3D Printing

I think my prompt was: 3D print, trending on Thingiverse or Printables.

This was my first print with that filament so it's not spectacular.

One of the things I like best about designing and printing is having my wife idly talk about wanting something, and then being able to produce it for her. In this case, she has a doll she wants to decorate for the holidays/seasons. I pulled a set of Easter Bunny ears off Thingiverse, but then designed a headband with flags for the Indy 500 (month of May) and now rockets for July 4th. Working on other designs for later holidays.

This article is about a new 3d-printable prototype version of the BusKill cable.

The BusKill cable is a laptop kill cord. If you're still struggling to understand what is a BusKill cable and why you'd need a laptop kill cord, there's a 2-minute explainer video that makes this clear:

• https://www.buskill.in/#demo

Enjoy and happy printing :)

The plastic waste has always been my main concern with 3d printing, with supports, failed prints, rafts, and other such realities of the hobby it builds up quick.

I have looked into local recycling services, but they aren't equipped to deal with these plastics. I have also looked into industrial grade composting for my PLA but again, nothing in the area seems ready or willing to deal with it.

After looking into shipping boxes of sorted filament to be recycled into more usable rolls I could only find services based in Europe unfortunately.

Would love any help

I remember some years ago 3D Hubs allowed one to select people around you with a 3D printer and ask them to print what you wished.

It appears that's not available anymore on that website. Is there anything similar?

tags: peer to peer, p2p, crowdsourcing

This is fucking amazing!

Just a quick post to say Hallo!

Exploring Lemmy and this community is quite interesting.

Here's my Cat Entry Denial System or CEDS for short. Had a Problem with the Kittens crawling inside the Kitchen every time someone dared to open the Fridge.

4h ~~modeling~~ rapid prototyping in Fusion360 then 2 hours moving a Spool of PETG through a Prusa i3 MK3S+. 4 x M2.5 screws and a METOD ventilation grill.

It isn't perfect, but it does the Job.

Model found on Youmagine. Had to remodel it in #FreeCAD to scale it up and make the face details more pronounced.

The nose clip is supposed to prevent fog on eye glasses, but it seems too deep for my nose, leaving a gap. I still have to test this.

The strap that goes at the back of the head was hugely popular on Thingiverse (it was published back in March 2020). Its big shortcoming is that it tends to lower naturally on the neck, and the mask's elastics then rub against the top of my ears. I'm thinking of designing my own version with 2 widely separated bands, one that would sit at the nape of the neck, providing a stable resting place; the other higher on the neck. Also make the hooks more widely distanced to be sure to clear the ears completely.

I printed them at 0.40 mm layer height in ABS, my printer is old and slow.

Links to the objects: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4664699 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4249113

STL file: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3031049 Made this quite some time ago, using Hatchbox Blue sparkle PLA

Printed (not by me) on a Creality Ender 3 V2 printer. 6 in / 15 cm in diameter, at 0.20mm layer height. I believe the print took around 50 hours.

Thanks to kicou for agreeing to this post!