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RaptorSA
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Duuude.
The algorithm tried it's absolute best to draw me in so this goddamn video has been face f**ing me for weeks.
I can write an entire 5000K+ word essay on this without blinking, but here's what I'm going to say about this:
This guy spent an insaaane amount of time, effort and resources to print something that is NOT a T-rex skull.... at most he printed a plastic meme. An actual Rex skull has details to it that blows the mind of even the most prepared biologist.. each of the 40+ Rex's we know about on the planet were individuals that have their own little quirks... here's a good example of just one, the little hole you see is one of two, there's been a few papers published on it, but the most likely and accepted theory is that it's puncture holes from another Rex (the other predominant idea is related to infection and parasites).. those are actually common:
There's only one person/people who've actually printed a 1:1 Rex skull that I know of....
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Life-size Tyrannosaurus rex skull
Meet "Ayla", the queen. A life-size Tyrannosaurus rex skull. Are you up for the challenge of assembling piece by piece, bone by bone, the massive skull of the king of the dinosaurs? The model comprises 135 pieces for the skull + 32 teeth. And 48 pieces for the lower jaw + 27 teeth. A total of...
cults3d.com
Having printed a few of these by now, I'll show my favorite part of the skull, and not just the Rex skull, you see it in some other Theropods as well.... the top of the Maxilla is not just a solid bone "dome", it's a f**Ing gorgeous evolutionary engineered structure that forms what is essentially a "girder" that connect the front of the snout, upper maxilla and rear of the skull together in a way where there's zero wasted bone.
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warrenpridgeon
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Glow in the dark filament is awesome... but it's more abrasive on your nozzle.After what, 40+ hours or so of printing and f**ing around to get this working, I was going to mention what a d**s you are....
....but then I realized, you just blew my mind....
Glow in the dark filament is a thing, I have the customized files now to print this thing again.... I also have an insane 1.2 Watt blue laser (if you don't know what a blue laser combined with glow in the dark material does, then RIP)
If there was a way to create this thing as a kind of visceral generational f**k me experience as to how much the world has changed in the past 40 years, then printing this out in glow in the dark and holding it right next to the old version (that everyone I know had) would be an insanely cool thing to buy/do for Gen-X'ers and millenials who "get it"
I printed this with my tevo... it's TERRIBLE compared to what this P1S delivers! lol.
Our son is absolute besotted with "power stuff" and lights... he wanted "flower lights"... so I 3D printed some daffodils and stuck them onto a string of lights (again that glorious tevo tarantula quality... but hey it served me REALLY well and I'm going to give it to a buddy):
The P1S I just hit print... I haven't tried even optimising anything yet:
- Mandatory poop chute. loool.
And... mandatory minecraft lantern:
While you guys have been printing dinosaurs and lithophanes, I've been dealing with trying to calibrate TPU.
Happy to say, my K1 Max is now printing 82A TPU and I can use it to function and grip properly with my plastic arm/hand.
Happy to say, my K1 Max is now printing 82A TPU and I can use it to function and grip properly with my plastic arm/hand.
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The costs add up slowly but surely. I took my empty spools to be recycled today and I’d guess there’s over 10k worth of filament that mostly ended up as fidget toys and articulated dragons, with the occasional useful design thrown in.
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While you guys have been printing dinosaurs and lithophanes, I've been dealing with trying to calibrate TPU.
Happy to say, my K1 Max is now printing 82A TPU and I can use it to function and grip properly with my plastic arm/hand.
You live with actual double Raptor phalanges covered in TPU and you think you're better than me?
Yes, yes you are..... this part looks amazing dude....
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I don't get it.... the dragon and fidget toy thing, I mean.
All the Rex prototyping and final prints I did was done using one roll and it's still not done...
That's >300 bucks of filament. 8 Times less than what I paid to import a model 8 years ago from a shop in France.
I stand by what I said. This is not an expensive hobby (depending).
This custom Traxxas RC build I did in 2018 cost more than the entire A1 printer and filament I've used so far combined.
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Ive got a bunch of RC cars and planes from over the years. I also built a few of my own printer designs, an original Voron, a VzBot and bought a K1C printer. I don't want to count too hard because it will easily be R70-80K without consumables.
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Nice, I built a crawler last year from scratch when I got the itch again and rebuilt my old tamiyia juggernaut with brushless stuff and a few upgrades for nostalgia. Then there is a Kyosho STR hanging on a wall and a few others.
I started designing a Disco 1 ladder frame from scratch in CAD at the end of last year to 3d print a scale accurate version but Ive hardly had any free weekends this year so it hasn't progressed much.
warrenpridgeon
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Mistakes were made... I'm a complete noob when it comes to multi colour... I printed one thing from makerworld that was set up as multi colour using the "Print by Object" setting. When I did my own project I just dragged some STLs onto the plate, set their colours and hit "go"... it was purging on each layer change hahahahahaha.
My son wanted his own 3D Printer... This one was fine (because the person set the project up correctly):
I discovered you could paint on colours lol
A few years ago I was in a joint venture which started out as monitoring floating voltages of batteries for gensets:
Actually used my printer for something "commercial" lol.
It later evolved into monitoring running hours on "yellow equipment" (forklifts etc):
The JV partners unfortunately pulled out before it went to market.
I went from zero microcontroller understanding to creating a prototype that had
- monitoring hours of the equipment
- local storage with syncing to cloud platform via wi-fi or gsm (preference for wi-fi)
- calibration (if you know the unit has 23491 hours you set that on the web portal and it sync'd down to the unit)
- reporting on running hours
All of this in like 6 months... but they wanted to be up and live in 6 months... so those expectations unfortunately did not get met.
BUT I learned a lot during that time!
My son wanted his own 3D Printer... This one was fine (because the person set the project up correctly):
I discovered you could paint on colours lol
A few years ago I was in a joint venture which started out as monitoring floating voltages of batteries for gensets:
Actually used my printer for something "commercial" lol.
It later evolved into monitoring running hours on "yellow equipment" (forklifts etc):
The JV partners unfortunately pulled out before it went to market.
I went from zero microcontroller understanding to creating a prototype that had
- monitoring hours of the equipment
- local storage with syncing to cloud platform via wi-fi or gsm (preference for wi-fi)
- calibration (if you know the unit has 23491 hours you set that on the web portal and it sync'd down to the unit)
- reporting on running hours
All of this in like 6 months... but they wanted to be up and live in 6 months... so those expectations unfortunately did not get met.
BUT I learned a lot during that time!
TEXTILE GUY
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She is done .... 72 inches .ing, 3 inches wide, 2.2lbs of filament and 5 days ..........
Impressed the heck outta me, but the cat .... not so much. Yankee cat!
Gonna be pressing these out for a week or two.
Impressed the heck outta me, but the cat .... not so much. Yankee cat!
Gonna be pressing these out for a week or two.
TEXTILE GUY
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FWIW ...........
This is a dracula we designed for a guy .... we have done all sorts of stuff for the guy.
He only wants glow in the dark prints ..... dunno, his dollars are green and my prices are high.....
We find that for the blue and green these work best for us.
Amoybaby is the brightest we have found so far.
We modeled up this Frankenstein, and printed it up with some el cheapo Chinese filament.
It aint glow in the dark ..... as it was sold to us ....... its just blue.
TEXTILE GUY
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And while I am lurking about mybb .... heres something that may .... or may not ..... be of interest
I use these two items along with a Bambu mini. The battery powers the printer for around 6 hours, along with my laptop.
We take this to do shows and fairs around the state.
Maybe will help for electricity issues .... do you still have those issues in SA?
I use these two items along with a Bambu mini. The battery powers the printer for around 6 hours, along with my laptop.
We take this to do shows and fairs around the state.
Maybe will help for electricity issues .... do you still have those issues in SA?
warrenpridgeon
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No... but also yes. lol
A lot of people made plans when loadshedding was common.
Home solar sprung up around the country.
Now eksdom isn't making the revenue they once did because people are getting power from the sun....
so wouldn't ya know it, they now want to find a way to "tax the sun" in a manner of speaking.
So they are trying to force everyone with rooftop solar to get another certification by an engineer at a great cost.
And they want to charge the people who have rooftop solar more for the electricity they use from the grid because "you can't be using the grid as backup when your stuff doesn't carry you".
Quite ridiculous.
They had a captured market.
All they had to do was the bare minimum.
I think the 220V version of the A1 that we have here can peak up to 1300W. I think the 110V versions only draw up to 350W. I had to save one of my print jobs over the weekend when power went out unexpectedly. Luckily I have a bunch of Ecoflow units. Yes, we do still have power issues. I was without power for 5 days just a while back.
Edit: A1 not mini...
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I have tried Kingroon's glow in the dark rainbow pla. It glows but not much/not for long. I have a cheap Teemu uv light that makes the glow last a bit longer...
Nice overprinting flex. What was your material / part thickness above the magnet? Looks like it's barely even 0.5.