The Padded Room
a show where you get to meet the makers and creators you enjoy watching online.
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a show where you get to meet the makers and creators you enjoy watching online.
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Vic told me a rule he set for himself back when he was starting: the filament had to pay for itself or he didn't buy filament. Two rolls off Amazon was a stretch. So the business didn't really start as a plan. It started as the only way to keep printing. That worked. It worked well enough that he ended up making a video about how 3D printing had killed his hobby — the thing he did for fun was now the thing he owed people. So he went and bought a resin printer that is not allowed to be content. No videos about it, no answers owed to anybody. First thing off the plate was a massive Darth Vader h
You've probably already printed one of Karen's ducks. Nate ran a plate of 25 Uncle Sam ducks off the printer for the 4th — every one of them came off a model Karen Chau designed. So when she sat down with me in The Padded Room, I wanted to get past the ducks and into how she actually thinks. Turns out the ducks are the easy part. Karen came up through 2D design — she's been on Zazzle since 2013, does mascot commissions and small-business sites, and carries a real UX brain into the modeling app. It shows in how deliberately she works: she sketches every model in GoodNotes before she ever opens
Pretzel Prints designs some of the most unique 3D models out there — creepy skulls, a skeleton you bury in a working sand garden, flexi bones — and she does something almost nobody in this space does on purpose: she keeps her best files off the public platforms. In this episode we get into why. We talk design theft, staying an artist inside the 3D printing world, Prusa loyalty, and the wild range of stuff she makes when she's not at the computer — glass blowing, thatched roofs, rocket stoves, and one very cold night in a shelter she helped build by hand. This is the Asylum Life Night Show, whe
