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The Midwest RepRap Festival 2026 showcased an impressive array of innovative projects across two main venues, ranging from a magnetically floating Christmas tree with interactive QR codes for STL files to massive creations like Tripod's seventy-pound excavator built entirely over a weekend without painting. The Death Racers section served as the event's energetic centerpiece, featuring XL-sized vehicles battling through agility courses and highlighting accessibility scooters alongside crystal engravings by We Create Ultra. Booths from various creators displayed diverse capabilities, including LDO Motors testing their six-wheel-drive Unimog kit with a full-size racer on top for scale, Akuma Mods offering resin printing solutions like tiny washing cure stations, and Green Gate 3D presenting translucent PETG vases made from recycled plastics colored entirely in the USA. Beyond these highlights, numerous vendors presented unique designs such as Hyperdrive Design's printed weapons and accessories, Poly Maker's giant dice towers and a ten-foot Transformer model alongside chain mail armor, and Gerari 3D demonstrating modular drawers with spinning tops. The event also featured Morpho printer previews for an upcoming Kickstarter that settles like traditional FDM printers onto silicone mats, Dawn's impressive full-size Star Wars droids including R2-D2 and BB-8, and Tech Jeeper's large marble run with switchable paths and all-printed pinball games. Special mentions went to Hedgehog Makes' custom screw-assembled trains printable on mini devices like the Snapmaker U1, Pezless booth creations supporting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through merchandise sales, and K2 Kevin's donation of Nerf blasters after a successful fundraising campaign that inspired a collaborative "Maker Chip Matrix" display for downloadable designs. As Day 2 concluded around one o'clock with hosts packing up their booths amidst the sounds of ongoing death racer battles, the atmosphere remained lively despite rain beginning to fall outside. A notable moment occurred during the final competition where Tristan drove his candy corn-themed vehicle, sponsored by Voxil PLA filament which successfully endured significant impacts and minor breakage from large hits; this victory was celebrated with a promotional code for attendees to save on future purchases at voxalpla.com. The hosts expressed deep gratitude to all visitors who engaged in conversations near attractions like the marble run pinball machine and thanked the MRRF organization for hosting such a diverse gathering of makers, engineers, and enthusiasts before preparing for their journey home later that afternoon.
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We are here at MURF 2026, the Midwest Rap Rap Festival. Tristan and I are hanging out. We got our table here behind us with all sorts of fun stuff on it. And we're about to go see some really cool things here at the show, right? >> Yeah. >> Let's take a walk. Let's see what we find. And I'm going to let you do a lot of the video. Does that sound fun? >> Yeah. >> All right, let's go. >> Let's go. >> So, here's the deal. Murf is split between a couple different buildings this year. They got a air conditioned building on that side and they got the building that we're in currently here. We'll come back and show you this building in a minute, but first we're going to take a walk out across the courtyard to the other building. All right, we are in the second building here at the Murf and this is where all the vendors are, or most of the vendors and a whole bunch of other people. So, we're going to walk through. We're going to see what Tristan finds and uh we're going to show you all the cool stuff that Tristan sees. Right, >> let's do it. Tristan stopped us here and uh we are at a table where they have a bunch of really cool stuff, but what did you see? >> A floating Christmas tree. >> Yes. >> Whoa. I know. We're We're kind of putting Tristan on the spot today. Words are hard. But he just like slid a paper underneath it. Can we see that again? >> It is actually magnetically floating, I believe. >> Whoa. >> It has a little funky >> Oh, what's this? That's cool. We're looking at all the cool printed stuff here. Tristan figured out right now. It twists open. And there's another egg. Wait a minute. What's really cool about this booth is they have a QR code that takes you to the model of all the stuff they're showing, which is great. >> And it looks like this is like a original dragon egg by Y Blood. >> It was a penguin egg. >> Oh, look at that. It's a penguin egg. There's a penguin in there. So, it all stacks back in and it just twists together. Wow. That's the original uh dragon or in this case penguin egg by YB Blood. I love that you have all the QR codes too for the models you do. That's really cool. So, this maker chip links to a web page that has the URLs uh for all of the models. So, I'm going to put it right there in case anyone wants to check it out. Thank you guys so much. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. All right, on to the next one. So, a lot of these booths this year uh have maker chips thanks to K2 Kevin just like exploding the maker chip world. Uh we found stickers, too. So, you want to grab a sticker? >> Awesome. Which one did you get? Show me. >> Super cool. All right, on to the next table. Huh? So, the next booth Tristan has to show you is this one. What is at this booth, buddy? >> 3D printed excavator. Oh, looks like Tripod is actually using the excavator here. He's going to show us how it works. He's going to dig out some paws. >> How long did it take to plant? >> Well, between two printers about a week, you know, just not really monitoring them all the time. But yes, it assembly took about a weekend if you don't paint it. >> So, if you paint it, it'll definitely take longer. >> Is it painted? >> Only some of it. I gave up and I I did multicolor printing instead. Is it actually hydraulic? Does it run on electric or both? >> Well, it's actually both. So, you have uh inside of here you have your your hydraulic pump and you got valve body right there that controls everything. And then here you have your your hydraulic cylinders for your boom, your stick, and your bucket. Um here are your drive motors for your your tracks. And then you have another one here for your slooh ring. And this weighs about uh 70 lbs. >> And the tractor weighs 70 lb. >> Yes. >> Holy. >> To give you idea of the strength of it. >> How much filament is in it? That's >> not much, believe it or not. Maybe about 2 kilos. >> He's got his death racers here, of course. He's got this awesome section. He always has his um >> accessibility. >> Accessibility scooter is what he calls it. The accessibility scooter. And then he's uh repping we create here. This is the ultra, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. The Wereate Ultra. And of course, all of the really cool crystal engravings that he's actually selling here, I think. Hey, buddy. Where are we going to go next? Over this way. Oh, right here. Look at this. We got some XL Death Racers coming through. Whoa. >> We got an XL and a big and a regular size one battling over here kind of. We're going to go find another table in this big room. Let's do it. So, this is the LDO booth. Jason couldn't be here this time, but that's okay. These guys are repping and hooking it up. And uh I spy something back there that we have to take a look at. So, let's go check this out. That's the Unimog, right? >> Yeah. Yes, it is. >> Oh, and you built it. >> I broke it. >> You were testing the kit? >> Yep. >> A >> great bro. You guys are going to love it. >> Can I come around the back and check it out? >> Absolutely. Come on. >> All right. So, we were walking by the and we saw the LDO Motors booth and they just released or are releasing a kit to print this Unimog. It's on Colts 3D and Jason sent me a kit. So, that kit should be here hopefully today or tomorrow, but obviously we're not there to check it out. But this is the actual Unimog that it's going to print. This is the uh the six wheel version, the rear wheel steer. The rear wheel steer is part of the kit, too, right? >> Is part of the kit except for that extra tire on the top. >> Oh, perfect. So, he printed a spare tire for the top and he put the lights on here, too. I don't think that's part of the normal kit, but you can see how big this is. That's a fulls size death racer on top of the Unimog. This thing is freaking cool. You can see just how big this thing is. I mean, this thing is like almost 40 in long, I believe, with the six-wheel drive. He did such a good job on this Unimog. I'm really pumped for this kit, and I can't wait to uh get this going at home. Man, this is going to be a cool build. That thing is awesome. I turned around from the LDO booth, and Tristan is over here at the Kumaods booth. I don't see Matt right now, but what do you what do you see, buddy? What are you looking at? What is that? A tiny resin printer. >> The tiny maker in the tiny washing cure station. That's amazing. You know who would love that? Mommy. She loves mini stuff. That's awesome. So, this is the Akuma Mods booth. His first time he's bringing a booth out and uh representing the resin printing. He's running around in here somewhere, but we'll get back to him later maybe if we can find him. But Tristan saw all this really cool resin stuff and especially the tiny little tiny maker. That thing's awesome. We got the Green Gate 3D booth. They always got some really cool stuff. They have their Green Gate 3D uh Death Racer. Are you guys racing it today? >> We are not. >> You're not. >> We're protecting this. Unfortunately, >> you're protecting it. All right. All right. [laughter] Well, hopefully hopefully we'll see out there one of these battles. But uh Rich always has some really awesome stuff. And one of the things that I love is the colors of these flowers. This is the uh Greengate PETG translucent. And this stuff, these colors are just freaking awesome. And you guys got such the perfect table right next to that sunlight >> to shine in and show the colors. Another good way to see them is if you scroll through all their vases. This is the colors they make. And you can just see the shine off the facets of these vases. So, so cool. 100% recycled. That's awesome. 100% made in the United States. Check it out. Green Gate 3D. Here's the scrap plastics. >> Oh, that's what they get for scrap. >> Yep. Then we turn it >> and they turn it into the pellets. >> Nice. >> We add color. >> And they add the color and they fill it. So that's Greengate 3D. And you can get yourself some uh recycled PTG. I love this stuff. They have a purple. This one right here. >> That is my favorite purple ever. So >> check that stuff out. On to the next one. We're here at the Hyperdrive Design booth and Tristan found some sweet stickers. What do you got? Whoa, those are awesome. What do you say? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Hey, you guys, the booth is killing it again this year. >> Love seeing this stuff, man. >> Beautiful. >> What is that? A ring pop. >> Yeah. >> That's awesome, man. I love this. She said, "Be careful. Don't get poked." That's pretty cool. I love it, guys. That's so cool. This This looks awesome. The hood's printed. Looks like the boots, of course, the weapon. A So cool. All right, Tristan stopped us. We're over here at the Poly Maker booth. Got all the typical Poly Maker peeps here. Well, Joel's here at least. And of course, layer by layer, right? >> Danny, how you doing? >> I see your arms. >> Whoa, there's what? >> Where? >> Whoa. Awesome. Yeah, I love it. So, this is a game. When he starts this, the object of the game is to uh grab the darts as they fall out. It's kind of like one of those agility games and you just never know where they're going to fall. >> No. >> Oh. Oh. This is so cool. >> Oh, he got one. He got one. That's awesome. So, like it's one of those agility games where everything falls and you just try to catch. They look like hotends here. And if you scroll through, you got all the cool Poly Maker logos. >> There we go. So, we're not going to try the game, but we're going to try this giant dice tower. This thing is a monster. He's got a really big 3D printed dice. Tell me what you're going to do, bud. >> You going to put it in? >> Yeah. >> All right. You got a 20. What? So, this is the Poly Maker community prints table. So much cool stuff here. We got this helmet. We got some blasters going on. Of course, we got the Death Racers. We got the mini version, like the normal version of this dice tower here. And uh all of the really cool stuff. And of course, a droid. A little droid here. All right, we're looking at pen. It has different color inks that you can push. Oh, you got one from Joel. What do you say to Joel? Hi, Joel. >> Hello. >> How are you? >> Doing good. >> We got we we got some uh maker chips here, too. Did you get a maker chip yesterday? >> Yes. You want to get one for me real quick? >> You got maker chips? >> He's going to put it right in his chip holder for me. Here we go. And then behind you, we got like a floating What? >> That's the uh the maka. So ground. >> What? >> The real McCall. >> It's easy to plant and everything's flat. >> Yeah, >> there's I don't think I face and the legs. >> Wow. It's actually It's flat pieces and they all kind of stack together. >> Yeah. The feathers then you heat up like haird dryer. >> Oh, that's cool. >> It is time consuming, but it's it's a cool. >> Oh, let me let me jump down here. Hang on. Whoa. What is that? >> A fun little fidget sp >> super cool fidget thing that Tristan just found on the uh poly maker tape. >> It's like, you know those uh the liquid uh things you can never hold. It's almost like that. >> As we're walking through, there is a huge transformer going on over here. This thing is monstrous. How tall is this? >> Uh 10 and 1/2 ft. >> 10 and 1/2 ft. That is a huge project. Holy crap. >> I can't even get the whole thing in here. And of course, other huge projects hiding over here. We got Krampus, right? Hiding over there. Let me back up and see if I can get this. Holy moly. >> That is awesome. Power of 3D printing, right? Nice work. >> Well, how you doing, Zach? >> I'm doing pretty dainty. a little bit crazy in his diaper. >> He's always got some really awesome stuff. We started covering this thing what, four years ago at least. >> Uh, and it's all painted and it looks so good now. And he's got some awesome weapons here. If you were at Rocky Mountain, uh, you saw the knight running around. We have some really cool footage of the night. Maybe I'll put it in here while we're talking. I got to get you that footage still. >> Yeah. But uh we had him running around when we opened the doors waving the big Murf uh Rurf flag. If we come around, we see some really awesome armor. This is just super cool, man. I love that you print all this awesome stuff. Wow. Look at that. Full chain mail. That's beautiful. It really is. >> Thank you. And even the lacing is TPU. >> The lacing is TPU. Awesome. So, he just told me the lacing on that's TPU. Of course, we got some maker chips. Tristan, you want to grab a maker chip? Cool. We're going to put that in our maker chip uh thing. And >> I feel like I only got three. >> You think you already got one? >> You got limited. >> Oh, he's got a special one. Let me back up. So, Zach has some special maker chips that only he's given out like limited of. That's awesome. Let's check it out. Whoa. Let's see. The light is right in my way, but super cool. Says any maker Zack on there. He said, "Do you say thank you?" Awesome. Thanks, Zach. We appreciate it. Go check out Zany maker Zack's stuff. This thing is he's got awesome stuff. Always has huge scale things, too. So, that's super cool. >> Little prints. >> So, Tristan and I were walking and we found the uh table right here for Gerari 3D. Joey, the king of drawers, is over there talking about his drawers to everybody, but we wanted to check out some of the really cool stuff that he printed. It looks like he actually has a table partner uh with Caleb. I I say that because Caleb's masks that we saw in his shorts are over here. These things look even better in person than they did on your uh shorts, Caleb. Helmets we got going on. Lightsabers, blasters, all the really cool stuff. And this is where you can find it. >> There you go. >> That's a hot. >> You scroll back over here. And we got of course a hot makes represented in the house. There you go. Tristan's Tristan's talking to Joey and uh he he really liked this. >> What is it, buddy? What do you see here? So, that's a drawer. >> Boom. That's a big drawer. >> That is a really big drawer from Joey. >> And when he takes it off, he puts it up here on a spinner. And that's what caught Tristan's eye. Really? Spinning drawers by Gerari 3D. Get yours today. >> Gen two locked modular system. We're going to go check out the next thing. >> I think it's getting full. >> Your maker chip thing's almost full. Yes. >> Well, well, we better go empty it so we can fill it again. Huh? We were walking by and we saw the tiny little benie over here. That little guy right there. Look at that. They're so small. I love it. >> This is a Morpho printer. It's going to be on Kickstarter soon. Yes. >> I hadn't seen this until I we showed up and uh he you let him test this last night. So, I was like he's like, "We got to go back and get a train." What I really like about that is you can see what's happening. So, you can open it up, buddy. It's going to settle to the bottom like a like a 3D printer basically. >> Yes. >> Silicone mat pulls it right off. And let's check it out. Man, that looks great. Did you do a gloss or was just just >> No, no, no. Just CMYK. >> Just CMYK. Okay, dude. That looks so good. So, of course, we're walking through and we have to check out the droids here at Murf. This is Dawn's droids. He has the R2-D2. Well, Tristan loves droids. He absolutely loves them. What? >> He's holding all his magnets we just got at Morpho. But is that awesome? roids. So, we have a fulls size R2. We have the BB-8 hiding over there. And there we go. I can't remember which one's this. >> Conchk. >> GK. >> Gunkk. Yeah. What do you think, buddy? He loves them. Let's go over there and check out the mouse droid. >> Whoa, that's cool. Hard to see on the camera, but it's a spinning thing. Look at that. It's a mouse droid. >> Awesome. We got the big printer here doing some pen plotting. I love this idea. I I am not a good drawer, so this was this is really cool. All right, buddy. We saw some really cool stuff in here. You saw the droids. You got some more foam magnets. What do you think? Should we go to the other building and check out that? >> Yeah, let's go. So, we are at the Midwest RepRap Festival and Tristan here has a brand new Death Racer. What do you got to say, Tristan? So, this is my death racer. I'm going to race it out here >> with all the rest of the death racer. Even a boss. >> Nice. You going to have fun? >> Yes. >> We got to thank you. Uh, we got to thank Voxil PLA for uh sponsoring the filament for the Death Racer. Can you show us the Voxil? Let's see. >> He's got a lot of stuff. So, Voxil PLA. We got Vauxil on the side of the candy corn racer. We're calling it. Thank you so much, Voxville, for sponsoring the material for this. Also for sponsoring uh some of our booth here at the Midwest Repar Festival. We have uh boxes, we have flyers. We're telling people about Voxil. And uh get that off there. Sorry. And and we're about ready to race. We got about 7 minutes. We're going to fire it up. Get the Death Racer warmed up. Are you ready? >> Yeah. >> All right, let's go race. So, so as you can see, we have a huge area for Death Racers this year because they put a lot of the vendors and stuff in the other building. There are combat robots on the other side way down there and they're pretty loud. So, we got a course. I believe they're going to have them drive through here called like agility course kind of thing. And then uh they're going to do some death race battles. Death racers are going to be fun. And Tristan's first battle is about to come up. Tristan found a little group to stand with here. We got uh Tristan is six. I believe you're eight, right? Eight and 10 years old. And they're gonna come out here and do some battle. Good job. You're doing great. Tristan's in his very first death race battle here. You can see there's a ton of racers here. A lot of racers. Watch out. Watch out for Jeremy. Run. Run. Run. Get out of there. Oh, there you go. Good job. Watch out. Watch out. He's going to get you. Oh, he got you. What do you think, bud? You have fun? >> Yeah. All right, Tristan's grabbing his head. We're going to reset. We're going to settle his death racer back in and get get him onto the next race. That was good. >> Tristan's out in the center of the battle already. >> Oh. Oh, they got him already. >> It's day two death racers. Sam is going over stuff now. Tristan is ready to have some fun with his death racer. Tristan is lined up. We got racers of four and you got a I The idea is you have to get through the hose maze here. It's kind of a track, right? And then get out through the cones the fastest. Here comes Tristan. There goes Tristan. Go, go, go, go, go. Yes. Good job, buddy. Good job, buddy. Go around him. There you go. Go, go, go. Okay. Oh, tip him over. Tip him over. Yes. Go. He's going to drive it back. He did really good through those cones. He avoided getting hit, which is great. And he's flying. Woo! Get him. Whoa. I got it. >> Come back quick. Oh no. Watch out. Jeremy's going to get you. >> The final battle. It's Jeremy and Tristan. >> Get him. >> Oh. Oh, >> get him, buddy. Spin the other way. Spin the other way. >> Oh. Oh. [screaming] >> Uhoh. >> Hey, buddy. Spin the other way. Oh, >> Tristan just won. >> What do you think, buddy? Was that awesome? >> So, we got the big death race, the final death race, and Tristan actually won. He was battling Jeremy in the end. And uh Jeremy's head came off first thanks to Thanks to Jeremy for being a great sport on that. That is such a great time. Tristan, what do you think? Thumbs up. >> Yeah, he doesn't have a mic on right now. Such an awesome race. There's chaos behind me. They're battling to the death. I'm going to get a photo of these guys and then let them jump in. What's up everybody? It is day two right here at the Midwest Rap Rap Festival Murf and we're going to go look at some cool stuff that's right around our area today. Right. >> Yeah. >> All right. We made it over to the Tech Jeeper booth. This is the I think this is Tristan's favorite booth, right? >> Yes. >> What are you seeing? >> What is that? >> A marble run. a marble run. How does it work? Show me the things. >> So, this >> and then over here is >> has other places and then it comes down here, but this path is blocked by this because it gets stuck right here and gets stuck over here. >> So, it comes up the conveyor and it goes down and there's some paths that it can take. It looks like you can switch this so it can go this way. >> Yeah, but that's just a block this way right now because it's getting stuck right here. Oh, >> but it still goes, but it gets stuck right here. >> Okay, gotcha. So, and you've been here a lot of the weekend like fixing it, right? Helping people with the marbles. >> One of the cool things is look is it it's 3D printed marbles, right? >> Yes. >> Well, this is the new one from Tech Jeeper. He built one last year, too. Um, this one's bigger and better and uh really cool. What else you see over here, bud? >> Pinball. >> Pinball? No way. This is Murf Pinball. Tech Cheaper made it and Tristan's going to show us how to play it. So, it's all 3D printed. Uh, you flip it up and then you got the flippers and >> and then when it goes on the hole, you can go down here. >> So, you take a a marble or a bearing. >> A marble. >> Yep. >> And then here, it goes down here. Lift this up. Yeah. >> That goes through there. Hold it. >> There we go. Nice. And that just you lose automatically if that goes does that. No, that's just actually a free ball. So, it just comes down here and then you >> Oh, it's a free ball. I see. >> Cool. Can you try to get it up over the bridge? Try to hit it over the bridge. >> Well, I can't. >> Sure you can. >> It's impossible. >> Well, yeah, I can. >> That's pretty awesome, huh? >> I can do that. >> Well, I tell you what, Tech Jeeper uh really has some cool stuff here. Again, this is the this is the 3D printed uh marble marble run, sorry. And the 3D printed pinball. Of course, he's showing the posetron over here, too, which is really cool. I appreciate it. Have a good one. >> We'll do that. Bam. We'll we'll see you soon. >> See you. >> So, now we're at the Hedgehog Makes booth. What do you think? >> It's awesome. >> Does he have trains? >> Yes. >> Yes. Can you show me something real quick? What do you got? An engine. >> That's pretty awesome. Is this all 3D printed train stuff? Yeah, >> Tristan loves trains and we're gonna check it out. So, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna uh take your microphone and let's ask let's ask him some questions. How about that? Sound good? All right. Here we go. >> So, I Austin's got the mic. We're going to ask Austin some questions. How you doing, man? Good. >> I just wanted to get you in your whole booth, David. >> All right. >> All right. I'm going to bring it in. >> Awesome stuff here. >> Yeah. Yeah. A lot of awesome stuff. So, we got 3D printed trains. Of course, you brought out the uh the semi-tanker again. Yep. and uh all the good stuff. But the the trains, where do you get the files? Like where did you find this? What kind of >> So all of these trains are from printed toys.com. >> Okay. >> This is a designer who specializes in making very custom trains that are designed to be played with and actually used and abused. They all assemble with screws. They all print on little mini printers. So you can Oh, nice. >> Essentially, if you have a 3D printer, you can make these. >> So you can do it like on an A1 mini or mini or whatever. Uh 80 millimeter printer. >> 80 millimeter. Holy moly. >> Any any printer. >> So, do they have kits? Like, can you order kits or do you got to source the screws? >> Part you would need to source is screws. So, >> okay. >> Um, all the information is on the website. There are a few different sources to get them, but that's it. Once you get some screws, you can build all these trains. And >> that's super cool. So, what about these guys? These guys are awesome. >> Yeah. So, these are the ZH1. Um, these are printplace cars that fix design. So they print like this. >> Fix some dude. >> And I printed, of course, a bunch of them in multicolor. In fact, this one is multiaterial. I printed the wheels in place on the Snapmaker U1. >> Yeah, the Snapmaker's great for TPU, by the way. Uh >> I ripped out all those um treads for the the new death Death Racer we made for Tristan. We did the two-part um we did the two-part treads and it just was nothing. It was awesome. >> Very cool. Some other stuff I printed on the Snap Maker, of course. the Watchful Owl, a very impressive two and a half day print with Polymaker filaments. >> And of course, the Starry Night vase, which has been extremely popular. This is all 3D printed. It It doesn't even look like it. It's It's It's >> That is awesome. And on camera, it looks so good. Like, >> it does. >> Wow. And And these are just with uh four different colors. >> Yeah, four different colors on the U1. >> Nice. And of course, um, if we back up a little bit, you we got we got the maker chips. Got to have the zombie hedgehog maker chips. >> That is, uh, Twisty Prints. So that's a designer over on Fangs who makes some very interesting designs, uh, of different styles. They're all designed to be printed in multicolor, so you can just, you know, send it to your your bed, assemble it a little bit if necessary, and then you get these cool creations. >> Awesome. And then I mean we can't we can't go anywhere uh without talking about this castle. What's going on here? >> Yeah. So this is actually a lamp so you can light it up. It has >> well if you put lights in it's a lamp. If you don't it's just a decoration. >> That's awesome. >> But it has a full capacity for lighting and all the pieces they come apart. So each of the components are printed individually. And I did these on the Snapmaker U1 as well. You can print them in a single color but I wanted to do this cool pattern that's available. And it's a school print. >> Awesome. And of course, last but not least, but I mean, we got to talk about the the tanker. I've showed this in B-roll. We've showed it in like highlight reels and all that stuff, but we never really talked about the fuel tanker that you build. I got to point out that that most of this is in your your filament, right? >> Makes Galaxy Red limited edition filament. >> Yeah. >> I wanted to make a very very cool display piece, >> right? >> And this was it. So, this is the 3D sets Rocky tanker truck. Um, definitely one of the bigger things I built and definitely one of my favorites. It uses just rechargeable double A batteries. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. Four or eight of them. >> Nice. >> And just generic little motors. It's very simple. It works very good. >> And it's it was a very fun print. Very involved. I actually purchased a second 3D printer just to make [laughter] all these parts. >> You kind of print as you go with these projects. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's it's so cool to see this thing. We've seen this at a couple of like what at least a year now. You had it last year, too, I'd say. >> Yes, I had it at uh it debuted at Rocky not repro festival with my hedgehog mix galaxy red table and then I brought it to Murf and it's been living with >> poly and it's fast. Like it moves uh faster than I thought it was going to move. >> It's very fast considering that it runs on AA batteries, >> right? I love that. Uh, and and I guess I said last but not least, but I mean like >> uh I gota I got to back up to this and rub it into Zack Freriedman a little bit. Um, there's the the winning multiple time winning death racer here. The Hedgehog's Make Death Racer uh yesterday didn't didn't go so didn't go so great uh for most of us yesterday, but >> yeah, I snapped my my weapon. Um Oh, no. >> This was a from a previous Death Racer. must have had battle damage cuz it immediately snapped. Sure. >> So, I got that replaced. >> You know what's funny? It was laying I have I'm pretty sure I have footage of that. If I can find it, I'll put it in here. But it was laying next to Tristan's after he got taken out. I was like, it looks like zombies weapon. I'm pretty sure it is. I think your head and some other Yeah. >> But but it's it's these things are so much fun. I wish we got more time to play with them because >> we do it what a couple times a year. And >> yeah, they're very they're very fun kits and of course you can play with them at home. They're very fun. >> I strongly recommend even if you're not battling a death racer, just pick up a kit and build it. It's a fun 3D printing >> process. And and and Zach Freeman, I just want to point out this does follow spec. It is in rules. >> This is a 100% stock. >> Oh, look. You broke off the front uh broke off the front, too. >> With some broken parts. >> Yeah, that's okay. It has what is that called? The katan front. >> Yeah, the katan front. >> That's what we did, too. >> This is the decorative part. I thought it looked cool. >> Yeah. Thanks, man. I really appreciate that. Thank you. >> We got to We got to go track uh Tristan down. Sorry. We got to go track Tristan down because as I pointed out several times, if I pan over here, he's still over at Tech Jeepers booth. We're getting near the end of the day of day two and we found Pezless's booth. She is started cleaning up, so we had to run over here and we had to talk to her. Right. What'd you find over here, buddy? >> Pez and a bus. >> Pez and a bus. That's awesome. And she gave you a couple unicorns yesterday. It kind of sounds like Pez in a bus. >> Pez in. That's That's right. Sounds like Pez in a bus. That's awesome. >> Pez truck. >> Oh, we got the Pez truck. >> Yeah. Oh, that's sick. Got to have the PZ truck. She's got PZ to everything. So, um >> cuz her name is Pez Liz. >> How you doing? >> I'm great. >> Good. How was the weekend? >> Absolutely fantastic. Murf is always a fantastic event. Whatever it evolves to, >> we're ready. >> We're ready. We're ready. Well, thank you. She actually put on the Friday night chili's extravaganza where we had a whole ton of people show up at Chili's and took over the restaurant kind of. So that was a lot of fun. But um I got to ask you, so I don't think we've ever actually talked about this, but uh what what got you into PEZ? I got I got to know this. Uh, I was at summer camp and we were playing a name game and by the time it came around to me, people had taken like, "My name is Liz and I like lemons." So, I said, "My name is Liz and I like pomegranates." And so then it was his that turned into Pez. >> Nice. [laughter] That's a funny story. Well, you're, you know, you're always hanging out with us on Hot Makes, too. And don't forget they have Z&Z >> Monday nights after Hot Makes. >> Yes. So, you get you get to take a little break, have your supper, and then go into Z. >> Z&Z. And I think we're going to do like a crossover sometime soon. So, we're going to do >> We're going to do it for St. Jude. I think we're going to do that. >> Let's do that. Yeah. Kevin Kevin's still got his stuff going on over here with the darts, but unfortunately keeps giving Tristan uh more and more and more Nerf blasters to take home, and that's going to be great when we get home. Mom's going to love that. >> So, I have an important question for everyone in 3D printing. >> Are you team stab? Oh, >> or don't stab. >> See, stab or don't stab. That's a St. Jude thing going on right now, too, right? >> So, for the merch that's on my uh in my merch shop, stab is winning. But for every single piece of merch purchased, we have been donating $5 to St. Jude. >> Nice. >> But uh well, we'll be doing more of that coming up. >> And for those of you who don't understand that, that is like if you get a filament bag, right? Do you stab? Do you stab that filament bag or do you open it up uh like a a regular person? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I I got to say I'm I'm team stab. I don't even look. >> I'll just This is how easy it is. Watch. Watch. >> First, do not open from this size. >> Don't open it, sis. >> Okay. Even if you don't have scissors or cutters, you rip it this much. Oh, >> then you rip a bit this much and then you open it like a bag of chips and you still get the satisfaction >> of the air going in >> of the air. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Of course, this is a very rare >> hedgehog. Red is I heard I heard he might be like one of the number one streamers uh on on YouTube. Yeah. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> We are the number one duo that streams with 3D printing on Twitch. >> There you go. Perfect. >> G&Z. >> I love it. I love it. And uh if you're me, you just stab the center and rip it open. That's that's what I do. Um >> but look, watch this. >> I'm getting ready to go home. >> I take this. I put it here. I take these. I put them in the >> Oh, look at this. So, she's telling us why she does not stab. So, team stab is winning. She's trying to get team no stab to jump back in the lead. Jump over. What is How do we find your shop? Uh, I on peslas.com. >> peslas.com. There you go. >> Very easy. It's even on my maker. >> Awesome. Let's Let's go show you. peslas.com. It's on the maker chip. Uh, here. Let me do this. >> Yeah. See? >> Awesome. Thank you so much. You guys have been awesome. And you've been awesome to Tristan. I know he's kind of all over. And uh, you've hooked him up with Pez. You've hooked him up with Prince. And I tell you, if we look, thank you. He is He's having so much fun. And I tell you, if we look, this is kind of a a thing. Like, he started the video with us. Now he's back at the marble round. >> So, that's that's where he's lived a lot of this weekend. [laughter] But awesome. Thank you so much. Have a safe trip home. >> Thank you. >> We'll see you at the next one. >> You too. >> Bye. >> So, now we're over at the K2, Kevin, the maker chip table. And of course, one of uh Tristan's favorites because he has like tons of Nerf guns. He's doing a donation to St. Jude's Hospital. You get to bring home Oh, he got you. You get to bring home a Nerf gun and uh if you do a donation. So, we we got a couple donations and a couple Nerf guns. And Tristan's trying to take the rest of this table. So, we're going to >> hopefully >> Do you like those two? >> Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. Which two did you already grab? Can you go grab them? So, Tristan has these two. These are so far his favorite. And uh we got to do some big donations to St. Jude's, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, we got to do some >> Yeah, I like these, too. >> At least 25 cents each. No, I'm just kidding. So, you like those? He loves Nerf guns. We have a lot of uh Nerf blasters. Sorry. Nerf blasters. Gez. And uh what else? So, so Kevin has been uh kind of like Kevin and Tristan have been firing them at each other all weekend cuz we're kind of across the way. Tell you what, buddy. Let's give Kevin the mic and let's ask him some questions about his table. Okay. All right. So, now we got we got Kevin the mic. We're here at uh the the K2 Kevin Maker Chip table. U we have been seeing like tons of stuff on Hot Makes all the time and we had to come say hi to Kevin. How you doing, man? >> How you doing? >> So, what I decided to do, my son had a large collection of Nerf and I'm like I I see people here, they love their Nerf blasters. >> So, I decided to go ahead and bring the cold collection cuz he's done with it. >> Yeah. and let's go ahead and and offer it up as like donations to St. Jude. >> Awesome. >> Um Austin and Liz uh did a kind of a a little subscribeathon donation. They raised over $8,000 for St. Jude. >> Wow. >> Liz went to their campus, was invited to their campus. >> That's awesome. >> Uh with a bunch of other content creators. >> Sure. >> And we thought, hey, let's just give away some of these things. We don't have a price tag on them. It's just donation only. So, it's a nice way to, you know, give back with a little table here. >> And it's right next to the Maker Chip table. >> Yeah. Let's And and you know what? That's amazing. I love that you're doing this. I hope we're raising some decent money this weekend. You do have a QR code, so if you guys want to jump in there, uh let's see if I could shoot it. There you go. Help out uh St. Jude and and uh you won't get a blaster because well, you're donating over QR code over a video, but but you can help out anyway. >> We got Death Racers firing up behind us, so it's going to be a little bit loud. It's going to get loud. We'll do this quick. >> So, this is kind of the star of the show. It has grown every year since we've seen it. >> It really has. >> So, so what are we looking at? Like, >> you know, these are past shows. So, these panels actually was kind of a little collaboration, but mainly designed by Utron or Udo in Japan. And when he came out here for 3D Printopia, I decided to display them. And uh this is how I'm displaying all the past show maker chips. Uh I was fortunate enough to get a couple hundred from Japan Rep. >> That's so cool. >> And that is this panel and the first panel on the other side. >> This panel is all from Japan. >> Yes. And then the other side is a a full panel. >> Nice. >> And that came from Joel at Poly Maker. He hunted them down for me, which was great. >> It's so cool. I love that you display them and you bring them out and you know you got >> when you see somebody looking for their own. That's what they really Where's mine? I was at that show and then they find it. >> Yeah. >> Like Yeah. You're there. You're there. >> That's so cool. >> And the designs are are pretty they're getting better and better. >> Yeah. Every year they seem we see different things and um you know I like a lot of people tag them on on hot makes and we try to show off as many as we can. And I mean the Japan ones literally are next level though. They really are. >> Some of them we we you actually did one the other day that like transforms into the spider >> spiders up on top here. >> Oh yeah, that's up here. That one actually break. [laughter] >> Well, that's the worst part. If you break it, it's not like you can get a new one right away, right? >> I mean, you know, I can't even reprint that one. So, >> yeah, I know. So, if you look right here, we got the uh take one, the maker chip pile. And uh he just has so much cool stuff. I am so glad that you did this project. It's been what, two years now? >> Thanks. you know, might be going on three now. I think we're on three. >> I mean, the the project is is awesome and it just gives us all kind of a goal because we had maker coins before, but everything was different. And that's not that's okay, too. It >> But this kind of gives us a little bit of uniformity and direction. I I saw at the time when I was kind of coming up with an idea for Rocky Mountain 2023 or maybe it was 2024. Um something that was more collectible and not end up in the junk drawer, you know. >> Sure. Yeah. Yeah. >> And I thought uniformity was key. >> Yeah. >> And that way other people and you can add you could have displays and so forth. >> Are the displays are those like can you print them? Are they open source? You >> can you can actually this >> Okay. So the the poles I had never released a pipe, but these are actual hanging displays. >> Um that is on a collection of mine on Maker World, >> right? >> So I have a Maker Chip collection on Maker World. I have one on printables, but you Udo did not post this there. He posted on Maker World. So it is there. You could download and print it. >> I have done a few modifications to it, you know. >> So dude, look up K2 Kevin on Maker World. find us find a collection and then you can you can actually print those hanging display things. >> I was going to release these cuz there's been a lot of people that wanted their own. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Um so that might come along too. >> And and you just talk about this one. >> All the holders. This is the Maker Chip Matrix. >> Nice. >> And uh actually that name was from Zack Freriedman when I designed this on stream. >> Yeah. >> Zach was there and we were talking we needed a name and >> call it the Matrix. I'm like deal >> Makerhip Matrix. I love it. I love it. Thank you, man. I really appreciate it. >> You take care. >> Thanks. One booth we haven't talked to yet is Big Jano. Jano's here at at Murf 2026 in in the building that we're in. And what do you see? >> I see this. >> What is this? Like a city? You see all the lights? >> Yeah. >> Well, I tell you what, let's let's hand him the microphone real quick and let's ask him some questions. How about that? >> All right. I'm I'm I'm handing Jano the microphone. >> Okay. Tristan is going to the Marvel run. >> Yep. There we go. All right, let's do this. >> So, this is the gingerbread city. There is about 800 LED pixels in this project this year. Um, all this was all this was printed on my Prussa XL and right now it's currently running a 30ish minute music and light show. I am currently using Xlits, which is the same software many people use on their outdoor light projects in the >> Oh, really? That's cool. >> Um, and then this controller in the back here is running both the lights and the show, syncing them together. And all this, uh, the whole display, the whole city is something I kind of have done the last couple years. I've done 3D printed gingerbread houses in the past. Uh, but this particular model is available on my printables page, and I'll probably be doing another version of this next year of some of some scale. >> Yeah. Well, and you do all the cool light up stuff. Sorry, the battle robots. They're combating over there, the Battle Robots, and it's super loud. So hopefully it's not too bad in the microphone. But but yeah, you do such cool light up projects. You can check them all out at uh that big Jano there. He does, I think, Twitch. Twitch. >> Twitch. And I also make YouTube videos as well. There's >> uh Patrick made a video not too long ago breaking down uh the types of LEDs I use, what power supplies, controllers I use to make all these awesome projects. >> Awesome, man. Thank you so much. I'm glad you're here. It's great to see you again. >> Always great seeing you. >> Yeah. I got to go find Tristan. He's literally back over by the marble run again. So, [laughter] but Tristan uh reoccurring theme of the video. Tristan is here by the Marble Run again. He absolutely loves this thing. I'm standing here with uh with Cody, also known as as Tech Jeeper. We're just hanging out at the booth. It's almost the end of the day on day two and uh we're going to start packing up pretty soon. I mean, it's I it's almost 1:00 and I think it goes till 3, right? Goes till 3. Um Tristan Cody, he has a question for you. Hang on. >> Since you since you helped keep it keep it running all weekend, do you want to take that home with you and you can maybe add it to your dad's new studio? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You like that idea? >> Yeah. [laughter] >> All right. What do you say? >> Look at that three. >> Oh, there goes three. What do you say? Hold that. >> Thank you. >> Hold it. >> And good job on the death racers. High five. >> High five. >> I won the last round. >> You won the last round. It was really good, buddy. >> Yes. Can you say, "Oh, it's stuck." Oh, >> what do you do to stop? Fix it. >> It's stuck. So, I just walk over here and then I check the gear if it's stuck. Then I press it in if it's the gear and then it starts working. >> Oh, I lost you. There we go. My camera went wonky for a second, but what do you say? >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. You want to give Tech Jeeper a high five? I know you already did, but there we go. Now we got an official Thank you so much, man. It's the end of the day on uh Sunday here. We're about ready to pack up and I don't know if we've really shown our booth. We got so much cool stuff here. Talon T4 uh a bunch of uh Death Racer stuff. The Desk Racer thanks to Offset Maker Lab. Pez Liz uh came up with this last year and we had to print one of those for Tristan. As far as the Pez dispenser, we have a really fun balance game and of course the uh winning death racer today. So, the winning death racer, uh Tristan is on one side and let me just pop this around and we got Voxil on the other side. Thank you so much to Voxil uh for sponsoring this video and the filament here for the Death Racer. We like to call it the candy corn racer. It is a winning racer. It won today in the final death race and Tristan did an amazing job driving it. So, thank you so much Voxil for uh sponsoring us, for believing in us and providing the filament. Um, if you guys haven't checked out Voxil, go do that. Voxalpla.com. You It's made in the USA. All of the filament they make, the PLA, the PETG, they use in a huge print farm that they have themselves. You can get spools for $16.99, low as $14.99. Voxalpla.com. Use code TEOT T and save yourself some money when you're ordering your Voxil. Check it out. It printed really, really good for this Death Racer. It held up good. He had a couple broken pieces, but that was some really big hits that he took. So, thank you again, Voxil, for sponsoring this video. We really appreciate you helping us uh here with our trip to Murf. And we look forward to doing some really cool stuff with you in the future. All right, everybody. It is the end of day two. We got to start cleaning up the table and start the long 4-hour journey home. I say long journey, that's relative. A lot of people come from a lot farther. But Tristan, what did you think? Did you have fun? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. What was your favorite thing that you saw? >> Marble run pinball. >> The marble run and the pinball. >> Yeah. >> That's awesome. He has uh been non-stop at Tech Jeeper's table as you probably have seen throughout this video. And Tech Jeeper uh said that you could take the marble run home. >> Yeah. >> That's going to be awesome. Well, you did an amazing job with your death race, buddy. I'm so proud of you. You did such a great job. Your death racer held up good. You went out there into battle and you won, right? >> Yeah. >> All right. >> It was me and Jeremy left and I got Jeremy. He's usually the hardest for me. >> Yeah, you got him. And he's usually the hardest for you to get. >> Yes. >> So, we're going to start packing up. It is uh it's been raining outside for quite a while, but we're going to start packing up and get our stuff out of here. I just wanted to say thank you again to Voxil for helping us sponsor this video. We really appreciate the filament. We really appreciate the support uh for this video and helping us on our Murf trip here. And Tristan, great job doing your video. I know you were pretty pretty distracted by the Marvel Run most of the time, but that's okay, right? He did a great job. He saw some really cool stuff. Thanks to everybody out there who came and said hi. And of course, uh, you know, anyone that came and was just hanging out here. It was an amazing weekend. Thanks to the Murf team for putting this on and hopefully we'll see you guys at the next one, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Say bye. >> Bye. >> Bye, everybody. [clears throat] >> Bye.