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No, he did not Come over to the hot makes channel hot makes live make sure that you're subscribed there We're over a thousand and we want to just keep growing that oh and side note What I didn't have in the notes for the beginning is we're at eight hundred and fifty Twitter followers So we're only 150 away from a thousand. Let's see if we can get a thousand to the To the twit the Twitter's So let's get that's everything. Get that's all the big stuff. Hey someone earlier real quick People are saying hi. What's up? That's a lot of everybody saying hey Gus by the way. Yeah, there's a lot of hey Gus's. Yeah. Yeah Real quick I want to go back up May I ask may I ask is your experience and advice to buy a CNC machine for building guitars as a personal home business and personal use mainly Personally very appreciated. I do love your awesome Charles. Hey, um, you know, if if if you're down with the CNC And you want to jump in go for it. It'll definitely mill out guitars if you're gonna do them in wood I have a 1finity. You'll be seeing that soon on the channel Spoiler alert, I don't know. I haven't filmed yet, but it's coming So I have a 1finity love love love them and It's super useful for stuff like that if you're gonna print them Print them. I mean don't don't buy a CNC if you're gonna print them There's that so yeah, I know a lot of people are chiming in on that. So I appreciate that. Yeah And there's so many gusses in the chat. Everybody love Gus. Everybody loves Gus Murph you too this weekend coming up Murph. Yeah, you decided 20 23.  I think I think it's gonna be awesome. I think it'll be a lot of fun I'm curious to see what it is this year Probably a rep rep festival most likely. I mean I I mean how busy in the middle of nowhere I know there's a it's you know, it's the OG It's the original and It's it's pretty it's always fun. It's so cool because I can drive there. It's only like four hours away I know Sam Prentice is in town. I'm not sure if he's watching But if he's not he should be because he's in town and he can watch it live Anyways, he's in town with with the tripod probably holding them up right now He might be dealing with like jet lag. He might be sleeping on the drive. I would be You know, you know, it's probably happening is like Sam is down on all fours and tripod Has one leg on Sam's back Where's going? I don't like where there's some weird human centipede stuff. I don't like it. So so yeah I'm super pumped. We have like I think we're gonna try to do a super booth It'll be tripod Sam and I we have a whole bunch of stuff planned for battle racing And we have some cool stuff all sorts of cool stuff. So swing by Sam was showing me some stuff behind the scenes I'm excited to see how your guy's display looks. It's gonna be so much fun I don't know if I can show it off yet. So I won't because I don't have I don't have Sam's permission, but Also I'm really curious to see where it goes this year. How busy it is and all that we you know with with remerf just You know a couple short months ago like two short months ago literally tomorrow or the next day will be two months ago and and Or if I'm sorry in the end of September, so only a couple months away They're all like kind of close. Yeah, I know that's I pretty sure that some of like Joel isn't gonna come I don't believe in and and I'm gonna be there Gonna be at Murph. No, you know and some of that some of the main people that you see all the murphs aren't gonna be there But I know Chuck. I know Chuck or Chuck Hullabuck will be there I believe on Saturday only he has to leave I believe on so it looks like we're doing it Looks like they're doing another drag race to not just the battle racers We're gonna I believe we'll have up drag racers drag races battle races All the good stuff will be there but as you can tell right now it's not organized because Murph isn't organized That's the thing like usually news comes out like last minute for that show fix some dude some dude There we go that fix some dude table. Yes do that you there. I can't wait to see that thing do the thing Amish carts, don't forget. Yeah, don't forget how much cards, but but so, you know, it's just not crack doughnuts They're not organized crack doughnuts. I'm gonna get cracked on it. I know you're excited about those crack doughnuts And I'm super pumped to be there. I'm excited to hang out with everybody. I'm bringing a buddy Steve down He's been there the last couple years. I'm sad Caleb that you're not going but I understand I get it I'm sad too. Yeah, just lose your house and tornado and then decide to drive to birth Well, I mean and we made it to We made it to remerph, but it was a kind of kind of a different situation We had sponsors and and we were doing event photography and videography and something that this one because it's a little less organized I didn't really feel comfortable like reaching out and saying like hey You know, I'm like maybe homing in there to anybody really so right and now at this point There were a couple people who were like oh shoot like how do we get you there and I'm like well at this point It's too late for me to ask for time off work Like I should have asked a month ago because I'm gonna need to I'm gonna need those extra days So at this point, there's really nothing I can do. We're too close to the event But next year will be extra epic Sarah and I will both be there I'm not gonna promise anything, but almost promise like 99% promise Sarah and I will both be there next year Yeah, that I maybe will get you to either earth or remerph before that though I Would love to go to earth But I know that we're definitely going back to remerph next year. That was that was an epic event It was a lot of fun.  Drink drinking wrap wrap fat. I don't know nice. I saw a lot of people saying they were drinking Some say what they were drinking. What are you guys drinking? What are you drinking? Yeah, I always say that way I got my bubbly. I can't even focus on myself earlier.  There's that um But speaking of remerph Yeah, you ready to guss it up? We met him at remerph briefly I think you probably talk no longer than I did because I didn't really talk to many people long We actually hang out with him at main event that night that the at the fangs get together That's okay. Yeah, Sarah and I were sitting there that that's how I met him at first was at the end of the table We were sitting there chatting it up the whole time. We might as well just bring him in at this point Yeah, I mean we can go to him behind his back the whole show. I like that. I that works perfectly I could bring him in and mute him so we can see him crock.   Yeah. Yeah, like yeah Friends who guss together, but uh, but nope not good. Nope. Nope. Nope. How you doing? Good, how are you guys? Doing all right. I was like I was like I know you were there and I know I saw you in top pop I thought I talked I'm like he just said on Friday at the Place we ate pizza and all that stuff. I was like there you go. That's what I thought Yeah, I know we just didn't blow by you and in like live hot mix and and not stop I know you guys talked at some point. So yeah, we were hanging we were hanging out most of the time We were we were sitting in there eating and stuff. Yeah So so what's up before we get too far? Let's let's just pause for a second. Who are you? What do you do and where can we find your stuff and then we'll jump right into it? Okay, so oh my I'm large now Yeah I'm large all the time So my name is Gus uh, I go by studly avocado and pretty much anything online AVO CADO as it's spelled on the screen, but that's where you can find stuff That I post I do a lot of cosplay um and design around that but also career-wise I work with animatronics and Making in designing props for film and television. I also Last year interns at E3D as a engineering intern that's awesome and I'm on the in the In the process of returning to E3D as their test engineer. Oh cool. So I'm waiting on Government documents to come back to me, but I'm pretty excited about that as well. Nice government documents. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you tell us you're gonna have to kill us I mean to be fair a government document is also your driver's license. So we've we've all got Secret Yeah Practical printing if studly avocado squished in a halo armor. Is that how guacamole is made? Sorry, did you say guacamole? I was like I Go from studly avocado to handsome guacamole. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Yeah, and then when it goes bad in the fridge then Then it's just you know, okay to look at Okay, we can tolerate it Yeah, so So I'm sure you get this question a lot, but first things first I don't think I've ever asked you where's I'm can I take a guess as to where studly avocado came from please? I'd like to hear I am going to guess that it was Xbox live back like maybe on the 360 and you did like in one of the automatic like I don't know what to make my Username so I'm gonna I'm gonna do the automatic like randomly generated one and you just stuck with it Yeah, kind of close. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's that's actually more close than most people get it it was literally so as For generating Xbox Gamer tags you always have the two the two words that squish together right now or or however that system worked my Original gamer tag was like United payload and I love that because I was like I was like cool It's an airplane thing. I love airplanes But then I want to take that somewhere, but I'm not going to I'm sure you've heard all the jokes You know I was playing Halo 3 one time a guy got on and he was very creative with what he called me and so Um, but after a while I was trying to think of a username for another social media website And I was like I I want to be something a little bit more different than You know the United payload sounds a little too generic and so I Always liked the ones the game the gamer tags that Xbox generated that were like something and then a fruit and so there was like there was like cool mango and like Fiery orange or whatever and stuff like that and I was like slippery banana would be a good combination of those and then and then I was like man, I like avocados thanks and Studly is not a word, but I can make it a word There you go. And so that is how studly avocado came to be and I find it even better because avocados are generally Looked at and they're like, oh they're wrinkly and kind of Right, and I was like what if they were what if they were really attractive though? That would be the pits wouldn't it So I have to address something in the chat real quick before we get before we get too far Chris Chris practical printing says at Aaron Rodgers Andrew Rodgers, I found a bunch of pictures your sister yesterday cleaning out the attic need to get them scanned What's going on there? Of Andrew sister in your attic, but it's practical printing. Okay seems like practical printing is mistaken the chat for writing a letter Dearest So practical printing blink twice if you need help So, you know, so you've you've got this New name you found studly avocado you put it on your new social media. How did you come into doing like? Games and Halo 3 that kind of stuff to like what you do now. Well, so I Really loved machinima back in the day. Yeah I've 10 out of 10 I've always been a huge fan of character design and stuff like that and and on top of that the gameplay of Halo when I was younger It just captured my imagination I absolutely adored it and In in in all of that coming together I saw a lot of people cosplaying characters from machinima and basically it just was you know making Halo armor and in of that back in early 2010 I Started searching around online for instructions on how to do that and And I found the community that is the 405th Yeah, I want to get into that in a second. Yeah. Yeah all the way back then they were making tutorials and guides and stuff, but I've I've always loved making costumes I when I was younger my brother and I made or I made my brother and I like superhero costumes and We ran around and played around with that. And so it just kind of is a natural progression that I fell into making You know larger stuff that I absolutely loved They're really stuff that you can wear. Yeah I really wanted to make it accurate because all of the like store-bought costumes of like clone troopers and stuff from Star Wars and stuff were always so So disappointing the ruby stuff and don post old Don post stuff. Yeah, so the rubber masks Yeah, this looks like an album cover by the way. I really want to put a explicit content sticker down at the bottom I like it too I Like the image that goes with that one because it's it looks like we've knocked over a guy who's carrying his his lunch Yeah, fantastic But yeah, so I got into all of that and I actually made my first suit out of paper My first halo suit like a peppercura high school. Yeah with peppercura Well, what's a peppercura? It's a it's so it's a program online for paper crafting Where basically it takes a 3d model divides it by its polygons or or geometry and then Flattens it out so that you can print out the patterns cut them out and then like glue them all together And then once yeah, it should look like what you've wanted to make You said like your you said like your paper size and it'll like chop it up into Like two like you'll have two or three polygons You'll have two or three triangles with like tabs and they'll all be numbered and the software just automatically does that and when you print out Like 50 of these pages and cut them all out and glue all the tabs together. You'll have a 3d item How do you it was a way to do things before? You got to finish it up usually if I remember quickly usually you Kind of like coat it and soak it in like fiberglass and stuff and then start finishing it like a normal piece Yeah, so you generally like resin or something and then fiberglass the inside for structure And that was very popular like before Like consumer desktop 3d printers were showing up in people's houses. Yeah, it was the way to do it There were there were you know two ways to do it mainly Back then well three I guess one was pepikira and The yeah exactly 3d printing before 3d printing. Yeah, exactly Mitch one was pepikira and If you made a pepikira that was good enough you could actually mold and cast it Yeah, and there were there was a lot of stuff like that that existed There were a couple of people that like Sculpted their own stuff and then they'd mold and cast it And then the other one is was kind of a newer form when I was getting into it But basically taking pepikira files and simplifying them and then cutting out Foam that foam. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, basically. Oh, and they had a feature like that too where you would take the tabs off of it and I think could you set material thickness to so you could take the tabs off of it and it would kind of give you a I think in later versions. There might have been that probably Early version. Yeah What I could get my hands on So it was it was was pepikira Like what cure came from if I'm 3d print. No Associated them together really I never made that connection. I've always thought of that because I was like, oh, it's cure It's like it's like yeah, okay Ultimaker, but here is pepikira spelled with a K though It is so maybe maybe not maybe maybe a lot of people knew what it was though that I was very surprised Yeah, we were more surprised that you didn't know what I had. I had no idea. No idea That's why I say that's why we get the good stuff here You know You know, it's interesting we haven't heard back from practical printing I'm telling you something's wrong. You might be blinking, but nothing nothing He's got blackmail of Andrew's sister. Is that the other is that the other Williams? Yeah, yeah He says that's fun super hero cost remember this good because he was very young Yeah What were they do you remember? He was fish man He had the power cut fish Sure, I didn't expand upon that any further I love this you were Fish man, so you have powers of a tree what you're saying is the that that costume was went swimmingly So all right. It was it was something special. Yes Man out of my death with these jokes guys Anyways, I went to high school with Andrew Roger sister. No big thing Okay, all right. All right. I would say that too She was captive my attic So so you started it with the Pippa Kira that I never knew existed till right now then what happened like where'd you go from there like Your first one was that then then what yeah, so I did all that and then graduated high school and College got in the way of some things and then I built my second suit, which was basically exactly the Pippa Kira thing All right, it was it was Pippa Kira all over again, but this time I had learned a lot more I used a lot more auto body finishing techniques to finish that suit. So it looked a little bit better Which which is you know if you if you ever need to make something look nice just look at how people fix cars Yeah, because that it it helps It make it can make anything look good. Not necessarily structurally sound, but it can make anything look good. Yeah and then And then after a while, I didn't I didn't really do all that much I made I made random props here and there I made some during the Pokemon go craze I made some Replica pokeballs that I drilled out and put lights and buttons in and that was a ton of fun And I got into building My own smaller battle bots and all that but after that I discovered 3d printing You just kind of gloss over that one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, don't worry about it like how big It was an ant wait it was about this big That's one that weighed 16 ounces and never saw the light of day because it would fall apart before it would ever hit another battle But yeah, so I discovered 3d printing well didn't discover I I Learned that 3d printing was a lot more accessible and cheaper Then it had been when I previously had seen it actually at conventions for the or when I was wearing my armor and stuff And I thought oh, that's neat and I never it never even crossed my mind that you could do armor with it And I individually got into 3d printing just to make stuff and to kind of facilitate a Lot of my making that I'd been doing here and there And that was that was when I first got my ender three and then spent I think the next hundred hours of my life Not consecutively but Yeah, yeah over the over like four or five months Obsessed with it learning everything there was to learn about it I mean everyone everyone who has bought a 3d printer can probably relate. Yeah. Oh, yeah, where it's it's either You know it it falls apart a little too quickly and and you get frustrated with it And you feel like there's too many goblins to even continue and then To the point where well, I know how Everything is put together, but I'm not entirely certain how it works and then you get into the firmware and then you give up entirely But I was doing that and I was Building RC aircraft with that And then I went You know, I could probably make another costume with this Yeah, and then with that and that was the end of it Yeah, that kind of thought and now for the last three years. I've been embroiled in the in the 3d printing community Well, I've been in the three opinion community longer than that, but embroiled back into the cosplay community Getting further and further into the 3d printing community and making community along with teaching myself cad and Engineering skills all along the way So awesome So do you use 3d printing like primarily for all of your cosplay stuff now? Like what primarily yes, so I I'm currently working on a new suit actually and I did is the one you showed us before we jumped on No, no, this is one. I had I had some prints That were raw at remerf Okay, which Which you guys probably saw I know I'm not sure if I if I showed them off too much, but Yeah, I remember seeing I feel like the draw to your To the eyes at your booth was the big man the big armor the big orange armor and like the helmets and then the skull helmet Like yeah, oh the skull helmet.  Yeah, I was so cool about that in a second Yeah, so actually like I had a friend help me print the chest piece because I was making it under a Time crunch a bunch of a bunch of makers actually helped me kind of put their printers together and banged rocks until a suit came out and But that suit also I wanted it to be more comfortable than my currents a little more durable And I actually so I've made the the thighs and the boots out of foam so Yeah, okay. It's it's I'd say it's 70% printed That's awesome, and I'd like to incorporate more a lot more different manufacturing methods in my Making in the future Yeah What you're laughing at too, yeah, I Love it. Um, no, I It's interesting that you're mixing. I think that's a cool Yeah, I mean I think a lot of people do but it's awesome because you're like, yeah I think this part needs to be more comfortable Yeah, I mean historically Historically anything like that is not comfortable like not, you know, it's just not comfortable to wear right and I think I Think it's awesome when you can make it more comfortable than it was. Yeah So do you Do you have anything near you? I know we talked a little bit before do you have anything you can show us? Yeah, you had something cool. You were showing us before we jumped on or can we see that so I have a couple of I have a couple of prints. This is this is one that's cat-sized and or are you gonna put it on a cat Are you actually gonna put it on a little animal? Oh But now I need to print one for my cat though This was the mark six helmet that I modeled infusion Oh, nice. You modeled that for a friend. Yeah That's every every single project that I make I try to learn and improve a skill that I have so that my next project can be More comfortable more accessible to other people and I Just yowster yowster chief We're gonna reel the crowd in with this one Holy cat ears. Yeah. Yes Fantastic a little too big But yeah, you can attach those to your recon you say that I have I Have some pink ones. They're currently sitting at the Raptor house effects shop Fantastic that they're gonna get finished and set up and slapped on my helmet I like it. I like it. How are you gonna attach them? Magnets How do they work? Nobody knows who knows? Listen trying to try to figure out magnets for this suit has been has been a wild ride And that's that's one of the things that I've been learning and improving on And so figuring out magnets for my recon has been has been wild. I think I have 110 pound magnets Geez just sitting around for ready to hold those ears on Wow, okay So I'm I'm assuming underneath the suit though. You primarily use a lot of strapping and like buckles and stuff, right? Yeah Yeah, okay. Do you have any pieces that are primarily held on by magnets? Um My current suit now, okay Just the ears. Yeah, just just the ears Currently most of my stuff is held together with like plumber's epoxy and okay, I Actually have all of the strapping that holds the individual pieces together are Our Rivets so I just use pop rivets to Okay, which is which is one of the advantages of 3d printing your armor is that you can kind of design it to Have those rivets put into or be be placed inside of the rather and they hold on to the walls Which is it, you know, it works out really well because that was one of the biggest Challenges that Yeah, most most customers are absolutely held together with hope and zip ties My still feels like it's held together with hope Hope and zip ties is my new band name. Yeah It has so much fiberglass and and hot glue and 6,000 and plumbers epoxy and barge and just every every kind of adhesive you could think of All the schmoo. Yeah crazy So, uh, I don't know if you can show you had a you had a bigger one next to you. Yeah. Yeah, okay Can you talk about that? This is my friends this one or yeah? But this one this okay, so this one's my friends the operator from Haley reach. Whoa, I Can't tell I can't is that like is that the raw print? Yeah, it's up and finished a little bit already This is okay. That has been sanded Our friend filming is actually actually modeled this printed and sanded it and he he actually sells files on Etsy and And he does he does everything himself. He's a mate. He's an amazing maker What's his name to call him my friend scoogum props like that was the drug from Skyrim? Yeah, I think um, I think when we were hanging out at remerph you were telling me about I just realized I never actually popped Yeah, there we go Cuz on my screen I can see mine and Jim's camera, but oh yeah, but anyway No, we were talking to remerph about that and I think you sent me to his Instagram as well Everybody's trying to pay you to toss that thing like yeah, I'm not no. Well, I have printers. I could probably why would people do that? This guy is pure chaos Chris. Yeah, he's a drop it. It's funny I'll give you as to who originally printed it and and modeled it I'm guessing it's this guy right here. Yeah. Oh, no the guy that says no Yeah, no That's this person's helmet Designer the designer and the end like a client basically are both fighting over whether or not to destroy They're both trying to try to Wrote me into it somehow. Yeah, so so which one's gonna pay you better. That's what we need to So so what do you use to print what what filament? Well, so I don't particularly stick with a single brand of filament In terms of just material I print in PLA PLA plus is is a good alternative I like the e-sun PLA plus just because it can be fairly consistent the color consistency can be off But when you're sanding it and painting it, it doesn't really matter all that much, right? But I prefer if I can to use as much pet G as possible just because hot Colorado summers Leaving prints and stuff in the car, especially when they're large prints like that. They can say it sag and melt a little bit and So I generally prefer PTG That and along with on top of that the Kind of more elastic properties that pet G can provide make it a little easier to not shatter immediately Yeah, it's still a little shatter But it stands almost like ABS to you like PLA just gets gummy when you sand it. Yeah. Yeah, and I have a I have a friend actually who? He's the one who made the face hugger. We mentioned earlier. He prints in all ABS Still to this day. He started printing back in like 2014-2015 And he uses ABS and with all of the things he makes he actually melts down the supports For the ABS and uses it as a adhesive slurry. Oh That's really smart. Oh, that's a good idea. That's really smart. Yeah, it's really awesome I started a yeah, I put a pole up should Gus should Gus break the helmet If any helmet breaks it's gonna be this one because it's current crime against mankind Okay, talk about that one that one's cool because you were you were telling us before the show that there was an issue with it That you fix pretty cool in a pretty cool way. So this one was also modeled and and designed by scoot-com props, but I was printing it for my friend and I Was I was running low on filament guys And I was printing it on my ender 5 plus and So the filament sensor was doing pretty good job and then it jammed up by this layer of green that looks all Gummy yeah, and so I used a 3d printing pen to kind of bridge the gap around the rest of the Kind of where it's where it's all yeah a part and then I used a soldering iron with a a flat tip to smooth that all out and then you know sanded it a Lot to try to get that down. It still needs a ton of work. It still needs a lot of Bondo and filler It looks good though, but it's it's it's a fun. You know, it's a rain. Yeah, it's a good time Yeah, so when it jammed did it stop printing entirely and then you printed the top section separately and then attach No, or did it just have some empty spots it? jammed and Basically what had happened was Well, I can tell you more accurately if I look closer at it. Yeah, so It jammed in a way that you can actually tell there's no green on this corner Because it actually was still printing down there Okay, and it it printed fine there, but then it was having troubles bridging over here and so what I did was I just paused it changed the filament and Started printing and it was with the supports on it. It was looking okay Yeah, a little and then I took it off the printer and it you know hinged open kill bill Yeah, and I was like, oh no I took the it took the 3d printing pen and will it it all together which actually is How awesome how I kind of figured out how I want to adhere all of my 3d prints together forever, which is just taking a spare piece of filament and melting it into the print Because at that point you're less rely you're not generating as much of a weak point On the print that can like just pop off with an adhesive or something That's actually like it has if not better adhesion than like print lines because you're you're You know melting the plastics together Hmm. I like it. It works pretty well. I never thought of that Melted all surprises the first time. Yeah Just melt it. Just melt it together Use a 3d the 3d print pen thing specifically though because I've seen people kind of use The soldering irons with the flat tip to kind of like get rid of some seam lines You know and some some pieces if there's two pieces that they glued together or whatever, but use the print pen first is cool. Yeah Yeah, that's a good idea epoxy coat and good to go Chris says Yeah, he's feral. Yeah Yeah, apparently once some which he finishes props and the the the the amount of ways he You'd think we're jank that he just makes Make things work penini press. It is hungry. I never tried that.  Are you working on your seat? I'm getting ready to take my seat in Congress.  Oh my god Net of them like all together. Yeah. Oh, I should have thought of that joke. Damn Anyways, sorry There we go Yeah Yeah, so so next projects Currently is is a new suit. It's a mark seven from the new halo nice based off of It's based off of a J-pop idol and That's been that's been a ton of fun Oh great learning experience because I've been making it in a or I had been making it in a huge time crunch And once that crunch had passed I've been able to kind of slow down and work a little bit more on it More intentionally, but it didn't it did teach me how fast I can I can commit, you know crafting crimes Crafting crimes Hedgehog makes he changes name Yeah, I guess so I Didn't even know what's going on there terrible. I am terrible at social media apparently I'm on a road does Brian Bynes show Oh three three puns. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah If anybody has any questions throw them in the chat cuz yeah So what is you mentioned earlier a group of people you guys? You got with what is it the 404 instead or 405 the 45 tell us about that Well, so aren't you the CEO of a of a local group? I mean, I keep want to call it gears and because of the 501st, but yeah, it's we're Regiments regiments. Got it. It's we all have our own names for it. But yeah, it's all the same got it yeah, so 405th is just the group that I Work with the most. I'm the RCO of mountain regiment. So I kind of oversee events and And members of like the Colorado to Nevada to Montana kind of square of States it all ends at California and Washington and then New Mexico or New Mexico and Arizona aren't part of us, but Yeah, so I've been RCO for since 2020 That's RCO. Yeah, the regional commanding officer got it. Okay, which are regimental command I don't know regional sounds better to me I'm a discord mod with a fancy President Online yeah Fancy little title which makes me sound a little more impressive to employers. I think But I I've I've really loved Working with with people like miles and other people in I said, Nevada Colorado Utah's in there A blanket statement How dare you you RCO I Didn't forget any of my children. I just blanket stated But yeah, so We do we do events and stuff we got to go to the Halo TV show red carpet event in LA Yeah, that's awesome, which was a ton of fun and we often Send members and have Have a presence at a lot of cons a lot of the halo championship series Events and stuff that have happened. So like MLG gaming and stuff but really the community has been really welcoming and It it's a place that I would make to it's a place that I want to keep welcoming um and and Keep open so that all of the resources and knowledge that people share Online just out of the goodness of their hearts. Yeah, you know kind of kind of stays alive. I think If there are people out there who are feeling like a lot of their interests and things are kind of silly or Or They don't really know what what they want to do or who they can relate with but they like to they like to make But they're a little more artistic than like all the engineers that at all of the Murphs and stuff Earths and Murphs and all that sure It's it's a great outlet and a great community to find your people play Halo with some people We're all terrible at it because we all were none of us are good at Halo because we're all too busy building Halo things And and so I really I the costuming community has been a source of never-ending joy to me and I want to I want to be able to give that to more people and And That's that's why I'll always encourage people to explore even if they're just remotely interested Into a lot going into groups like that Like there's there's a lot of groups that really encourage a lot of that Individual making and stuff like the Mando Merck's and stuff within the final first You know shout out to those guys they're great and being able to being able to express yourself and also make something that That you can put any kind of joy and pain and love into Has been has been excellent and through that I've you know, I've been able to make Amazing friends through the 405 Yeah, nice, Krita. There's a community around a common interest and then a common love for a craft Around that interest and it's very it's very like niche, but also Becomes a large group at the same time Yeah, it's cool. It's really wonderful because not even just through the 405th, but knowing Halo cosplayers I Never feel like I Alone No matter where I travel to like I could go to any part of the United States and hit someone up and go hang out with them And that's I mean, I told Sarah about that with I've told Sarah about that before with the 501st There's a garrison literally everywhere in the world no matter where we go. We just find their forums We make a post saying hey, we're members of this garrison We're gonna be traveling in town and next thing you know You'll have a group of like 10 people in the local garrison that want to go grab a drink with you when you land It's it's super cool. It's so much fun. I Have a few I love what communities like that and it's awesome to be You know a part of one like whether it's the 3d printing community as a whole or You know like like you said the 405th the Star Wars they have one I mean like I love that there's all communities all over and I think many of us watching to feel the same way like I Could say hey, I'm gonna shoot over to I don't know New York next week. Who's over there? Yeah, you know and chances are five people will say I'm here, but I don't want to meet you so there's that but I Wow The only five that was me Gus and two other people. Yeah, three of them. Yeah, but no, it's funny I love that about the maker community in general and it's really cool that you get to be kind of the like Head guy of that. There's so many fun.  How do I become friends? With everyone's how do I be? Yeah with Gus rock lobster going to get very drunk is what I'm reading Everybody wants to buy your drink. I don't know We have few questions and then I want to get into hotminks. So the first one We got was JDS photography and videography, which seems to be somebody, you know Because they're commenting a lot Which is cool Asking how did you do your visor? So on my recon helmet that visor is actually just a piece of One-way window tint well because that specific visor is flat. It doesn't have to be molded, right? Yeah, it doesn't have any extra details and stuff so it's It's just a piece of it's just a piece of that tint that's flat I actually But I do I do need to actually upgrade that because no no visor is just totally flat unless it's specifically designed that way and yeah, none of the halo visors are that The way to do it is to get a vacuum forming buck, which is really easy to do now because of 3d printing Yeah, which is is wonderful but vacuum forming buck and a and a Sheet of PTG Just raw clear PTG From, you know, your local plastic store And then you just like you like boil tinted or do you put like like window tinting on it or no So it's it's vacuum formed clear the shape is clear then using a polyester die You generally use okay clothing you can boil that up and Or not boil it, but get it get it heated up on your stove on a pot that you don't care about And then and then you basically dunk it and dye it To get whatever color you want. I've done blue. I've done orange and I've done gold visors but there's a whole whole lot more that you can do and then To get the one-way mirror effect you actually spray a chroming paint on the back With like an airbrush or a spray can very lightly. You can still see You can still see through that I can't talk It's a little bit blurry, but you can still generally see through it if you do it right I I've never really done it quite right That's still something that I'm learning But it's it's it's a really interesting process and really a lot of fun to research. I think Bill Doran Yeah He has a YouTube video on yeah punish props has a YouTube video on making one for I Think he had us had an X-wing pilot visor helmet. Oh, yeah, the orange for the orange Yeah, he's done he's done that for orange. I think there's there's a whole bunch of YouTube Tutorials and stuff I Didn't I didn't make no Oh my god Okay, we have two other questions one is Gus dating advice as in how to date Gus cuz he's great Apparently what I learned before the show is all you have to do is flatter. Yeah, all you have to do doesn't take much Yeah, take much. All you have to do is incorporate green and orange into something Yeah, I told I told him I made my background lights green and orange today specifically for him and he was like, yep, you win That's it. Yeah And then Justin asks, where is Utah somewhere between I love it. All right, you guys want to get into some hot makes Gus Do you want to hang out with us and check out what some people have submitted this week? Yeah? I'd love to do it. Okay. Let's do it. Let's jump into some hot makes The comments are your gold today. All right Yeah, there's an awkward pause there because the I'm doing a different setup today and like everybody on the screen is on a TV That's probably about seven or eight feet in front of me and I need to get glasses So I couldn't find the bumper in the background to click No, I'm I'm I'm watching the comments. They're hilarious.  Oh No, he doesn't he doesn't actually Last time I saw and thanks to everybody for coming to hot makes we appreciate you We we really have a good cast today We're back at it.  Let's see Steven pool says Optimus primal painted at 230% With polymaker black draft PLA Oh That's like Optimus primal 30% more than a hundred percent That looks really neat is what I would say if my camera wasn't in the way of that part of the screen. Yeah It looks awesome. It looks really good. Yeah Steven looks good work. That looks excellent. I love that like hide it behind the yeah, yeah Nice work, all right, what we got next here we went to we went to go see that movie on Release nights in iMacs and myself two friends and Sarah the entire night. We're just robot monkey Just the whole night every time you showed up on screen robot monkey I bet the crowd love you The crowd yeah, it was a 10 p.m. iMac show of a Transformers movie So it was us and like two other people in the back of the theater. That's it. Yeah, that was it Geez It's one of the more expensive tickets and everybody's tired Transformers. I'm Never mind. I can go off about Transformers. Go on. What's next Frank? Uh, so I painted the statue head of Hashtag IF alright, what is this? Okay, there we go. Um, thank you. I appreciate that because I suck at life for final bunch of Final Fantasy numbers here and No, I'm just Just go check it out Final Fantasy 87 like yeah, I know That looks sweet Yeah, I am that's massive to the thingery Look how big that printed oh my goodness look at the body painted the statue head I don't know that it says it doesn't say necessarily that's 3d printed and speaking of builder in Bill had to comment on it said looking good or good killer paint job. I mean look how big this thing is though. Oh That's awesome. I don't know. I wish I knew what that I bet you there's gonna be a video on it somewhere. Yeah, I Need to follow that's too cool. What's the thingery we make things? All right. I'm in This thing is ridiculous by the way that very very low bar we have met Sam that's world famous. All right award-winning world famous award. Yeah. All right next Tom Lama says How makes so this is building a better star word? Hey, turn them. Okay. I just make sure volumes down. Yeah. No, I know how you work. I turned it off. Oh Yeah, we were talking to Who are we talking to recently that we were talking about potentially? but he's just James is really really busy Yeah, but we were talking to somebody recently about possibly getting him on the show somehow. I don't know it was Angus I think it was Angus Yeah, cuz we were also talking about I did a thing And they're all going to open sauce now, too. Oh Man, I wish I could open sauce can be awesome. I know I wish I go to a few of them are going from there Like Angus is gonna be up at the Linus Linus yeah, thanks. You get Linus on at some point, too. I'm sure Barnacles could hook us up There you go. I just want to why don't we just go to open sauce and get everybody? Yeah, just everybody Just just start flashing colors at them Nothing gets your attention like a good seizure. Yeah. Yeah AT-AT was amazing though. I really love the I'm sorry. Yeah, we didn't even comment on the thing. Yes That is too cool. You totally ignored his. I'm sorry at So they were so there was a Lego set that Was an AT-AT that walked. Yeah, I'm wondering I still have it. Do you really? That's awesome That's what that's reminding me of that's it.  Hope you like it took me some time and Yeah, easy. Oh my love a snoop dog little fiber laser action going I'm doing this I've been messing around with I don't have a fiber laser, but I'm messing around with the co2 laser a lot lately Yeah, I love this stuff. I love seeing what people do and coming up. Oh, that's smaller than I thought it was That's what she said. All right. Well Okay, no, I love the idea of doing the the pictures and stuff on stainless steel and I'm pumped Because I mean who doesn't need Snoop Dogg on stainless steel Yes, oh Yeah, I like it. I love that. I love that idea All right, what we got next here. Let's we got last but not least big Jano Big Jano. Yeah, well the lily bust by Chelsea is Mind-blowing. Oh Chelsea Kearney. Yeah That is so cool. What is it printed in? Atomic. Oh, okay. Printed solid black glitter and atomic candy apple. Oh, yeah Any black me some atomic element is the best It not only hides crimes those crafting crimes. They strike again, but it's just Yeah, the black I mean Yeah, what is that? What is that printed on do you guys recognize that looks like a Looks like this is so less via six. It looks like Dealer as via six or as feels six plus I can't tell I mean, it's a Definitely so well. It looks like anyway mark three clone with Injection injected parts. So the model is awesome. The filament is awesome. The print is clean Yeah, do you think that you think that some of that has to do with the glitter filament though? I Mean, maybe if it well, let's let's be real. Let's print it solid filament. That's that's top-tier stuff That's fair. So black glitter. Yeah. Yeah top-tier stuff plus black glitter. Then you've you've got 11 out of 10 print that's dialing man, and it's called soul black. So it kind of fits with the theme The Diablo theme. Yeah My room Nice work. Good. Geno. I can't wait. I'm pretty sure I said he's gonna be at Murph this weekend. I hope so. I really hope maybe we'll find out. Maybe I'm wrong about that Maybe I'm wrong about that. I know fix some dudes gonna be there, right five bucks earlier from fix some dude Thank you so much fix some dude The real Sam print just not the fake one. He's in the USA.  Why are you doing this again? Sam's back and walking like an 8080. I don't want to picture this in my head This is somebody. There's a rule 34 somewhere this Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like it. I love it Sam Prentice is the new pooch table is what I'm Love it. Well, we're gonna see anybody out there who's going to Murph. We'll see you this weekend And if you're there take Take all of the pictures and tag hashtag hot makes because Next week on Monday, I think we're gonna do a hot makes episode where I can check out the cool stuff Looks like zombie changes $49. Thank you so much. There we go 49 Road trip vibes. Yeah Are you coming? I hear you were coming to I think is on me there. I thought I heard that zombie was gonna be there That'd be awesome with Justin will be there. I'll make her maybe. Yeah. I know Justin will be there See his photos Yeah, it's it's gonna be so much fun But tag take all of the pictures take pictures of everything you can find. Yeah On the twitters Use the hot makes tag and yeah, so next because next week we're gonna be we're gonna do a recap show We're just gonna look at everything people were up to and Jim's gonna be there So Jim's gonna give the inside inside scoop. Don't tag. What are you trying to do? You're trying to make me feel sad Yeah, tag Caleb everybody tag Caleb at the event Going to If you tag Gary Caleb will see it. Um, why would I see that? Cause he's part of our team. Yeah, of course geez But it'll be so much fun. We'll see you that's next Monday. What do we get coming up after that? We had July I'm sorry. Where am I at here July 3rd? We have uh fr 3d or fred However, you want to say it the 3d still on the fence about that one Or on the fence. We're not sure retro maker and In the seven actually, um, I actually had somebody lined up for the 17th. I just forgot to put them on our list So we'll definitely announce that next next week I like this idea Perfect pocket Caleb's it'll be uh, we just need to print print pocket.  He doesn't really like them to be fair. So it's not that I don't like them It's that they aren't all that they're cracked up to be for me like They're also messy. I I don't like messy food. That's the other problem.   So it is. Yeah. Oh, yeah I ate a doughnut for breakfast this morning and I immediately was like rubbing my face with water Before I left for work So we we should take a poll. Um, well, we don't have time now Hot pocket Caleb's there we go. There you go. Um, yeah, if you print it in PLA, it'll just be a melted puddle in sam's pocket by the end of it Um, I was gonna say we should take it. We should take a look. Is it gonna be crazy hot this weekend? Or um, like very watery in there.  You just never know what you're gonna get it find out. So, uh, you know, when you get there You're gonna find out but uh, whoever's going, uh, we will see you there come say hi find us and all that happy stuff Um, don't forget tag hashtag, uh, what hot makes hopefully it's on the bottom there So it's not on the bottom right now, but oh hashtag hot. Wow. I just realized I never turned that on the bottom and uh Never turned that on the whole So lonely down here. Maybe maybe we could uh, maybe we could tag Caleb and everything on twitter too. Anyways, um It's before we get going. We are running late before we get going Let everybody know where we can find one more time and and like I do sell anything like on etsy or anything Or just do everything yourself too. That's not at the moment. I I mostly am a I'm independent creator, uh, and I do like commission basis So if you want if you want to buy anything from me, uh, contact me and I'll be like I might be maybe Maybe and then and then we'll we'll And then you'll smash it Yeah, yeah, um, but hey, we had uh, it was like 50. It was like 50 something percent So not the vast majority, but the majority did say to smash it Oh my god Well, say I'm not gonna smash it then if it wasn't the majority Uh, it was though Just at 50 something percent. I didn't hear you. I actually I'm okay tunnel We call it Call it uh, yeah the smashed avocado. Yeah, yeah, but you can find me at studly avocado On instagram. Um, that's probably the most reliable place to find me And there you go and twitter studly avocado and the link in the description below. Check that out. Yes Links to both of those are in the description below Don't forget. Uh, find the good stuff tag us hashtag hot makes and We will see you next week with a little murph recap if you're going to murph this weekend I'm seeing how many times I can say murph so everyone who's murph murph If you're going to murph we'll see you in a few days What four or five days here? Yeah, it's fast I think that's it. So everybody else have a great week. Uh, whoever's going we'll see you this weekend and everybody else We'll see you next week Cool later. Thanks for joining us guys. Hang on the background. We'll be there. Thank you. All right. Bye guys


Thank you so much, Paul, for so kind words. Graduates, distinct guests, ladies, and gentlemen. I'm really honored to be here with you today at your graduation from one of the most finest universities in the world, focusing on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In my capacity as president of SOAS University of London, it is my pleasure to welcome you and our graduates, families, friends, and supporters to this occasion of celebration. As some of you may know, I have been a social and political activist over many decades, and I have advocate for women's rights and children's rights. Joining the SOAS family has enriched me personally and enlightened my work and that of networks I'm associated with. It has been proved that education shows the seeds of transformation, deepens our understanding of one another and the world. It also helped us to build the bridges across cultures and nations. 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For almost 100 years, SOAS has made a tremendous impact on the lives of those who have walked through its doors. And many have achieved positions of power and influence in their respective countries and regions. It is a huge concern that the regions of SOAS focus, namely Asia, Africa, and Middle East, have been confronted with growing conflicts fueled by political, religious, ethnic intolerance, inequality, and competition over resources. Perhaps this is the biggest challenge of your generation, dear graduates. It is my hope that you, young people, will raise to this challenge with creativity, resolve, and generosity. Do use your knowledge to break the cycle of violence and create a movement where, as humans, we value, respect, and accept difference and diversity as our common strength. This way, we nurture and live in peaceful and cohesive societies where social justice prevails. 2015 is a milestone year for the world. 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One, take action and be passionate about what you do. Two, inform yourself at all times. Expand your knowledge constantly to sharpen the tools you need to serve society. Three, create your own definition of success. Money and power are often seen as measures of success. Yet for me, success is to have peace of mind attained through the knowledge that I have made my best effort to do the best of which I am capable of and to do everything within my power to reach out and work with others to provide a life of dignity for all. Four, be prepared to make sacrifices for what you believe in. The end result will exceed your dreams. Five, be prepared to have setbacks and sometimes make mistakes. Since we all inevitably do so, what is important is what we learn from them. After setback, pick yourself up, keep your determination to pursue your purpose. You are much, much stronger than you think. Six, take care of your family and friends. 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