Can you 3D Print your own $2,500 Airless Basketball?

3D Printing our own Airless Basketballs! Putting a a variety of 3D Printable filaments to the test to see which once BUST or Bounce!

3D Print an Airless Basketball for yourself!

Filaments I used

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[thenextlayer]

You gotta print it in PEBA. It has the highest energy return of any 3D printer filament. I did a video about it. Expensive, but it'll work way better than any other material.

[Barbasnoo]

I was just as shocked as you when the gloop PLA one bounced so high! Did NOT see that coming.

[blizzyblake]

Could spray paint the gloop ball. Might wanna do like a 5, 000 bounce test with it too 😂

[RegularOldDan]

This was so much fun! I really appreciate how many different materials you made use of - that was a LOT of printing there. Thanks for putting so much work into it!

[ShawnChristopher]

I love the round robin thing you and Joel did...

[mishelle]

An inadvertent ad for Overture PLA+ and 3D Gloop! hahahahaha

[mattenglish]

Your video isn't goofy at all. It's super helpful! Thank you!

[kickpunched]

This vids so dope. Super fun to see how those all held up. Thanks again Uncle!

[Kori-ko]

I don't have context on the models, but if you're taking a model and scaling it different sizes in the slicer, the hexagonal lattice structure isn't staying constant to compensate and would explain a lot of why the smaller ones bounce better.

[bonovoxel]

I was looking for this content exactly! I printed it for test in PETG, it bounced quite good those 10 bounces before cracking. I started from 20cm high and started bouncing higher and higher until at like 60 cm and a dozen bounces it cracked as I expected.
Now I'm going for a functional one!

[BBLXC]

Oohhhh my god, thank you, thank you just thank you for that video! I love it, I really need to try it

[julianlema]

Woah one of my models spotted on a Uncle jessy video! (the Retro Ball one, Filete3D) For my part, I can say that I have obtained good results making even smaller copies (which began as a way to test materials quickly) and it triggered the idea that for the materials available in FDM the most appropriate thing to print and achieve is a tennis ball (from there the airless tennis ball 1.1). I am currently developing variants that accommodate the available materials such as TPU 95a, PLA Flex, adjusting the width of the walls and size of the hexagons and we are achieving great results! Either way, as usual, this is a great summary video of a maker experience. Thank you Jessy🙌

[philippeholthuizen]

I love how much fun you’re having with breaking the initial balls 😆

[artsy_dragon_creations]

The broken pieces could totally be used for a cyberpunk or apocalypse armor cosplay!

[GH-nkeu]

I fucking love Jesse. He has been my go-to for printing since starting this hobby. Then sometimes it's just a dude smashing stuff on his floor. Love it. Keep rocking brother.

[ResinForge]

Love the idea for the Gloopsketball 😂 Amazing video as always Uncle Jessy

[MrGerhardGrobler]

Loved this video.
Such a fun video to watch.
Joel's showed up 1st on my feed. So came here from there. The reason the TPU doesn't bounce as much is the same reason a matress in a gym doesn't let you bounce much when you fall on it. The material properties absorbs the impact, dispersing the energy upwards as the impact prgresses. It folds in on itself. So most of the energy is gone. Stiffness stores the energy for the bounce back. reason the PLA could bounce, sortoff. But the downside is stress fractures caused by storing all that energy in an unforgiving material. Just basic impact science. I will be posting this on Joel's side aswell.

[TwoMooseDesign]

I was totally working on a video very similar to this, then I saw you on instagram and I was like dang it! 😆 I’m so intrigued with the different filaments and “durability”

[stanleyfrederick]

it is amazing to see the Airless Basketball works

[ItsPlebble]

The 3dgloop seemed to make it bounce so much better