How A 3D Printers First Ender3 Helped Their Community - MTM #22 Sandhills3D

In this episode of Meet the Makers, the host interviews a unique and inspiring maker, Lomax, known for his 3D printing projects, potato launcher, and fame at Tractor Supply. Lomax shares his journey from a curious child dismantling clock radios and playing with Legos to becoming a passionate maker. He discusses various projects, including a remote control lawnmower and thrift store finds that fund his creativity. Lomax highlights the importance of repurposing and fixing items rather than disposing of them, showcasing a future where DIY skills become increasingly valuable. His story takes a touching turn with his son's love for a Tractor Supply sign, leading to community support and a gesture from the company that went viral. The interview delves into the possibilities of AI, the importance of hands-on skills in today's disposable society, and hopes for future projects including Lost PLA casting and metal art.
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Chapters 
00:00 Welcome to Meet the Makers: Introducing Lomax
00:33 The Maker's Journey: From Legos to 3D Printing
02:58 Thrifting and Transforming: A Maker's Paradise
04:17 The Dream of a Maker's Repair Shop and Art Gallery
13:26 Exploring the World of 3D Printing and Future Projects
13:31 AI and Creativity: Writing Stories and Designing Models
17:13 Reflecting on the Evolution of Content Creation
23:24 The Future of 3D Printing and AI in Creativity
29:41 Exploring Dream Recording Technology
30:31 The Future of Surveillance: From Mind Reading to Aerial Photography
31:37 The Ethical Dilemma of Advanced Surveillance
31:57 Navigating Privacy in the Digital Age
33:25 The Evolution of Internet Connectivity
35:05 A Deep Dive into 3D Printing: From Jewelry to Community Service
38:14 The Impact of 3D Printing During COVID-19
49:32 Exploring the Possibilities of Metal Art and Casting
53:42 A Heartwarming Tale of Community Support and Tractor Supply

Transcript

riverside_copy_of mike & kate _ jan 17, 2024 001_misfit_printing's s (1) 
[00:00:00] Welcome back to Meet the Makers. I have a super excited guest. I've been following him for a long time on TikTok and I think you're gonna love today's episode. 
He 3D prints. He has a potato launcher. And he's famous at Tractor Supply of all places. I'm super excited to welcome Lumex. Thank you so much for coming here today. How are you doing? Welcome to Meet the Makers. I'm doing good. I'm so glad to be here.
I've really been enjoying your show and all your guests and I'm glad to be one of them now. Awesome, I'm excited to have you on as one of them. This is like the question I jump everybody off with. I usually ask, how did you get into 3D printing? But for people who don't know you, when I think of you, you have this wild workshop.
You have all these crazy projects. Maybe you can answer in 3D printing specifically, but I guess how did you get into just being a maker in general? Because you've got some cool projects. Okay, so I was the kid growing up that took all the clock radios apart to see how they worked. I would take my toys apart to see how they worked.
Sometimes I could get them back together [00:01:00] and get them working again, sometimes not. But, it was just the fun of it for me was taking them apart and checking things out. I played with Legos a lot. And I never wanted to build what was in the picture. I always wanted to build my own things. That's probably the start of me being a maker is Legos, really.
That's it's funny that you say that, actually, because growing up, I, like, all my friends had Barbies and things like that, and I always wanted Legos and Lincoln Logs were my two go to things, and I was the same as you. I didn't want to build what was in the picture, but I just wanted to build whatever came to my mind.
That's cool to hear. Yeah, the Lincoln logs were big too. my grandmother is a big reason I'm a maker. When I remember when I was probably five or six years old, her teaching us to do ten punching. Which I don't know if you know what 

ten punching is, but you basically take a piece of metal. 
And you put a design on it. It's like a dot pattern. And you use a nail or an awl to poke a hole in it. You'll see sometimes in country chic kitchens, they've got [00:02:00] like panels that they've tin punched in their cabinets or something. So yeah, my grandma was one of the people that really got me into making things and got my creative juices flowing.
That's oh, that's so cool. I love hearing like when different family members inspire people to get into things and I've never, I haven't heard of tin punching before, but I think I'm familiar with what you're talking about. It's do some people, they have it as like maybe what's the word I'm looking for?
Back splashes or things like that? Yeah, maybe. Yeah, you'd see it on Okay, so we're in the South down here. We're in North Carolina. Okay. You got a lot of people down here that, just take what they've got. And they try to make it pretty. And that's just one of the techniques that they use around here.
Punch holes in metal. And you can make a nice little pattern. If you backlight it, you actually get a nice little star effect. Like a constellation effect from. I love that idea. I'm a huge person. I always love thrifting. I always love just taking things and 
transforming them into new things. So that's I love that spirit. You for a while, one [00:03:00] of the first things that really caught my attention in your content was speaking of thrifting and things like that. You would go to Habitat for Humanity and take you would 3D print mugs of your face and bring them and just like anonymously leave them there.
Hilarious. I thought that was the funniest thing ever. How did you what made you think to do that? I don't know. When I go to Habitat about three days a week, because I'm a hoarder, so for anybody that don't know, I can't be in my shop tonight because I have a horrible internet.
But here's a picture of what my shop usually looks like. And you can see I got 3D printers here and the rest of it is just a hoard of stuff so I go to Habitat two or three days a week I see what they got if they got something cool that I want to collect I buy it If they got something cool that I can sell and make some money.

I definitely buy it last week I got a tape deck for 125 bucks and sold it for 300 that's how I fund a lot of the projects that I do. You were mentioning my remote control lawnmower earlier that I've been working on. So that was [00:04:00] a wheelchair a powered wheelchair that I bought for 25 at the thrift store. 
And now we've got a remote control base that we're gonna put a lawnmower frame on. It's, thrifting is to be able to find stuff and then use it to make other stuff is really what I like to do. One day I hope to open a repair shop repair shop slash art gallery. And have stuff that I make, have stuff that I fix, and offer repairs to people.
Don't know how I'm going to fund that yet, but I'm working on it. I feel like the world works in mysterious ways, and we were talking a little bit before we hopped on here about that, your idea that you had for that, and that's I can just totally picture that being what you do.
I would love the idea of that. Like I said, I was always a big fan of thrifting and like you said, I don't know if this is like the same for you, but for me it's like almost a treasure hunt when I go into a thrift shop of just what's going to be in there and what can I find and there's a certain joy for me of thrifting that like, Going to a normal store just could not [00:05:00] bring me, I always say it wouldn't matter how much money I ever made I would never stop thrifting.
I absolutely love it. Exactly. Now coming back to, so you have your RC lawnmower, and again, that's another thing that when I see your content, I was like, It's not something you see every day or that I think most people would have the ability to execute on. How, when you walked into Habitat and you see this wheelchair sitting there did you instantly go into it knowing that was your plan, or did you just see it and think this has potential?
So I've got a buddy that he is in a wheelchair and he asked me a few months ago a few months before I found this thing at the thrift store if I could build him an off road wheelchair, maybe, or maybe a off road remote control vehicle that he could go hunt rocks with. He's interested in rocks and stuff.
So I was like, yeah, sure. I found this wheelchair for 25 and I sent him a text immediately. I said, dude, I can get this wheelchair for 25. Do you want to start a project? He's [00:06:00] not right now. And I'm like okay, I'm going to go ahead and buy this thing because I'm going to do something with it.

Well, a few months before I'd been talking to my wife. About making my regular ride along more electric, because it seems like no more than I mow my yard, the engine's always messed up, or something's always messed up with the internal combustion engine. And I'm like, I've gotta figure out how to put batteries on this thing and just make it electric. 
And my wife goes if you're gonna make it electric, why don't you just make it remote control so you can sit on the couch in the air conditioned? And I'm like, you're a damn genius, and I'm like that'll work. You can get them FPV goggles. I could just put it on my TV.
But the ultimate goal is to make this thing FPV. So I can drive it around with the little goggles on. mow my yard from the air conditioning. It's a, all of it's a work in progress. I have a couple electric lawnmowers that I'm going to be taking the electrics out of to use for the lawnmower part of this project.
Hey, I'm I'm an ADHD person and I'm probably the king of unfinished projects on TikTok. I would go as far to say I [00:07:00] probably got more unfinished projects than anybody else in our community. That's all I got to say because I've got them.
I've got projects I've been working on for 15 years. And the main reason I work on projects so long is because a lot of times I use recycled and found objects to make my stuff that I want to make. I'm looking for certain stuff and I've got to wait until I find it. I could go out and buy it at full price, but I choose not to.
Because money money is another big problem that snags up a lot of my projects. I'm probably not a great budgeter with money, I probably shouldn't stop buying some 3d printers and finish the projects. But, I'm gonna enjoy life because we only got a little time here.
And, you gotta enjoy it. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. I'm, the older I'm getting, the more I'm saying all that work's just not so important. you say, it makes me think of that TikTok sound where they're like man, I'm getting old and I'm going to get real weird [00:08:00] with it.
That's that's what it makes me think of. Yeah. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that one, but yeah. For people who can't see your faux background that you have right now either, or aren't familiar with your content. You I completely believe you when you say that you are the king of unfinished projects, because, like I said, you just have the most, what I consider the most incredible 

workspace and what seems to be just endless amounts of projects in the background. 
Yeah. Okay. I'm really lucky. So I've got, my building is a 24 by 36. So it's a really good size building. Besides my car project taking up the most. room in there of any one thing. The rest of it are all stuff that I will either use to make art tools used to make art or other stuff.
It's, I've got an overhead projector, I've got welders, plasma cutters, one plasma cutter. I've got a MIG welder, a TIG welder, plasma cutter. I've got air compressors. I've got a full working shop. I've [00:09:00] got tools to bend metal. I've got tools to drill metal.
I've got a little bit of everything. I've always been taught that, if you're not a rich person, you probably should invest money. And the best thing I can invest money in is myself. As long as I've got all these tools out in the shop, I'm not going to go hungry because I know how to use them.
And no matter what, I know that if tomorrow, things go bad, with my job or whatever, and I have to do something else, I've got the skills and the tools that I can start making money immediately, which is, it's nice to have that security when you got a family. Yeah, especially, I think nowadays more than ever it's something I think about all the time I don't feel like a lot of people now know how to Fixed stuff, or how to work on machines, and it seems to be a skill that less and less people have.
As time goes on, I almost wonder if these certain trades and these certain arts that people, a smaller and smaller group of people know how to do, if they almost die out, and I [00:10:00] don't even know what happens at that point, because I don't see as many people going into these things anymore, and learning these different crafts.
You're 100 percent right. We used to have a shoe store here in town. Actually, we used to have two shoe stores that repaired shoes. We have none now. There's not a shoe store to repair shoes within probably 75 miles of where I live. And not long ago, I ran into a guy closing his shoe store down, and he was willing to give me all his tools.
Wow. If I would come get them, for free. And we're talking 20, 000 worth of stuff. But it was going to cost me 2, 000 or 3, 000 to move it all, because I was going to have to rent trailers. I was going to have to hire people to help me. I 

was going to have to rent a storage building to put it all in until I figured out what to do with it. 
And then that's a slippery slope because next thing you know, you've had the stuff in storage for a year and you've done nothing with it and you've paid, 10, 000 of storage on it. So yeah, I didn't, get the shoe repair tools, the [00:11:00] things like that, so much of the stuff we buy these days has become disposable.
People do not repair things anymore. If you've got a TV that's broken, you might find a YouTube video for it. You might be able to find the parts for it. But you're probably not going to find a repair shop in town that's going to repair a TV because they're like, Man, they're 400 bucks, go buy you a new one.
And so I guess we've lost a lot of being able to repair anything because of that, because we're not training people to repair this stuff. We're just replacing it. So a lot of people, unless they've grew up and, had a tinkering, bone like me, or they've had somebody to show them, they don't know that repairing stuff is even possible.
Because it's just not on the brain. Yeah, it's funny you say that, and it's funny that you had given the example of the shoe shops in your town, because I had been listening to a different podcast the other day, and they were talking about they had bought these shoes years ago, and they just, they loved them, they were like, these really special riding boots, and they just had [00:12:00] this sentimental attachment to them, they were talking about how every couple years they would go in and get these shoes resold, And I'm listening now, I was like, I didn't even know you could do that.
I didn't know you could extend the life of a shoe like that. But that's like such the world that we live in now where like you said, when a new pair of shoes cost 30, like why would somebody go and get them resold? But when you see. Start to lose the ability to even know how to do stuff like that.
it's crazy to think where that will lead us all in many years. Yeah, it's definitely interesting. Yeah, maybe we can ask AI to fix it. We'll ask ChatGPT if it knows and maybe ChatGPT won't even know. I've been playing with ChatGPT and it is crazy how this stuff is working.
It's, this AI stuff is really, it's a really interesting time we're living in. And I'm looking forward to seeing what we can be able to do with this technology. I'm a little bit scared. Terminator and all, but yeah it's a really exciting time to be 

alive. This is probably the first I was like when the [00:13:00] internet was like, progressing, I was still pretty young, so I guess I didn't really get to experience that wave, the way that I'm getting to experience the wave of what's happening with AI now. 
So this is the first time in my life I've ever been like, in the midst of technology evolving in a way that's really rapidly changing the world and it's, to me, I find it so exciting. I love diving deep into this stuff and, like you said it's like a little bit scary what stuff can do so quickly, but I'm super interested by it.
In one of your videos I recently saw you were talking, I think you call, I think you refer to him as Flying Jem. You have a little guide. I think you said that you were using AI to write stories about Flying Jem. Yeah, so I designed this little WASP thing. I wanted to try my hand out at 3D sculpting, so I used MeshMixer.
Which is an older program, but it still works great, and it's free. If you've been wanting to try it, go try it. But yeah, so I designed this little wasp and I told AI, I was like, look, this wasp's name is Flying Jim, he's always smiling, he's friendly, I want you to write me a children's story about this thing.
And when I read [00:14:00] this children's story that it wrote in 30 seconds, it's not a very long story, but I'm like, my kid would definitely listen to this. If this was a story, people's kids would definitely listen to this. I don't know what the legalities are of publishing a book that AI wrote.
I guess as long as you give the AI credit, I don't, you gave it the prompt. It's your character. I don't know how that works, but I'm going to start doing a reading of Flying Jim stories on TikTok. I haven't started yet, but maybe having my new microphone and everything I'll be able to record some good voiceovers and get everything to work.
Sound decent. I can picture you coming out with a line of flying gym books that come accompanied with a tiny little 3D printed flying gym. I think that would be really cool. So yeah, I was definitely thinking about that and you know through TikTok I've learned so much stuff from following other creators and I've seen a guy the other day that was talking about getting Plushies made over in China.
Oh, yeah, how he got his sample made it was like, 150 bucks or something I'm like, you know [00:15:00] if I had a children's book and I sold a plushie with every one of them I might be the next I don't know children's characters. Peppa 

Pig, or whatever. I do know children's characters because I have two children, but I try not to know too many children's characters anymore. 
Yeah, I'm completely out of that realm of children's characters. As you were saying it, I was trying to rack my brain. I was like I don't know, Rugrats? I'm not sure. I don't know what the kids are watching these days. Mostly weird stuff that is made. I don't know. YouTube videos that are made with toys from the things they like.
My kid likes to watch people playing with toys of the cartoons that he likes. Interesting. And some of them are weird. Some of them are real weird, like I've had to cut them off. I don't know what this guy's, where he's going with this, but. What his angle is, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're cutting this guy off.
You're gonna watch something else. YouTube is a great resource, but there's definitely, there's some weird stuff out there on the internet. [00:16:00] it's like a double edged sword. It's the, I think it's the coolest thing in the world that anybody has the ability to just Think of an idea and broadcast it to the world.
But when you're living in a world full of millions and millions of people, it's not, maybe it's not always the best thing to have everybody broadcasting to the world, but yeahit's an interesting time that we live in and to see how that's just changed society.
And I, I'm so out of time, I didn't know that kids watch YouTube, but I guess it would only make sense now. I think I've heard ofsome, Young kid who makes toy reviews or something and I heard he makes He's maybe eight years old.
He makes two hundred million dollars a year. Yeah, I know exactly who you're talking about And I've never seen any of his videos. I've just seen all of his toys in Walmart. I bet that kid don't even look like that no more. I haven't seen him in about 5 or 6 years on any toys. You know what I'm saying? He's probably grown up now. he's probably like 14. He's probably grown out of, they're like, how can we stop this kid's growth?
He's making too much money. He can't grow up. Yeah. Geez, man. Talk about a crazy way to grow up. I don't even know how you live [00:17:00] a normal, like you go to school and you're like, don't tell me what to do. You're into your salary. Oh my God. I couldn't even imagine 200 million a year.

I can't even imagine. You got, let alone at eight years old. If you want to see some of my early attempts at making videos, you can find my channel under Lomax Motorsports. Oh, okay. There's probably some stuff on there, probably 15 years old. When I joined YouTube, you couldn't post videos longer than 10 minutes. 
Okay. That's how long ago I joined YouTube. YouTube was just like, I think it was probably like the second year. It was maybe going that I joined. I got, I didn't really have a following until I started doing some of my car stuff on there. And then I had a kid and I quit doing my car stuff and it's stalled.
I've not done anything on there. Which is why I was so glad to find TikTok because I like the video form. I like, of [00:18:00] communicating. I like I like to be able to watch the videos, but because I have a short attention span, TikTok immediately was like, Oh yeah, I like this.
And I'm like, I can make a short video, it's easy Yeah. And so I started playing with it. And I just kept making little videos. I originally started my page as like a extension of my business. And I say business because my 3D printing business, I'm not making a living.
I'm not making a living doing 3D printing. This is my side gig. I started 3D printing so that I could further, it was a tool for me. 3D printing's always been a tool for me and it's a way that I can create things. So I just decided I should get into it.
I don't know where I was going with this. You gotta remind me, you gotta back me up and remind me where I was at. That's okay. No, I lose, I constantly lose my train of thought if I go too far off. But you were talking about It came from YouTube. Also I started YouTube pretty early on and I remember I started back when, it was before you had the [00:19:00] thumbs up or the thumbs out, it was like you had star ratings back on YouTube.
It was like a square interface. And I remember back when I started I was young at the time and I would make videos and The, my parents, my room in my parents house and my parents and my friends would be like, Oh, you talk to a camera and post on the internet? That's really weird. It was weird back then.
And now it's everyone that's just every one you know has like a YouTube or a Instagram. But back in the day, that was like when you told people like, Oh, I'm making a video and putting it on the internet. They're like, what are you talking 

about? Exactly. Exactly. And now it's everybody just expects you to have. 
YouTube or TikTok or Twitch or, the Twitch thing blows my mind that used to, we would only sit around and watch other people play video games until it was our turn. And now people are like actively going to look for people to watch them playing video games. It's I don't know.
I think it's cool that we're able to do it. It's, I don't know, it just blows my mind that some of these people can make a living. Doing [00:20:00] this. I feel like I grew up at a really weird time because again, I was like, right when I was like, maybe high school, college age, that's when you were first starting to get into this peak of people were becoming full time YouTubers or full time gamers.
And it was this, like you said Never in a million years throughout the entire history of the world could you be like, Oh, my job is to sit around and play video games or do what I, I make videos about making sourdough bread and I make a full time living doing that and then all of a sudden that was like an option for people, so it's crazy.
It just goes to show you that no matter what you're into, no matter how small a niche that you think you might be the only one into it, you have a community of people out there that are into the same thing as you are. No matter how weird or how, insignificant you think it might be to others, there are other people that will think it's the greatest thing since spliced bread.
Yeah. No, absolutely. The 3D printing space, that's something that I just got one on a whim. Similar to you. I was like, I've [00:21:00] always I've always liked doing like more artistic things and I didn't really have any sort of creative like outlet for a while. So I got into it for that and I didn't think that there would be that many people online who were into 3D printing.
And to my great surprise, the community around it is just like endless and really great people that do it. Yeah. Yeah, 3D, 3D printing is such a, it was one of those things that was so far out of touch for so long for so many people. That, now that it's mainstream, some people can't believe it.
I still talk to people today, and they're like, oh, you do 3D printing? Oh, that's really expensive, and I'm like, yeah yeah, no, you could afford to buy one. Really? How much? I get one for 200 bucks, and they're like, what? No way! You gotta know a little bit you're gonna have to study a little bit, you know You're not gonna be able to just plug this thing in like it's a hewlett packard, But 

it just amazes me That people still don't know, but yet there's so many people that are into the 3d printing and I think with stuff like this new bamboo labs machines came [00:22:00] out that basically is the plug and play, I think it's going to open it up to so many more people that didn't have the technical skills to run an ender three. 
You run an Ender 3, you're gonna learn a little bit about 3D print, oh yeah. You're gonna have to learn a little bit of stuff. But it's just the technology being there and being that cheap to begin with is what made the pathway for Bamboo's Labs to be able to even come out with a machine like they have for the thousand dollars, a thousand dollars is a lot of money to a lot of us.
But to a lot of people, they thought that a 3D printer of that quality would be 5, 000. They thought that, and when they learned, oh, I can get that for 1, 000 instead of 5, 000? Oh yeah, I'm gonna have one of those. For the rest of us, we'll just keep running our inner threes, and until they break and then maybe we'll get something like the bamboo, but. Yeah I'm, I have my stand in right here, but I'm, my under threes are in my closet over there, and I love the unders, I think [00:23:00] they're a great learning tool, my I say this a lot on here, but I just had a coworker who just got into 3D printing, and he jumped right in, he got a bamboo lab for his first 3D printer, and it's like a double edged sword, it's great, cause Day one he could jump in, and it worked great for him, he knew what he was doing, but then every now and then I'll get a call from him with like really simple troubleshooting things that he doesn't necessarily know how to do because he never like, he never learned on a printer that wasn't like plug and play to use, yeah, but it'll be interesting. I'm, like, really excited to see how 3D printing comes along in the next couple years, and see, what the adop the adoption of that becomes what people start to use it for, and if it becomes more, if you wanna call it a mainstream thing that people have in their house, cause it definitely seems like it's quickly becoming more affordable, but also more accessible in terms of you don't necessarily have to be, like, a a mad scientist to know how to run a 3D printer.
With this AI coming out now, so I asked AI, I asked about flying Jim, I said, look, I've designed this character and I have made a 3d model of it, but I would like to see your idea [00:24:00] of what the 3d model of this character would look like, chat GPT said that it made me a 3d model and it said that it was going to.
Put it on a searchable database. But it never sent me an email. I don't know if that's a capability that it wants to have, that it just doesn't have. But now, it said, I made you a model, and here it is. Now, if I ever find that model, I'll 

definitely do a video about it. 
And I was hoping that was what was going to happen. Cause I was going to print it out and compare the two models, of what we had but I've not been able to find it yet. So until chat GPT sends me the email, I guess it will be in limbo. I was Looking when I first got into 3D printing, looking to see if there was any AI models similar to a text based prompt that you could write it out and then have it spit you out a 3D model.
And there's a couple that like were in the beta phase at the time, but OpenAI, I think they're actually in the process of [00:25:00] developing something, I believe it's called Pointy similar to DALI, but Pointy. And they that it's going to be a 3D modeling. Type software. I'm curious to see. I think it's in it's beta phase right now and I think you access it through maybe it's through Discord or it might be somewhere else that you access it through.
But I'm really super excited to see how 3D modeling comes into play with that. And it's really cool. It's like a double edged sword because you have all these amazing modelers out there who that's their livelihood and they make these beautiful things. So it's again, it's like you said with with your book who do you credit?
Do you credit AI? Do you credit yourself? Do you credit the prompter? So it's crazy. Just think about five years from now when we've got a Bamboo's lab that has AI and we can walk up to the Bamboo lab and say, Hey, Print me out a pot that's eight inches tall that has the eagle on the front of it, riding a pony, and it does it.
It just prints it out from its imagination of what you told it you wanted. We're that much closer to Star Trek Replicators. Which, it's the ultimate 3D printer. Let's [00:26:00] face it, that's the ultimate 3D printer is to get some Earl Grey hot. Then we got everything.
Bye bye. And if we can figure out how to actually take raw molecules and combine them together, we can actually have that technology, basically, if we can combine them together accurately enough. It is possible. we don't have the technology now, but we're getting a lot closer to it than we've ever been before.
And if you think about it, we're in a time right now that like, when the Wright Brothers first took flight. Because if you go back to look at what's going on with 

this fusion technology, and the things we know about particles now, 
But it's just, I feel like we're. I feel that excitement that, my great grandmother's parents, because she was born in 1902, the year they started flying. I can just imagine what they started thinking when they heard that a man was in a machine [00:27:00] flying like a bird. It's probably the same feeling we get from them finding fusion, it's just, where do we go with it from here? In a hundred years, look how far the flight technology took off. What will happen with this fusion technology in a hundred years? It's just really exciting time to be alive. That's all. No, it really is. And I think it's like almost hard to give yourself that what, like you were saying, like living back in 1902 and you see these two crazy guys are flying through the air with this like wooden canvas machine.
And I think it's, maybe it's hard for some people to have God. I think some people can, and I think some people can't. Some people can look at that, and they see the vision of where that's gonna go, and I think some people they're like, these guys are crazy, but I'm I, one of my favorite places, I would say, I love to go to D.
C., and I love to go to the Smithsonian. They have all these just halls and halls of inventions, and stuff that at one time, it was a cutting edge, and that I get so excited going through there, and just Exactly like you were saying, thinking back to what it must have been like to see things that like now are so like obvious [00:28:00] or so simple to us, but like imagining what it must have been like to see that come out and just thinking about where we're at and I always think right now, everybody, we all carry around our phones every day, but I always imagine In maybe 20 years or 10 years, who knows what the timeline is, we're going to look back and we're going to be like, how silly was it that we used to carry around these bricks with us everywhere it'll just be, maybe it's integrated into you or something, but it's it's, I just love nerding out about that kind of stuff.
Maybe drop it in your eye or something. Yeah, the technology, where's it going to stop? I am blind in my right eye. Not all the way blind. I have depth perception, but I've always had problems with vision in my right eye. And, not too long ago, they were working on bionic eye and I think I would take a bionic eye if I could, see better than I can now.
I've always had, slight problem with depth perception. I'm sure it's hindered some things in my life, but it would just be interesting to be able to take on that 

technology and, use it. I seen the other day that they [00:29:00] put like a Bluetooth. 
Not actual Bluetooth, but they put a thing in a guy's spine, up in his spinal cord, and then down in his back, and they're wirelessly sending the signals from his brains to his legs, where his spinal cord was broken before. And now he can walk. Wow. We figured out enough about the human brain.
Have you seen the AI that can read your brain? They got people, they put people in this thing, MRI or whatever, and they showed them a video. The AI can take their brainwaves and put together what it thinks they are watching, and it is eerily ridiculous.
Accurate. It is. When you get off here, you need to go look at that. It is freaking spooky. Wow. So what they're saying with this technology is, we're gonna be able to record our dreams in our sleep. So you're gonna be able to put a helmet on, go to sleep, and that dream that you was telling everybody that was so weird, they're actually gonna be able to view what you were doing in your dream.
Where are we even? [00:30:00] What timeline are we even living in? I don't know. It's a crazy world. You got to go look it up when we're done here. It is, it's spooky. what implications could it be used to search your mind?
Yeah. Cause they hold you against your will and read what your mind's thinking. How are you going to stop from thinking? Yeah. If you did a crime, you're probably going to sit there and think about it. And they're going to be able to tell, they're going to see you shoot the guy.
 That's what he's thinking about. Yeah. Memory playback. And another thing I was listening to today is about, I listened to a lot of podcasts cause I drive a lot for my regular job, they've got this airplane that will fly over and it takes a bunch of pictures of a town.
And then when they have a robbery or something, they can rewind back and look at the pixels and say, Oh, that's the car that the guy got into and they can follow the car to where it went to. Not only that, they can rewind it from where it came from. It's crazy technology.
[00:31:00] And it's, they're flying two miles up in the sky. So you can't even see 

them flying over your city. Interesting. And they can take these pictures, and they can analyze where, now they can't see your face, they can just see pixels, but they can see that this pixel went here, and then this pixel went there, and then these two pixels came together, and then they came apart, and if you couple that with CCTV, and geolocation on your phone, it ain't gonna be long before They're gonna know everything. 
Moral of the story here is if you were thinking of committing a crime in the near future, this is not the time to be committing a crime in. No. Don't do any crimes. Yeah don't do them regardless, but that would be the good thing of this technology, would be able to stop crimes, but what happens when this technology gets in the wrong hands? What happens, when, They just start following people and then saying, Oh we seen you went to this many stores yesterday. Here's some ads, we're going to send them to your phone now which they do already.
We all know, we've been talking around our phone [00:32:00] about something obscure and then we get on Facebook and then the next thing Hey, here's the ad. And then you go on Tik TOK and you got three videos about it, somebody's listening somewhere, 
Yeah, when I got that, I traded in my Nokia 3300, the little, you could charge it for a week and it was good, but it would only hold 120 text messages. Yeah. When I got the iPhone, I was like, look, I know I'm giving up my privacy.
But maybe one day it will save me because somebody will say I was somewhere that I wasn't and I'll be able to go no. See my phone. I was right here. So I guess it's a double edged sword just like everything else, too. Yeah, man, it's what a crazy world. I would not go back to not having a smartphone.
I think that's a funny thing I'll hear people say. People be like, Oh, I was born in the wrong time. I'm like, listen, I don't think you know I don't think you want to go back to before having a smartphone, the internet, all these great luxuries we have now. Yeah. The quality [00:33:00] of life these days is so much better.
Yeah. So much better. Even though the internet at my house is slow. I can still stream, I can't stream talking to you, but I can at least download it. Yeah, I can download which I'm sure there's plenty of, third world countries that got better internet than we got out in the country out here.
Because hey how else are scammers scamming people, yeah. But I'm thankful 

for what I got, cause it could be worse. I know a lot of people that they can't stream, because they just don't have the internet and then the, unfortunately, I don't know about where you live, but here in North Carolina, everything east of I 95, if it were its own state, it would be the poorest state in the country, okay, until you get to the actual coast, everything between 95, which goes north and south, and the coast is nothing but farmland. There's just not that many people out there. So they just don't spend the money on the infrastructure. Which I guess wireless is [00:34:00] going to be the future. Yeah, it's with I think it's Elon Musk, he does that Starlink, where I think that's how they're bringing the internet to like different countries. 
I don't know a whole lot about it, but I would pay for Starlink, except for a lot of people around here on the waiting list, which RV version or whatever. It's weird. From my understanding is that you've got to move it every 30 days if you have the RV on.
Oh, okay. Now, people have told me that's not the case. I don't know. They did just put a Verizon tower about 1, 300 foot from my house. So I'm hoping that I can get some good 5G signal from that bad boy. They were putting the final touches on it this week. So I'm hoping they'll get it up soon so I can get some decent internet because I would love to be able to, go live more from my house, show more of what I do, It's just, I go to upload a three minute TikTok, it takes about 15 or 20 minutes to upload, just a three minute TikTok.
So that pretty much puts any YouTube videos like, you're not going to upload it. I [00:35:00] would have to drive to the McDonald's down the street. Okay, so changing topics a little bit. Can you tell us a little bit about how you got into 3d printing? I actually used to be a jeweler.
My father was a jeweler growing up. So I got into it at a young age. And in about 2003, I think I went and took a class on a 3D design software that was called GemVision. It is a plug in for a 3D program called Rhino. Rhino was pretty, pretty cool.
I don't say it's basic. It's really strong software, but the everything is basic what's in it. You had to be able to draw your shapes and then do, you couldn't really do an extrusion. It was not like 3D software is exactly today. That's how I got into it and it was really, I went to a week long class to learn it.
We could not afford a 3d printer back then because most 3d printers were [00:36:00] like the powder that grew. They were 50, 40, 50, 000 back then. So 

we would send all the things that we designed out to a company that would do that for us. 
And they would make a, we then he get a model back and make a mold of that. And then shoot wax into it, or we would have a casting company cast it because there's companies out there that do that. So that's how I got into 3D design. I started following the RepRap project and I always wanted to build one, there was a lot of technical skill involved in that and it wasn't the cheapest thing.
It was still, I think, about 600 to get a kit for all the parts you needed. It was just a little bit beyond. What I could afford so I'd always, C3D printing stuff and you know in Popular Mechanics magazine and you know some on some like YouTube videos and stuff or science stuff but it was mostly stuff that was still out of reach of the regular person.
In [00:37:00] 2019 I was sitting there looking at something on YouTube and I saw that the price of resin printers was cheap. Like you could get a resin printer for 150 bucks. And I'm like, how good could this thing be? So I did a little research and started watching some videos on YouTube and there were people making products with this that were definitely detailed enough that you could make a mold for, from it for jewelry.
So I got my dad to get one. I said I'm, I'll learn how to use it. And then I'll teach you and your wife how to use it. And y'all can, use it for your jewelry business. So that's what I did 2019. I got them going on that New year's 2019 2020. I was sitting on the porch and I seen an ad for ender three And they're like, oh it's gonna end in four hours and i'm like, oh i'm gonna order this 169 I'm getting it i'm getting it.
So I got my first ender three it arrived in like February [00:38:00] of 2020. And so I started printing and, I was looking on Thingiverse and finding stuff to print. And I know nothing about 3d design for 3d printing on my own yet really. And I'm doing stuff and I'm like, Oh, this is fun.
And then COVID hit by the time COVID hit, I, when I, the first time I ran my printer and I set up a print and I was like, This is gonna take seven hours. I was like, oh no I need another one of these so that I can be printing the thing and then print another thing at the same time Yeah, so I ended up ordering two more printers Enter threes and I had those set up and running and then kovat hit and I went to my friends at the local Hardware store.

I don't know if you've seen some of my videos. I used to work for a hardware store. So They are my main supplier for parts and stuff now. And they also allow me to take parts there to let people pick up. And let people drop off parts for me to [00:39:00] remake and stuff like that. So we've got a little thing going. 
They have people that can't find stuff in their store. They offer to have me make it for them. So it's a nice little beneficial, little relationship. so I went down to the hardware store and I said, look, I said we can't, I've not been able to find any masks.
I found a file for masks. We can start making these masks and sell them to carpenters and stuff that need dust masks. And they said, yeah, Mike, that sounds good. We can probably sell them. They said, but we've got fire departments that can't even find masks. And I said I don't feel right about charging fire department for, I said, I'll tell y'all what, if y'all will donate, buy some material, I'll donate the time on my three printers.
And we'll print some masks and we'll give them to the fire department. So it started simple enough like that. We printed these masks, gave them to the fire department. The next thing you know, the police department found out. So they wanted some masks. Then the EMS found out and they wanted some masks.
Then the nursing home found out and they wanted some masks. So we started a project. The next thing you know the local newspaper wrote an article about us. And I told the reporter, I said, anybody wants to help us out, we can buy [00:40:00] another one of these printers for 200 bucks. Buy us a printer.
And we'll use it, and when we get done, we'll donate it to the school system. So we had an outpouring from the community and we raised, I don't even know how much money we raised. We ended up running 15 printers, but we ended up buying like seven or eight more. And then we had people from the community that were letting us borrow theirs.
And we were just running mostly Ender threes. I had one CR 10 that a guy had let us borrow. And we ran a couple into the ground, and, but when we were done, we had printed over 1200 masks and we were doing all this in PETG. And you gotta remember, I'd only been printing for about a month in PLA before I started all this.
It was a crash course. And I was working my regular job, too. So I had 15 

printers in the spare bedroom at my house. We were printing two masks on each printer. We were only using a 4 nozzle because I didn't know about bigger nozzles. It was taking about 12 [00:41:00] hours, I think, to print two masks. 
So we were getting about 24 hours from each printer. My wife was changing prints during the day. When I was not there, I would wake up in the middle of the night and change prints. And we did this basically for about six months. It was just I've got so tired of printing masks. I was like, I want to use my printers to print something for myself.
I've been looking at all this stuff for the past three or four months on here on Thingiverse, and I can't print it because all these printers are running. And then luckily, we got enough. by then we were able to shut the project down. We were able to give five working printers to the Moore County School Systems, the county I live in here.
And I think we gave them three or four thousand dollars too. I don't remember what it was because I wasn't the one taking in the money. The hardware store was doing that because they're the ones that set up to do the accounting and stuff. But It was really fun.
it was a good feeling that I could actually [00:42:00] do something for my community, with this new found, tool that I got. And so that's what got me into 3D printing. That's how I started all this whole journey.
That is one of the craziest introduction to 3D printing stories I have heard to this date yet. I have so many questions about that. So like, when you were saying that you were printing these masks, I'm curious to hear about these masks, because what I was imagining is maybe you guys were using something like a TPU or like a flexible material and they were like a thin sheet of plastic, but it sounds like that's not what they were.
No, so they were more like, they were a two piece mask that you could put a filter into in between the two pieces And the first part would fit on your face And I didn't have the ability to print TPU and I don't really know anything about TPU I don't know if in 2020 TPU is even a thing really.
You know what I'm saying? TPU's pretty good Kind of a, I'm pretty sure that they had it for industrial printers and stuff. So what we were doing [00:43:00] is we were telling people that they could mold it to their face.

And so we were showing them that they could, we, there's actually a YouTube video online of us showing how to mold them to your face and everything. And we're telling people to put them in hot water and everything. But then we. We had three firemen burn theirself because they put the mask into boiling water to soften the edges. 
But then they put it right on their face right afterwards. And so we had to train one guy. Look man, you got to let this stuff cool off, cause this stuff will stick to you. And yeah, so luckily only three of them burnt their self. But you'd think firemen would know. If anybody wasn't going to burn themselves, you would think it would be them.
That's what you would think. But they were all very appreciative because they weren't able to get masks at the time. And at least the ones we were able to give them, put a little confidence in them when they had it because they were dealing with the people that were sick, yeah. And we ended up giving masks to, I think, about 12 [00:44:00] different law enforcement and first responder agencies. It was quite a few of the North Carolina state troopers, the local sheriff's department. It got to be quite a bit bigger than our little community here. But people were just taking any help they could get at the time, and man, that's.
It was a weird time because with my job, I was out on the roads and it was just really spooky, with nothing going on at the time. I was like look, I'm just gonna print these masks and, hopefully everything works out, and if it don't, well at least I did what I could, and I'm glad.
It seems like that We're not having as many outbreaks and stuff like that now. And thank God there's no reason to print any more masks. Cause I never want to print another face mask in my life. I'm just done with that file. Yeah, that was You'll have, they'll be doing the brain scans of your brain with the nightmares and they'll be pulling up a file of the mask.
They'll be like, Oh, that's strange. You've never seen this before on a scan. Exactly. Exactly. Now during, I wasn't, I didn't get my 3D printers [00:45:00] until about six months ago, so I wasn't printing during COVID. Was it difficult to get filament during COVID? So like I said, we were just running PETG. And we were getting it from Amazon.
We weren't having much problem. And we were ordering it like 30 and 40 rolls at a time. Wow. It's really crazy how much filament we went through with this 

project. I don't even, I've got so I had so many like those, we were using dyramic filament and they send you, in their PETG, they used to send you a little 200 by 200 build pack, you Stick onlike a bed, like a print bed. 
But they were too small for a whole ender bed. But I cut 'em up and put 'em on glass. I cut 'em up in pieces and put 'em on glass. Because you I use a lot of mirrored, I use mirror for my glass beds on my printers. And you don't wanna print PETG directly on glass because it will definitely bond to it.
And you will have. Glass embedded in your part. So that build tech, so you either got to put that build [00:46:00] sheet down or glue hairspray. I don't like the smell of hairspray, so I don't use it. We were using blue painter's tape. We only found one brand that worked. And I didn't have a whole lot of time to do a lot of experimenting then, because we were just trying to pump these things out.
So we found one thing that worked, we stuck with it. About three quarters of the way through the project I said, We should get bigger nozzles! They can print so much faster! And so I did start getting 6 nozzles. And that's what's led me on to, now my machines, I standardly keep one millimeter nozzles on most of my machines.
Wow. Okay. And people are like, you lose so much detail. Do you know how small one millimeter is? One millimeter is incredibly tiny. Unless you're making miniatures. Like the thing you got in the background there, the mug you got in the background, I'm telling you, you can't tell much difference between a one millimeter nozzle [00:47:00] and a 0.
6. And you got to remember the difference between a 0. 6 and a one millimeter, you're almost going to save half the time. So if you've got something with a 0. 6 or a 0. 4 that prints in four to six hours with a one millimeter nozzle, it's going to print in Two to three, and for most things, especially all these things that we print to use around our house, hooks, do yourself a favor, go get yourself a one millimeter nozzle.
You can use a thicker layer height, you'll have more layer lines, but you can run a 2 with a one millimeter nozzle. I do it all the time. I do sometimes run on 0. 12 layer height if I've got something that I Don't want to go through the trouble of filling the layer lines in with Bondo or whatever.
I don't know. I just, I challenge everybody to try a one millimeter nozzle. And 

tell me you don't like it. It's okay if you don't like it, but at least try it Especially for those that can't afford a bamboo, if you want to print from a bamboo, Three times faster than your point four millimeter nozzle on your inner [00:48:00] three. 
Just get you a one millimeter nozzle and it's done, change a few settings in your slicer and off to the races. I keep telling myself I'm going to switch out my nozzle and I still haven't. So maybe after this will be like the final, motivation, I need to switch it out. What I've been doing recently in my slicer is to your point people are like, Oh, you're gonna see, it's gonna be so much detail that you're losing. I've been going from the sta I think like in Cura, Cura's what I use to slice my prints in. 
2 layer lines, and I'm going down to the the fast speed 0. 28 that's cut a ton of time off my prints too, and like you said, I, With I don't think you could notice the difference. I don't see it. So I I'll have to go up to a bigger nozzle to really speed things up.
Yeah. Hey, look, so anybody that's hesitant, order you one of those packs that has like a 4 all the way to a and that way you don't, you don't got 20 of them. But when I order I order Box of 24, because brass nozzles are disposable. I'm not going to, if it gets clogged, I'm pulling it out and I'm throwing it away.
And my time is worth more than that. But a 60 cent [00:49:00] brass nozzle I'm just not gonna spend the time over it. I'm gonna throw it over in my metal bucket, and when I retire, I'll melt it down and make some art out of it, that's my retirement plan, Kate, is all the scrap metal I pull off of jobs and stuff I'm saving in buckets. And then I'm gonna separate it out when I retire and then I'm gonna melt it down and make some bronze statues and make, just some different stuff. Because I've got copper, bronze, brass.
I've got all that saved up and, in my hoard of stuff, yeah we're, it's gonna get, the older I get, the weirder it's gonna get. For sure. Interesting. Have you done anything any sort of metal art before? Anything like melt it down metal like that? In jewelry, I did a lot of casting.
Oh, yeah. I did a lot of casting. Before we used to do CAD CAM stuff with, and, growing waxes and machining waxes. Everything was hand carved. I used to take wax, I'd take a chuck of wax, and I used to carve it. carve what I wanted out of a ring and my carving skills are only so good.

A lot of times I could imagine something that I couldn't make back [00:50:00] then, but to be able to take a wax and then you put it in a plaster, you melt the wax out and then you shoot the metal in where the wax used to be. So I've done a lot of casting. Most of it with a centrifugal caster. 
Which is like a big metal drum. You wind it up. It's so much fun. Oh, it was so cool When I was a kid you wind this thing up and then you got a crucible you melt your metal Okay, and then you take your flask which has got your melted out wax So it's got a cavity in it and it's hot you take it out of this 2000 degree oven You stick it in this thing you melt your metal and then you let the spring go on this thing and it centrifugally slings the metal into the cast of the flask and it's really scary because you've got some 1500 degree gold sitting here that's a molten puddle and then you let this thing go and it makes such a big whoosh and and it's this thing will spin for about five minutes like why it's winding down and [00:51:00] cooling down and then you pull the flask out and you dunk it in some water and it whoosh makes this boiling sound and then you've got your metal piece and then of course you got to go through all the filing and stuff from that from there but yeah so you can making sculptures or People or whatever with casting is basically the same thing.
It's if you're probably not going to be doing the centrifugal thing on big stones, but it's the same principle. How hard can it be? Yeah, I'm the kind of person that, I think I could do brain surgery if you let me watch three YouTube videos about how to do it, and maybe had somebody there to remind me, be like, hey, you forgot to do this. But, I'm a firm believer, anything you want to learn, you can go to YouTube and watch videos about it. And if you're a fairly competent person about just being able to observe and pick things up, you can learn enough that you can do some of this stuff.
Now, casting a big bunch [00:52:00] of metal, you might want some safety people because, you could get hurt really bad. But, don't let that stop you. Try it. It's the only way you're gonna do it. I want, I really want to try some lost PLA casting, which is where I print the item and then melt the, I melt the item out and then use that instead of a wax, oh, okay. You use the PLA that you printed, use the object you printed in PLA for your plug in your mold, 
Print like in base mode or print with a lightning infill and make it hollow. They're able to just to pour the hot metal in and it consumes the PLA and fills the void at the same time. Interesting. I haven't tried it yet. That's one of those things.

If I could just make content full time These are the things y'all would see from me, but, I can't afford to yet. Not yet, but I imagine sometime very soon. As you were talking about the centrifugal force machine that you had, and you were talking about spinning around. 
I do have to say that it did [00:53:00] sound like one of those like potential safety hazards, but that's such an I love hearing about these different things that like things that I've never tried before, but it's so interesting to me hearing how these things are made. If you're going to most people that do jewelry these days, you're going to have invested in a vacuum caster, which is a way less violent of a way of basically you have your flask and you.
produce a vacuum on the bottom side of it and pour the metal in the top side and the vacuum just sucks it all in there to where it's supposed to be. A lot safer way and a lot, less dramatic way of being able to do the same thing. Arguably less fun though. Yeah. So the final thing that I'll ask you about today, closing out and I guess going into you doing content full time. One of the videos that you had recently that blew up was you and your son at Tractor Supply and They're, they had this sign there. I guess maybe I'll let you tell the story because you probably tell it way better than I ever could, but I think the internet just fell in love with this piece of content for me.
I have a 10 year old son named Jackson. He is extremely [00:54:00] autistic. He mostly only communicates in one or two words. He loves to go to Tractor Supply, and for some reason, he loves their sign that says Welding and Tools. And he didn't know what an ampersand was, so he calls it Welding is Tools.
Because it looks like an S to him, He loves to go in there and we've been going in there for about a two years now and him looking at the sign and not long ago we went into the one on one side of our town and they had taken the sign down and I was like, Oh no, they've taken the sign down.
And I'm. Asked the people, I was like, Hey, if the old signs are around, they're like I think we sent them back to corporate. And I'm like, okay. So then we go to this other tractor supply that's really close to us. And they still have the signs up. So I was like, man, it ain't gonna be long before they're going to be remodeling this place.
I need to make a video. And I bet if I ask TikTok to, tag tractor supply so my kid can get a sign that they'll be glad to do it. And. Of course, the video [00:55:00] took off. And they, Tractor Supply was tagged, I don't know, a couple thousand 

times in this video. And of course they immediately reached out to me and asked me if they could send us a sign. 
And I said, yeah. And they said, it's probably gonna be, like a week. And then they called me back and I'm like, can you just come to the store tomorrow? We'll just give you that one. And I'm like, hell yeah. it's definitely, in their interest to do it because, the video ended up getting I think it's sitting at 2.
6 million views right now. Yeah. And and they're, the response video of him getting the sign has got almost 400, 000 views. I ended up getting like almost 10, 000.
new followers Just on that video and I felt like I had to go on there and explain to these people Hey, look, this channel is not all about my kid all the time. Like I appreciate y'all follow me and I hope you'll stay it gets weird around here sometime just in case, But it seems like that, I'm getting a pretty good response from my new [00:56:00] followers they seem to like me.
And I'm just humbled that, so many people would take the time out of their day to help my kid. It just feels really good because, being different, he don't get to do all the things normal kids do all the time. And so it's little things like that really, they were just really make me feel good about, About people, about other people cause you hear so many stories, about people not being so good to people it's just nice to have a story that's good and, for a company they could easily just blew me off, but they didn't.
And actually we've been up there a couple of times since then and talked to the manager again. And they've told me they're actually going to save every single sign in that store when they remodel it. So he can have them. So I guess we got 20 signs coming probably next year. And it's just, It's just heartwarming that somebody would do that for my kid.
I was expecting the video to do decent, but, I figured, oh, maybe I'll get a thousand likes, maybe I'll get, maybe if I could get 10, [00:57:00] 000 views, that would be phenomenal. And I just, I never really expected it to take off as good as it did. Yeah, I'm, ultimately I'm glad he got his sign, cause he loves that thing.
Yeah, that was, it, honestly, it's one of the most standout things that I've seen on the internet in one of the longest times I can think of, and it was exactly like you said, it was just so heartwarming and beautiful. The response that they had 

so quickly to reach out to you guys, I think, was really great. 
And I honestly I'm mostly so glad that he got his sign, but for them as well, I constantly now, every time I think of Tractor Supply, I'm just like, gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside and makes me want to go inside. But no it's a story that I just, I loved following along with it.
And it's cool to hear that he'll continue to have more signs as they start to remodel that. So I know that I loved it. I know that a lot of the internet loved that story. And TractorSupply seems like a really good company from reading the comments of people that have worked there in the past, 99 percent of them is like, Oh yeah, I loved working there.
It was a great company. Only one or two were, Oh, I didn't working there. They did it. And, I feel they're [00:58:00] probably pretty good company, and I'm happy with, our relationship that we've got going on right now. We don't have no, business relationship going on really, but I have taken a couple, so my cups that I dropped off at Habitat, I don't know if I did a couple cup drops at Tractor Supply after that happened.
Try to get them, try to, Show my appreciation to them for helping my kid out. Nobody's found those cups yet, or nobody's said anything. And for all I know, maybe Tractor Supply Corporate called the, places I dropped them off and said, Hey, you've got to pull these cups out, you can't be having this guy drop I don't know, but, I'd like to think that they're still there and that somebody is going to go to the Tractor Supply store and find these things that I left.
And maybe make a TikTok about it. That would be you're, like I said, you're a bit of a tractor supply celebrity now if you live in that area, maybe go scope out some tractor supplies and see if you can find those cups there. Yeah, the guy will look like this. Very, you've got a very recognizable look.
I thinkI think you're very recognizable from your creations that you make, to your videos, to your look in [00:59:00] general. Yeah, no, I absolutely love the content that you make. For people who don't follow you yet and wanna follow along for it's gonna get real weird, guys, so follow along for sure.
Where can people find you on the internet to check out your videos? Alright, pretty much on every social media. You can find me under Sandhills3D. Or Sandhills3D and Laserworks. Usually if you just type in Sandhills3D, I come up, Google knows who I am. So you can find me pretty easy. TikTok, YouTube 

Instagram, Facebook. 
I don't post a whole lot on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube. Most of my stuff's going to be on TikTok. So if you want to follow along, that's probably the best place to do it. Thank you so much for coming on here today and sharing. We went through a million different topics. We could have went through a million more, but I really appreciate you taking the time out.
And with that said, that is Meet the Makers. Thank you.