Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce Profile Banner
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce Profile
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce

@zackfreedman

Followers
11,530
Following
1,134
Media
1,105
Statuses
14,877

80% 3D printing, 15% alliteration. 10% the worst puns imaginable

Westminster, CO
Joined October 2008
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
Tweet media one
192
15K
93K
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 months
Holy shit your hand is TINY
@JenMsft
Jen Gentleman 🌺
2 months
How can I resist a joke about this?
Tweet media one
683
1K
11K
12
375
9K
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Scan it. Scan it scan it scan it scan it
94
2K
6K
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Happy Pride everyone
Tweet media one
47
779
5K
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
No sarcasm: The $130 cable is incredible tech. This is a five-foot-long PCIe x4 cable - GPU extensions are four inches. It can feed two 4K displays at 60Hz. It can transfer data faster than an NVMe drive can store it. The fact that this is even physically possible is astounding.
@Carnage4Life
Dare Obasanjo🐀
2 years
Apple’s VP of dongles deserves a promotion for this pricing decision.
Tweet media one
247
791
10K
35
294
3K
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Tweet media one
19
100
941
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
The Maker credo: We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy
13
190
927
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Let me be perfectly clear
Tweet media one
23
46
649
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
People say they’ve never seen @CNC_Kitchen and I in the same room. Here you go.
Tweet media one
18
8
440
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
The idea that ad-blockers are theft is so insanely peabrained it makes me sincerely furious.
26
20
381
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Potato chip (Pic by @EvilMnkyzDsignz )
Tweet media one
9
45
373
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
7 months
Now THIS is a birthday present! Thanks for growing with my silly channel.
Tweet media one
41
7
365
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Comment of the day comes from someone who loves their mother very much.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
18
13
362
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
@ScribblerSys @nyanotech Real Lego connoisseurs prefer the silver crystal
Tweet media one
2
10
326
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
PSA: Never ever use alcohol to clean acrylic. It opens microscopic cracks called crazing that sharply weaken the plastic.
24
26
340
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Light-emitting resistor💡
31
14
324
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
And no, I wouldn't buy a $130 Thunderbolt 4 cable. I don't own anything compatible with it. Everything I use is like seven years old.
4
7
315
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
It’s my 33rd birthday! I survived yet another trip around the Sun.
Tweet media one
35
3
320
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
I want this sign for my 3D print room
Tweet media one
15
15
318
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
6 months
Hey @Prusa3D tell Satan his server is down
Tweet media one
6
23
305
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
This dinky-ass cable has eight impedance-matched conductors and 12 more. It's effectively multiple USB 4 cables that double as multiple DisplayPorts. It's also literally a PCIe x4 cable - Microsoft requires USB4 devices to implement a PCIe interface.
4
13
290
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
When @microcenter restocks the Raspberry Pis
5
25
287
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
6 months
Just ordered over $2000 of filament for the next Every Filament episode. Wacky stuff like weed-scented, mosquito-repelling, extreme black, and air purifying PLA
27
8
264
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
If you're going to max out a $130 cable, it's probably a trivial line item on a corporate budget. 2015's tech was overkill for most users. The point: Apple generally doesn't overprice. They sell high-end items at high prices, and this isn't a $2500 touch-bar-MacBook situation.
4
3
241
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
You call it a stealth bomber, yet here it is on satellite cam. Curious. 🧐
Tweet media one
13
19
242
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
I etched a poptart cat on a poptart with a laser, now to feed it to a cat
Tweet media one
10
30
238
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Hack the things THEN drink the beers, trust me
18
11
234
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 month
More monitors = better code
@yarden_shafir
Yarden Shafir
1 month
What stops you from coding like this?
Tweet media one
1K
41
1K
10
4
222
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Why the fuck is programming so hard? The computer can only do two things, 1 and 0
30
9
215
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
Sucks to be this guy
Tweet media one
21
9
215
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
All of my Gridfinity stuff is now MIT licensed, so go nuts!
4
10
216
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
10 months
Yesss… another maker succumbs to the 42x43x7mm mind virus…
@KatzCreates
Allie (Katz Creates)
10 months
Yea, I'm super late to this but I just discovered @zackfreedman 's Gridfinity system and dear GOD the dopamine hit is real. It's almost like he understands perfectly how my ridiculous brain works and invented an organisation system exclusively to satisfy my needs. 🤔 Almost.
17
41
421
5
13
215
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
8 days
Just impulse bought one. Would it make a good episode?
@Papapishu
undisputed champ of bookmarked posts
9 days
They sell new Windows 95 palmtops with transparent housing on Aliexpress and I am really into them.
Tweet media one
46
142
2K
41
3
215
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
I remember when USB started showing up in motherboards - you could plug anything into any port of any PC and expect it to work instantly without a reboot. Less than 25 years later, it can transmit more pixels than humans can see and transfer more data than a person can produce.
2
5
206
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
4 months
Object-oriented programming is a Marxist psy-op to boost class consciousness.
12
16
207
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
Hyper cursed
@baldengineer
James
3 years
This USB-to-Arduino power "adapter" on Thingiverse is either brilliant or terrible. I cannot decide which... what do you think?
Tweet media one
104
280
2K
18
16
205
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
A lightbulb is a light-emitting resistor
16
14
206
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
If you code for fun and you're not coding in Python, you have a very loose definition of 'fun'
60
6
205
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
9 months
Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity Gridfinity
@printablescom
Printables.com
9 months
We are teaming up with @CoolerMaster to hold a special design contest around the new Qube 500 PC case! It features a modular hole pattern ready for 3D-printed accessories. Join the contest and win the Qube 500, the Original Prusa MK4 and more! #Qube500
Tweet media one
6
38
205
6
13
205
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
Tweet media one
2
31
201
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
My new printer is done! Check this fully loaded E3D Toolchanger out on stream tomorrow!
Tweet media one
9
18
199
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
9 months
Just pulled the trigger on a @CocoaPress . It's only the third printer I've ever bought.
Tweet media one
15
3
192
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
11 months
This explains a lot
Tweet media one
6
14
192
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
The face of the man who gave me the filament with beef jerky in it
Tweet media one
6
10
193
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
I got one of @elianarose66 ’s chocolate benchies. I am going to eat this Benchy.
Tweet media one
7
7
191
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
5000 Redditors got called buttboy 🤣
Tweet media one
17
35
190
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
How the hell do they manufacture this
@Adam_V3D
Adam @ Vector 3D 🇬🇧
1 year
#ad How does @E3DOnline #Revo High Flow work? It divides the flow path into a ring getting direct access to the core before recombing flow back into the nozzle orifice! Performance tested in my review video. Buy (aff): Watch:
Tweet media one
8
9
93
37
8
181
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Fuck I am so burned out
36
2
180
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
A+ assembly guide writing, from my Discord
Tweet media one
0
11
179
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Easy mode: Buy assembled @Prusa3D printed Hard mode: Buy Prusa kit Nightmare mode: Replace gummy bears with sugar free
10
9
175
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
10 months
THE @CocoaPress IS SHIPPING SOON!! Congrats @elianarose66 ! Who’s eating Benchies with me
Tweet media one
12
12
175
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
7 months
About to fly out to #SMRRF ! See you lads, lasses, and lasborgs soon!
Tweet media one
10
3
170
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
I need a canned response that says “Unfortunately, your company’s new Ender clone is too boring to promote in my videos”
13
3
166
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
5 months
My @CocoaPress is done! The @cookiecad PETG looks awesome. What should I print in chocolate?
Tweet media one
30
7
164
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
Major Hardware is lowkey a genius. Dude's got an entire 3D printing channel paying his bills, and all he prints is fans.
18
3
165
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Pre-ordered my ⁦ @CocoaPress ⁩ chocolate printer. Brooke is ELATED.
Tweet media one
11
3
164
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
It’s the community that really keeps me going
Tweet media one
23
2
162
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
@vladest_ Browser galettes
1
0
154
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
8 months
This is how we ground battery-powered devices! There's a tiny surface-mount capsule of dirt for this exact purpose.
@MakeAugusta
🌟𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘾𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙨🌟
8 months
ground
Tweet media one
48
1K
4K
7
16
160
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
How my last project went down:
Tweet media one
3
11
152
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
hmmm
Tweet media one
1
13
153
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Ok, so which of you lazy bastards is currently printing last-second Xmas gifts
15
2
152
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Jeez people, it's not pronounced 'Gerber', it's pronounced 'Gerber.' Like the GIF.
14
13
151
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Just a regular old thumbnail shoot
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
13
7
152
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
PC cases are getting ridiculous
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
3 years
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
3K
5K
83K
6
5
151
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Totally normal day at Voidstar Lab.
Tweet media one
16
4
148
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
A well-known 3D-printed blaster designer has been exposed as a particularly sick transphobe. I'm going to expunge all references to their work from my YouTube channel and other social media. Thanks to Nerf YouTuber and classy walrus @WalcomS7 for calling attention to this.
7
6
144
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
If you run a dehumidifier in a church do you get holy water
9
12
143
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Dehydrate your filament
23
4
137
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
5 months
When your ADHD is so bad, you’ve had a chunk of uranium ore sitting on your desk all week and you still haven’t unboxed it
14
1
139
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
You take the blue brick, you follow the instructions and put your model on the shelf. You take the red brick, you mix in some Bionicle and see how deep the rabbit hole goes…
Tweet media one
8
12
136
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
When the screen says thermal runaway but you print anyways
@MapleGlass3DP
Maple Glass Printing
1 year
3D printed Glass Purge 💧〰️
10
32
353
5
9
133
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
1) Get a hovercraft 2) Cut a hole in the bottom 3) Put feet through hole 4) Be cyberpunk Fred Flintstone
6
12
134
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
4 months
Vim: The text-based escape room
11
12
134
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
I had an awesome time at @OpenSauceLive ! Thanks to everyone who watched my panel, asked me great Q&As, and played Hextraction!
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
4
2
132
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Repeated Failure from the Voidstar Discord whipped this up using eldritch magicks
1
2
126
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
NOOOOO
Tweet media one
35
2
130
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Today in bad decisions: Raspberry Pi hired a washed-up rent-a-cop.
@Raspberry_Pi
Raspberry Pi
2 years
We hired a policeman and it's going really great. Meet our Maker in Residence, @TobyRobertsPi .
Tweet media one
893
23
238
7
10
129
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
4 months
Lefty army rise up! (all six of us)
@CNC_Kitchen
Stefan - CNC Kitchen
4 months
Amazing news for my left-handed friends: We finally got our custom-made lefty deburring blades in stock🎉! Optimized to effortlessly remove even the smallest sharp edge on your 3D prints. Only available at , as long as the supply lasts. Get yours now!
Tweet media one
33
22
215
22
3
129
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
6 months
ADHD resistor embedded in the breadboard. So relatable
@__femb0t
\newcommand{\femb0t}{
6 months
Ai is amazing, this is exactly how you would breadboard this, right down to sticking resistors thru the battery
Tweet media one
58
299
5K
6
7
129
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
I've been watching a lot of other people's videos and now I'm filled with seething rage. Here's a 🧵threaderino🧵of YouTube video cliches that need to die.
12
8
124
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
4 months
For fuck's sake people, dragons do NOT have titties
43
6
126
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
This is what happens when you call time.sleep()
3
15
125
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
11 months
AND IT'S THE ROCK WITH THE PEOPLE'S ELBOW
9
12
127
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
I built a glove that lets me feel electric current!
9
13
126
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Guy needs two corner offices, one for each ball
@fuckyouiquit
Fuck You I Quit
2 years
They really dodged a bullet with this one
Tweet media one
2K
30K
388K
4
13
123
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
I have nine printers going right now. They’re spread throughout the house cuz if they were all on one breaker it would blow
Tweet media one
8
1
125
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
So this is the Bamboo Lab printer people keep talking about
@PrintedSolid
Printed Solid
1 year
Tweet media one
31
15
214
6
2
122
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
Every guest but me seems to have caught the Rona at Open Sauce. I wonder if it's because I barely spent any time in the Creator's Lounge. or because I'm never included in anything 😂🥹😢😭
18
2
121
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 months
An influencer’s isn’t responsible for boosting everything innovative. It’s to judge which innovations matter. I agree with Marquess - projective wearables are a fundamentally disrespectful and doofy concept.
@dvassallo
Daniel Vassallo
3 months
I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers. Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness. First, do no harm.
Tweet media one
9K
428
12K
7
4
121
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
Tweet media one
5
21
121
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
11 months
Casually editing a video with earplugs on while a contractor murders the floor with a jackhammer
Tweet media one
12
1
117
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
If I wanted to build the most balls-to-the-wall @VoronDesign 2.4, which parts should I pick? Budget is, say, $10,000.
63
2
117
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
This is what kids turn into when you teach them trans rights. Scared yet?
Tweet media one
0
13
113
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
3 years
Air fryers mean war
Tweet media one
5
8
113
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
Tweet media one
20
2
109
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
1 year
I'm going to catch some flak for backtracking on my opinion about selling models, so I figure I'll explain my reasoning before folks start making up stories. 🧵
23
5
112
@zackfreedman
Zack Freedman @ Open Sauce
2 years
The @Thangs3D data are irrefutable - #Gridfinity is more popular than Christmas. I knew my niche was disorganized atheists.
Tweet media one
7
10
111