Octopus Bun Cover
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Published on October 28, 2011
This thing was Featured on October 28, 2011
Derived from
Bucket O' Octopi
by yeoldebrian
Description
We made this curved octopus for a sculpture at our hackerspace, and one of our artists added a paintbrush and started wearing it on her hair. I posted it to Facebook that night, and had a bunch of girls tell me "I WANT ONE!", so here it is on Thingiverse. :)
I will eventually edit 2 opposing tentacles to be closed loops for holding a chopstick, but for now the original octopus STL works just fine.
I will eventually edit 2 opposing tentacles to be closed loops for holding a chopstick, but for now the original octopus STL works just fine.
Instructions
1: Size up octopus STL to as big as will fit on a Cupcake's build platform. You might go a bit larger to get beefier tentacles if you'd like.
2: Get a roundish, heat resistant object to form the finished product with. We used an antique light bulb, but an old metal doorknob might also be a good choice, as you can probably heat up the doorknob.
3: Begin VERY slowly heating up the octopus with your heat gun until the tentacles droop down and conform to the shape of your round thing. This should take a very long time... if you do it too quickly you risk completely melting some of the thinner sections of the tentacle, or ending up with a 90 degree bend in the middle of one of them.
3.5: Paint it. (optional)
4: Place over bun and secure with a chopstick, paintbrush, or whatever.
5: Get ready for all the "Where did you get that?!" questions that you're going to get from strangers.
2: Get a roundish, heat resistant object to form the finished product with. We used an antique light bulb, but an old metal doorknob might also be a good choice, as you can probably heat up the doorknob.
3: Begin VERY slowly heating up the octopus with your heat gun until the tentacles droop down and conform to the shape of your round thing. This should take a very long time... if you do it too quickly you risk completely melting some of the thinner sections of the tentacle, or ending up with a 90 degree bend in the middle of one of them.
3.5: Paint it. (optional)
4: Place over bun and secure with a chopstick, paintbrush, or whatever.
5: Get ready for all the "Where did you get that?!" questions that you're going to get from strangers.
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Winter
on
August 4, 2012
said:
not sure if it is just me, but the STL file wont download and takes me to an error page?
i would LOVE to print this if theres any way it can be fixed!
thanks!
Timnoble
on
November 2, 2011
said:
i just made one and can confirm that it's really really cool. Please do make the loops happen soon. Mine turned out a bit weak and would benefit from both the loopy tentacles and really, from thickening all of the tentacles about 2-3mm for sturdiness. It'd add a few more layers and a bit more time to the printing, but it would ensure that when removing it from the (necessary in my case) raft, the tentacles don't get damaged. Nice work!
License
Octopus Bun Cover by IWorkInPixels is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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not just you.
Derp! Yeah, looks like the file got deleted somehow... The file is just the Bucket O' Octopi file, so I will re-upload that one post haste!