Awesome 3D Printed Flexible Shoes

[Music] hey what's up guys welcome back to another video hey what's up Gary - welcome back to another video today I have something that I think a lot of people could find very interesting the entire idea of three different issues was quite a bit in the tunnel a year ago then it kind of died out which I thought was unfortunate so I thought I would bring this back with a pair of 3d printed shoes that I found online on Thingiverse you can download this model for free and print them yourself so that's exactly what I did I used three different types of flexible filaments this one is TPU feel of Flex ninjaflex just different names for flexible filaments I want to debunk that common misconception that 3d printers can only through different hard plastics it's not true okay it's partly true but the level of flexibility within within the plastic can vary a ton this ninjaflex is very much like rubber it's going with a less flexible more rigid filament better versus straight-up rubber the white TPU was printed on the TiVo Black Widow and it really did do a good job it's much easier to print TPU than ninjaflex so for that reason this one was printed on the Orca Cygnus it's a new 3d printer that did such an amazing job I'm really astound by how well it worked so I will be using that printer for flexible filament only from now on and it's also the printer that I use to make dual colored print [Music] they they are quite interesting we built if you look at how he threw the printer make something like this you have a whole lot of settings that you could adjust one of which being how thick you wish this portion to be the more material you have the more stiff the shoe is gonna be so you really want to balance flexibility - toughness - layer adhesion 3d printing works by layers this shoe was built just like this in fact it had almost 800 layers and every single stream of extruded material is only point four millimeter wide and with that being said if we take a look on top you have a wall here a wall here now we have a a pattern within called infill pretty much same significant let's just focus on the wall and the wall each being made from just a point four millimeter wide stream of material now in comparison to this one it's made out of two parameters or two walls on each side so it has two walls than some infill and then two walls again and just look at how much more flexible this shoe is then the TPU version this is just to put in perspective how incredibly different two materials can be there are advertised to be pretty much the same I reckon this will be more tough and more durable as well as being significantly more comfortable than this one and just keep in mind that basically any through the printer will be able to print TPU not many printers will be able to print ninjaflex [Music] it wouldn't be a real-life test if we didn't go out to the real world and actually tried them so here I am out in the woods going for a quick run to see just how well the 3d print issues holds up first impression the orange one feels like you are stepping on a cushion of air the white one feels more rigid just like how a shoe normally normally feels like the orange one feels like you're gonna break ankles but hey let's do it [Music] what's this kilometer one I'm dead feels great though this shoes not me [Music] I feel I feel like we covered all the elements we ran through grass there's sand caught whatever that's in English rocks I even think we ran some horseshit at one point you know I feel like we covered all the bases they are fine there's no major damage I couldn't feel any water leaked in there's no puncture in the in the bottom side of the shoe it all held up together the only thing I could see was the lash kind of ripped itself apart that's an easy problem to solve just put the holes further down that should easily fix it I'm super impressed by how well it held together the white harder TPU was definitely less comfortable it feels like I wouldn't be able to hold it for that much longer contrary to the ninjaflex which felt like nothing it feels like you could wear these the entire day no problem the time it takes to make these thirty hours each a total of sixty hours the material is not that cheap either it's probably twenty-five thirty dollars each as well so let's say $50 so if you would like to get yourself a pair of through different shoes they're gonna be $2,000 there's a $1 discount code in the description below no but seriously I hope you found this entertaining it was fun to make and thank you so much for watching and have an awesome day bye [Music]

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Id: hre3UdoxbE0

Length: 7min 16sec (436 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 13 2018