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James Bruton's Record-Breaking 3D Printed Sculpture Journey
Jun 10, 2024
Discover how YouTuber James Bruton created the world's tallest 3D printed human sculpture and inspired young minds.
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Hello my name's James Brewton and I'm a YouTuber and I'm also the Guinness World Records title
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holder for the tallest 3D printed sculpture of a human. So I've been making things I guess since
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I was a child. My parents used to have to ration sellotape, they used to make lots of things out
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of cardboard. I've been building robots and things like that since about 2004, trying to build walking
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robots. More recently I guess in the last five years or so I've had 3D printing so that's
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obviously made it quite a lot easier to make accurate mechanical parts. And that's where we're
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on to this record really, just to have a 3D printing world record. So the height of the 3D
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print is 3.62 metres. Congratulations, you're officially amazing. Cheers. I had myself scanned
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thanks to Portsmouth University's CCI faculty. So they did the 3D scan for me and cleaned the
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model up and Ken, who's a final year degree student, actually cleaned that model up as part
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of his portfolio and gave me a mesh which I sliced up in Fusion 360 and I printed the parts
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on LulzBot TAS6s with Morse struders which are really fat nozzle extruder on a 3D printer that
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makes them print four times quicker and the parts are really tough because the extrusions are so fat
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so the previous layer sticks really well to the next layer. So it's about 50 kilograms of consumables
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which is 3D printer filament which is three mil filament that comes off the roll and as you can
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see I made it in lots of pieces so I can store it in my house and move it around and put it together
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easily. The next home for the sculpture is going to be back at Winchester Discovery Centre in their
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city space where it's going to be in a creative genius exhibition from about July to September
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2018 to teach kids about coding, about 3D printing, generally get them motivated about science
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It took two months and a lot of printing time to get the world record title so I'm pretty happy
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that I finally achieved it
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