Design & 3D-Print Your Own 8-bit Gaming Figures

[@basiljonesiv3693]

Just wanted to say Thank you! For posting these videos. I use it with my daughter to show her it doesn't always have to be guys doing this and it's fun. She has taken a interest in retro diy, So thank you very much!! Please keep up the great content!! Ps. Great choice in keyboard. I have one too, and I have the c64 version on order as well

[@jakegreenwoodphotography]

What is this keyboard btw?

[@jakegreenwoodphotography]

8bitdo!

[@fruitloop831]

100% Kari has a way of explaining things in a way which many can easily understand

[@TimelordUK]

This girl is just something else!! I hope she will do a video giving a bit of her background explaining how she got into all this stuff, what age she started, and how she learned her skills.

[@TheDotBot]

Thanks for using Inkscape for your ET :)

[@Pbpandolfi]

That song you play during time lapses is so goated

[@chumbawumba1959]

Kari vids always fun and informative ... and I love to hear UK gals say the word **HERE** LOL

[@tonythedonluciano]

Considering her actual age, she definitely has an old soul. Her personality is so retro, and she is so 80's. I love it! 😊

[@tinblue]

I'd be so immensely proud if she were my daughter. My kids don't care about watching, reading or playing anything not made prior to 2015.

[@vel2118]

They say a new born baby can be mucch deeper in wisdom than a grown up depending on th soul

[@LeoMastroTV]

@@tinblue I feel sorry for your kids. Not because of the stuff they like, but because of their parent who is too stuck up in nostalgia.

[@Cheeseshredder]

@@vel2118 you mean a baby compared to an adult in a coma?

[@jestahjava4255]

Your videos are very direct and well edited, it makes them super engaging! I tinker and collect 90s and early 2000s things, but I also have a Commodore 64. Your content is inspiring me to get back into it, thank you!

[@mrsmithdude]

This channel is really refreshing. Concise, informative and cool. Keep up the great work.

[@Turco949]

Ditto!

[@sambrown8636]

Best inkscape tutorial yet! More please :)

[@sambrown8636]

🙃

[@soniccinos]

Awesome! Just awesome tutorial!!! I think that exporting in DXF format in inkscape, Fusion 360 respects the correct dimensions.

[@samidekash]

Wow, nerdity as beautiful as can be. You're marvellous, and ET in his spaceship is fantastic. I love ET for the 2600. I vividly remember how I first found the easter egg and saw the flower flying away, I was absolutely stunned, unable to reproduce it untill I finally found it on the internet. Thanks for all your unique content, you have a great way an and amazing amount of retro-knowledge (must be from your past live), Your videos are always fascinating to watch. Greetings from Germany.

[@alexander2379]

Love your videos Kari! You definitely belong in front of the camera. Excellent knowledge also. Keep it up! 😄

[@FabricioCoriolano]

amazing job and channel I had an retro computer TK 80 and used to dev in this. After that I had a PC XT, 286, 386, Pentium etc and used to built eletronic circuits play sega genesis until now 😂 thanks for share this best memories of my life Keep doing this videos

[@wafflecart]

Such a cosy maker space you have!

[@haywardgg]

This is what YT was made for. I wish more parents encouraged their kids to be this awesome.

[@TimChuma]

That was great I even learned something. An excellent introduction to people who have never tried to 3D print anything.

[@myveryownme]

This channel gives me strong Violet Berlin on Bad Influence vibes. Great stuff!

[@TrickyDicky2006]

I think we may be the only two who remember both the show and Violet herself 😆 But i totally get what you mean by the comment

[@myveryownme]

@@TrickyDicky2006 Haha! Yep, definitely showing my age there. Stand by for Datablast!

[@scottishwildcat]

@@TrickyDicky2006 Hardly! She's also the father of Gaz Top's children, although they separated a couple of years ago.

[@onebeartoe]

This was really cool; I haven't used Inkscape in lots of time! Thanks for sharing!

[@kenneth6731]

This was brilliant, and I truly appreciate it. However, I have to admit that seeing that E.T. brought back some bittersweet memories. I watched the movie when I was young but didn't enjoy it much. Then, I received an Intellivision console. After getting bored with it, I wanted a new game. So, I spent a summer mowing lawns in the scorching sun in Alamogordo, NM, saving up $60. Excitedly, I went to the local K-Mart to buy a new game, only to find that the only one they had in stock was E.T. Taking it home, I found it to be glitchy and unplayable. Later, I saw on the news how they were bulldozing a bunch of unsold E.T. cartridges into the landfill. At 10 years old, that incident frustrated me so much that I didn't touch another game for a decade. But, looking back, that's just how gaming was in the 80s.

[@dylanherron3963]

Excellent content! I need to put more effort into learning Inkscape and GIMP (very capable open-source editors, since Adobe is difficult to trust with money) so this is a nice refresher. Glad to see your comment section enjoying it.

[@fruitloop831]

Love your videos and how you share your knowledge - easy to understand and engage with

[@GregTMann]

So much fun! I watched this with my son, now all we need to do is figure out which 3D printer to buy!

[@DJKav]

Bambu P1S with AMS.

[@SailorJupit3r]

Great Tutorial! Thank you!

[@joshcarter-com]

Kari, my daughter is 17 and entering Colorado School of Mines engineering school this fall. She hasn’t had many role models; too many seem to be trying to hard, and aren’t pursing STEM simply because they enjoy it. We both love that you’re doing projects for fun. Please keep it up-you have no idea who you’ll inspire! Re this project: I’ve done a bunch of multi-color projects using manual M600 filament changes and they work great! I’ve found that 3 layers is usually enough for PLA. With a Prusa MK3 and 0.4mm nozzle I use 0.2mm layers and in Fusion 360 I use 0.6mm steps color to color. For example I did a run of key chains for the teachers at my daughter’s school with 4 total colors. I just had to be careful about the order of color stacking so the base colors were lower and accents were higher.

[@CobraFat2000]

Manual tracing is pretty fun and can give you the opportunity to make really precise coordinates for all the vertices, but I think you could've also traced the image using the Path menu and then just pointed out how many colors to differentiate - in your case 2. The vectorisation and preview process is kind of resource hungry and sluggish. Another thing is - saving with just the 2 colors for these really simple shapes (if the image has any weird gradients in PNG - maybe try switching off any filtering, scanline emulations, anti-aliasing or whatever else might be applied in the emulators). Another option would be to use the same technique you used, but in Blender (also free) from the get-go and you can export to obj and stl or whatever and it has options to change every shape to a bunch of triangles if necessary.

[@gbraadnl]

0:25 excellent choice of a machine; a Lenovo M710q. Slightly older, but still Tiny and powerful. Have a ton of Tinies around the house for virtualization hosts, the desktop for the kids, a router and a set-top box.

[@elude3808]

Amazing, learned a lot! A thing I usually do is print it inverse, so the displaying face is on the bed, that way it turns out nicer (I only do it when the model is flat obviously). Another tip is enable ironing for the top surfaces.

[@Ultra-Violet]

That's really cool, and very well explained, thanks Kari 💜

[@karilawler]

You are so welcome!

[@Rozwietr]

I appreciate the effort and quality of realization, even I knew everything I've watched the whole video :D

[@jeffjenx...]

Cool! I remember when the 8-bit Mario amiibo was released. Maybe I’ll give it a try with one of my own custom 8-bit sprites that I’ve design. Thanks for the tips!

[@flukadamus]

I've been enjoying these videos on retro games and consoles on YT since the start, but this one is personally my favorite so far. Definitely appreciate the use of Inkscape, although I'm an Illustrator guy myself. You've been very impressive. Keep up the great content!

[@dazealex]

Loved the content! More please!

[@paulrb894]

Intelligent and beautiful ❤️ xx

[@mandlecreed02]

As an older UK gamer (started with the Atari 2600 back in the 80's, been a Nintendo/gaming in general fan ever since), I am liking your videos - you remind me of a modern day Violet Berlin (a good thing believe me) - I have just clicked that there Subscribe button and look forward to more of your content!

[@michaelm1]

Greetings and salutations all the way from Czech Republic. And special thanks for the Inkscape tutorial!

[@larsmuldjord9907]

Awesome! Inkscape is pretty great for these things. The "Trace bitmap" option in Inkscape might be able to do some of the work, although I'm unsure if it would be able to do it, literally, pixel perfect, as you do here. That ET sprite is pretty much just as iconic as Mario too. Looks great!

[@TheDotBot]

Hi, I use Inkscape a lot too for creating and editing scalable icons. I've always found vectorising bitmaps to be a bit hit-and-miss. The result looks good, but the nodes are often linked up in ways that make the whole figure difficult to edit so I usually end up drawing a new vector image around the original bitmap. Here I'd have gone straight to tracing around the pixel blocks as Kari did too. Less bother.

[@larsmuldjord9907]

@@TheDotBot Yeah, you are probably right. The bitmap tracing function is a bit finicky in my experience too.

[@notsurt]

As long as the image has clean, sharp pixels without any antialiasing it should produce pixel-perfect result with next-to-zero effort.

[@misjavanlaatum]

That's a really nice keyboard!

[@vitaAutLetum]

8bitdo. I believe that's the famicom inspired version. There's a C64 inspired version as well.

[@kpowerbg]

Great content 🤘

[@patrolmaverick]

That was great. I didn't know you could do that SVG thing with Prusaslicer. That's handy to know! Also a tip for your Mini, there's an "integrated filament sensor" mod on Printables which allows you to hide the filament runout sensor inside the extruder body. I've never been a fan of having the filament sensor swinging off the wiring like the standard setup.

[@tiagoalv3s_]

Glad I've found your channel!!!

[@john005_]

Thank you for showing this so well. I was always intimidated in starting a new programme.

[@tinblue]

Downloading your Manic Miner and Horace figures as we speak. Thank you for this!

[@JamieBainbridge]

Nice tutorial. Inkscape isn't easy to figure out so this is really helpful. I have 3D printed for years and had no idea you could just slice an SVG!

[@christianmayr18]

Thank you for this Video. Nice Keyboard, and Epic Shirt. 👍

[@NeilFeltham]

This is really good content that's actually made me go a start using ink scape for a few projects. Thank you.

[@nobbyse16]

Cool video Kari 👍

[@MicrobiusBlue]

Most Excellent Dude 😎

[@Toad64]

This is a great idea and looks fun, I'm going to try this! Thanks for the video, very clear and easy to follow. Also I was pretty on board with making an E.T. sprite, but then when you printed out his ship too, now I totally have to make it, so cute.

[@Toad64]

So I've made a few prints now, and have had pretty great success. Even printing in only 1 color looks good with each color being a different height, still easy to read. I'm a librarian at a library makerspace and think this would make a fun program, so going to try it and see what people think. I made one change though, as I wanted to use Tinkercad instead of Fusion360. You can export each layer from Inkscape as separate SVGs, then import them into Tinkercad, adjust their heights and group them together to get the same effect! Thanks again for the video.

[@MarioMania05]

Love the Keyboard & the Mini PC

[@mattmartinez3442]

Great video! Thanks for breaking it down into repeatable steps. A similar style of video with the "HueForge" software - showing people how to print more complicated 2D pictures - would make great future content!

[@RegularOldDan]

Ah, the Fusion scaling issue. 😅 I've been using FreeCAD for a while and I've had better luck with importing Inkscape SVGs at proper scale. I'm not certain why Fusion has such an odd scale ratio. Great video - there's a lot about Inkscape that I've not previously learned. You've done a great job of teaching some new skills!

[@Retroguyuk75]

I so want a 3D printer but will have to wait for a while as I just bought a Sidi FPGA device, looking forward to that coming soon. I think Kari will be one of the quickest KZbinrs to get to 100k subs hee hee :). Keep up the good work your awesome.

[@jimedd2561]

Enjoying the videos interesting stuff 👍

[@FlightEagle]

Brilliant content Kari. Nicely explained at a good pace.

[@DaytonCarCare]

Wish I met girls like this growing up. I taught myself QBASIC and binary math just for the fun of it. Even made a space program with a moon lander that shot rockets. I think I used an old Apple IIe, which was a popular computer at the time. Thanks for the content. Brings back memories playing on the first gen of game consoles that started coming out. My hobby turned into a few quality assurance jobs for software companies but later I got into motorcycles and German cars so been repairing, buying, and selling them ever since.

[@dazzauk8334]

Great thanks for this. Always wanted to do this, but not many video demonstrations. I have a Bambu printer with AMS also.

[@TheDistur]

Cool project!

[@joecan]

Well done on free tool selection.

[@davewilliadatech5208]

Hey Kari, it was Wargames! In your short .I got to go the release of in New Zealand when I was 12. great channel keep up the good work :-)

[@marksuper4920]

Wow! What a great tutorial- very well done!!

[@audunskilbrei8279]

Win key + shift + s is a shortcut for screen snipping.

[@Sithhy]

@@jarozlawus But that takes a screenshot of all of your screens at once where as Win + Shift + S takes only a rectangle screenshot of wherever you want

[@audunskilbrei8279]

@@jarozlawus in some cases maybe. But then you get the whole screen when you might just want a small section. And with the screen snip shortcut it goes directly to the clipboard which is enormously convenient.

[@lschmitt]

Just go in windows configuration and change PS button behavior, to open snipping tool instead take screenshot.

[@steve81937]

In Linux we can just press the print screen key like normal people.

[@stevencouncil1859]

No it isn’t.

[@Dom_Mason]

Just got me an Ender 3d printer. Be cool to try this. Excellent! shirt btw ;-). thanks Kari!

[@olafmarzocchi6194]

You can also uso auto tracing in Inkscape

[@r3xxb0bb]

Really enjoying your videos! The inkscape tutorial was a nice bonus. Thanks!

[@karilawler]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@xinzeng-iq7zv]

if the world demands more 8 bit gaming, there shall be 10 bit gaming

[@irblinx]

Great video Kari, very straight forward instructions. I did a video a few years back on printing an SVG, and whilst the SVG to slicer option wasn’t available at the time I still feel I prevaricated too much. Keep up the awesome work 👌

[@AnalogX64]

Great video 😁👍 25K subs with just 7 videos, that is amazing.

[@i.e.game_studio5601]

Wooow very cool vidéo ! 😌👌✨

[@fabiogdeus]

A 3D sprinter is something a bit out from the reality (in the country in where I'm living), but I really loved this video! 😅 And if I could, I would print the little guy from Montezuma's Revenge and also HERO!

[@josephkarl2061]

Love the 8bitdo keyboard 😎 I've got the C64 version in my sights when the opportunity arises 🙂

[@karilawler]

Was a little surprised how good the keyboard is (nice soft, but loud click) … and yes, they gota stop bringing out cool designs, as I need that Commodore one in my life as well lol

[@josephkarl2061]

@@karilawler There is a hobby computer called the Agon Light 2 that does retro style computing. It needs a retro style keyboard to go with it, I feel, and the 8bitdo will do nicely, I think 😄

[@DweezilBubbadown]

So this is the second video of yours that I have watched where you like the Atari game ET. Have you ever watched the video of what happened to many of those games when they didn’t sell?

[@Darthpip]

loved the video :D

[@vitaAutLetum]

Super rad. Really would love one of those Mario prints. Sadly no 3d printer here.

[@thebaldconvict]

Nice, another use for my old Creality printer, I keep meaning to work out multi-colour printing on it, I would love one like yours but I don't think I could justify the cost.... Will have to figure it out though!

[@RoboCop-zn8bt]

Cool stuff! My girlfriend made me Rick from splatter house out of perler beads.

[@cherkim]

Wow, what keyboard is that?

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

It's the 8bitdo retro keyboard. I don't have one myself, but I do have other 8bitdo products, and they are really good quality.

[@SkiPump]

Your keyboard sounds amazing. Did you swap out the switches or are they the ones that come on the 8bitdo?

[@Kavlor1]

I use 3D Builder from the Microsoft store which lets you load in images and creates a 3D object from it based on the darkness of colours , black acts as the mask while everything above acts as a height map (using one colour would be flat).

[@marttull5979]

This channel is what KZbin is all about loving the content may i ask what emulator you used for the screen grabs ? Stay blessed.

[@karilawler]

Stella for the Atari and Nestopia for the NES👍

[@costantinoskitsios]

btw I'm here bc of ur accent. I love the way that speak the British English.

[@Innesb]

Kari has a ‘Midlands’ accent as far as I can tell. If you want to look it up on a map, look for Birmingham (England). The English find the expression ‘British English’ a bit strange… ‘Britain’ encompasses England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland which are different countries. It would be a bit like saying someone from France has a ‘European’ accent.

[@rogerpalsgrove9678]

For a minute there I thought you were going to use Gimp for the vector. Interesting stuff.

[@darrens7973]

Is that Manic Miner on your shelf at the back? Great video, thanks for making technology inspiring and accessible.

[@gbraadnl]

I use Ministeck and an Iron to get results in just a few seconds to merely a minute ;-)

[@YanLipavsky]

Super !

[@HoopyAmero]

If you want more swag with single nozzle color printing you can always mess around with zhop, but I dig the 3D look.

[@based-m00nZ]

GREAT content. 🎉thanks!

[@CooLDEaFY4204Me]

Good video Beautiful ❤😊

[@GeorgesChannel]

Great video!

[@paultheretrogamer]

Cool

[@chironbramberger]

This is great! Thanks!

[@JonMurray]

Love these :)

[@organicio]

Very cool! How long did it take to print Mario?

[@DominikZalewski85]

Which mechanical keyboard are you using?

[@karilawler]

Check out @8BitDoTech here on YT. They make this NES type keyboard, a Famicom coloured one and a soon to be released Commodore looking one👍

[@TheDementation]

Im not sure if you can do it with Bambu labs, but remember in the Prusa you can turn ironing on and get a nicer surface.

[@xinzeng-iq7zv]

this is more a entertainment channel

[@seanmc7128]

Omg and she created the spaceship for E.T. as well? This E.T. doesn't have to phone home now! 🚀🛸🌌

[@thomaswinston5142]

E.T. On the Atari 2600 is one of the greatest games ever made 😊👍👽

[@MrLondonGo]

You're either being sarcastic, or you need to play more games! LOL.

[@EgoShredder]

@@MrLondonGo I remember being at a schoolfriend's house when the game was first released. I was excited to play it, but my friend was embarrassed to show it.

[@kiveynen]

God damn it. I don't wanna be like that, *but* when I see a fair woman talk about it stuff, the last two of my brain cells start clapping and jumping uncontrollably. :D

[@ajeba98]

Dope.

[@TheLevitatingChin]

Cheers for another great vid. I just looked at how much your 3D printer is to buy. Ouch! I don't think I'll be printing Jet Set Willy any time soon.