KrangPrime
Master Member
OK, you come up with a better title!
I've been experimenting with 3D printing over the last month or so. I've been looking for ways to put my new 3D printer through the ringer to really test it out and make it fun in the process.....So, enter this thread.
The idea is simple. You've seen those ' picture a day for a year' things on FB, right? Every two weeks, design a new object in CG from scratch. it can be anything from pop culture. Movies, music, TV. video Games. My areas of interest are 50s-80s, but it can also include modern stuff. Spend two weeks designing it. showing the development of the object in this thread, and then post a time lapse video of the print. If a user can guess what the object is, and someone likes it enough, we'll send it to them, free of charge.
It can be an R D2 part done to scale. it could be a Tom Servo done in 12" scale. It could be a stylized version of KITT. It could even be the left Shark from Katey Perry's football performance.
The idea is to hopefully get people out there creating stuff and interested in their own 3D printer build....hoping you can one day design things far better than I could ever attempt with my limited skill.
My Printer is not quite yet ready to start this experiment yet. it's circuit board needed reparing as it wasn't working right during fine tuning stages. but i'm hoping within a week or so it will be returned and we'll have the first test print going. once I get things fine tuned, we'll start the experiment.
These are some of the items I've had printed up in the last few weeks. my home made printer probably won't quite be up to the quality of a shapeways project...but if they can even come out halfway as good..this might be a fun little experiment.
any suggestions on what should be done first?
I've been experimenting with 3D printing over the last month or so. I've been looking for ways to put my new 3D printer through the ringer to really test it out and make it fun in the process.....So, enter this thread.
The idea is simple. You've seen those ' picture a day for a year' things on FB, right? Every two weeks, design a new object in CG from scratch. it can be anything from pop culture. Movies, music, TV. video Games. My areas of interest are 50s-80s, but it can also include modern stuff. Spend two weeks designing it. showing the development of the object in this thread, and then post a time lapse video of the print. If a user can guess what the object is, and someone likes it enough, we'll send it to them, free of charge.
It can be an R D2 part done to scale. it could be a Tom Servo done in 12" scale. It could be a stylized version of KITT. It could even be the left Shark from Katey Perry's football performance.
The idea is to hopefully get people out there creating stuff and interested in their own 3D printer build....hoping you can one day design things far better than I could ever attempt with my limited skill.
My Printer is not quite yet ready to start this experiment yet. it's circuit board needed reparing as it wasn't working right during fine tuning stages. but i'm hoping within a week or so it will be returned and we'll have the first test print going. once I get things fine tuned, we'll start the experiment.
These are some of the items I've had printed up in the last few weeks. my home made printer probably won't quite be up to the quality of a shapeways project...but if they can even come out halfway as good..this might be a fun little experiment.
any suggestions on what should be done first?