Small 3D Printers are POINTLESS! Or...

The holes in the back of your ears are something I just noticed, and can't un-notice

I have a 350x350x250 Trident behind me and it takes a LONG time to heat up the chamber for ABS, but I wanted it because I want to print 60% keyboards.

I started out with an ender 3, the original, that i found on sale for 100 euros, after about a year of printing, i decided to get a V0.1 since almost all of my prints were half the size of my ender 3 bed, and the ender broke down almost completely, i managed to resurrect it by swapping out its mobo for a ramps 1.4 and an old laptop to run klipper, and strapped a v6 hotend to the ender 3 carriage with some wire to print a temporary mount for the hotend that didn't shake like crazy, once i did that, i started printing parts for the voron, and i still use these same parts today, just a week ago the extuder mechanism broke, and i managed to print a sherpa mini out of resin, and i screwed it on top of the mini stealthburner. right now i'm printing the parts to upgrade my v0.1 to a v0.2 with this frankenstein setup, and i wouldn't do it any other way!

You drink spindrift? That stuff is way better than soda

People are silly. 90% of my prints would fit in a 120mm cube. It probably shouldn't be your only printer but if your part is under 120mm on each end, it will make it fast and good.

so ... how many of those people are printing objects of that size strictly due to how long it takes. what would they be printing if they had the speed and accuracy of a voron?

the only thing that is kind of sad is you can no longer do overnight prints 😅 which feel like a underutilization of it. like every part is sub 2hr
my take on this is probably don’t get v0 as your 1st printer as it can be hard to tune (unless you are in a dorm than the smol footprint is super nice). get a bambu if you are not interested in tuning printer and a E3 otherwise (not actually sure if there are better choice on this one, when I started E3 is still the king). with that said v0 are awesome second printer since it require some tuning but not too much tuning and complements a larger printer nicely. after that it is pretty much personal judgement and I plan to build a voron 2.4 from v0

I want a small printer (why I watch this video). I need to print a replacement part like a poti cap or a button then and when. Had a 22x22 bed printer and that thing was just wasting space for like 300 days a year. So I am now looking for a small printer that can fit in a bookshelf.

I really consider getting a1 mini to pair with my x1c just for it's small size

I am just getting into 3d printing and I would say a simple line.
The right tool for the right job.

120y

You could cover building larger prints in sections and gluing, welding, bolting, etc. the sections together.

I suspect that, for many larger prints, printing the separate sections with a V0 would take less time in total than printing an unseparated piece in a larger printer.

Also, section level errors would reprint much faster than reprinting a large piece on a large printer.

100x100 is a 85% i print

You should cover the Troodon 2.0

Those little guys are absolute throughput machines. Our parts are relatively small and the 120 bed is great … and we can fit multiple of these where a bigger printer would go.

Speed and accuracy of a cube frame that takes up less space for less money. I seldom use the entire build volume of my 200x200x250mm Prusa clone, and when I do I wish it was bigger. I have plans to extend it vertically, then I might just build a small, rigid H-bot for quick everyday prints.

180mm is perfect to me. 120 tho….. just too small for most of my parts. But I do still want one lol

But constantly removing parts and starting a new print is a huge pain tbh

Are there wholes in your ears?

I make a ton of gears and small builds in general so I don't need a bigger printer, enough said for me, and a small printer is always more reliable and live longer than large ones. That's exactly why Voron V2.4 isn't trying to reach 400mm cubic.

My OCD is kicking in 🤣 is the intro out of sync? Hearing your voice and seeing you talk, it looks of.

i dont want to agree but the fact yes. small printers like v0 is much harder to config compared to the v2.4.

Most of my stuff fits on my ender 3, but making an a4 book cover to suffice my bookbinding addiction is a no go.

Holy crap what a perfectly balanced and informative video, now I want to finish mine lol

I've been using the X Smart 3 mostly these days. It's a 180mm build volume which more than handles most things with plenty of room to spare. I think it does kind of become harder to justify if you only have 1 machine to pick a smaller one though. Yeah you can always chop things into pieces and use pins, glue and fasteners. But it does still suck when you want to just run something off and you need an extra 20mm

So I just ordered the Siboor 0.2 kit (with metal parts vs colored extrusions). Specifically most of what I print are smaller things, for drones and functional parts. Figured it would be faster and more reliable than my S1 Pro. I plan on getting a multi head next year.. just not sure which one yet. Waiting on the ProForge 4 release/reviews to see how well it does. It looks a lot like a Voron e.g. accessible parts you can source and fix if need be, but 4 heads, 800mm/s print speeds (we'll see how fast it really is), etc.

My first impression of the V0 was that it was a throwback to the old makerbot cupcake.

Right now I'm in the process of making a Hadley telescope. The parts for this fit on my Ender3 with a bit of space left over (but not much). The Hadley is a 4.25" (mirror size) scope. I'd like to scale this up to a 6.5" mirror (which I will try to grind myself). A scaled up design for this might fit on the ender3, though I might have the cut some of the parts in half on the cad model, print them, and glue them together. So the Voron 0 would be too small for this.

However, I have also 3D printed a chess set. THAT would fit on the Voron, and I could easily print several pieces at a time. (I didn't do that on the Ender, too much stringing between the parts (PETG). I could probably tune the extraction, flow rate, and filament temp to control this, I just haven't bothered yet.

Bigger printer = more fails and time

i LOVE my Voron 0.2

its so cool , its so easy to take it with you, ive taken mine to seferal friends houses, mine prints at 800mm/s so its really FAST and its not That expensive (formbot kit all in roughly 550€)

and its a fun challenge to do in your free time and its just cool

The way you enunciated “square millimeters of [print] volume”… ugh, the pedant in me cringed hard af. Good video though, you got the point across well and I feel better informed.

now I kinda want one as small as in the thumbnail...

I could see this being a great addition when you already have a larger printer. For me personally i often find my 220x220 printbed to be about 10mm to small waaay to often, even if a lot of what i print could go on one of these, so for a "my only printer" they might be a bit limiting.

also the print quality - is all up to how well you fine tune the machine, and how often you have to re-tune it. Modern printers are just about all the same print quality, part for part. Small variations occur, and of course, you have to compare apples to apples with slicers and the like.

I guess, late 30's and you look great no matter age, and the bald look is nice on ya.

You can print small items on a big printer but not the other way round

I don't have one of these but I would say 90% of the things I print would fit on one. If I had any need for multiple printers one of them would probably be a small one like that.

I want a voron but the issue I have is I make cosplay and that takes a bigger printer

I just think they're neat

I cannot imagine why anyone would care enough enough about what printer anybody else is using to give them hate for it in comments :D some people..

I did like your vid. I love my v0.

Love the Jimmy Six shirt❤

My first(so far only) printer is a prusa mini, and while I think more than half of the stuff I've made could be printed on a voron 0, the thing I've made in highest quantity (a part similar to shelf brackets), would not fit in the smaller build volume.

I think Voron 0 is a good size for a third or fourth printer, after you can already print any single thing you need, but need more speed or capacity.

You're 37. What did you do to your ears?

for me the sweet spot is 300x300.

My main motivation for a larger printer is either full build plates worth of smaller parts so I'm not constantly pulling prints off the bed, waiting for the bed to heat up/cool off and the various pre flight print_start processes. Or for the occasional large item like helmets or cosplay props in fewer pieces meaning less time joining the bits and post processing before painting.

I have a little ender that prints like a champ but it's slow and smaller than my 300^3 Trident which means I can't get as much off it in the same amount of time. I'm still looking to build a V0 someday but for me the size is more immediately useful.

out of all my printer my 0.1 has been my must used printer, as i print with asa and abs the most it just make sense as like 90% of the time the part will fit on my v0.1 and i got my v0.1 going at 500mm/s at 60k accel print speed so everything come off very fast much faster than my other vorons and enders. not to mention the bed heat up time being a smaller bed it easier to heat up with a 200w bed heater with the help of an active chamber heater too. only takes like 10min to full heated chamber and bed ready for asa and chamber prints compare my 350mm vorons takes like 1 hour just get to the temp before i can start printing, and usualy by the timei can start my print on my bigger pritners i will alreayd have the part from v0.1. WIth that being said i am investing into a 330 vzbot to get the speed up on that and addin couple chamber heater too to speed up the time

That color scheme on your own voron 0 build is so nice, its making me want to build one even tho ive only use a prusa mk3 thus far

I have a monoprice cadet it is tiny

As a trucker this thing is perfect

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