of machines like Ender 3's! Links to The Virtual Foundry (Affiliate) Shop: https://b.link/VirtualFoundryShop Website: https://b.link/VirtualFoundryWebsite Do you have an idea you want to get off the ground? Reach out to the Making Awesome Podcast through https://3DMusketeers.com/podcast and someone...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 24
This week we are joined by Peter Solomon, an amazing designer and FOUNDER of Wham Bam Systems, a 3D Printer accessory company most famous for their Flexible Build Systems and the MUTANT tool changing set up! Peter is going to talk all about his life, starting Wham Bam, and even show us around their NEW FACILITY! Below is Peter's bio and links to Wham Bam! https://whambamsystems.com/ Use code "Musketeers" for 10% off!!! Peter Solomon is an acclaimed industrial designer, problem solver, and entrep...
Feb 20, 2022•2 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Inventor of the Rainbow Loom, Choon Ng is no stranger to product development. After his MASSIVE success with Rainbow Loom, Choon is not slowing down! With his Prusa mk3s he is pumping out prototypes, parts, and ideas to get to his next big win! If you want to hear from an expert of products, this is a MUST WATCH EPISODE Winning Toy of the Year is no small feat and Choon achieved this back in 2014, with his product, the Rainbow Loom, being featured worldwide, worn by celebrities, royalty, even Th...
Feb 20, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This week we are joined by Willow Creative! A master cosplayer, featured worldwide for their amazing art pieces that also happen to be wearable! With 3D Printing a massive part of this process, this episode will be sure to have tons of awesome information, tips, and tricks for the beginner cosplayer out there! About Willow: I’m Willow Creative, a professional cosplayer from the Netherlands. Cosplay for me is the perfect outlet to combine creativity, fandom, learning new skills and showing my cra...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 21
This week we are joined by Vedran Marjanovic Wekster, but most of you know him as Wekster, an amazing 3D Modeler in the community! Wekster has climbed the ranks to make some of the best 3d models on Patreon for 3D Printing! Wekster comes with years of professional 3D Modeling experience, primarily in Z Brush and creates models monthly on Patreon! He is also a co-founder of Trailer Squad where he directs, films, edits, and produces amazing content! https://patreon.com/wekster https://twitter.com/...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 20
This week we are joined by Sarah Goehrke of Nexa3D. If you think you want to get into 3D Printing and additive manufacturing professionally this is the episode for you! Sarah is an industry badass who started out on the media side of the 3d printing and additive manufacturing industries and has quickly risen to being a key player within Nexa 3D! Nexa 3D is most famous for their high end printers and more recently their XiP (pronounced ZIP) desktop 3d printing system focused on small and medium b...
Jan 23, 2022•3 hr 43 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This week we are joined by Alan "Pooch" Puccinelli of Repkord. This all started from a tweet here: https://twitter.com/repkord/status/1470114675912179716?s=20 where he talks all about pricing and how people react to it as consumers. We happen to agree so much with most of this and invited Pooch to come and talk about it on the podcast! Pricing your products, starting your 3d printing business, understanding overhead, competition, and more will all (probably) be covered in this episode. If you wa...
Jan 17, 2022•2 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 18
New Year, New Printer, and that means time to tune! We will walk through some steps to tune in the perfect print and what to watch out for when 3d printing for the first time! Let's talk about first layers, supports, bridging, calibration, and more! All about 3D Printing to get you and your first printer up and running! Do you have an idea you want to get off the ground? Reach out to the Making Awesome Podcast through https://3DMusketeers.com/podcast and someone will get you set up to be a guest...
Jan 09, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 17
We know so many of you may have just gotten your first machine for the holidays, so this episode is especially for you! We will run down some basic terms, talk about machines and what to expect, along with some basic tips and tricks to make your printers run well! 3D Printing can be difficult and just getting one for Christmas or Hanukkah, or other holidays/birthdays may seem daunting as soon as you get it out of the box. Have no fear, we can walk you through it! Consider this, a LIVE beginners ...
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 16
David Shorey is ALWAYS pushing the limits of 3D Printing fashion. Be it making amazing dragon scales that can be worn like clothing, to documenting every process to get proper 3d prints on fabric, Shorey really knows his stuff. Current projects include a remote painting robot that can enable those not in front of a canvas to be the artist, with full 6 degrees of freedom! David Shorey is a designer from various disciplines. David discovered his affinity for creativity both on paper and in front o...
Dec 27, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Adam Haile is a Maker Extraordinaire. From 3D Printing, to Lasers, to Electronics, Adam embodies Making Awesome. Come hang out and learn more about what Adam likes to do in his free time, for his day job, and more! From custom engineering including arduinos, tons of RGB, and stepper motors galore, to massive 3d printers, cnc machines, and lasers, Adam really has this whole making thing down! Here is a bio: I have made a living as a software engineer for nearly 20 years, working in industries as ...
Dec 18, 2021•2 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 14
It is no doubt that Resin 3D Printers will be massively popular on the holiday buying lists, but before you make the jump, take a watch/listen to this episode. We will talk about the dangers in using resin, the benefits, and some of the safety precautions needed to make it work well for you. From Software to Hardware, we are going to cover it all! Do you have an idea you want to get off the ground? Reach out to the Making Awesome Podcast through https://3DMusketeers.com/podcast and someone will ...
Dec 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Recently we have had a slew of questions surrounding how to design for success, be it in fusion 360, Solidworks, Inventor, and others, it does NOT have to be difficult. Let's talk about it. Grant will walk you through some tips and tricks to help set up your idea, project, or any 3d modeling endeavor that will be printed or manufactured so you are not met with unexpected results! Do you have an idea you want to get off the ground? Reach out to the Making Awesome Podcast through https://3DMuskete...
Dec 04, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Printed Solid, one of the premiere filament manufacturers in the United States, recently not only launched their own PETG line, but also new spools that are environmentally friendly! We will be meeting with Printed Solid's owner Dave Randolph to talk about all these things and more! Printed Solid makes some of the best filament out where with whimsical colors, like Brad's Orange, a color named after one of our team members, Brad! They also have a filament subscription box where you can get 2 kg ...
Nov 28, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 11
From nozzles, to materials, to bowden tubes and more, 3d printing can be tough. Let's talk about how to take your printer from Zero to Hero, starting with the hardware, moving to software and finally ending on materials, this episode will be packed with good information! Do you have an idea you want to get off the ground? Reach out to the Making Awesome Podcast through https://3DMusketeers.com/podcast and someone will get you set up to be a guest! Save 💰 💰 on Zyltech Filament use code 3DM at c...
Nov 20, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Let's hang out with Joe, the Filament Librarian. Joe is the guy behind filamentcolors.xyz . Joe, a software developer and educator by day, had a very specific problem: colors of filament he was ordering were not coming in the shades he expected. Infuriated, he decided to forgo spending $100 on paint and instead spent hundreds of hours designing and implementing a web app specifically for creating collections of printed filament. (We never said he was good at decisions.) And for being a 3D printi...
Nov 13, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Uncle Jessy joins us for a talk all about cosplay and prop making using 3d printing! Some of you may know @Uncle Jessy from his channel with almost 200k subscribers being one of the experts on consumer and prosumer resin 3d printing, but there is so much more to him than meets the eye! From meeting @Adam Savage’s Tested at Comic Con and getting photographed with his Magneto cosplay to being a dad, youtuber, family man, and more, Uncle Jessy has turned his hobby into a massively successful busine...
Nov 06, 2021•2 hr•Season 2Ep. 8
We have a special guest, arguably one of the queens of resin, Synthetic Ephemera joining us to talk all about resin 3d printing and how it has shaped their industry! Having multiple machines, including a Prusa SL1S and an original Peopoly Moai, they have created some of the most detailed, bespoke ball joint dolls and accessories for them that we have ever seen! They have amazing experience in doing mixing of resin's as well as mica powder, dyes, and other add-ins to get the color, consistency, a...
Oct 30, 2021•2 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This week our buddy Robert joins us for a talk all about cyber security, the latest leak from Thingiverse and the absolute disaster PR that has come from it. Your data matters, and this leak is nowhere near as small as Makerbot, the company behind Thingiverse, is saying. ALSO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS! We will have coverage on Monday, but might as well talk about it in long format while we can! Making Awesome, supported by 3D Musketeers, is a podcast surrounding the trials and tribulations of entrep...
Oct 23, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Tad joins us this week to talk about 3D Printing in various industries, how it can be used, and the interesting value that can come out of it! Come hang out and learn about some of the various industries we have helped here at 3D Musketeers! We want to have more feedback faster, so how do we do that, by doing it live! Since we do not edit the podcast anyways, this is a great way for us to connect with all of you and talk about subjects that are important to us all! Want us to cover a subject? Le...
Oct 16, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This chapter of Making Awesome we will be discussing Patents and their implications across a wide variety of industries including 3D Printing and Inventing. We will be talking about when they are helpful, how they can be harmful, how they can go wrong, and the intricacies of filing, just to name a few! Specifically we will be discussing E3D and not only their new RapidChange Revo system, but the patents behind it! We want to have more feedback faster, so how do we do that, by doing it live! Sinc...
Oct 09, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 2Ep. 4
On today's podcast, Grant and co. will be talking about everything you need to do to get your part... (say it with me) out of your head and into your hands, the full art-to-part process! Do you have an invention you want to see manifested in PHYSICAL SPACE?? Then this is the podcast for you! We want to have more feedback faster, so how do we do that, by doing it live! Since we do not edit the podcast anyways, this is a great way for us to connect with all of you and talk about subjects that are ...
Oct 02, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 3
3D Printing is generally thought of as rapid prototyping, but what about FULL ON PRODUCTION?!?! Well, Atlas 3D just came off of doing over 2000 parts in a single day, and we are going to talk about the viability of it on smaller, and larger scales! If you like making awesome, you will enjoy this for sure! About Atlas 3D From their website: Atlas3dss.com Founded by a group of passionate professionals, Atlas have pioneered industry leading techniques to support models for resin 3D printing. Our te...
Sep 25, 2021•3 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 2
