Thank you for the compliment and belated happy birthday to your dad.
I will be selling a run of Prime Radiants here on the board in the Junkyard.
I will let everyone know when the thread is open.
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I will be selling a run of Prime Radiants here on the board in the Junkyard.
I will let everyone know when the thread is open.
This arrived a couple of weeks ago, just a quick preview of the book.
mrni
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Awesome! Mine doesn’t arrive until November.
You'll love it.
SonyaBlaydes
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I would surprise my dearest with a prime radiant replica if I could afford it. Pkease let me know if you make any to sell.
I'll be posting a sales in the Junkyard thread this week.
A video of the Prime Radiant.
Fantastic!
Wow! I literally created a new user account here after finding this thread in a Google search! I've never really been into prop-building before, but I recently bought a new Bambu Labs X1C printer and got into 3D printing. And as a long-time science fiction fan, I watched Foundation (just finishing season 2 right around the time I bought the printer). One of my first thoughts was, "Man -- I'd love to try to print out a Prime Radiant model!" So many models are shared around on multiple 3D printing sites, I was surprised to see absolutely nothing from Foundation anyone had shared to print.
What I did find were a number of free downloadable 3D print files to print out a cuboctahedron geometric shape, which is what the Prime Radiant is. I experimented with printing it out using "yellow glass" PLA filament and I got something that looked like you could make a recognizable/passable Prime Radiant with it, after a lot of careful painting of the lattice-work on each panel using black and brass metallic paints. I managed to print it at what I believe is the correct size of the model in the TV series too. But that's as close as I came to it.
The thing is? I believe with some hobby electronics like an Arduino, it might be possible to construct something like this that actually lights up only after it detects movement followed by 3 taps, and THAT would be really cool, IMO. I haven't worked with resin printing before, and maybe that's the key to making a realistic replica like you made here? But it seemed to me it might be possible to build something like this with one panel that swings open to allow putting LED lighting and electronics inside that control it? I don't know. I'm realizing my "big picture" ideas to make one of these far exceed my skill-set.
What I did find were a number of free downloadable 3D print files to print out a cuboctahedron geometric shape, which is what the Prime Radiant is. I experimented with printing it out using "yellow glass" PLA filament and I got something that looked like you could make a recognizable/passable Prime Radiant with it, after a lot of careful painting of the lattice-work on each panel using black and brass metallic paints. I managed to print it at what I believe is the correct size of the model in the TV series too. But that's as close as I came to it.
The thing is? I believe with some hobby electronics like an Arduino, it might be possible to construct something like this that actually lights up only after it detects movement followed by 3 taps, and THAT would be really cool, IMO. I haven't worked with resin printing before, and maybe that's the key to making a realistic replica like you made here? But it seemed to me it might be possible to build something like this with one panel that swings open to allow putting LED lighting and electronics inside that control it? I don't know. I'm realizing my "big picture" ideas to make one of these far exceed my skill-set.
Wow! I literally created a new user account here after finding this thread in a Google search! I've never really been into prop-building before, but I recently bought a new Bambu Labs X1C printer and got into 3D printing. And as a long-time science fiction fan, I watched Foundation (just finishing season 2 right around the time I bought the printer). One of my first thoughts was, "Man -- I'd love to try to print out a Prime Radiant model!" So many models are shared around on multiple 3D printing sites, I was surprised to see absolutely nothing from Foundation anyone had shared to print.
What I did find were a number of free downloadable 3D print files to print out a cuboctahedron geometric shape, which is what the Prime Radiant is. I experimented with printing it out using "yellow glass" PLA filament and I got something that looked like you could make a recognizable/passable Prime Radiant with it, after a lot of careful painting of the lattice-work on each panel using black and brass metallic paints. I managed to print it at what I believe is the correct size of the model in the TV series too. But that's as close as I came to it.
The thing is? I believe with some hobby electronics like an Arduino, it might be possible to construct something like this that actually lights up only after it detects movement followed by 3 taps, and THAT would be really cool, IMO. I haven't worked with resin printing before, and maybe that's the key to making a realistic replica like you made here? But it seemed to me it might be possible to build something like this with one panel that swings open to allow putting LED lighting and electronics inside that control it? I don't know. I'm realizing my "big picture" ideas to make one of these far exceed my skill-set.
That may very well be possible, but it is something beyond my electronics ability.
You'd also have to incorporate a battery somehow and that would be visible, which to me would take away from the aesthetic of the prop. I think, personally, since the original doesn't light up I wanted to keep this as screen accurate as possible.
I'm not a resin printing expert so I'm not sure how achievable an optically clear 3D print in clear resin would be. It might be something to explore.
If you do go down the route of adding electronics to your Prime Radiant, start a thread and share your progress.
Best of luck with your build.
Yes, I can completely understand that. My reasoning for making an electrified one that lit up was just the fact that it's impossible to recreate the holographic projection the device does when flipped over and double-tapped in the TV series. But I recalled it had a yellow/gold colored glow in a number of scenes (perhaps just light shining through it the right way). And it made me think it lighting up in that manner would be the closest I could realistically get to it showing a response to being flipped and tapped on.
Getting both the circuit board and power source inside would definitely be a challenge. It only needs a very small circuit board to control an LED or set of LEDs lighting in response to detecting it being tapped on, but that plus a battery would definitely be visible, looking through it. I imagined it might still be ok if it sat in the middle of all of the lattice-work somehow. But you're absolutely right that none of this would make sense when you goal is making the prop as accurate as possible to the original. I think you did an amazing job in that regard!
Still waiting for my laser cutters to return from holiday and I can start offering finished Prime Radiants.
Not at all, you're on the list. Until the laser cutters get back to me, it's still open for interest.
Thank you
upshotlooper
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I’d love to get on the list as well please
kevinmac22
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Happy to have found this thread! Can I be added to the interested list please?
Sure thingI’d love to get on the list as well please
Sure, no problem.
I've had a reply from the laser cutters after their holiday, they are playing catch up so I'm hoping to get the order in this week.
I've got about 13 on my list so far, yourself included.
Thanks
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