The enjoyable factor about thermopolymers like PLA is which you can mix in components, a few of that are essential to make it in any respect usable, whereas so many different components are both simply beauty or arguably simply plain bizarre. In a recent video, [Zack Freedman] goes over a few of the weirdest ones that he’s come throughout up to now.
These vary from the pretty-normal-but-unusual, like CMYK units of filament for full-color printing, to the somewhat uncommon, like very silky PETG and foamy TPU and TPE, all the way in which to the WTAF ones, reminiscent of Timeplast filaments that can be utilized as cleaning soap in addition to fish meals.
He additionally tried a variety of filaments that vie for being the blackest filament doable, whereas others fake to be paper or are made out of literal landfill trash. Some hit your olfactory senses with a hammer by smelling like all of the lemons simply acquired squirted proper up into your nostril, purportedly to maintain flies at bay. There can also be pumpkin spice-flavored PLA, for when you really want to make the vacations additional aromatic.
Overall, the vary of filaments right here is sort of dizzying, with some being really sensible, whereas others are largely about their inexperienced credentials, or about being fairly or having a particular olfactory expertise. Whether any of them are for you relies upon. Do you may have a eager for 3D prints that odor like pumpkin spice or are fish meals? We’ve seen earlier than that [Zack] likes unusual filament.