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Josh's 3D Printing This page is intended to allow connection with an audience that appreciates my 3D printing endeavors, and to showcase prints which are available for purchase.
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10/23/2026

Ordered a couple of yards of mesh fabric and some magnets. Next experiment: embedding stretchy mesh in my 3d prints. Don't start holding your breath yet, because the materials won't arrive until mid-late November, lol.

It is a technique I have wanted to practice with for a while, but it always seemed like something more pressing came up.

Thankfully, it was a part of the order for sensory toys so I am going to have fun nailing this.

It has a good number of uses, so with time I look forward to practicing the various applications and refining my craft.

If I install a chamber heater in my enclosed workhorse I could start using more advanced materials, but for now I am content just slowly grinding and making sure I have a firm foundation from which to grow.

10/22/2026

A quick look at this 3D printed glow in the dark skull slime fidget in action. I am experimenting with this design for a set of sensory toys for an autistic child. Let me know what filament color I should use next!

Glow in the dark bat bust, 9.5cm tall
10/20/2026

Glow in the dark bat bust, 9.5cm tall

10/18/2026

Did you know 3D prints can generate light under pressure?

This is an example if Piezoluminescence: when this glow-in-the-dark filament is physically peeled and strained against the print plate, the mechanical stress violently forces the embedded crystals to release all their stored light energy in one sudden flash.

What do you think? Have you ever seen a material behave like this before?

10/18/2026

Did you know 3D prints can generate light under pressure?

Update: it is not the piezoelectric effect, but mechanoluminescence or Piezoluminescence. Same, same, but different, but still same.

As I peel the filament off the print bed, it exerts a sudden, shearing stress and mechanical strain on the plastic matrix. This force micro-deforms the local crystalline structure of the strontium aluminate (or whatever phosphorescent material they doped the matrix with). The strain violently collapses the crystal lattice's electronic potential fields, emptying all trapped electrons simultaneously.

Pretty cool, in my opinion. What do you think? Have you ever seen this yourself?

10/18/2026

I observed an interesting phenomenon the other day that I want to try and capture on camera once this print is done; apparently the phosphorescent (absorbs radiation and emits a weak light) material in the blue Glow in the dark filament I frequently use is piezoelectric (builds up and discharges an electric charge in response to mechanical stress).

At first I wasn't sure if I was just imagining it, but I have observed it repeat consistently enough that I should be able to capture and demonstrate it.

Well, this isn't the announcement I was hoping to make, but progress is being made. The big announcement will have to be...
10/17/2026

Well, this isn't the announcement I was hoping to make, but progress is being made. The big announcement will have to be on the back burner for the winter.

I wanted to cultivate a more professional appearance for trade shows, so I decided to upgrade my setup with some business cards and a professional T-shirt.

I like the design, but I am always open to feedback and a redesign on subsequent orders. The T-shirt is a little basic, but that's okay. I want the prints to be the focus, not the shirt.

If all goes well, I will add in an extendable vertical banner and cool table covering next.

3D printers are wonderful tools, but they can be really delicate.My workhorse presented me with a filament feed issue so...
10/08/2026

3D printers are wonderful tools, but they can be really delicate.

My workhorse presented me with a filament feed issue so I cleared the nozzle. That wasn't the issue.

I pulled off the hotend assembly and a piece of filament fell out. Success, right?

Hahahahaha, no.

As it turned out, the GID filament I was using had managed to completely wedge itself into the heat sink.

I couldn't push it out, no matter how I tried. Forward, backward, futility regardless of direction.

I ended up having to heat up a narrow piece of metal so it would melt the filament, embed the hot metal in the filament pieces, and pulled the softened pieces directly.

Worked like a charm; once I removed those pieces, I found these troublemakers.

The moral of the story? If your first attempt at something isn't successful, don't quit. Keep trying different techniques until you find one that works.

09/04/2026

What the heck! Facebook suspended my account and scheduled this page for deletion!

08/12/2026

I know I haven't been posting much lately, but that's just because I have been working on some big things in the background.

If everything goes well, you'll start seeing some larger and more intricate projects coming to fruition in the near future.

Baby steps, but they are accelerating. There are a few more steps, but once those are complete I'll be a lot more active on here!

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