ElectroBoom’s Shocking Probe Into 3D Printing Is More Than Painful

By on April 21st, 2016 in video

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 ElectroBoom's Mehdi Sadaghdar protecting his new LulzBot TAZ Mini 3D printer
ElectroBoom’s Mehdi Sadaghdar protecting his new LulzBot TAZ Mini 3D printer

Mehdi Sadaghdar’s 3D printing tutorial is right on the mark, but also quite painful. 

Who is Mehdi Sadaghdar? He’s a notable Vancouver-based electrical engineer who spends time creating tutorial YouTube videos with a twist: at some point in every single video, Sadaghdar manages to hurt himself badly, sometimes several times. 

It’s funny because you KNOW he’s going to burn or electrocute himself. You just don’t know when. 

 Mehdi Sadaghdar demonstrating how a glue gun is similar to 3D printing
Mehdi Sadaghdar demonstrating how a glue gun is similar to 3D printing

That’s definitely the case in this video in which he investigates 3D printing technology. Sadaghdar explains the process by demonstrating the process of plastic extrusion using a hot glue gun in manual mode. 

His technology process demonstration resulted in a rather flimsy looking glue-tree, which for some unexplainable reason is now listed at over USD$500 on eBay. You may consider bidding yourself.

 Mehdi Sadaghdar’s glue gun-made tree
Mehdi Sadaghdar’s glue gun-made tree

Towards the end of the video, Sadaghdar has managed to land himself an actual desktop 3D printer, in this case a LulzBot mini, where he prints – what else – bombs! 

How does it turn out? Well, you’ll have to watch the entire video, but here’s a slight hint. 

 ElectroBoom's Mehdi Sadaghdar 3D printed bombs experiment
ElectroBoom’s Mehdi Sadaghdar 3D printed bombs experiment

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By Kerry Stevenson

Kerry Stevenson, aka "General Fabb" has written over 8,000 stories on 3D printing at Fabbaloo since he launched the venture in 2007, with an intention to promote and grow the incredible technology of 3D printing across the world. So far, it seems to be working!