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TEDxYouth@Flanders Project Shellter Workshop Sketches

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Published on November 23, 2011

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On Sunday 20th November 2011 we did a workshop for 30 kids about 3D printing and while they were there we asked them to draw out their ideas for a shell for the hermit crabs.

Some amazing designs came in, but we had no people available with CAD skills to convert these sketches into 3D models.

My appeal to all of you in the thingiverse community is to see the sketches and convert some of them into workable printable 3D models, so that we can have them printed and put in the East and West coast Project Shellter aquariums.

This would mean a lot to the kids who poured their imagination onto paper to help out the hermit crabs!

Some other ideas were put up by some participants whose drawing skills were not as rich as their imagination: one girl wanted a shell in the shape of a plant-pot, which could grow seaweed for camouflage, another shell was in the shape of a piece of coral reef so that when the crab hides it looks like coral reef debris.


Also look at thingiverse.com/thing:14046 for a rendition by MagicDan...

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The text file is merely a link to the talk I did at the TEDxYouth@Flanders event... apparently the site needs at least one non-image file to be present... please forgive me for this!
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Anonymous on December 2, 2011 said:

thanks for all these beautifull designs :)

I really liked what you did with my drawing. :)

knellotron on November 28, 2011 said:

I have a stab at the fish mouthy thing too.

knellotron on November 28, 2011 said:

It's not perfect, but I think I'm done with this one. The eyes/teeth texture could have been modelled in, but I suppose you can just paint them on faster than I can sculpt it in. I might do another one tomorrow.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/867175...

cymon on November 28, 2011 said:

I'm taking my stab at the fish mouthy one. Post it as soon as I'm done.

Most of these don't translate to 3D well and even worse to printable, but I'm amused by the idea of a mouth for a crab to crawl out of.

I see a lot of "entrances" and "head"s in these drawings. Do these kids not understand how hermit crabs work?

deeeep on November 28, 2011 said:

I tried explaining to them, but some of the kids were persistent... Of course, you are free to make alterations to suit modeling constraints and also hermit-crab constraints, the kids basically came up with some thoughts of their owns [sure beats the regular circular shells till date :-) ]

TeamTeamUSA on November 24, 2011 said:

These look great deeeep! :)

Nice video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Have you reached out to any of the 3D modeling communities?

deeeep on November 24, 2011 said:

Thanks Miles,

I am contacting everybody I requested before to help out... Any promotion and shout outs you can generate would be greatly appreciated.

I posted it on grabCAD as well, but not active on much else.

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