Is this light painting with a long exposure?
Is this light painting with a long exposure?
In Europe, we changed to the Euro not that long ago. I was a student and I used to use a shared laundry machine. It was the day before returning to school. I was barely alone in the dorms. Let’s do a laundry !
The machines were updated to get euros. There was another machine just to change the coins, especially since the washing machines only took one kind of coin (20 cents).
I put one fresh euro in the exchange machine, expecting to get 5 coins of 20 cents.
Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>…
What ?! The machine was buggy and would not stop. I grabbed a hoodie to put the coins in it. Soon, it was not enough. After what seems to be an eternity I was there with around 50€ and kilos of coins.
What am I seeing?
And Barbie. What a spin-off !
Every time I see this contraption, I can’t stop to think about Gardena making propellers. Due to the chosen colors.
Don’t tell me what to do. Upvoted.
Congratulations ! I usually make 4 or 5 iterations too for each piece, with my least favorite color (toilet paper pink that looked fuchsia on the website). I even launch a print and during the printing I correct my model based on the n-2 print.
There are some of these pumps in France. It infuriates me. The sound is horrible.
Harry Plotter ?
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”
Nokia has chosen both ways at once.
You know what? It’s BECAUSE of the US that we, French, have this now.
“When the Reddit admins figured out that a large portion of the site is now bots”
In foreign languages like in French, there was a trend, launched by the admins themselves. It was to replicate English communities by translating the posts. It was obvious that it was dumb automated translations since there were cultural references that could not be translated. I know it because I was the owner of such a community and it was sad. My small community had a spirit. After the bots, the community was bland.
I do it in OpenSCAD too with a depth-map https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Other_Language_Features#surface
Thank you for your time! You’re so kind!
What matters :
You will be happy with this as a cheap starter printer around 200$.
After some time, you may want to print bigger things, faster, and with ABS/ASA for technical parts. Then you could invest in a bigger printer, faster, hot and with an enclosure for ABS fumes and warping issues. The budget for this is 600-1000$.
Do you use glue or hairspray for ASA ? I could not manage warping without hairspray.
It looks like your corners separate from the border. I have this issue du to the new “smart” borders from Cura. It turns in the other direction for this to be easily removed… I have disabled this feature.
The last idea if everything fails : I had to change the geometry of the thing to prevent big long fat stripes like the bottom of your item. Making it an hexagonal grid may help to diffuse the forces. The shrinkage will be diffuse instead of along the stripe.
There is no issue to print this. But…
If it’s handed, it’s quite big. It has to be printed into multiple parts. I would make the metal things and the glowing thing separately.
The glowing thing will look like shit if 3D printed. You better should get an acrylic rod. You need a bunch of blue leds too.
There are filaments that look metallic. Or you would get better results by sanding it and painting it with special paints.
The whole project could be expensive. (~100 to $150)
Nice! Thanks for the details!
I have printed ABS things that I use for scuba diving and freediving. It’s like 4 years since I first printed them and they have been hours and hours in the sea.
ABS is great … but then I bought some ASA. It’s even greater since it’s UV proof.
ABS is hard to print due to retractation. I have to use glue. I have less issue with ASA, it’s easy to print, I don’t know if it’s due to the different brands.
ABS and ASA are making nasty fumes when printing. Be careful.
Finally, the last advice is to get one nozzle dedicated for ABS/ASA. The issue is that it needs to be printed at high temperature. Way higher than PLA. If you try to change the filament, the nozzle is either too cold to melt and purge ABS/ASA properly, or too hot and the PLA will be carbonized inside the nozzle. The nozzle will be clogged one way or the other. The solution is to dedicate one nozzle for PLA/PETG and one for ASA/ABS. It can be painfull to recalibrate the Z-offset on older printers.
But I like Nintendo consoles for their couch-multiplayer games. Like Wii-sport, Boom-blox, Just Dance, Mario party, Mario kart…
A Steam-deck is good for single players games.