WTFFF?! 3D Printing Podcast Volume Two: 3D Print Tips | 3D Print Tools | 3D Start Point
This is the Second 200 episodes of the WTFFF?! 3D-Printing Podcast. WTFFF?! Co-hosts Tom & Tracy Hazzard focus on the what of Fused Filament Fabrication (3D Printing), what design software to use, what printer to buy, what tools to use, what designs should you print, what new materials are out and what your business strategy should be. On the 3D Printing Podcast, they interview the who is who in 3D Print art and design along with others who can help you figure out your what. They share with you how others in the field are creating successful designs and their own how to tools and tips and strategies for integrating 3D Printing into your business, home or classroom.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 200
- Years Active
- 2016
3D Printing Outside the Build Plate
Tom and Tracy Hazzard discuss how 3D printing outside the build plate can be possible with a new software program from Autodesk called Project Escher. Many 3D printers today are being held back by th…
Borrowing Trouble
There are so many people in the early stages of start-ups, that we have been getting a lot of people that are stuck in these cycles of overthinking and not being able to take the next step forward. I…
Save Your Mother’s Day by 3D Printing
Mother’s Day is early this year and there is still time to work on a 3D print project or download a 3D printable gift for mom. Tom and Tracy Hazzard went through a few of the items from this year’s t…
3D Print Teaching Startpoint with Drew Lentz of MakerBot
Anyone of our listeners, teachers, educators, or head of the PTA even, anyone who is considering getting 3D printing into schools, this is the one for you. We had a great conversation with Drew Lentz…
Essentials When Picking a 3D Printer
Essentials when picking a 3d printer
3D Printer Spying
The findings of researcher Mohammad al Faruque at University California at Irvine bring us today’s Tech Tuesday topic. He has found that through audio recordings of 3D printers printing objects, that…
3D Printing Needs Gap Identification
Back to Business Monday episode where Tom and Tracy Hazzard explore how identifying and settling a business or product into a market gap can ultimately lead to success. There are many 3D printing com…
3D Printed Nest
Happy Earth Day – today we certainly have a different type of project creating 3D printed bird nest designs to bring birds back into the city. This one was hard to come up with because Fridays we usu…
Algae 3D Print Filament with Barbara Zeller of Algix 3D
With any form of plastic processing, 3D printing included, it’s fair for concern about the continued use of such a potentially harmful inorganic material to come up. But there are companies out there…
Buzzed Beer 3D Print Filament
In today’s episode Tom and Tracy Hazzard discuss a type of filament made from the by products of beer making as part of the continuation of Earth Week and going green with 3D printing. Is this type o…
3D Print Filament Recycling
Today we continue our “Earth Week” theme addressing an often asked question on WTFFF?!, “Can I recycle my waste filament and reuse it?” It may not be easy, the color may not be great, and it may take…
Easy Going 3D Printing Green
It’s Earth Day this Friday, and we decided to make it Earth Week here at WTFFF?! Today’s Back to Business Monday episode is all about how easy it is go green with 3D printing. Focusing on how 3D prin…
3D Print Furniture
It’s our one year anniversary of the WTFFF?! Podcast and we are sticking true to our furniture design roots with this episode for Design Inspiration Friday. Initially we were not very open minded abo…
Mixed Emotions (or Emojis) with Austin Robey of Make Mode
In this episode, Tom and Tracy Hazzard have some real world 3D print design sales numbers offered up by Austin Robey of MakeMode. Is it wise to rely only on organic traffic to 3D design sites or do y…
You Don’t Get Exceptional Customer Service Without Exceptions
Exceptional customer service is critical whether you are a start up or a major cooperation. In this episode, Tom and Tracy discuss why 3D print companies need to eliminate the finger pointing and sol…
3D Printing with Flexible Materials
It can be difficult controlling your print when you use flexible materials, including support materials which can often inherently be a softer material. For this Tech Tuesday episode Tom and Tracy a…
Good 3D Design is Hard to Find
Where is the good 3D design? Tom and Tracy discuss what’s lacking in the 3D print market and don’t want to settle for the least worst design to meet a need. In this episode they discuss can one creat…
Building Bytes 3D Printed Bricks
An interesting project out of the Netherlands, a hot bed of 3D printing, is our inspiration for this episode of Design Friday. It comes from designer/architect Brian Peters who made 3D printed bricks…
3D Print STEAM Building with Victor Ciccarelli of STEAM Maker Workshop
We have an interview today in the STEAM education realm with Victor Ciccarelli of STEAM Maker Workshop in San Diego. We got hooked up with him because of Cindi Schulz, the Teacher of the Year who we …
Critical Thinking is Taught Through Arts, not Science
Answering a listener question about what STEAM is and why we think the “A” is critically important, especially in schools where the arts programs have been slashed due to budget cuts. We love that by…