Printed LED Heart
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I saw the pictures of the Valentine's day "sneak peak" on the NYC resistor blog, and knew that I had to make a LED heart out of PLA. (Sort of like the acrylic one here: nycresistor.com/2010/02/10/a-little-valentines-day-sneak-peek/) Obviously mine has a bit of a different form factor, and the plastic isn't transparent, but I think it's pretty nonetheless.
The battery compartment is a little large, but whatever. As long as you tape the LED leads to the battery it won't jostle around much.
Update: I changed the scad and stl files so that both halves of the battery compartment are on the same side when the heart is put together (thanks to owenscenic for pointing this out!) I also decreased the size of the pegs so that hopefully it won't take any drilling and/or filing to get it to fit together.
Disclaimer: the pictures are photoshopped a smidgen. Because the LED I used is so bright, my camera interpreted the middle of the heart as being yellow, and the picture wasn't as vibrant as I had hoped. So I changed it.
The battery compartment is a little large, but whatever. As long as you tape the LED leads to the battery it won't jostle around much.
Update: I changed the scad and stl files so that both halves of the battery compartment are on the same side when the heart is put together (thanks to owenscenic for pointing this out!) I also decreased the size of the pegs so that hopefully it won't take any drilling and/or filing to get it to fit together.
Disclaimer: the pictures are photoshopped a smidgen. Because the LED I used is so bright, my camera interpreted the middle of the heart as being yellow, and the picture wasn't as vibrant as I had hoped. So I changed it.
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... you have an excellent point. I didn't realize that until you pointed it out. Actually it's probably a good thing that it's that way, because the depression is a little too deep, and this way it actually holds the battery in place a little better. I'll do some fixing and upload a new set of STL's later today. Thanks for pointing that out!
This looks neat. But if those are two halves, shouldn't the depression the battery sits in be on opposite sides? If the top surface of those STLs are supposed to fit together, then one needs to change. Or am i not visualizing it correctly?
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1. Print. Don't use a raft if you can avoid it.
2. Depending on your machine and your skeinforge settings, you may have to do a little drilling and filing. I drilled the holes and filed the pegs so everything fit together nicely. I've included the scad files so you can change the parameters, although they are useless without the dxf file which is hiding on a partition of my computer which I can't access at the moment.
3. Hook up the LED (a little Kapton tape helps), and stick them together!
4. (Optional) Give it to someone special to let them know you care about them.
2. Depending on your machine and your skeinforge settings, you may have to do a little drilling and filing. I drilled the holes and filed the pegs so everything fit together nicely. I've included the scad files so you can change the parameters, although they are useless without the dxf file which is hiding on a partition of my computer which I can't access at the moment.
3. Hook up the LED (a little Kapton tape helps), and stick them together!
4. (Optional) Give it to someone special to let them know you care about them.
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This looks neat. But if those are two halves, shouldn't the depression the battery sits in be on opposite sides? If the top surface of those STLs are supposed to fit together, then one needs to change. Or am i not visualizing it correctly?
... you have an excellent point. I didn't realize that until you pointed it out. Actually it's probably a good thing that it's that way, because the depression is a little too deep, and this way it actually holds the battery in place a little better. I'll do some fixing and upload a new set of STL's later today. Thanks for pointing that out!