Friday 3d Printing Community Hangout ( F3DPCH ) Logo by Matthewflinchbaugh

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is the official logo of the Friday 3D Printing Community Hangout or F3DPCH for short.
Uploaded files are the following
1-part file is a single file including all the parts of the logo for single extrusion printing.
The files named with Color names are for easy multi-color prints. The files are to be imported into your slicer, then aligned by origin.
After designing these files, I proceeded to do the first test print @ 245% scale on the CR10S in 4 colors, pictured above.
What is F3DPCH?
Well the short story is, it is a stream hosted on different YouTube channels on a bi-weekly schedule. Each stream a YouTube channel hosts the stream, and picks a topic. Those topics have ranged from 3d printing tips and tricks, to troubleshooting, 3d printer maintenance, and 3d modeling software. We've also discussed things like selling 3d printed items, and even content creation. This helps spread exposure to channels big and small, and has created a great community that each week joins via video, or in the chat. For more information scoll to the bottom to see how you can follow when and where the stream will be hosted, and what the topic is for the week.
Long story:
About 1 year before the upload of these files, I (Matt - How I Do It) asked a random question on Twitter of who whould want to do a live hangout that evening. I was met with a response from Vicky Somma (TGAW3d), Heather (A Pyro Design & the 3D Pink Mafia), Lauren Angers (Abuzz Designs), and Tessa (SparkyFace5). We admittedly got of to a slow start, the second question I asked was how was the weather. But we started to get our footing and started discussing etsy, and 3d printing projects. At that time it was random, but the response after the stream was overwhelming. I got so many questions of whether we were going to do it again the following week. So there was enough interest, and we did. This was the start of F3DPCH. I hosted that second stream, then the third stream Travis (A Pyro Design) hosted on his channel. That was the start of the rotating channels hosting the stream. The co-host panel quickly grew to the point that in the 2nd and 3rd stream we overloaded the capabilities for hosts, and actually had a waiting line of hosts waiting to join. The topics mostly revolved around 3d printing, but then we started getting questions about content creation on youtube. A community began to grow, and the great thing was the exposure of changing hosting channels each week, allowed for people watching to learn of other content creators on youtube, and actually began helping smaller channels get subs, and bringing some new subs to the larger channels. We were streaming every Friday up until the summer, when peoples schedules got busy, and the weather was nicer, so we switched to bi-weekly streams. This allowed for the hosts to spend time with their families, and not take a commitment to every single Fiday night. Since then we've been going strong discussing 3d printing, youtube, events like makerfaires, selling 3d prints, 3d modeling software and more. We grew a large community of regulars, and each week we get some new viewers, and some weeks we get new hosts.
If you would like to follow the streams, and find out when and where the stream will be, below are links to the social media sites that we utilize to get the word out.
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/F3DPCH
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/293906417686785/?ref=bookmarks
Email - F3DPCH@gmail.com
If you would like to co-host or host a stream and pick the topic please communicate via one of these methods, and we will get you setup with how to do it.
I would like to personally thank Mike ( NLTMW ) for designing the logo for F3DPCH, in November 2017, we asked for community submissions of logos for the stream, which would then be voted on by the community for the official logo. Mike's logo you see here was selected. I then took Mike's design, and went into Fusion360 and designed the files you can download here on Thingiverse.
We hope to see you on the stream and in the chat, dont be afraid to post questions, we do our best to answer them. Let us know you found the stream through Thingivers, and tag photos of your print with @F3DPCH on twitter, or share on the 3d printing facebook groups, and in the F3DPCH facebook group.