Many people bought into 3D printing as a result of we “noticed one thing about it on YouTube and thought it was cool”. Since working at MatterHackers, one of many surprising joys I’ve had has been the chance to work with and get to know this passionate neighborhood of makers. Those that have taken their 3D printing experience to YouTube by creating their very own channels.
They’re a fiercely inclusive band of revolutionaries rising day by day. A devoted group making 3D printing accessible to anybody who may wish to test it out, and utilizing their various personalities and backgrounds to show and encourage. They visitor star on one another’s channels, and advocate one another to the press and to producers for alternatives. They’re actually making a distinction in the way in which 3D printing is perceived by most of the people by offering trustworthy assessments of the state of 3D printing – the great, the unhealthy, and the superior.
Whereas not at all exhaustive, here’s a listing of channels I feel you’ll discover invaluable, and a little bit of perception from the creators in their very own phrases. We additionally talked to them a bit about ‘the way to create a YouTube channel’ and steerage they’ve for many who are taken with getting began.
*NOTE: Subscriber numbers are present as of article publish date. Please go to the channels for essentially the most present standing.*
Launched Sep 23, 2006
377,725 subscribers • 94,723,248 views
James Bruton from the UK is on the high of the listing for good motive. His movies are inventive and informative, making Sci-Fi props and costumes utilizing sculpting, molding, casting, wooden, steel, electronics, and more and more, 3D printing. Nearly each 3D printing YouTube creator credit James’ helpful movies as inspiration to create a YouTube channel of their very own. He’s a passionate Lulzbot ambassador, and a trustee of UK Southampton non-profit Makerspace, SoMakeIt.
James Bruton
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
My objective is to supply project-build collection, largely about working Sci-Fi props and different associated spin-offs. It wasn’t at all times about 3D printing, however having 3D printing helps quite a bit to get the content material made in time. I present all the design course of in addition to the meeting, electronics, and coding.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
I bought my first 3D printer in 2013 (take a look at this classic Lulzbot!) which was in all probability among the finest choices I’ve made. I believed it was a pure development from constructing issues by hand.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
The way forward for 3D printing is a tough one. I suppose no matter printer sort/mechanisms, the printing materials science is the place many of the innovation might be.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
After working at an insurance coverage firm in IT for 10 years, my present day job is a toy designer for Bladez Toyz. I do a whole lot of 3D printing, electronics and so on., though I can not discuss any tasks. I exhibited with Bladez on the Star Wars Celebration in London, July 2016.
Launched Dec 23, 2011
103,046 subscribers • 5,037,114 views
Invoice and Britt from Seattle, Washington wish to assist YOU make issues! Particularly if these issues are epic, high-end duplicate props and costumes from all the most effective motion pictures, TV exhibits, video video games, and extra. Within the final 12 months, they dedicated to publishing three or extra movies per week, and the onerous work is actually beginning to repay in main progress of their YouTube following. The second season of their wildly profitable “Prop: 3D” collection (many of the movies bought no less than 20k views and so they’ve doubled their subscriber depend since then) might be debuting summer time of 2016, and we will’t wait to see what they make!
Invoice Doran
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
Our objective is to decrease the barrier to entry for newcomers to the prop and costume making passion by showcasing the instruments, supplies, and methods that we use to create our personal tasks. The Punished Props channel is totally different from different prop and cosplay centered YouTube channels, as a result of we’ve got a deal with creating in-depth tutorial content material that anybody can comply with, and we publish these tutorials on a constant weekly schedule.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
I’ve a level in 3D modeling and pc artwork, so the idea of 3D printing was at all times very intriguing to me. As soon as I bought my paws on my first printer I used to be shocked by the flexibility for me to take an idea from my mind, type it in a digital area, after which make it actual by way of the printer, in an astonishingly small period of time. This sort of speedy prototyping makes it extremely quick for me to get precisely what I need out of a prop or costume piece with out having to make any compromises.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
I attempt to think about being a highschool aged child at the moment with entry to modeling software program and a 3D printer. The issues that children may be taught now and apply to the subsequent 10 years of innovation are limitless. Essentially the most inspiring factor is that we won’t even think about what the chances might be like in one other decade.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
My spouse and I run our firm, Punished Props, as our full time jobs. We spend nearly day by day in our store constructing elaborate duplicate props and costumes from our favourite video video games, TV exhibits, and flicks. We do a whole lot of touring, particularly to conventions the place attendees like to decorate up in stated costumes for enjoyable.
Launched Jun 14, 2013
34,316 subscribers • 2,760,360 views
Representing Germany is Thomas Sanladerer, whose informative channel focuses solely on construct guides, tutorials, suggestions and fundamentals of the open-source RepRap-style 3D printers.
Thomas Sanladerer
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
My YouTube channel has at all times been about sharing high-quality, instructional content material. Whether or not it is guides to assist viewers perceive their 3D printers higher, or critiques to permit them to make an informed shopping for determination within the first place.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
Once I began 3D printing about six years in the past, I used to be fully fascinated by the potential of making low-cost, moderately exact, and sophisticated components for tasks that you simply’d in any other case need to craft from wooden, plastic or steel, or simply would not have the ability to create in any respect relating to extra complicated components like gears or detailed instances.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
Now that the large hype is virtually over, we will deal with the functions the place 3D printing actually shines – and there are nonetheless so many potentialities left to discover by the neighborhood.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
3D printing in all its kinds is my day job, whether or not it is creating content material for my very own channel or for others.
Launched Apr 3, 2015
34,178 subscribers • 1,654,436 views
Seattle, Washington’s charismatic Joel Telling has made a huge effect on the 3D printing YouTube neighborhood for having launched simply over a 12 months in the past. He appears to be in all places today, and followers have misplaced depend of what number of producers have despatched Joel printers and filament to evaluation. With a full-time day job and a household of 5, Joel works on 3D printing in his workshop from 11pm until 3am, fueled by an extremely efficient mixture of Crimson Bull, poop emojis, and unbridled ardour for individuals and 3D printing.
Joel Telling
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
The objective I’ve had for my YouTube channel from the start is to entertain whereas I educate. I have been described as awkwardly hilarious, and I take that as a praise. I am informed I’ve the flexibility to narrate even the toughest to grasp technical ideas right down to a degree anybody can perceive. I feel what units my channel aside from others is my persona and the way in which in how I convey a video collectively.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
I am a nerd. Have been all my life. I like devices and gizmos. 3D printing wasn’t one thing that I used to be simply magically taken with at some point – it was the end result of all the things I knew and cherished whereas rising up. Wait, I can reproduce, in actual life, 3D fashions from the pc? SIGN ME UP.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
I am impressed by what the longer term holds for additive manufacturing. So many fields will profit from additive manufacturing. Issues will have the ability to be constructed that no different manufacturing technique may make. Individuals could have entry to low-cost medical prosthetics. Additive manufacturing is among the core applied sciences that can allow area journey and colonization. It is loopy and thrilling and fantastic.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
My day job is within the software program business. I’ve a beautiful spouse and three superior youngsters.
Launched Dec 29, 2013
27,734 subscribers • 2,129,853 views
Maker’s Muse is thought and revered for its trustworthy, unbiased, and truthful critiques of 3D Printers, 3D scanners and software program. Australian, Angus Deveson, has constructed his viewers on candid unboxings and testings, in addition to reside chats, and his widespread Sunday Stream collection.
Angus Deveson
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
My objective is to empower creativity by way of speedy manufacturing processes – this may very well be something from 3D printing to laser reducing, CNC machines and extra. I wish to assist individuals make knowledgeable choices to allow them to make cool issues! There’s a whole lot of misinformation round 3D printing and I goal to vary that.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
I’ve at all times appreciated making issues and taking issues aside, so when 3D printing got here alongside, my first thought was an superior new technique to simply produce prototypes and assist with my tasks. As quickly as I may afford my first 3D printer I took the plunge and have been hooked ever since.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
I am excited to see machines turn out to be extra dependable and accessible. Though they’ve come a really great distance, there’s nonetheless a steep studying curve for newcomers and even myself when approaching new 3D printers. I am trying ahead to the day when you’ll be able to hit print and know that 99% of the time it’s going to work completely it doesn’t matter what design you ship to it – so you’ll be able to deal with creating!
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
3D printing has turn out to be my day job and it is superior! I am skilled as an industrial designer so 3D printing was at all times used as a prototyping instrument. I noticed there was a marketplace for printing on demand, so I labored for a number of years as a 3D printing technician earlier than taking the plunge to deal with YouTube full-time. I work for myself, and might lastly make it to all of the cool engineering shops that are not open on weekends. Maker’s Muse simply handed 25,000 subscribers not too long ago, an enormous milestone and I am massively grateful to everybody who has helped help me and the channel!
Launched Mar 7, 2010
10,308 subscribers • 628,960 views
Michigan-based CHEP is a positive and regular presence on YouTube showcasing sensible family makes use of for 3D printing, like common wire holders and alternative wheels on your barbecue grill. Filament Fridays are a dependable supply of sensible design and printing tutorials, mixed with Tech Tip Tuesdays, CNC Sundays, and reside conversations with different makers.
Chuck Hellebuyck
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
My objective is to be the PBS model, New Yankee Workshop channel for 3D printing and a few electronics. I present how you should use them in your on a regular basis life with sensible prints and tasks. To me a 3D printer is a instrument not a toy, identical to a desk noticed or drill press, however much more because it’s like having an assistant in your store that helps you construct that subsequent thought or creation.That is what I attempt to encourage on my channel. That anyone can do it. I present all of the steps, from thought to design to 3D print. Create it in Tinkercad and print it in MatterHackers plastic after which use it in life.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
Once I noticed the primary stereolithography machines (now known as 3D printers) at my job about 30 years in the past, I used to be immediately , however they have been $100k+ machines. That by no means left me. It took a very long time however we lastly have house printers, and I wished one primarily for my work with electronics. I have been designing digital merchandise for over 40 years and one space that’s at all times an issue is packaging the ultimate design. There are many “off the shelf” containers however all of them want modification. A 3D printer offers me the flexibility to design the packaging the way in which I need it, with out modification. It offers me the chance to create an entire digital product, from idea to ultimate full design.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
That anyone, from child to grownup, can now dream, design, and create a product or gadget with out having to get professionals concerned. It additionally brings collectively generations the place everyone can contribute. Now anyone can create absolutely anything they think about and share with the world. It is superb to see how far house 3D printing has are available in a short while and the way far it might go.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
I am {an electrical}/digital engineer by commerce and have designed many digital merchandise, however I am additionally a component time creator and have written 12 books and tons of of articles centered on serving to individuals get began with electronics and now 3D printing. Deep down I simply get pleasure from making issues and have been doing it my complete life. It is superb to me to have over 10,000 individuals subscribe so they do not miss what I am going to do subsequent on my channel.
9,806 subscribers • 3,051,942 views
Joined Apr 16, 2014
A design scholar out of Pasadena, California, Devin Montes’ Make Something 3D Printing YouTube Channel not too long ago shot from 100 to over 9000 subscribers thanks to a different social media large for 3D printing – Reddit. Devin designed and 3D printed Kokichi Sugihara’s Ambiguous Cylinder Phantasm (also referred to as the “squircle”) and his how-to video went viral in a single day. New viewers got here to his channel to see the squircle, and caught round to view his high-quality 3D printing content material, which exhibits Devin figuring out an issue (just like the floppy telephone mount in his automotive,) sketching a design, modeling it in Solidworks, printing a prototype, testing, iterating, and at last utilizing his new half.
Devin Montes
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
I hope my channel conjures up individuals to suppose outdoors of the field relating to 3D printing. I wish to present the world how enjoyable and superb this expertise is, and the way it may be used to create helpful, practical issues. I feel my channel stands out as a result of I give a fairly in-depth take a look at my course of, so others can be taught from all my successes, and my errors!
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
I did not start 3D printing till my first 12 months at design college, however I’ve at all times cherished inventing issues, and that is the true motive I am so taken with 3D printing. Having the ability to consider some sort of product that does not exist after which making it a bodily, working factor inside a day is simply so, so superb! I do not suppose I am going to ever recover from it.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
3D printing is already enabling individuals to resolve issues a lot faster, and to do issues which have by no means been performed earlier than. Persons are already printing prosthetics, organs, rocket engines, hamburgers, and homes… it is only a game-changer! So I suppose you can say I am impressed by what number of lives it should enhance.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
I am presently finding out Product Design at Artwork Middle School of Design in Pasadena, CA. My two favourite issues in life are to create and discover, by any means essential. You will get a good suggestion of what my hobbies are by the tasks I make on my channel, and I am so excited to share my ardour with extra individuals!
Launched Might 20, 2011
6,456 subscribers • 1,109,894 views
RichRap, out of the UK, has been a extremely revered and influential supply of details about open-source 3D printers for the reason that early days of the Rep-Rap motion. He offers informative critiques, tutorials, construct suggestions, and undertaking concepts (some developed along with his personal daughters) that contain design, electronics, and a little bit of wholesome perseverance. He blogs his adventures in DIY printing usually, and is deeply concerned in each Rep-Rap and OpenSLA improvement.
Richard Horne
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
The overall objective for my YouTube channel and in addition my weblog is to assist make 3D printing just a little simpler to grasp, and additional the event and exploration of desktop 3D printing. I wish to encourage individuals to experiment with their machines and in addition share what they do with the broader 3D printing neighborhood. I get pleasure from making and innovating, so sharing each successes and failures is meant to focus on that we’re nonetheless within the early days of this expertise. Far more will be performed to enhance and make 3D printing helpful for extra individuals sooner or later.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
The spark for me was the RepRap undertaking, (self-Replicating Fast Prototyper) began by Dr Adrian Bowyer on the College of Bathtub. The objective was to make a self replicating machine, and essentially the most handy manner to do this was a 3D printer, so the RepRap undertaking grew slowly, after which when extra individuals bought concerned, it continued to develop in a short time. Cooperation, open-development, and innovation of expertise ticked all of the containers for me as an attention-grabbing undertaking to become involved with. It is naturally Open-Supply as a result of for one factor, you’ll be able to’t actually management one thing that may self-replicate!
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
At any time when I see youngsters getting concerned with nearly any side of creating, craft, and studying I’m comfortable. 3D printing is a implausible expertise to assist take one thing that’s digital and make it bodily. 3D printing is a really highly effective instrument for each schooling and real-world manufacturing. It offers us a touch of what could come sooner or later and that is very inspiring and thrilling.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
Within the mid 80’s I used to be fascinated with the early machines by 3D methods, and in the course of the late 90’s I labored on electronics tasks that used 3D printing as a technique of speedy prototyping enclosures and plastics earlier than needing to tool-up for injection molding. I’m and have been an electronics engineer for the final 25 years, so the usage of 3D printing usually goes hand-in hand with product improvement. I actually benefit from the instructional aspect of 3D printing, and having younger youngsters which can be additionally taken with expertise. It is actually nice once we can use 3D printing to resolve an issue or make an attention-grabbing undertaking collectively.
Launched Sep 1, 2006
3,915 subscribers • 591,299 views
California primarily based, A Pyro Design, delivers as marketed – he brings different YouTube creators’ “Logos to Life” utilizing CAD modeling, 3D printing, and an entire lot of paint! Travis shares his time-lapsed design course of, printing, and portray with informative and addictive captions that give useful how-to particulars, and enjoyable insights into his relationships (typically private – at all times fanboy) with the actual YouTube creator he’s immortalizing. He’s discovered a novel and inventive area of interest for his abilities, and shares it with different YouTubers in 3D Printing, meals, and extra.
Travis Womack
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
The principle objective of my channel is to convey issues from the digital world to life in a manner that no person has performed earlier than. My childhood was crammed with video video games and imaginary characters which led me to YouTube and online game associated channels. Youtube creators have been an enormous inspiration in my profession. My channel’s differentiating issue is that I’m working nearly completely with different YouTube creators, taking their logos and utilizing the abilities I’ve to convey them to life, all whereas introducing individuals to the world of 3d printing.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
I stumbled into 3D printing in 2008 when the school I used to be attending bought a Dimension UPrint 3D printer. I used to be beforehand actually into 3D modeling and animation. The Artwork Director knew that I’d be the proper particular person to get the brand new 3D printer up and operating. I didn’t object. Since my very first print eight years in the past, I’ve continued to make use of 3D printing to push my creative imaginative and prescient and couldn’t think about my world with out 3D printing at the moment.
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
I’m impressed by the truth that as 3D printing evolves and will get extra consumer pleasant, increasingly individuals with have the ability to convey their creative and sensible visions to life. I really feel as if 3D printing goes to vary all the things about creating as we all know it. We’re on the very starting of what this expertise can convey to our world. I’ve by no means been extra excited a couple of expertise than I’m about 3D printing.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
I presently work at a small store that recreates classic steel indicators. We do a whole lot of customized laser lower indicators and I’ve begun together with a few of that sort of labor into my “Logos to Life” movies. I’m fortunately married occurring 16 years now. We’ve a 5 12 months previous daughter who can also be stepping into 3D printing and even has her personal YouTube channel.
Launched Dec 22, 2011
1,737 subscribers • 398,812 views
This award-winning Swedish 3D designer and 3D printing evangelist is the daddy of the favored #3DBenchy mannequin, and the creator of The OpenR/C Challenge in addition to The OpenRailway Challenge. The channel showcases tutorial data on the way to print with unique supplies, in addition to movies of the R/C automobiles, whose 3D printed components embody tires, rims, diffs, gears, interior driveshafts, and plenty of, many extra. A thriving Google + neighborhood additionally grew out of this, and has turn out to be a terrific supply for additional improvement. All .stl recordsdata can be found on Thingiverse.
Daniel Noree
What is the objective of your YouTube channel, and the way does it set yours aside from the others?
YouTube is a manner for me to showcase my designs and tasks such because the OpenR/C undertaking. It´s additionally a terrific place for me to move on among the issues I’ve realized in the course of the years of growing these all these tasks. I am not a video man, and so you will not see any unboxings, critiques or any of that stuff. However I’ve performed a whole lot of experimenting with 3D printing during the last 5 years, and if you wish to know what I’ve realized from that, you higher subscribe.
What sparked your curiosity in 3D printing?
Once I noticed a Stratasys for the primary time again in 2000 I used to be blown away and I wished a 3D printer so unhealthy, however out of my attain in fact. Once I later noticed a MakerBot Factor-O-Matic in 2011 I purchased it on the spot and the remainder is historical past!
What conjures up you about the way forward for 3D printing?
So far as the technical stuff goes, I am actually trying ahead to seeing a couple of steps being taken on the software program aspect. I additionally hope to see extra tasks like e-Nable come to life.
What’s your day job, and/or some private element about your life outdoors of 3D printing?
I work at CreativeTools, a reseller of 3D associated {hardware} and software program. Outdoors of labor I spend my time with my spouse and children. Alone spare time I work on varied 3D printing tasks such because the OpenR/C undertaking
Listed below are a couple of different channels you may wish to take a look at as nicely:
Barnacules Nerdgasm – 744,074 Subscribers (unavailable for interview)
Print That Factor – 12,039 Subscribers (unavailable for interview)
FNTSMN – 5.996 Subscribers
CJ Printing – 446 Subscribers
Andrew’s Worksop – 360 Subscibers
Print 3D Channel – 171 Subscribers
JAT.MN – 114 Subscribers
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