Hello Robo. My gold watch by pintokitkat. Print, preferably in ABS (I tried with PLA, but the hinged parts proved to be very troublesome). I used a 0.2mm thickness which seemed to work well. There are three components and, not being an horologist, I don't know their proper names, so I call them the case (which includes the strap), the bezel and the infilling ring (I was doing well there until the end). The strap prints in one piece and my experience is that the hinged pieces actually hinge as I lifted them off the build platform - no fiddling required.
If you don't use supports and there's little need, you might have to clean out the dangly bits from the underside of the hook part of the strap with a knife. The works from the watch (including the little white support disk that holds the mechanism off the backplate in the original watch) get stuck in the bottom of the case with a bit of BluTac around the edge. Create garden tools using a 3D printer. Sep.5, 2012 If you like gardening and enjoy working with plants, you will like these garden accessories created using a 3D printer. Alex English of Proto Paradigm, maker and 3D printing enthusiast who provided some free designs of 3D printable lids for Mason jars earlier, again he offers many free designs for garden accessories. 1. Seed Spacer Determining right plant spacing in mixtures has many benefits to the plants. The seed spacer from Alex English is a manual spacing tool for sowing seeds at different spacings in a hexagonal pattern.
When planted in a tight hexagonal pattern, the leaves of plants will shade the soil, which keeps the soil cooler and slows evaporation. Alex uploaded STL files for spacers with 1.5 inch, 2 inch, 3 inch, and 4 inch spacing. 2. Slugs could destroy spring planting like peas and beans when they get too many. 3. The simple hook from Alex English is designed for hanging a garden trellis net for peas and green beans. Watering spout for 2 liter bottle Garden Rake. 3D printed circuit board. Another approach to 3D printed circuit building from Thingiverse Thingiverse user CarryTheWhat has taken a novel approach to building simple electronic circuits with his solder-free 3D-printed circuit board library.
The library includes battery holders and pegs for other components, a few different printed switches, and uses conductive thread to make the connections. Being able to create simple circuits on a desktop 3D printer would be a great boon to hobbyists. The first signs of development in this area came in 2009 when Bath University mechanical engineering student Rhys Jones revived the old idea of making circuit boards by depositing metal into pre-formed channels. He modified his RepRap 3D printer to extrude molten solder into a pre-printed ABS plastic channel. More recently, Fab@Home have demonstrated the use of conductive and non-conductive silicone to print flexible objects with internally embedded circuitry laid out in three dimensions. 3D Printed FLORA Enclosure Update #WearableWednesday. 3D printed button test #manufacturing #makerbot.