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.
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!
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:
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.
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 looks fantastic :)
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!
A Klingon D’k Tagh, I couldn’t finish it properly and the paint job could be better, but I like the result.
Source model: https://www.printables.com/model/286959-klingon-dk-tahg-knife-star-trek
If this was used as a prop onstage for a live production nobody would have an issue with it. In my time in theatre I saw props that looked a lot more simple/thrown together than that!
To be fair it actually is impressive though. Keep it up!
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.
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.
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.
This is so cool
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.
I’m terrible about taking photos of things, it just doesn’t occur to me until I need one.
This is the view from one of my printer webcams of a 2 day print that just finished about 20 minutes ago; its covered in supports because the walls are modeled like stone. A friend of mine of running Vecna: Eve of Ruin and asked me to print him a Death House (in about 16 parts - 11 beds full). In total this is going to be about 20 days of printing because I’m doing it at 0.1mm layer height - I’m not quite halfway through. This is the model and here is a reddit thread showing it painted.
Since that one is not much to look at, here’s a pic with a squirrel, from a recent blog post about how my 3D printed Bird/Squirrel feeder has withstood 15 months of weather and abuse.
Wow really cool idea for the d&d design! When I used to do this stuff I was using the Printrbot LC and it was literally impossible to do something this advanced. Since it was all made of wood I think it just constantly would shift with all the heated elements, and end up a hair off. It was great experience but I didn’t get to anything really advanced with it.
Also love the bird feeder. This is what I love about 3D printing!
My first (and still my favorite) thing I designed from scratch is my Happy Mug.
I mostly use mine for functional stuff, odd shaped brackets, pipe adaptors, electronics enclosures, so not very photogenic, but my two favourite things were a replacement door latch for the microwave, saved the cost of buying a new one, and a very nerdy bit of wall art 🖖
I’m guessing a version with the Enterprise J doesn’t fit on the print bed.
The wall art is gorgeous! How did you get that smooth final metallic look? Or is that just how it looks on picture?
Honestly that’s one of the coolest things about 3D printing - being able to create highly specific parts that could be impossible or impractical to source.
I’ve heard that 3D printers are used to repair those terrifying “iron lungs” that some people are still depending on to survive. This is because some of the parts that break on them are literally not produced anymore!
It’s not really smooth up close haha just standard sorta 0.2mm layer height, sanded down a little, then I spray painted them gold which hid some of the rough spots
And yeah I’m a big believer in repairable tech, 3d printers are huge in terms of being able to replace the kind of custom shaped plastic parts that the manufacturer doesn’t sell spares of and the appliance is completely unusable without (as I’m sure is the intention 🙄 planned obsolescence is truly one of the worst things we’ve ever come up with)
Made this for a friend for Christmas. It’s not a super detailed model or anything, but its probably my favorite. :)
First functional print in a little while, got tired of fiddling with silverware drawer trays that didn’t quite fit so I modeled one to fit the drawer and my utensils perfectly.
Nice! That’s on my print backlog as well :-)
I’m pretty proud of this. It’s for a gift.
I didn’t do the artwork work, Disney did that many years ago, it’s Disney Classic #8 book cover. But what I did do is worth through Hueforge for the background, and my own custom process for Alice. Which involved a quite complicated process of redrawing Alice in vector, separating the colors, and manually selecting the colors per layer to create a good contrast.
The frame was generated off my frame/shadowbox generator you can find on Printables. https://www.printables.com/model/1120635-frameshadowbox-generator
That is very cool. The color work is fantastic.
Thanks! The background is 5 different colors blended. That’s the magic of hueforge. The total color changes for that print was only 4 start to finish, so even someone without a multicolor printer could do those easily. Alice was 6 colors, but was changing multiple times per layer, so a little harder to do. My printer only supports 5 colors, so I had to manually change one out after the first layer went down (a transparent base layer).
