BobApril

joined 2 years ago
 

Hey, this is my first Printables contest entry - large (16 inch/40 cm) christmas balls that print in multiple pieces. They can be assembled is hollow frameworks, or around a playground ball for extra color.

 

Want to keep your filament dry while you print, but too cheap to shell out for a dry box? Make your own! My house goes through Tidy Cat tubs at a rapid rate, and they seal pretty well. I was using a PVC pipe structure on the inside, but I think these skate bearing roller stands will work better. Throw in a few desiccant containers and drill a couple holes in the side, and you're all set! (Humidity monitor optional.)

 

I finished the stands for my wife's set of Hocus Pocus decorations just in time - we're decorating this weekend!

The #FreeCAD files are included, and should be pretty easy to alter for whatever figure you'd like to put on them. Just edit the ShapeString to change the text, and adjust the strut and fork to fit the figure.

[–] BobApril@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Are they then going to force Google and Meta to continue to carry those links that they want the companies to pay for? It went badly for Spain, and then France had to rewrite their law - not sure how that finally wound up, but a lot of small media companies took the hit first. https://www.wired.com/story/french-regulator-says-google-must-pay-to-link-to-news-sites/

[–] BobApril@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago

Short- and medium-term, anything that leads away from fossil fuel is a good thing. Long-term, though, it seems like taking energy that would normally have bypassed the Earth, capturing it, and then adding it into our ecosystem is probably a bad idea. I'm a total layman, here, though, mostly going off of what I've read in science fiction.

Also, yeah, the weapons potential is a problem, though I sort of feel like we've already got all the weapons we need to intentionally eliminate human life, so further refinements don't matter much. It's the accidental extermination we're worried about, and this might help with that for awhile.

 

Not my design. But since my wife loves both Doctor Who and Halloween, it was a natural choice for me to print. Also, it looks like no one else tried a mix of colors, so I wanted to see how it would look.

[–] BobApril@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov't and population.

[–] BobApril@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

They think this IS their business. I say that not to excuse or justify them. But we can't appeal to their "better natures," because they think they're in the right, that we are all not merely wrong but evil. That leaves us no room to convince them otherwise, because anything we might say is inherently vile deceit - their own chosen information sources have long ago convinced them that everyone else is lying.

So we simply have to beat them. Identify them, prosecute them as criminals (not as enemies nor POWs), and lock them away. Or, when they make it necessary in the moment of their violence, our police forces need to kill them.

[–] BobApril@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm guessing that painting them 96 different colors is going to take a little longer!

[–] BobApril@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Nicely done! It looks like that's all native filament color, no paint - do you have a multi-color printer, or just patience to print a lot of little pieces?

 

One of the things I like best about designing and printing is having my wife idly talk about wanting something, and then being able to produce it for her. In this case, she has a doll she wants to decorate for the holidays/seasons. I pulled a set of Easter Bunny ears off Thingiverse, but then designed a headband with flags for the Indy 500 (month of May) and now rockets for July 4th. Working on other designs for later holidays.