I found a box of my OLDEST 3D Prints. What's inside?

Seeing your channel really helped give me the confidence to dive into 3d printing. Your projects specifically, and your willingness to share your failures really were key to showing me that 3d printing can be fun while still being challenging and rewarding. Thank you, best wishes, and I hope you continue to inspire us for years to come.

One critical thing that gave me the impetus to take the leap into playing with 3d printing was (as cheesy as this sounds) your personal enthusiasm for the subject, I saw enough in the joy and wonder of what this channel shows to decide, yep, this looks cool. Thank you :)

The thing that Got me into 3d printing were various workshop and engineering youtubers such as mark Rober and stuffmadehere, but your channel Got me to really make the use of 3d printer with amazing tutorials from CAD to bed adhesion.

Seeing this video reminded me of just how long I have been in the 3D printing space. It was shortly after I bought my first printer that I stumbled on your red bull video. My how the time has gone by.

Man, its crazy how i can almost remember all of those projects. Onto the next couple of years Angus. :)

Back in 2017, a friend of mine was going to hire me to work for a business he was wanting to start. He was going to start a 3D print studio, and I was going to be on-site IT support. At the time, I didn't know anything about CAD work or slicing or 3D printers or any of that. I have no clue why but I pretty much counted my chickens before they hatched. I was under the impression that he already secured the funding and was starting at the beginning of the year, so I quit my job and was ready to go work for him. He called me a week after New Year's Day and told me the bank had declined them and the studio was dead in the water. It wasn't until I stumbled upon your channel in late 2019 that I started getting really intrigued by the technology. I don't remember what specific video I saw first, but I remember bingeing a bunch of them when I found your channel. I taught myself how to design in Fusion 360 and started designing little trinkets and things to 3D print... but I didn't have a printer. I did a bit of research (using Maker's Muse and 3D Printing Nerd as a guide, of course), and ended up buying the Monoprice Maker Select Plus (a.k.a. Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus)... and fought with underextrusion issues for the next year, only to find out the extruder motor was calibrated WAY wrong. How it printed even the demo models was a mystery... Lately I've been doing a lot of designing on a larger scale. I've done an oil barrel rainwater catchment tower, and an aquarium stand. I'm currently working on a campervan build. It's a great creative outlet, even if I'm not getting paid for it.

Tech2c's video on his HyperCube was the push I needed to build my own and get into printing. Back then getting anything 3d printing related in South Africa was a nightmare.

You're a good example of what the younger generation can do 3D printing with passion and an early start. I'm 56 and my first 3D prints were on my own hardware before I implemented G-Code processing. That was about 12 years ago? My favorite part from those times is a pair of nested spheroids that I designed programatically, the printer was calculating the shape from my formulae as the extruder moved. Now I'm very used to designing in openscad and many of my designs are perfect first time, others I add refinements to after proof of concept or occasionally I make a mistake and have to correct it. You can only make a mistake so many times before you learn from it! It's good to see your range of creative solutions and it will happen to you too, your design success rate will continue to improve as you learn how to implement pre-printing design checks. For example in openscad, I will sometimes model a device that my object needs a critical clearance fit to, make adjustment for filament squidge oversizing and then test fit with my clearance model in semi transparent. When I was a teenager and inventing pumps, modeling their motion in my head before they were built was difficult but I persevered and it became easy. When I started using CAD some 11 years ago, I learned the fundamentals quickly but it took time to improve my design work flow so that a design start to finish was fast and without mistakes. On top of all this is the different capabilities of the different printers we work with. Understanding what they can achieve and sometimes having the patience to get the result we want but slowing our print speed or tweaking settings to optimise them for the special requirements of our model. It is still mostly a hobby for me but I do sell a portion of what I make, be it maths art or functional designs.

3D-printing can be a hobby, or used for S.T.E.M, just like Minecraft.

I got started by watching you and Joel 3D Printing Nerd. thank you.

I definitely remember the two way to one way gear and the Geneva gear. Some of your earliest videos I remember...

The 2 way to 1 way gear was the video I subscribed on. I don't 3D print anything and don't plan to...but I like mechanics and felt inspired.

Fall 2019 i started researching 3D printer (building battlebots) and found your reviews. Ive been here since then.

I watched a bunch of your videos to get me started 3D printing on an Ender 3 V2 last year. Now im designing small scale RC boats in blender3D and making youtube videos. Its so much fun

My first 3d model was about a year ago now and was just a pi 4b case I made for my high school engineering/design class. That is when the yt algorithm showed ur channel to me because it knows what u search of course. I actually got award because I joined the class late and had to learn onshape over a weekend. Turns out that is what I want to be my career in the future. I just made a scale model of a 1950 Austin Healey sprite which was my biggest project ever. Not easy on a Chromebook. Ur channel was a HUGE inspiration to me, thank you.

I started watching your videos when you were making puzzles for your local cockatoos, then I went back and watched through most of your earlier work. I'm more of an armchair or theoretic 3D printer. I already have so many hobbies that involve making things, and 3D printing looks like it would take a real commitment. I'll just enjoy yours!

Man, watching this is like memory lane been here since 2014! So much growth through the years!

I got into 3D printing to make parts for my DeLorean time machine conversion and your channel was one of the first that I found to help me. I ordered a Prusa MK3s and it’s had been great! I just now got a second printer to print larger items (ender 3 max neo).

Angus continues to be the pillar of perfection in the 3D printing space. It is no wonder he has more subscribers than any other. I subbed many years ago and just recently joined his bespoke community. Thanks so much for all you do from down under.

I was sold into printing as soon as i saw your big beautiful face and awesome Aussie voice! Youre still the only maker whos community I subscribe to and happily financially support, as you show me all of your failures alongside your successes. Since finding your videos, they have helped me define a path to create a small business creating Flow instruments, such as Dragon Staff, contact staff, poi, and fans. The best company on the planet for this is called ThreeWorlds and theyre actually based out of Queensland. You may be interested in some of their cool spinning geometry as i was, but would be able to acquire it much easier than me over in the States! I learned Onshape, and then you convinced me to learn Fusion360 instead, and then i made all of my own designs! I am currently expanding to have 3 printers, highly modified with Hemeras to print TPU at 100mm/s, just like my first e5+. I wouldnt be where i am without you Angus, and my girlfriend is eternally jealous of how much attention you get! -Connor