Would love to see some of your prints on here! When I was younger my dad and I built a 3D printer, and I loved it. Since then I haven’t had the funds/time/space to get back into it but as that was like 12 years ago, I know 3D printing has gotten much higher tech.
This is what I carry my drink mixes in.
found a 90 year old design for a cactus watering can from a local designer and had to print it for myself… tried out multiple sizes and colours
Can you share the STL? I would be interested in this.
Do you have any problems with water leaking? People always warn about prints not being water tight, but I don’t know if that’s old advice or not.
as soon as i fix a few small problems i’ll share it here :D
the two red ones are painted with red car paint and a clearcoat, they are totally water tight, a black and a pink one are only coated with clearcoat, they don’t leak as well, but i tested them before coating and both dripped a bit at the joints… i’m correcting some parts now and will use more glue… i think that’ll fix it but i’d still recommend to use" ironing" in your slicer and clearcoating it after assembly… i didn’t let the water in the can for multiple hours, so i’m not sure yet whether water will penetrate through the plastic…
This is so cool
A lot of great Trek prints in here, I couldn’t help but share my neverending quest to develop a working TNG tricorder (has sensors, lights and sounds). Im still working on this project but this photo is of the most recent iteration.
That’s so cool! Not familiar with the star Trek lore but upon a quick Google search your version is a great match. Keep it up!
That looks fantastic :)
That’s an impressive project!
It’s a part for a corded snow thrower I use on my deck. It allows the the handle to be quickly and easily folded for compact storage. I would post a picture of it, but it’s currently 4F/-16C outside and I’m not walking to the shop. Besides, I would need to disassemble the handle to show the parts. So, Y’all will need to settle for a picture of the model.
Printers are a lot easier and more repeatable than they were 12 years ago. In FDM the big advances are print speed, quality of life, and filament material. Home SLA printers are also a lot more available than they were 12 years ago, but the overall process here hasn’t changed (print, rinse, cure). The big question is if/when SLS will make it to a home user price point.
My prints are mostly self designed and functional. I’ll have to dig up some examples once I’m on a computer.
I can imagine - I used a Printrbot LC back in the day and it was so difficult to get consistent results. Great learning experience but sometimes it was more frustrating than rewarding hahah. Seeing some of these newer models that work right out the box make me excited! (Although building one yourself is always more fun if you’ve got the time)
Seeing some of these newer models that work right out the box make me excited! (Although building one yourself is always more fun if you’ve got the time)
You can have a bit of both! Build a Voron and wind up with a pretty darn reliable printer. I posted about mine here.
As promised earlier, here are some prints:
Do tell about the speaker. Did you design it yourself? What does it sound like?
Sorry for the delay. Yes, I did design it myself. I made a small post about it here that includes some frequency response curves. It sounds much better than the sun of its parts, which weren’t that intentionally chosen, but it also makes it obvious how much DSP modern wireless speakers have - especially in the bottom octive. I personally like making things vs buying, so this is right up my alley. I will (eventually) get around to making an updated design with better components, but it’s doing just fine so far.
The print itself have proven to be very resilient. It’s been knocked off a counter and fallen to the floor more than once. It also frequently serves as a step stool.
Printed enclosures have a bad rap for not being “dead”, but the rounded design without large flat surfaces is pretty dead. Yeah, the top and bottom aren’t flat but they’re not a uniform thickness to give them a bit more strength. The walls are “only” two perimeters, but the extrusion width was something like 0.8mm on a 0.6mm nozzle. I think the print has ~18% infill but it’s been a while now.
Let me know if you would like any more information!
Awesome, thanks for the reply. I’ve been curious about printing speakers myself, but it seems like a daunting task.
No problem! If you’re already designing speakers, printing vs making them out of something else will come down to your CAD skills/speed vs how long it would take you to make a finished enclosure out of a different material like wood.
I wouldn’t call anything about the process hard, but it can be a bit time consuming if you’re not a CAD ninja already. Either way, doing this will probably improve your CAD skills.
If you’ve never designed a speaker before, you could purchase a kit for one of the many DIY speakers out there and print the enclosure. My first DIY bluetooth speaker was an Overnight Sensation MTM stuffed in a very undersized, and ported, wood enclosure with a built in bluetooth board, basic BMS, and amplifier. Parts-Express, Madisound, and a number of players make getting a complete DIY kit easy.
I never designed a speaker. I have been looking for designs a few weeks ago, and there’s too much stuff out there and too little to go on if it’s actually worth it/better than HiFi speakers I already have. Maybe some day, if I find a good bookshelf speaker project that seems achievable.
Those are some nice prints, well done!
Thanks!
This is one I’m particularly proud of. Makes for a really fun magnetic fidget.
https://www.printables.com/model/1145644-geometric-shapes-with-embedded-magnets-for-constru
That’s so cool looking! What did you print that on? Must be a pretty capable printer!
Prusa Mk4s, but probably any modern printer could do it. It just has to be high enough quality so the small magnet balls can rotate so they can self-align and click together.
My first (and still my favorite) thing I designed from scratch is my Happy Mug.
3D printing has given me the ability to engage in my decades long foam blaster hobby in a completely new way. So glad to see how accessible it is now.
I’m not sure if your focus is on the printing or the designs. Personally, I’m really only interested in the designs. I’m not one of the people that enjoys tinkering with a flakey device trying to coax a result out of it. The printer is only a means to an end for me.
So, I’ve got some things I printed using my FDM printers, but generally what I’m most pleased with was printed through an online service.
So, here’s a ring I made a few years ago (printed via shapeways):
My parents had their current house built - an awesome oak framed building. I got the frame design from the architects and turned it into a 3D printed jigsaw.
Each beam had a bit on the end that plugged into the relevant socket (with a little bku-tacto help in some cases)
I had done no 3d modeling previous to this, and practically none after. Took me months, awesome though!
That’s such a cool idea!
Designed and printed a magnetic prime line brush, to have a use for the lines my P1S begins each print with, that can attach to the frame and live inside the print enclosure. This one uses the extra scraper magnet that came with the printer, but I designed a version of it to use 6x2mm magnets as well, and versions of each with and without the Bambu logo (I know they’re not exactly the community’s favorite these days, and I understand why).
AA and AAA battery holders of my own design:
The real wild feature about them is how they printed. I used absolutely no support material. I don’t have any pictures of these printing, but I do have a shot of a glue stick holder of a similar design. Get a load of this:
Our fridge door doesn’t close, so I decided to design a clip to keep it shut and 3d print it. Never used any cad before, nor a 3d printer. I bought an A1 mini, downloaded Fusion360 and followed some videos. Here was the result. (ps this is version 3, since V1 and V2 were successful prints, but unsuccessful at doing their job of keeping the door closed)
(For some reason adding the image doesn;t work? I’m new to Lemmy, I’ll try to find out what’s wrong and I’ll be back to add the images)
Some instances restrict image uploads because of people uploading… Unsavoury images.
You should be able to link to an external image site.
Right, thanks. (that’d be a useful massage or popup to receive though if that’s the reason for not going through) I’m not on flicker or things like that so generally bank on posting the images directly (only recently coming over from reddit to lemmy)
Drop a question in your instances meta community
Made this for a friend for Christmas. It’s not a super detailed model or anything, but its probably my favorite. :)
I just finished printing this basket for my bed since there’s no room for night stands. It’s made using the last spare bits of filament I had lying around but who cares since you normally can’t see it from most angles anyway.
