I'm sorry. Why is Hot Makes always in the middle of the work day at 4 PM Pacific and 6 PM Central? Ah! Ah! Help everybody. Welcome to Hot Makes right here on the Edge of Tech. Every week at 4 PM Central, 6 PM Pooch time. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Nerdy J. This. Whoa. Wait. I'm over here. No. This is the Pooch. How you doing Pooch? I'm good. I'm over here, Jim. No. Now I'm over here. I think I just threw up. I don't know what just happened. Man, I've been so excited for this. We had a great time with Willow over the weekend. We had to pre-record. I'm kind of jumping the gun on this. But she's in the Netherlands, of course. And so we had to do our recording yesterday. We kind of tweeted that out and announced that. But I'm so excited for you guys to see this. It was a really fun interview. And we'll get to that in just a second. But what's news with you, man? What have you pumped about this week? Man, I mean, the interview takes the cake for me. We had an amazing time yesterday, as Pooch said. And I mean, just the sheer amount of knowledge and making power that comes from Willow is just phenomenal. But I got to say, in the beginning, if you're here, it's your first time, welcome. This is Hot Makes. We do this every Monday. At 4 PM Pooch time? Yeah, at 4 PM Pooch time. 6 PM Central Time. And someone in the chat said 7 PM Real Time. But if you want to be shown, we show stuff from all around the community in our featured segment called Hot Makes.  Shane is working on that diligently. We're working out a bug right now. But all you have to do is hit hashtag Hot Makes, just like you see at the bottom of the screen right now. And what that does is it alerts us that, hey, something is awesome. It can be your something. It can be anything. Anybody else's stuff. That's how we found Willow. People started tagging her and it's just amazing stuff. So if you want to be shown, if you want to come hang out with us Mondays, do that. I know it's late for her. I think it was like one or two in the morning out there. But yeah, other than that, man, we're excited for things. Things is sponsoring us until the end of April now. So every week. We love things. Yes, thanks. Every week you get a chance at winning $50 Amazon gift card. And all you have to do is hang out with us. You have to be present in the end of the stream. But if you hang out with us long enough, there's a registry. Let me think, it's in the description of the video and we'll throw it out soon on the chats. So all through the video, you'll be able to see that. But all you have to do is register to win. At the end, we'll pull $50 to Amazon. As long as you have an Amazon near you in the world, you can win. There it is. What else? What else are we excited about? So much, so much. Yes, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you guys all for being here. I just, I know we spend a lot of time doing a lot of hot makes and stuff like that. We do have an announcement, if I may. We have a few announcements, don't we? Well, then let's do them, man. I think we should. Okay, listen up, everybody. Turn up your volumes, announcements. Attention, we have an announcement. Attention, we have an announcement. Yes, mom. Yeah. Mom, I'm doing a thing. Mom, I'm doing a thing. I was doing a thing. I'll tell you what, you go with the first one. Well, the first one, I'm really excited about, hey, we are now a podcast and it's only getting more and more as we go. So we got hooked up, our good friends over at Makers on Tap gave us some really good advice on what platform to use to help distribute. And I've been in the process of kind of moving stuff on to all of the various places, because there's a million different places you can actually like list podcasts these days. But the big one, unfortunately we have to wait for our official approval from Apple, but that's been submitted and pending their approval of Jim's hairstyle, hopefully within the next week or so, we'll have that live. But we do have a link that we can share for those of you who just can't wait and want to listen along at home or at work because you want to be discreet. So one of the things that we said we do, Jim, like we've been talking about this for weeks, like is actually happening. So we're in the process of going through the back catalog and getting them all in there. Because we know you guys all want to go back and just listen to these at work all the time, right? What else could be awesome in your ear holes than a good hour of hot makes, you know, anytime you want it right in your headset? I mean, why not? Why not? Full six tones of nerdy J and the pooch in your head though. I am, we do have some questions about the giveaway. So here's the deal. In all the excitement, I forgot to change the giveaway form. So just use the same one. It's the same one we used last week. If it tells you you are already registered, don't worry about it, you're already registered. If you're new here, then register, make sure you're in. But if it'll tell you, so go try. But if it says you're already there, then you're good to go. I wanted to throw that out there because a lot of people are commenting. What's next, what's next? Why don't you take the next guest too? Go ahead. Who's the next guy we got coming next week? Yeah, this is one I've been working on. Wow, and he's gonna tell us what's new with him. But I'm really excited for this whole month because we've just got a fantastic lineup of guests coming up. Next week, we're gonna have Uncle Jesse on the stream. He's gonna tell us about what's new with him, what he's been up to. That's gonna be a good one. You don't wanna miss that. If you don't know Clayton, next week's gonna be your time to know him. He is a fantastic dude, amazing maker, really good with cosplay, resin work, masks and stuff like that. He pops in every once in a while. We see him in the chat from time to time. Loyal Moses, thank you very much for the contribution, we love you. Yes, thank you so much. I know you don't have to, but you can't stop me. Hot, hot, hot. Hey, we're at the end of the stream. When we pop back in, I got something to show you, loyal, so hang out. I got something I printed it today. I wanted to show you for that. So we got Uncle Jesse next week. In two weeks, we are gonna do a one year Hot Makes anniversary celebration. Right? It's been a year. It's been a year. So what are we doing for the one year extravaganza? For the one year extravaganza, we're gonna talk about a giveaway. I'll let you know at the end of the episode, so stay tuned for that. And we're gonna bring Sven from Clock Spring back for a major announcement. It's the return of Sven. Yeah, yeah, return of Sven. No, Sven from Clock Springs coming back, we're gonna check out some more cool stuff of his because we can't get enough of Sven and we have a major announcement going on in two weeks, so check that out for the anniversary. In three weeks, in three weeks, what do we got? We're just filling your social calendars right now. Three weeks, we've got Devin from Make Anything, the wizard behind Tippy Tree. So I know a lot of you guys have printed out that fun 3D printable game. He's got a ton of other projects that he's done, really awesome dude as well. I had the pleasure of meeting him down in Matterhackers a couple, like over, probably almost two years ago now. It's been too long, my friend, it's too long, but we're glad to have him. And then who knows, we could, I don't think we're gonna bombard everybody with our entire schedule until Kingdom come, but keep tuning in because we got a lot of awesome stuff coming up in these next few weeks. Yes, yes, yes. So, I mean, I think we need to get into it, right? Let's get into it, just for clarity, really quick, because I'm seeing some murmuring in the chat. We are live right now. This is live, this is happening. Like, I don't have my newspaper with me because nobody has newspapers in my, this is happening right now. We are, we pre-recorded the interview, we're gonna show that to you. I promise we're pretending, we are pretending to be live right now. This cup is my witness because I'm drinking coffee. Loyal Moses, we planned with him yesterday to donate the $50, right? He just jumped in, didn't even know we were here. I'm here live. Who knows, maybe he'll be on a cat. Yeah. Maybe he'll be wearing the same clothes even though. Who knows, right? I did not, I didn't leave this chair. I've been sitting there ever since. Well, that's dead. Let's get to the interview. They don't wanna hear us talk, man. They wanna see you hello. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, this is our amazing interview with Willow. She's an amazing person, amazing maker. Let's do it. And we're super excited today, that special guest with us. Today we have Willow, Mary, or we'll call her Willow today. What do you think, Willow? Everybody knows her as Willow, right? And we can't really pronounce it the proper pronunciation. So she said, you know, Mary is kind of the American version of it. She said, Merle, Merle, I'm probably not doing the thing like that. I'm super excited. We've been talking about this for a long time. She has been a long time feature here on Hot Nakes. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Willow from Willow Creative. Hey, how are you? Hi, hi from the Netherlands. Thank you so much for being here. How are you? How is your, first of all, how has life been?  We're constantly featuring, you know, your work on the show. It doesn't seem like, you know, the COVID lockdown has slowed you down one bit. Maybe it's been better. You've been more focused. I don't know how are things been for you? It's been pretty much the same last year. Only getting supplies is a little bit harder. Everyone here is probably also struggling getting gloves for the resin prints. And, but overall it's just been going and I've been selling, I do selling 3D prints full time. So, and thankfully web shops haven't been affected that much. So I'm just steadily working on really this year. The shops are closed here right now. We're in lockdown since December, I think. So I've been ordering everything online and shipping out stuff and sitting at home working and making stuff early.  So let's not get too far. How about tell us who you are, what you do for those of us listening and even on the podcast too. Who are you? Where are you from? Where can we find you and what do you do? So I'm William Crater from the Netherlands. A lot of people call me Willow or Mary. I am currently 27 years old and I've been making stuff. And like I started out with drawing a lot of my teens but I really wanted to do something with my hands. Started making stuff, making costumes. And then once I finally got my first printer which of course the house fire Anet AA8 I started getting more into 3D printing because at the time when I got my AA8 I was doing college education in video games, game arts. Oh wow. So I was really, it was really cool to see that I could create my own 3D models and then actually bring them out in real life. Well, I was already making real life crafts and all that stuff. So I could really combine those two and get that ball rolling on 3D printing and making more stuff and being able to take that digital design out to the real life. That's fantastic. Now tell me, you haven't actually had any house fires with that Anet AA8. No, no, thankfully not. That might be my favorite intro ever. I had my first printer used to be a player. I had a lot of problems with that printer but the nice thing about getting a printer like that as your first printer, you learn so much about it. And I have had like 16 printers over the last few years. Some have been sold. I have about 10 left in the house right now. And like with every printer you get you learn about the machine and you know how to tackle it eventually and learn more about how it works, you know. And the A8 really gave me a massive start with that with tinkering and all that stuff and getting it fixed. I think we're gonna trademark that right now, the house fire Anet AA8, it's a special edition. Yeah, I'm sure they love that, right? Yeah, it was really one of those first line A8s as well. So. I absolutely love it. Well, you were talking a little bit in the pre-show about the different printers you have and speaking of printers, you have a Delta that you modified to print really taller than it was meant to be, right? And you modified that yourself to do that. Can you tell us a little bit about that? So in 2019, I really wanted to make the Azenaut Warglades from World of Warcraft. They're one, I think they're the most iconic weapon from like one of the most iconic video games ever. And I really wanted to make them light up. And to do that with lighting up and the custom shape that needs to be transparent, you got a couple of options such as vacuum forming or 3D printing. And I really wanted to go to 3D printing. Well, of course, I was already 3D printing. So what I did is around 2019, they also introduced the AnuCubic Predator which is a large scale Delta printer which is getting hard to get right now. But back then it was a new machine and I was like, oh, that's perfect. Can you take that machine? And just like some people have modified little monster from Tivo to print taller, especially with Delta printers, you can really easily modify it taller because it's more for stable construction. So I took the Predator and I bought new profiles for it. So I could print much higher than the original height is 450 millimeters. And mine currently goes to 950 millimeters. Like I really tall prints like this. And this is for an energy source from Halo. And this is all one piece in ClearPagey. And it's got like stabilizing cup at the bottom. So when you print it up, so it doesn't like wobble or something. And like when you get at these really long heights, you get a lot of like skyscraper effects. So it goes wobble, wobble, wobble all the time. So you got to really fine tune the setting so you don't print too slow that you get problems with like the cooling and the heating. But you've got to print not too fast. So it starts wobbling and also to keep that steady movement going, you know? Because otherwise it starts wobbling too much and just becomes so flexible. Yeah, it gets pretty smooth right now. So like you don't really see. Had you finished? You haven't finished that at all? That's just straight off the printer? It's straight off the printer. Yeah, it needs to be cut out. Like all this needs to be cut out. And it's got a channel in the back so you can shuffle that strip in there really easily. I don't know if I got a cut piece here. You can see it. Look at that. And you've already started integrating your electronics. Yeah, it's got a channel where you can push the lead strip in. Oh, wow. That's fantastic. Wow.  That is a perfect segue into one of the next questions we had.  No, actually all my electronics work is self-taught at home. So every time like Arduino comes out with a new tutorial or whatever. And like one of my first electronic projects was just Christmas lights and then shoved in there, glued together. And then later I was like, well, I kind of want this switch to be somewhere else. So you just cut it up and then do your first time soldering and replace your switch and stuff like that. And so it keeps stepping up a little bit more until you try out addressable leads and RGB leads. And then from leads I jump to servos and motors and get that integrated in my prints as well. So every time just a little bit more and then you learn about how you need to control motor and how a motor can go both ways depending on if you connect some positive or negative wire on both ways, if you swap them around. And then you're like, hey, how can I go both ways with one circuit? And then you start Googling and that way you get more projects to try out. I gotta say, Willow, you know, you absolutely embody what the maker spirit is a lot of times that the necessity is the mother of invention, right? So it's like you had something specific you wanted to do. You wanted to make a really big print. And back when you first set this out that we didn't have belt printing options and stuff like that. And so you went and said, hey, I'll learn how to do this. I'll modify it to meet my needs. Same thing with your electronics, right? Yeah, sometimes you see someone on Instagram or on Twitter and you were like, oh, and so he solved it that way and then you try your own way of adapting it. Back then I saw like someone modified the castle, like the tiny castle to print really high. It was an easier modification but it also has a pretty small base. And for those glaze I needed a wider base. So I did the same thing but with a different machine, you know? So you keep getting inspired by all these people that show up with their projects and how they did it. And you can think of how you want to do the things you wanna make the things you want to make and then take what they do and apply it to your projects. And that's really nice. Absolutely. I always like to say we're built on the shoulders of giants that we're not for the community around us to inspire and give us a lot of those ideas. None of us are starting from zero. So we are self-taught but we are lucky to be part of something bigger. And then you're posting your stuff and sharing it with the world has that effect of inspiring other people too which is fantastic. Yeah, and then you just keep building on something that others have made and bring it together into one project and rather than doing it all by yourself which would be impossible if you didn't have the internet you'd be stuck at the first step. You can build on top of what others have done and shown and share around here and that's really nice. Yeah. So speaking of inspiration are there any particular YouTube channels, Instagram channels like places on social media that you like to go regularly to get inspiration or just enjoy watching their content? I have some weird obsession with YouTube channels that show mechanical mechanisms. So I think it's like called King Mechanical and Fangs and Fang and then a whole bunch of numbers behind it and they recreate all these sorts of daily mechanisms like a garage door or a system mechanism and they'll put it in cats and then animate it. That sounds really good. By watching those every time I get like inspiration on how I can apply that movement to something I wanna make. I hadn't heard of that before. Hey, Geary, can you look up King Mechanical and Fangs, you said there's a bunch of numbers but maybe- Yeah, there's a bunch of numbers so I'm not sure but the channels are essentially the same. Okay. King Mechanicals. We're gonna find it in the share link so other people can check that out too. That's really neat. Yeah, try to find it now. Thank you, Geary. Nice. Well, that's awesome. We have a AI helping us. I don't know if you knew that. You know, people have Siri and Google. We have Geary here. I don't know if you met him. But it's okay. It's not Siri but Geary. That's right. He's inspired. I don't know if you remember. You said you're 27 and you started in 2012, right? So you were like 17, 18 at the time? Yeah, in the 16, 17, I started making costumes, yeah. And then were you selling them? Or were you just kind of- No, no, no. I was selling like digital commissions like digital art. I was drawing pictures for people's birthdays and all that kind of stuff. And later people asked me to make stuff for them. Like when I started making costumes, I started making props for others as well. And then later on when I had my A-Nats, I started printing horns for my costume. And then when I had those horns printed, a lot of people wanted the same similar design. And with the 3D printer, I realized I could just have them printing while I was making my own stuff. So I could just make it once and then let the printer do all the work behind me while I work on a new project, you know? So I don't have to bore myself with replicating the same prop every time. That sounds like wishful thinking. Like printers always just work and you can just- Yeah, yeah, they happily check out duplicates every day. So, and I would like to work on something new every time. Right, well, do you have any favorite like projects or something you've made? Do you have a favorite or is that like a hard thing to pick? I think the Warglades are definitely a favorite. Let me see if I have a battery plug in. I think I keep a battery in here. So you can actually see it working. Oh, wait, I'll just leave it's in the rack. Yeah, I do have a battery. Nice. Whoa. Where's my phone board? That's hot. I love it. Yeah, it is really cool. I don't know if you guys use centimeters or inches or whatever. It's 140 centimeters. So it's like when I stand, it's like up here is this high. It's really wide. That's crazy. Yeah, so it's at least four feet. I think a little bit more. More, yeah. Nice. That's crazy. Yeah, you were saying the 900 is probably- That's probably the projects I'm most proud of that I made so far. Well, when you talk about projects you're proud of, recently you've been playing with one. And this is the, I think the first time we saw you, it was a while ago, but you were working on like a werewolf mask. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can see the old one behind me. And I've been working on a new one because the little question went off. Yeah, yeah, that's the new one, exactly. So, I mean, it looks like, I'm just gonna play this. If you wanna kind of tell us what we're seeing over the top, we usually don't get reaction videos from the person that made the videos. So this is amazing. So, let's see. So- Oh, and look at the fangs from that. Yeah, yeah. How does this work? Yeah, tell us how it works. Like, how do you even conceptualize? Like, what do you even call it when like he's growling and like the part of the lip lifts up and stuff? Yeah, yeah, the snarling with the lip. I actually had a little bit of inspiration with that. I wanted to do snarling with a preview set, which was with like a rolling spring. And I had to pull a wire to make a small snarl. And it didn't really work out too well. And like with fur on it, it was just a little, it wasn't working too well. So I really wanted to redo that and make it more from mechanical parts rather than a part that you had to pull. And by researching that same mechanical YouTube channel of course, you see a lot of how linkages can transfer movements back and forth and the angles and reverse linkage. And using that, I can like make an extra pivot so it can move back and forth. I have the head here right now. That's fantastic. So this is the head. And like, you can still move back and forth. And you can see that there's a part moving here and there's a wire that connects it to the jaw. Yeah. Sorry about that. So when I open the mouth, it pulls on the wire and then it rotates there. And the ears. Yeah. I mean. Yeah, and the ears as well. It's the same, it's also linkage and it's extended from the pivot from the jaw. And then like it goes down. Do you move it?  Is that connected to you somehow? When you wear it, my chin rests on here. And then if I move my whole mouth, it just opens up. So that's just a basic mask feature. Okay. And I use that movement to transfer it to other parts of the mask and that makes it. Wow. And recently you had the eyes working and blinking. And I think they even light up. Is that like a random blink? Does that blink when you blink? How does that work? It is random, yeah.  Technic, that would be cool. But at the same time, it's kind of unnecessary because you don't see the eyes. So why would you add all that extra technical integration only so you can't see your eyes? It is possible. I've seen, I've done a little bit of research on like Irish goggles on YouTube. You can pretty print them actually. And I think the guy that makes the Irish goggles actually has like files and what kind of electronics you need it's infrared sensors that shine into your eyes and then they text the reflection of your eyes. So if they're closed or not, you know. So let me see if I can find it real quick. How's the visibility when you're wearing it? Is it? Absolutely terrible. Yeah, I would imagine. What a great project though. And then you have an iteration you were doing with I think a cat as well. Is that right? Yeah, it's a little bit more of a simple mask. This is it. I have no job in it at the moment. This is a progress order. So, but you can like. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, and it has a job as well and it all gets connected to it later. I mean, it's really professional level stuff. I mean, you're getting into really pretty and I'm very happy with this is mostly because of the filaments that makes it such a smooth looking surface. What filament is that? It's lightweight filaments from ColourFab. Wow. And it makes the wolf hats also printed in the light weight filaments. And it's just a really wonderful filaments for costumes because it's so lightweight. It's about less than half than original like a few printed in full weight PLA. Have you sanded that a lot? That's a lot. No, no, no. It's all from the printer. That's straight from the printer. So it's, wow. Yeah, straight from the printer. It's got more of a matte look. That's like a little gloss too, but you can't even see it. Maybe it's just the way the focus distance really catches it. But it looks clean. That's great. That looks awesome, yeah. That's fantastic. Yeah, yeah. It has absolutely professional finish. That's really nice about it. It's on top of having the lightweight features. So it's my favorite filaments at the moment for all my friends. There, that's a good endorsement right there from Milo. Yes. Good, check it out. Oh no, they already got my endorsements. They got all my money and they got all the way, yeah. Colofab is very happy with me promoting it. I'm sure they were. I'm sure they were. Yeah. So can you tease anything that you're working on? I mean, I know you're constantly going back and improving other stuff. Are there new projects that you haven't really gotten to that you're really excited to? Yeah, I'm currently, because a lot of people are asking what you can do with the cat mask that I'm making. So I've decided to take that a little bit further and also make my own cat fur suit head. And I'm working on that as well. Let me grab that real quick. Yeah, I've shared it on Twitter before, but not on Instagram or Facebook yet. And this is like the cat mask that I'm making. So it's got the same shape as this mask under it. And then it gets the fur on it. And this one has the jaw on it, so you can like open the jaw as well. That's incredible. I mean, I can take it off the mannequin. That has to be such an interesting process, going from kind of the skeletal structure to putting a skin to something and texture. Yeah, I'm still working on that for the werewolf, of course, the werewolf has no skin at the moment. It is a little bit trickier with all the moving parts to keep it all like looking fluently, but at the same time being able to move is pretty turkey. Yeah. So like this is the mask. And it's extremely lightweight. And that's really, like normally these masks are made in a very heavy plastic. Yeah. And like this is the edits. Well, I'm sure anybody that's wearing one all day at like a furry convention or something like that appreciates the fact that it's not super heavy. You can see the black mask in there and the hinges and elastic bands. Oh, wow. So fabric is obviously a good skin to work with because you've got some flexibility. Have you done a lot of work with like silicone or latex or any of that kind of thing to get kind of more flexible, realistic. I think, did you do something with eyelids recently? Yeah, yeah. The wolf has latex eyelets. So that's one of my first, let me see if I can, let's see. So you can kind of see the eyelets moving. And then the way that you blended it in with the hard plastic just makes it look so. It's gonna have fur over it. So like the bleeding here is gonna be invisible, but like the nice thing about latex is you can add a little bit of more liquid latex and then just kind of build it up. Kind of build it up and smear it around the edges, you know. So that's nice. Oh, the eyes, look at it. She lit it up. It lets our little bright. So am I tuned that a little bit? You can see the spot on my eyes. Yeah, yeah. So when we're talking about like the cat mask, you had to teach yourself how to sew and do all of that too on top of this, right? Yeah, yeah. So I do a lot of things at the same time. And it's also, I think I'm probably always so successful because like I'll be able to take all these skills with sewing and LED and 3D printing and combine them in something that usually people can't combine or can't get into one single product. So that's really convenient when you just try to learn as much as you can and apply it and have to apply all that in one single project. A lot of customers, of course, they require part-making, sewing all that stuff in one single project. So it's kind of necessary to be like one of those all in one, one of those all in one crafters, you know. So we have some of those projects with us.  But like this one here, what are we looking at and like how long does something like this take to make? So this is a monster hunter armor from 2019. And it's one of my first projects that I really use 3D printing on a larger scale. Like all the bones are 3D printed and most of the decorations are 3D printed. The sword itself is not 3D printed except for the handle and the mechanism inside. The rest of the sword is XPS foam, which is like this ratio in foam that you get at Home Depot and all that stuff.  But for this project, I also did a lot of wefting for the hairs. So when you see, for example, Wookie from Star Wars had all those long hairs. All those hairs are individually strands blended together, assumed together into workable strands so you can apply them to a costume. And I also had to learn that for this one. And for example, making your own dreads and all that stuff. And like you can find all YouTube tutorials for this. So when you see, for example, hey, I need to make dreads for this costume. So you started watching a whole bunch of YouTube tutorials on how you make dreads and with your own crease your hair and all that stuff. I mean, the amount of hours you must have in to doing this, the amount of hours. Absolutely later, there's like 250 bones in there.  But back then I didn't really know about that. And I had to sand all of these and paint all these bones individually.  I think my A-net actually worked on a bunch of these bones as well. But the quality is terrible. But it doesn't sand. But it's one of my favorite costumes still. This is the one with the sword behind you, right? Yeah, exactly. That's the one with the glaives behind it. And there's two of them. Yeah, exactly. I have two of them. There's one behind it. It's not on. And the wings. I mean, and everything else, of course. Oh my gosh. Look at those wings. Yeah, the wings are actually movable as well. I unfortunately have them not set up at the moment or I would have shown you. The wings are movable like you can fold them and retract them using remote control. And the entire mechanism is also really printed. I know I've seen a video or two of it. And I think you've used that mechanism for other things as well. You've done wings for other? I've done a couple of wings these. They're probably my fourth or fifth pair of wings, I think. I've done a couple of changes and iterations to it. And that's another thing I like 3D printing this much because you can have the motor, but if you don't have the mechanism, you can't buy it in a hardware store, then you're stuck. And it's not like you have a CNC that can drill out aluminum at hands. So 3D printing really gives that last link between design and making it working, actually. Without having to send it off to some CNC factory out to have it precisely drilled for you. It's CNC, CNC Music Factory, right? So one of the things I wanted to point out, and we've talked about this before on the show, is that the photography is such a big part of what you do after the fact to really sell, to really emphasize the materials that went into it, the attention to detail. It looks like you've got, no, do you have a background in photography? Do you have a... No, no, no. These are done by photographers that do this as a hobby, usually some of them are actually employed as photographer in like a portrait studio or whatever. And they usually photograph cosplayers for payments or as a four portfolio, your portfolio kind of thing. Like you have a nice costume, I can photograph. So we kind of exchange those skills to our mutual benefits, you know? And an example, this photo was made at a convention where a lot of photographers also walk around to snatch a couple of pictures of people in costumes that they like. And so the photographers especially like cosplays a lot because they'll get a little bit more originality and creativity and a little bit more freedom on what kind of look they want to portray. Like if you're going to shoot a wedding, then it's going to be the same every time.  With costumes, you have a little bit more artistic freedom and what kind of setting you want to create and what kind of moves you want to portray eventually. So that's a whole different skill that the photographers do for me. And personally, I don't know too much about that. And I think I've got too many things on my list that I want to try out and learn before I ever touch photography myself. But it just really sells what you're doing. It really just shows like this. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, just swings, I think, yeah. You know, the other interesting thing, now Jim and I are cosplayers. So we've been learning kind of as we go from the show, you know, the extent of my cosplay is maybe I'll throw a little gel in my hair from time to time. But the interesting thing that I watch is like, so much of it is the art of the performance as well. So it's like, you have the outfit, but then watching how into the motion and becoming the character and all that stuff, which is probably what you were saying before makes it so great for the photographer because there's like a passion behind becoming what you create. Yeah, I'm a little bit, I'm not much of the role-playing kind. I mostly, because of course, I went to college for video game design. So what I really like about portraying a certain character and besides the challenge of making something virtual work a real life, for example, it lets and the range and all this stuff, it's a challenge for me. And besides that challenge, I also really like to honor the original designer of the character like, hey, I really like your character. I think it looks really good. I think the outfit, the colors, the design works really well. And I wanna give it like honors to that, you know? And be like, yeah, I like your character so much that I wanna make a costume of it and dedicate all those hours to create it to make it real. And have any of those creators actually seen your work and thanked you for it and reached back out to you? Have you ever? Yeah, some of the smaller game studios such as RuneScape and Warframe, they contact me a lot. And they always refer my work to the original artists. And it's really nice to see how they think about it. And usually it's always really good. So it's really happy with it. Yeah, so yeah, I really like working with those games studios. And I'm really happy that they can share my work and appreciate it so much, you know? It gives it that extra boost for your next project. I love it. I mean, the amount of stuff you know how to do as a maker, it just blows my mind. I mean, we've seen fabric, what the latex stuff, we've seen the mechanical stuff. Little fabric dress costume of an area. Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely amazing. And it really, just talking to you more and more really kind of goes into detail on how awesome these things turn out. Because if you didn't know all this stuff, you'd have to bring other people in or that kind of thing. But you can sit and hang out. And I feel like you have the mind of somebody who's just like, how does that work? I'm going to make that work. Yeah, you just get so much input from social media and face you want to research. And sometimes it gets a little overwhelming. And then maybe by the take a break it'd be like, yeah, I have a deck now. But that's a nice thing. You get so much input from social media and YouTube from everything that's out there today that's really set you on making something and doing it. Well, speaking of that, and it's interesting too is we've had a lot of conversation about how sometimes social media is great because it's like you get all this good feedback. Sometimes it's too much. Sometimes there's negative commentary. And so finding a way to get Zen around, ignore the people that are just being jerks and taking stuff. But have you come across, we kind of dipped in this earlier, but have you come across anything that you've seen recently that you're like, oh, I really want to try that. I haven't done that before. That would be really neat. I'll have to check. Usually I don't remember such things. There's a lot, right? Yeah, I'll share you this. This is an artist I follow on Twitter. She makes really cool mechanical masks and other things. And every time she posts something that really intrigues me and... Hold on, hold that way if you would. I'm working on it. Here's two of them. She makes masks and other mechanical stuff. And she really shows, every time she'll come up with a different linkage and other material. And then I'm like, oh, that's cool. I'm saving that. And I'm gonna try that for a different project now. This is great because you don't have to find somebody to be the back half of the horse this way. So I... Exactly. I've actually done like a since our costume before, like this, but it didn't have moving legs. So that would be something I really want to revisit and do it again. I love how it's translating your knee motion to like the hind legs of a... You have to transpose it for that. That's very clever. Yeah, exactly. She has really cool linkage design. Oh, like alien. Yeah, no, for example, you can really apply this to a predator mask. Good. Wow, that is not alien. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, we follow each other on Twitter and it's really cool to just keep pushing each other to make those cool things work, you know? Dude, that looks like your Tinder feed right there, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Striper. I was just gonna say that's why... Maybe that's why the wig's nice. Like, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I always... I mean, I also have to say it's always bad to be the back half of the horse. We're just gonna throw that out there. Yeah.  Sure, of course. We'll see what other people make. We always love to get other makers in on the hot makes because it's, like you said, it's great. So you can see and other people love what I'm sure love to hear what you think of their makes, right? So with that said, let's pull in a batch from this week for anybody that's new, that's watching and whatnot. If you want to see your stuff featured, just hashtag hot makes on the Twitters soon on Instagram and we'll feature it here. So without further ado, let's dive in. All right, so we gotta start off another show with our friend Sven over at ClockSpring coming out with another, like, viral print. Last week, it was the vase, right? This week, the steampunk strawberry. This thing is awesome. It's also a case in true fashion. You know, it's gotta be some sort of container, right? Right. But, and print and place mechanical. Will, have you seen ClockSpring stuff before? Yeah, I imagine you've seen a lot of ClockSpring. I'm sure I've seen it around, but yeah, I follow so much social media. The names sometimes just get blurry from me. I really love this print and place stuff. Yes. My print is shook for tolerance, so I give credits to everyone who made it and manages to make this stuff work. Sven has been a regular on the show and he is, like you, non-stop. He is constantly producing, just read things and it's really neat to see how his mind works, right? It's adorable, yeah, I like it. I love it. It has a little Mario turnips. When you twist it, it's kinda locked in place, there isn't just that. Yep, so I actually printed one, the morning he released this, I'm like, I gotta print this right now. And I forgot it at work, I printed it at work and I totally forgot to bring it into show, but it really, it's awesome. It locks in place and when you unlock it, you open it up and it's a gorgeous print. And actually Sven will be with us in two weeks. So I believe that's the 22nd, if I remember right from the earlier announcements. But he'll be on the show with us again. So that'll be a really fun show to do. But the next one we have actually is the same thing, but of course, Steven the light speed, you had to go on and just blow this print out of the water. I love the colors he uses. And we say that about a lot of our makers that we feature. What do you say about different color combinations when you're making stuff? I don't usually, I just use basic gray every time. He doesn't make me do that. I never care about the colors, but it's really pretty. I think this is like basic green. Is it Mystic Prusament or something? What kind of filament is it? And he says in the lead in the lead in, I believe he did this on his rail core. He didn't say what filament, purple. Or a Nord 3D glitz purple. I don't know, it looks very pretty. No, it's a phenomenal print. I think it's printed on day-to-day list, isn't it? I really want to replace all my shitty printers for day-to-day list printers. They were so pretty. This is the real course. Yeah, the real course, like the DOI version. Yeah, yeah. But they could print this at 120 milliliters per second. It flies, it flies. Yeah, absolutely amazing. He has two files. So there was a print and place one that I did. And then there was the multicolor one like this. And it's such a cool thing. And yeah, at 120 millimeter a second, that is flying. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, Sven's models, clock speed models are one of my favorite things to show off to people when they're new to 3D printing, because it really highlights something that you can do with 3D printing that you can't do with any kind of other manufacturing process where you can build it all in one piece and have internal mechanical components that you would not otherwise be able to assemble. Yeah, yeah, I do that with my prints as well. I really take advantage of the design that you can use for 3D prints that wouldn't work otherwise. Right. Yeah. What do we got next? I think, I don't remember seeing these guys before on our show, but- Hey, Terry, no, they're new. I haven't seen them either. Yeah, but check this out. It's a concept idea at the Pickle Panda. Let's see. It's a warcraft. It looks like a warcraft thing. Yes. That looks beautiful. Yes. Well, I love the Mohawk. I know. I imagine if you had a Mohawk, that's what it would look like. It would just extend all the way down your back here, probably your front back, right? Yeah. But I need someone like Willow to come and show me how to do it, because- Yeah, that's a secret. I got a really large mane here. You have all of your maines. We just call it your mane, I love it. No, yeah, it's the werewolf mane that's the creature hair. Oh, yeah. That's not individually threaded like you were talking about. Yeah, that's individual strands of hair. Are you kidding me? I mean, how long does it take you to put that together? It's not that bad, actually.  And then- Okay. All right. So it's not like, I sometimes do like the hair where you have to do it like hair by hair. Yeah. It's just only for if I want to make like really high detail wigs and stuff. Sure. This is really pretty. I wonder how much skill it is. That says nine inches. 23 centimeters and nine inches. Like that's a little bigger than I expected. We need the hot mix official banana for scale. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. What I think is awesome about this interview is that we're like talking, we're like, yeah, we're talking about Mohawks.  I got a mane. It's right over here. I got a mane. I got a lot of stuff. Yeah, yeah. I love that. All right, what do we got next? Fab 365 released a print in place moveable ATAT. Here you go. Oh yeah. Are you the star wars gal? No, actually not at all. Not at all. But I see the sprints on Twitter all week. And I love it. Yeah. And I see the sprints on Twitter every day pretty much. I love it. Fab 365 is another prolific contributor. He is really big in print in place stuff as well. Just like clock spring. But specifically like he does like a lot of like the folding models too. Which is really neat to see where they'll print flat and then you can kind of fold it all together which is always a fun thing to show off. I love it. And it's print in place. I think I'm gonna have to, I don't know what scale this is, but I need to- Those are renders, right? Like those are, yeah. I had those renders, yeah. Yeah, well he, this is like she said, this has been all over Twitter all week. And it's phenomenal. I can't wait to start seeing his friends show up. I don't think those are renders because I can see the layer lines. What? You can still render layer lines, you know. There's like rendering plugins at all. But look at that. Oh, I think I see them at the feet. How would I know? I'm just a computer. Hey, if you can fool our AI system with, you know. I mean, I see what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, I see it. You think those are legit? I don't know. What do you think? Tell us in the chat what you think. This is a render or not. Maybe that's a new segment for us, right? Render or not render, I like it. Render or not. I love it. I love it. All right, what do we got next? Oh, tell us. So he posted this amazing dragon that, I mean, it literally flies, right? And it's a second flight test. Fly. Dragon 72-1? Yeah. Let's see if I can. Invigorate yourself. Enhance, enhance. Oh, there we go. Oh, that's so cool. Oh, yes. That's got a willow vibe to it. You know, the wings, the dragons. Dragon. I like it. Of course I have a dragon, it's right there. Yeah.  So, is it an RC plane or is it like a kite or? I believe it's an RC plane. We're about to find out in a second. I'm just curious. Look at his camera ring. He gives us something. It's awesome. This is something here. This is a whole production. Filming it right from his hip. Oh, it's cool. That is awesome. Okay, he's flapping. Listen to that thing. So, oh yeah. He's controlling it. He's controlling it. Talk about servo work, huh? Look at that. Whoa. Yeah. That is so cool. Yes. I love it. Dude, I take it back. I was being like silly with my flies thing, but like, look at that thing go, man. Hot, hot, hot. Give me some fire for that. He striked real hard. Holy. I think you guys need to breathe some fire. I think I made a mistake not making this a hot or not this week. Let me know what you guys think, but to me, this is hot. Oh, that's hot. That's hot. Incredible. Okay, I'm stunned. I'm stunned. Oh, there it goes. Man down. That's gonna be one of the hardest parts about watching something and you've spent so many hours and then, you know, it's satisfying to watch it fly, but then inevitably it's gonna crash and you gotta fix it. Failures are almost in progress, right? That was awesome. Nice work. I need to find this person on the Twitters, but I don't know if he just tagged the video. So, great work. I need to look it up. Ornithopter, that's interesting. I hadn't heard that term before. Ornithopter is, yeah, that's when you have like the bird's RC plane with the flapping, yeah, yeah. Crazy. So it's a special type of RC plane with the actual bird's wing movements. I'm learning something new every episode here. Maker Potato! Yes, Maker Potato, Maker Tater, an overnight print of a box they found, the cylinder box by Lex Luthor on Thingiverse. Absolutely gorgeous colors again. A print-in-place model. I love this. I love the watch fan style hinge. I really like how they took advantage of like the layer shift change to make this second color pop. That is really cool. I think there's a lot of math involved, or I'm sure, you know, when you're rendering it, you know, you can work that out and stuff, but obviously, you know, it's one thing when you have a hinge, it's a whole other thing when you have multiple articulations that lay further away. That's really fantastic. And the knurling detail on the outside is just... Right. Absolutely gorgeous. Nice work. Maker Tater, he comes up. You could put it, what would you put in there?  Something. You could make it a ring box or something. Yeah, a ring box. It's tiny. I love it. I love it. Let's see what we've got. If you make it big enough, you could put a watch in it or something. Yeah. A watch case, a watch case, watch box for your watches. Yeah. All right, what are we gonna do? I'll bet the people in Amsterdam have an idea what they could keep in there, huh? Well... Yeah, they would pay it to a different design on top, I guess. All Abby is becoming a regular too. Abby Brown, math teacher, is throwing an error. You could print it big enough for stoop waffles. That's what we're talking about. They're like, I think, that size. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With stoop waffle holders, I'd like to see it. Where's your stoop waffle? I saw you had your tea earlier, and no strups tonight. Oh, I don't have any, sorry. Oh, that's the saddest thing you've ever said to us. Come on. That was the saddest thing. I love it. Abby Brown, again, killing it with one of these. I just, I can't get enough of these. I need to try this. So you're looking at the support here as it's building up. Oh, is it like a double extruder setup? Yeah, it is. Yeah. So we're watching it go. This is called the poor man's time lapse, where you just got like a picture out of the scroll. It's getting crazier for you. In all of this, like Pooch said, a lot of this is the outside of it, it's... The support. Support. And then when she gets there, look at that. Wow. It's getting crazy. I forget what the term is that she was trying to show off, but she's using this for her math class to teach this geometric shape. And I apologize, we'll just scroll back because it's called something. And it's been way too long since I've done my high school geometry. I love it. It's, look at, and here's the underneath, right? That's crazy. That's just the support, right? And that's the final product. Yeah, yeah. Very nice. I love it. And let's see. Cortic surface. Yeah. Cortic surface, I like, yeah. That, that kind of thing, yeah. I've seen a lot of prints being made from mathematics and mathematical classes and stuff. It was really cool that you could just make that at home right now instead of having those really fancy display models. Yeah. I think it's, the teaching tool, it's really neat because I think it's, it's great to be able, as a teacher, I'm sure to have new tools to bring in stuff that can be a little bit more tangible, a little bit more relatable. Yeah, yeah. You can visualize what you're talking about. And that's really neat. And it's still staring at me. It's looking at, right at you, Jim. It's trying to hypnotize you. Next, we got, sorry. Yeah. Oh, sure. I know him. Everybody knows David Shorri. I've met Shorri Fanboy from the, from the get go. He does just amazing work with multi-material, like yourself fabric work and all that stuff. But he really pioneered a lot of the, you know, 3D printing on fabric and, and dragon scale. I'm sure you've seen like a lot of that stuff before, Willow. I've saved a lot of it. I've wanted to apply it to the project when I haven't had time or a reason to apply it to a certain costume. Usually I take all these little things that I see and then I save them somewhere. And I'm like, I kind of want to work with it right now. But I can't find a reason to apply it where I want to apply it, you know? And just straight up copying it is not like my thing. I want to do it my own way in something that I can use. And, and so it just sits in a folder somewhere until I can use it, you know? Your, your bookmarks bar, you know, the must-have stuff. Yeah, yeah. Like. She's got three browsers full. Yeah. But, but the thing about this is you have an excuse, you can make a dragon. Like a full dragon, like a full on dragon. And then make it fly Willow. Then make it fly. Do you want to want to talk to me? I have a dragon. I, yeah. I made the dragon. You have to train it. I haven't seen it before. I had something over here. These are earrings. And, and I love it. Nice work, David. Did he say what the substrate is? What the, what the fabric he's, he's printing these on? That's crazy. That's a beefy earring. It does. It looks like some kind of shoe-ear fabric. Yeah. There you go. Like chiffon or... Chiffon. Is that sure? Yeah, chiffon. If you're, if you're watching right now, David, let us know what kind of fabric are you using in this? Cause this is a absolutely gorgeous print too. I think I would use it as a belly button ring instead of earring. I'm sure that would look gorgeous. Thank you, Willow. Thank you for appreciating that. I think if you ever do that, we need to see it. All right, just, just, you know, we need to see this. I'm not only fans, maybe. I'll tell you what. You do it. I'll commission David to make you a specific belly button ring if you do it. That means I would have to do a belly button pierce. So I don't know about that.  That's sacrificing for the job. Like other, other items as described or whatever. But next up, Chris W goes by White Raven. This is a finished soul bird and knot. I cannot, I'm not even gonna try. It's reverse etched and it's absolutely gorgeous. Let's see if we can blow this up a little bit. I don't, I don't know about you guys, but like, that's my jam. Like when I'm drinking for my goblets, I got to have some good artwork. Willow, what's your goblet collection look like? You know, when you're- Yeah, I got this one. I like it. Very classy. I got a couple other mugs. One with a couple cosplay mugs as well. You fit in really well here. We're very classy individuals. That's really, we do high class stuff here. It's all about the goblets. Look at these. It's engraved, isn't it, Jim? What was that? Is that a laser engraved? Yeah, it looks like it is. It's engraved for sure. Let me go back to what he actually said. Laser etched, I think. Yeah, laser etched. Oh, it could be- Yeah, reverse etched on blue goblet. Reverse etched, okay. Okay. Really cool. I love this. I think this is the first item of this type, reverse etching we've shown. And it's an absolutely awesome thing. I hope we see more of this. I'd like to see more details on them and what the process actually is, because I haven't gone into how reverse etching happens. Oh, look at this on the other side. I didn't even see that. No, that's not. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's not- Not mentioned that again, man. I think what it does is it ruffs up the surface, so it creates like the multi-diffuse surface. And then it specifically leaves out the clear parts to create a picture. And that's why it's reversed. And I'm not sure how that melting surface roughing up process works, but that's I think what it is. Well, thank you for sharing. Maybe we can get some more detail and follow up on a future episode. Yeah, for sure. If I see this, I would start googling what it is. I would start googling like how do you reverse etched stuff and then I'd be like, hey, I can do this for a project. Never stop learning, right? It's like- Exactly, exactly, never stop learning. Beautiful. 3D print and paint. This is an alien's diorama. Here's the aliens. See, I was mixing my Predator versus Alien earlier. Yeah, you have to check this out. Well, are you like aliens? I've seen it. I'm not like a huge fan or anything. You're not a fan of the horror. I'm a baby for horror movies, it's terrible. I like the designs though. I really like to see how they did the costumes and all that, of course. When you look at this, you're like, when you look at this, you're like, oh, that's pretty cool, right? But that's not really like the full picture. He's not telling the whole story. He's not telling it. There he is. There's the alien, but check this out. That's so cute. There's not too much similarity between Rambo and Sigourney here, I'm thinking. Also, that could be, you know, Wexter has a very easy port now to do in his gym mini. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he's almost got- Throw some glasses on that.  I love it. You want to see it, Wexter? We want to see it. There you go. There's the full diorama there. Very cool. I love the smoke. With the little light, maybe. The vape smoke, yeah. Yeah, I actually have one of those too. I have made one of those vape smokers too, yeah. Nice. I thought it was just like peek-a-boo.  Yeah, he could have just stopped at placing the figures there, but he really went extra mile to add like the little rotating lats and smoke and all the slime and stuff. That's really cool. It's all about the details, right? Yeah, exactly. You can just leave it at the figures and just put them there, but you can also do something like this for that. Next. It's an extra step for sure. I think Giri's watching. Giri, what is your favorite like movie or like is it Terminator? I figure something with some sort of mechanical- Where the machines went. Yeah, yeah. My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer. That makes sense. That makes sense. That's a bad guy. There it was. We got a couple more. I know we're going a little bit long, but that's okay. Worth it. This is worth it. So this, another Wexter diorama available for patrons soon. And I had to show this one first. Let's see if I can, I can't, there we go. So this is the, I think you tagged this, didn't you? Yeah. I can't remember. I think multiple people did, but yeah. So this is like awesome, right? Cause of course this is the around the world. These guys just broke up. I heard they broke up after like 25 years. It's been a long time. Maybe we need a reunion tour already. I'm not sure, but I love the fact that we get to see kind of a little bit before. And then the next one, right? This is by Loyal Moses. It's the death punk. Same thing we just saw, but yeah. Blink blink. Blink blink. Blink blink. Blink. Yeah. I love it. Hey, I wonder if you use, if you use PETG, if it would be any. Better. Yeah. And more. Oh man. Yeah. Apparently I need to tweak our AI over here. We're gonna work on the timing. We gotta clip the lead out on those audio clips. But dude, I love this. This is fantastic. Wexter is another.  I love his work. His wall is full of them. Oh man. Yeah. I love these. I think I'm gonna have to print. Cause last week our feature from Thangs was the masks, right? Right. So then all of a sudden, less than a week later, bam, we got them on Wexter models. I mean. Real time. Yeah, yeah. All right. So I have, we have one more, one more. Last one. Jim's just strong. Just take us home strong, Jim. This one is serious. Okay. I mean. It took a lot of making to make this happen. It's very brave to wear it. I just want to point it out. I mean, it's gonna take, I mean, I'm not sure if Willow can compete with this. So you better just hold on to your chair. We have- We have Dorothy. We have, we have Crockspurs. I've never seen them. Of course. Yeah. They're amazing. Crockspurs. I don't get it. When you're riding your dragon, you need to have proper spur, like I guess, I don't know. From the way you're wearing your crocs, riding your dragon? This reminds me, but we didn't do it next week. So we'll show Matty's croc underwear. So maybe this is part of that attire as well. Absolutely crucial, yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, how do you train your dragon? You have crocs spurs. I mean. I don't think I would wear crocs if I was riding a dragon. I'm just saying, you know. What if you were riding a croc?  What if you were riding a crocodile? That's more of a close-toed shoe to endeavor, my friend. Like, I go steel toe probably at the very least. But it's a crocs spur. No, no, fair enough. I got it. We need, we need clock spring to make a clock, a crocs spur. That's a long clock, crocs spur. Perfect. Oh gosh. That was a lot of fun. Good batch. Everybody keeps sending us the hashtag hot makes so we can feature your stuff or other awesome things that you guys see out on the socials. We would like to thank our guest for, you know, we went a little long, but thank you for staying late with us here. Willow, I know it's getting, it's not that way where you are. No, it's great for me. We appreciate it. Also, yeah, yeah. Why I appreciate it for recording, yeah. Yeah, we definitely appreciate having you on. And I know all the hot makes, everyone who made them loves to hear from our guests about what they're making too.  I wish we had another four hours to talk about all your stuff because it is absolutely amazing. Before we, you know, turn it off, where can people find you? Where can they find Willow on, you know, social media? All my socials are called Willow Creative. They're a little bit differently formatted on several platforms, but you can find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter for most. I'm probably most active on Twitter nowadays. So that's just Willow Creative underscore. And I do not, I do have a YouTube, but I don't actively am a YouTube content creator. So you'll see me upload videos every once in a while. They are personal social media as well. And if they want to buy your stuff, where do they go? You can go to Etsy and find my store, which is called Willow Creative dot, no, Willow Creative NL, so. We've got it running down. Yeah, yeah, Willow Creative NL. And you can find a lot of my makes and 3D prints and other soon stuff and all the other crazy stuff are made that I'm like, how I can make this for sale, you know? And one last thing. One last question. Do you do commissions? If I came and say, hey, I need a dragon. She probably gets asked that all the time. I get dozens of questions for customer orders and commissions every week. Unfortunately, I can't do them anymore. I should can imagine I'm very, very busy. And I made those cat masks this week and I put them up for sale and I sold 15 and now I have to cut it off because my friends can't run anymore. And I also have to like, I also have to post-process and assemble them. So all that stuff gets a little bit too busy. And on top of that, I want to keep making my own projects. And if I take customer orders, I won't be able to do that anymore. We'll see all that motivation for my own projects. We'll let you get back to it. Thank you so much for being on the show and spending the time with us and sharing all your stuff. And hopefully we can do it again sometime soon. Thank you for having me. I was a good little friend. I'm very happy to show my stuff and show my inspiration and everyone making all their stuff and showing it online. And that's really nice to talk about. Yeah, I love it. And hang out, don't go anywhere. Cause we only, we have a giveaway still, $50 to Amazon courtesy of things like we do every week all the way through the end of April now. So hang out with us for that. And maybe if we can talk them into it, a pooch rant. I'm not sure though. What do you think? I can channel my inner rage. I'm pretty sure I got something for you. All right guys. Well, thank you again so much. Hang out right there. We'll be back with you in a second. But thank you so much. Let's jump into a giveaway and have a great night. Have a great night. All right, that was amazing. Whoo! Yeah, baby. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. That was all pooch. I just wrote his co-tales the whole episode. The whole episode, we've seen some really cool chat. And one of the big one was if we're really live or we're not. So the first person to throw a donation out there, we'll let you know if we're live. Go ahead. We'll wait, we'll wait. I don't have an audio from you. Wanna waste my time? Okay. That's a pooch mute, I think. I'm here live, I'm not a cat. My voice wasn't live. I'm not a cat. Hey, you're there. I'm here. I didn't get the continuity memo though. So it's like, I got a haircut and I'm at the shop yesterday. I apologize, the audio was crummy there. I gotta get a better mic at the shop.  What a surprise too. Willow stayed up late with us so that she was in the chat. Thank you for that. Just a great interview. Yeah. Awesome, awesome interview. And if you're in the chat watching right now, she's probably maybe half awake still watching. So show your love right now. Let's blow up the chat with a thanks to Willow. Hey, look, I saw, there you go. I got asleep. We'll blow up the chat anyways. Let's say thank you so much for her. That was awesome. Like I said earlier when I was chatting, I wish we had like three hours because I would love to go and like walk through her, her like maker closet. Like, can you imagine how much stuff she just has hanging there? When you get to be that level of a maker, it's like you have to have dedicated space just to display all the awesome stuff you've done. I mean, we didn't get, you know, Uncle Jesse was staying in the chat. Like we didn't get to talk about her stilts. We didn't, my personal favorite, we didn't get to talk about her Samus outfit from Metroid, which I really loved. I mean, there was just too much, too much to cover, right? 100% and Builders Mark was the first to find out we are recording right now. Thank you so much for your prerecorded donation. We can't thank you enough for that. We didn't honestly expect Willow to stay up with us. I think it worked out better because, you know, she could give all her energy and time to the whole thing, but we're happy to have her in the chat as well.  So we do that. And I think it's a great trade-off for us to come in live and show an interview like that and then come back live to actually get to interview people like Willow, who's on, like you said, the other side, it's like, she's seven hours ahead of us right now, I think. And if it takes us, you know, putting in some extra time, some extra work to prerecord that for the show, I hope you guys appreciate that because we love it, right? We sure do. Last but not the least. Giving me some grief about actually getting an actual game reference, right? Here's the thing, man, if you get into my realm of gaming time, like in the late 80s, early 90s, NES style gaming, like that's my jam right there. Okay, Metroid, that was my jam. I love it. Hey, this is your last warning. If you're not signed up in the registration for the $50 gift card, do it. If it says you are already in there, then that means you're already there. Don't worry about it. You're already there. Hey, I just wanted to throw this out. If Loyal Moses is still watching. There he is. There he is. Thank you, David Wilson. Thanks for being you. Maybe, maybe if I can get my face out of the picture. You gotta work on your focus, homie. There we go. I think it's cause it says facial tracking. There we go. It's tracking. It doesn't have helmet tracking though. That's a good one. You knocked that out. You did the big ones today too. The big daft punks. So I'm sure we'll have that for next week's outmakes. That will be cool. Let's see, David Wilson, make you again, like Pooch said, I just saw it now. But it is time to do a $50 Amazon gift card drawing. I have a little tiny baby rant though. What do you want to do it before? Okay, hey, run my little baby rant though, cause I'll do it quick cause I know everybody's got it ready. All right, ladies and gentlemen, here's a baby rant. She used the little rant. Let's do it. Okay, this one really gets my crawl, man, because I was out, I actually, I don't even got out to eat very often because we've had this whole thing called COVID. I don't know if you're paying attention. And so it was like, I actually went out for lunch and it was a nice day. It was outdoor seating. And I got myself a nice Arnold Palmer cause I like a good Arnie with lunch sometimes.  What is wrong with people? You know what?  Well, you know what's funny? I call those California straws because they're probably paper too, right? No, see thankfully this one was in paper. We have those too, which also suck maybe coming to you for a future ramp but this was a plastic one that was like it was thinner than plastic wrap. It was terrible, man. I'm not a fan of paper straw. You know the only thing paper straws make me do is drink my drinks faster. Yeah, cause they get all and then I have to use more paper straws cause I can't use it twice.  Gross.  I love it. I tell you what, I'm gonna, let's see. I'm gonna share the wheel. Wheel of fish. There we go, dropping in red snapper. Whoa, whoa. What's going on with our wheel, man? The wheel of fish. Well, what happened was, I had to start over with the wheel. Yeah. Your internet be slow, homie. Is it? Low, load. What's going on? Oh, look at that. Thank you. Thank you, Andrew Rogers for my straw fund. We've had a lot of straw jokes. Now you can buy at least four slim straws. Yeah, don't tell me that, man. This'll bring your own straws. Like, I don't want to wash a few straws, gross. Yeah, I know, right? A few moments later. A few moments later. Yeah. All right, here we go. You ready? Here we go. $50 to Amazon Go. Who's gonna win? Who's gonna win? Must be present. Gotta be here. Gotta pay to play. No, you don't have to pay to play.  I don't know. Make yourself known, though. I don't know if that I've seen. Maybe I'm wrong, but. Kenny T. I don't think. Oh, hey, I see it. There he is. What? He said what? What? He didn't think he could win. That's right. You can win. Everybody can win it. Congratulations. I'll get your info over to Ms. Dang. She'll send you an email and get you all hooked up with $50 to Amazon Courtesy of Things all the way through April, right here on Hashtag HotMakes. Kenneth, Kenneth, real quick. Tell us what you're gonna do with that 50 bones from things. What are you thinking? What are you thinking? What would you say to your lord? Well, he's doing that. How about you tell us what we do right here for all those new people watching before we take off? Listen, everybody, this is HotMakes. This is the show where you tag, hashtag HotMakes on the Twitters, soon to be Instagram. We collect all of those tags, all those amazing hotnesses. We find these amazing makers out there and we bring them to you every week, Monday night, 4 p.m. Pacific time, 6 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Eastern, 1 a.m. Netherlands time and all the other time zones in between. So that's how it works. I hope you guys had some fun. We really enjoy this. We hope you learned something. We hope you laughed. We hope you enjoyed yourself. I know I enjoyed actually getting to chime in on the chat more, you know, kind of kick my feet up, have a snack. I saw that. I was like, I was getting a little worried. I was like, is he watching? We're gonna come back soon.  Nom, nom, nom, nom. Nom, nom, nom. Thank you guys so much for all the donations tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much to Willow, Mary. Thank you for being on the show and hanging out with us yesterday and recording and hanging out with us tonight. You didn't have to do that. I imagine you're long sleeping by now, but you guys were awesome. I had some amazing comments for her. And, you know, I can't wait for next week. Next week, Uncle Jesse's with us. He was a- Better bring his egg game. That's a tough act to follow, Clayton. Let's see it. Bring it. Bring it.  I really would like to. You're planted for 48 hours now. Yeah, I've been here. I've been here for a minute. No, you guys have a great night. We are gonna get moving. We'll see you guys next week. Everybody again. Thank you for being here. Congratulations on the win, Kenneth. And we will see you guys on the flip side. Hasta la bye-bye. Wait, one more time. On the flip side. We're getting fancy. All right, guys. Have a great night. Have a great week and happy hot makes. Bye.


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Three three I see three members mr. We go mr. Brooks mr. Fowles we have a quorum All right For that I think the first order of business is to approve the minutes from the last Meeting give you a moment to look over those I can see that when one misses the meeting They do vote you as chairperson Approved I think the next order of business is the election of officers I Think that work requires a reelection as well question to the staff Karen vice chair Are they any nominations from the committee? I volunteered to serve again if y'all would have me unless one of y'all wants to be the chairperson Seconding my own volunteering Nominate you. Thank you. Thank you and then it is second all right for For the vice chair, I think is what we call it Mr. Guido or mr. Brooks if you have a preference I second it You were you were very slow mr. Brooks If you choose not to I can persuade mr. Guido to serve that's fine, okay all in favor of the slate I Okay, so the election of officers is approved and that would be Mr. Fowles as chairman and mr. Brooks as co-chairman I Think the the next order we have on the agenda is any other business. I just want to From any is there any business from members of the Commission? Mr. Brooks From the staff is there any other business No approval of re-approval of bylaws or anything like that those have all been taken care of all the parking Permits and tags to my knowledge Thank you, ma'am Any other business from members of the Commission I second that motion So I think our pay is now a zero zero times two All right, there we go Before we close I just want to thank the Staff members and Andrea for everything they do for this at some point We may have something to do But I just also want to state for the record that and I joked about it when we began our job is to be here in case They need us and we are here in case they need us. I will also note for the record I've seen a lot more activity going on over at Bull Street. They're starting to See more construction. So who knows in the near future. We might get something. It really depends So I within any other business You do have to have the three hours of continuing it we don't have the calendar yet I'm working with Central Midlands as soon as I have information. I will let you know Last year we did some in-house sessions. We may do that again this year if Because Joe you are just regular Okay, because they added landscape architect as an exemption where you can do the Hours but we'll get sessions and I'll get that information out to you. So you can complete the hour So I'll have to be done before the end of the year And if you don't mind even though I'm exempt if you could send that to me as well Well, maybe there'll be something you'd like to attend Thank you They do serve good pizza Any other business any business from the staff well with that I moved to adjourn the meeting I think that there would be in the form of a motion for a resolution So I second the resolution Agreed, I think we have a majority so be it so resolved Any further business with that adjourned


Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. Ticket tip Thursday. Let's get to it. What's up guys? Welcome back. My name is Tras here on Thumbs Up Run where we talk about buying tickets, selling tickets, making sure that you have all thought with your tickets. Today we're talking about selling tickets, specifically mobile screenshot, mobile QR code tickets. These tickets are basically tickets that aren't being transferred directly through a Ticketmaster account. They're being sold as a QR code or bar code itself. Now there are a few little intricacies and things to remember here. So we're gonna talk about how to go ahead and actually go and sell these tickets. And then a few different things you'd consider before you go ahead and actually start doing this over and over again, because you may run into some problems. But with that being said, it is possible to sell them. So let's discuss. First off, mobile screenshot tickets. What exactly are they? Basically it's when you go into your Ticketmaster account or wherever you're getting your tickets from and then being sent something like this. Basically it's a mobile screenshot. As you can see here, I'm just switching around, looking around. This is not a real webpage, it's just a photo. But this ticket is still valid to get you into that event. Now it's possible though that if you had bought a ticket online, you bought it as a mobile QR code and you may have received something like this. And you'd be thinking, I just got a photo, I don't know if this is real, what am I supposed to do with this thing? It's useless. Well, not quite. You can actually go ahead and sell this, but there's a little bit of work involved with doing that. If you are either trying to create your own mobile screenshot tickets or you've received a mobile screenshot ticket, all you need to do is actually convert it into a PDF file and then upload that to sell that seat. Now, one big disclaimer, if you are selling mobile screenshot tickets, I need to make this very, very clear. If you're selling it as a mobile screenshot ticket, you need to ensure that the listing states that it's a mobile screenshot ticket. You cannot sell this as a PDF delivery because if you sell it as PDF, you're able to use this ticket, print it out and show it to the ticket attendant and they will basically scan it and let you in. It doesn't work that way. You must show these type of tickets on your mobile browser, on your phone. So if you are selling it, you cannot sell it as a PDF ticket. Hope that makes sense. If it doesn't, let me know in the comments below because I need to make sure it's very, very clear. You're not selling a PDF delivery. You're selling a mobile QR screenshot. So you may receive something like this. You may go into your ticker master account and generate a ticket like so. All you need to do is basically take a screenshot on your phone and then you need to convert this into a PDF. Initially, when you create this file, maybe a JPEG or some other format, but you need to turn it into a PDF. So the easiest way I do it, well, because I have an Apple phone, the way I do it, I use Apple to go ahead and create that PDF. If you're using an Android or whatever, I'm sure there's very similar ways of doing it, but I'm gonna show you the Apple way because the Apple way is the only way I know how. So once you've taken your screenshot, next thing you need to do is actually go into print this screenshot and turn it into a PDF. So do that, basically tap on the picture, click share, and then as you scroll down, you're gonna see this button called print. So let's hit that guy. And when you're here, the next thing is, normally when you go and print, you're gonna just go and print it off into wherever you have your printer set up, but in this case, we're actually gonna be pinching, zoom into the picture, and it'll give us more options.  So go ahead, select that one. And then all you have to do is just hit save. In this case, as you can see, this is replacing existing items. I already have another screenshot saved, but as you can see, the extension is no longer a JPEG or another photo format, it is a PDF. Because it's a PDF, you now have the file available that you can go ahead and upload when you are trying to sell these tickets. So then when you go to StubHub or wherever, you're selling as a mobile screenshot, mobile QR code delivery, you go ahead, upload this ticket here, and that will let you actually make that sale. Very, very simple, very easy, very straightforward, nothing to it. Now I think, okay, this is if someone sent me the tape, but what if I went and actually added the ticket to my mobile wallet? What about then? Answer, same exact thing. You go ahead, create screenshots from here as well, and do the exact same thing. Take that screenshot, print it, turn it into a PDF, save that again, and there you go. All done, very easy, very simple, nothing else to it. Now, last thing I wanna mention, if you are selling tickets as mobile screenshots, mobile QR codes, the only thing I have to mention is that you cannot do this for anything with a rotating barcode. What do I mean by that? Basically some events, they're designed so that the barcode itself is rotating or moving. This basically means that when you get to the ticket attendant, the barcode is moving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and you're not actually able to take a screenshot of that ticket because it needs to be moving for the QR code to kind of be active and valid. Because of that, you cannot use this for rotating barcodes. Let me show you guys a quick example, all right? Very minute in this case, but it's just a little baseball rotating back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Basically, this barcode will only be active or valid with this moving feature going on. Basically, as you can see even here, it says no screenshots allowed. So, barcode needs to be rotating or moving if this little baseball is not going back and forth, these tickets will not be working. So, don't be trying to take screenshots of tickets like these because they will not work when you go into the event. So, if you do sell a ticket like this where it is a rotating barcode, you will run into problems, you will get a busted order, you will pay lots of fees, and it won't be fun for nobody. Okay, very simple, very easy. If you are selling mobile screenshots, mobile QR codes, go ahead, do that, turn them into PDFs, upload them, everyone is happy. Don't do it for rotating barcodes, you will run into trouble, both yourself and the person who's actually buying those tickets, and that's all you need to know to sell these types of tickets. If you guys are going to buy tickets, I have a whole bunch of links to different resale marketplaces down below, so go ahead, check those out. If you enjoyed this video, definitely let me know by hitting like button down below as well. Also, be sure to subscribe, have an already great new content coming out every single week in. See you guys next time.