• SJ0
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    10 months ago

    I like designing and 3d printing stuff that can just be part of my life. I designed and printed a mount for this ptz camera I used on my 3d printer, and I also designed and printed a wall mount for my wii mini.

    I also tried my hand at brewing, making apple wine from the apples I harvested from a tree in my back yard. Later I did some honey wine made from local honey (amazing), and some maple syrup wine (horrible)

    I’ve got some electronics because I’d like to ultimately build an RV car I design myself. I’ve got a design for a windmill for my yard I was struggling to print a while back I’d like to try again. I designed it to rotate on an axis so it’ll chase the wind like a proper windmill.

    I bought an arduino based PLC I need to soldier together one of these days that I want to use for some projects.

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      10 months ago

      Wow that’s awesome! Can you print like a cellphone? Like how does that work?

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        10 months ago

        It’s mesmerizing. Basically, the printer draws a layer of plastic, then uses the layer it just drew to draw another layer, and it just slowly does this super precisely one layer at a time, 0.1mm at a time, until your thing is printed. I had it on my kitchen table, and had to move it into the basement because I would just sit there staring at it as it would slowly draw the thing I was printing.

        You have to keep in mind that process when you’re designing stuff, but you can design a lot of stuff. The stuff that really makes a cellphone a cellphone is the electronics, but a 3d printed box could definitely be part of a cell phone project.

        In fact, here’s a cell phone based on a rotary phone that used a 3d printed case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfdUudG6sms (I was looking for the original video but couldn’t, but this shows it off pretty good)

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          10 months ago

          Wow. That is really dam cool. I seriously want one

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            10 months ago

            I think she’s trying to start manufacturing them.