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hi I'm rich Brown hi I'm Matt Fitzgerald and welcome to the final day I've seen a 3d printer build week so Matt we pretty much pulled this off we got everything to work we actually printed some stuff and it seems like overall it was a success so we had this octopus here does our final big print took about an hour and 15 to actually print this thing although we spent a lot of time troubleshooting you can sort of see the setup here we've got the printer there's the build plate that travels up and down and we're going to get a print we've got our spool of filament hooked up here it's kind of a jerry-rigged but gets the job done got a couple power supplies here going into the 3d printer got a circuit board for the USB cable coming off of it and that goes into the PC that controls the system that you want to talk about the system side ultimately and over here we have the computer that we use to control this this is the prompter face software that we use to send the files to the machine and to process the files and over here on the next window we have skying forge or screen forge however you want to pronounce that and this is the part of the software that we use to control the detailed settings the speeds the depths it's also something where there is a numerous amounts of settings that can be set controlled and adjusted way beyond the scope of what we delve into here overall I'd say this was about as hard as building your own PC would you agree with that yeah no harder than that definitely a success definitely success maybe a few sticking points here and there we had to kind of Google around especially on the software side yeah the actual construction of it was pretty straightforward for us but the software definitely requires you to sit down and think a little bit about the parts so overall this is a lot of fun I feel like we learned a lot there's definitely a lot we still have to learn though I mean like you said we didn't get into the settings at all there's so many other things that we could have gotten into about controlling the details or the print right you get into different materials and different print speeds different heat settings like there's a whole sort of it seems like a little whole world of physics beyond this so that's it thanks for watching and hopefully we'll have an actual review of a consumer 3d printer shortly you