My mom gave me a lawn ornament, a windmill. I liked it, but it doesn't turn to face the wind and I feel like that's a waste. I spent a bit of time and designed this body. I'm going to put a skateboard bearing on the bottom so it spins freely, and I'm going to put the bolt that holds the arms of the windmill in the hole in the front. I'm hoping that it'll be really cool looking and that it'll spin no matter which direction the wind is coming from.
Dangit. Failed print. Good news is the failed print showed me some problems with the original design when I did a test fit. I got the entirely wrong number in my head when I did the original design, and I also found that the hole for the bearing on the bottom was just a bit too small, so I increased it by half a mm. I also decided to change the print orientation and speed. I was printing it lengthwise up and it seems the taller the print gets the more unstable the printing, so I've switched to a horizontal print and modified the design to facilitate that.
I've been planning to change to a standard e3d v6 nozzle on this printer forever, I think I need to stop procrastinating and just do it!
Two things are neat about this design, one intentional one unintentional. It prints entirely without internal supports whether you print it horizontally or vertically. I've given the holes a bullet-like shape so the printer doesn't need to bridge a huge gap anywhere. The hole for the bearing on the bottom and the hole for the bolt on the front are close enough together than when it slices the two are connected internally. If the printer had to try to print that deep hole on the front without being connected to the inside then I'd need more time and material to print infill.
Shout out to yi-hack-v5. I bought a cheap chinese ptz camera, and it only worked through a proprietary app. I previously installed yi-hack-v4 custom firmware by another author, and the only way to even get a video image from the camera was to pay for the camera add-in (on a camera) -- The author of yi-hack-v5 doesn't ask for money, and in addition to that the software is basically functional so even without connecting using rtsp you can see an image and use ptz functionality.
https://github.com/alienatedsec/yi-hack-v5
I've been planning to change to a standard e3d v6 nozzle on this printer forever, I think I need to stop procrastinating and just do it!
Two things are neat about this design, one intentional one unintentional. It prints entirely without internal supports whether you print it horizontally or vertically. I've given the holes a bullet-like shape so the printer doesn't need to bridge a huge gap anywhere. The hole for the bearing on the bottom and the hole for the bolt on the front are close enough together than when it slices the two are connected internally. If the printer had to try to print that deep hole on the front without being connected to the inside then I'd need more time and material to print infill.
Shout out to yi-hack-v5. I bought a cheap chinese ptz camera, and it only worked through a proprietary app. I previously installed yi-hack-v4 custom firmware by another author, and the only way to even get a video image from the camera was to pay for the camera add-in (on a camera) -- The author of yi-hack-v5 doesn't ask for money, and in addition to that the software is basically functional so even without connecting using rtsp you can see an image and use ptz functionality.
https://github.com/alienatedsec/yi-hack-v5
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