Let’s see those projects! Here’s my recent multi printer / material project.

[Bryan Eckert]

My cousin is a huge Ravens fan (ouch at yesterday’s game), so I made him this coaster set.

Coasters are TPU printed on my V400, grid infill with no top layer.

Took a few tries to get the logo on there, finally figured it out.

Coaster base is ABS printed on the H2C, and logo a mix of silk/matte PLA printed on my X1C as I don’t have a completely smooth plate for the H2C yet. I should have used my .2 nozzle, but it looks better in person. Printed at .08 layer height to better match the curve of the base.

Base and logo modeled in Plasticity, coasters just done in the slicer (Orca).

You guys were right about Testors glue in the tube and PLA, takes forever to set though. Bonded the PLA to the ABS perfectly.

[Ray Price]

Wow, very cool!  I'll have to start messing around with TPU

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[Ray Price]

Reposting this, since I think Bryan was the only one to see it due to the original pictures blowing up Google's group size restriction.

Sorry for the dupe.

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🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️ Oh! oh!  Pick me! pick me! ... I'll go next.

So over the years, I've posted various questions about this Wordle Wheel / Companion that I make and sell on my site, and thought I'd give everyone a little peek into how the sausage is made.  

For anyone that isn't familiar, Wordle is a NYT daily puzzle where you have to guess a 5-letter word, using a system much like the old Mastermind game of yore.  A friend once said, "hey, there's gotta be something you can do with your 3D printer to make it easier for someone to figure out the daily word", and the Wordle Wheel was born after a fair amount of head scratching and Fusion-fu.

Here's a promo video I made at the time - https://www.storeallthebits.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Word-Wheel-Intro-1.mp4

It basically fits in the palm of your hand and has some nice ASMR clicking as you dial in the letters - Each wheel has 27 (26 letters + 1 blank for guessing) cogs with vinyl letters applied so you can dial in what you know and then spin the other wheels to get inspiration.

The pieces for this are primarily 3D printed, with the addition of an acrylic axel and the vinyl lettering

The arm assembly is printed in pieces in order to leverage the strength of layers and glued (Testers) to construct the assembly which is then glued in to the base

Of course, there are a number of 3D printed jigs and clamps that help me bring the whole thing together

I had dreamed of incorporating the letters into the 3D print of the wheels, but even with my H2D that doesn't seem feasible.  The letters are only 4mm high and since they print on the side of the wheel as opposed to a surface, my tests haven't even gotten out of the slicer, since when I look at the tool paths, letters like "D" and "E" just become blobs.  My other thought was to basically print a strip of just the cogs with the letters on the surface.  Have them connected with a very thin (0.5 mm) base and then print plain disks and glue the strip of cogs wrapped around the edge of the disk.  Not sure that will really work since the cogs still have some curvature on their base where they meet the wheel.

For now, the vinyl lettering works well and is distinct, visually.  Over the years, I've sold over 300 of these and no one has come back with missing or falling off letters, so they must last pretty well.  (family uses them as well on a regular basis).  This is my busy season, so I've got 10 of these puppies lined up waiting for lettering.

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

All PLA silk.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7178462

[Ray Price]

Very nice!  Cool that you can mix and match the pieces.

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