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Cellular Lamp

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Published on March 13, 2012
This thing was Featured on March 14, 2012

Description

A big cellular thing. Use this as a lampshade for an LED light or as a sculpture.

Many people have printed the bracelets I uploaded so I decided to give you something bigger.

Here's the model on Cell Cycle:
n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/cellCycle/?l=4276

Edit: 8/28/2012 I've uploaded a new model, please see my comments below

Instructions

I've uploaded a new version (cellularThing_optimizedForMakerbot.stl) that is optimized for a MakerBot Replicator. The bottom of the model is sliced off to make it completely flat, the thinnest members of the structure have been thickened.

Recommended printing settings:
Shells: 3
Infill: none
Support: none
Feed Rate: 40 or less
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What type of light is this? Model printed great, with a few small imperfections on overhangs. Thanks

I really want that.. ;)
But Slic3r is always crashing when i try to get the gcode..

Can't seem to get either model to slice in Slic3r 0.9.1 Any suggestions?

 had the same problem. try it on a computer with more RAM installed. (8gb RAM worked for me)

 Seems to slice with Slic3r 0.9.7 - we'll see how well it prints.

Watching this thing print is mesmerizing; it's like a mix between the "replicator" machine in Star Trek and watch a bacteria culture grow. It took me ~12 hours to print with default MakerBot Replicator settings (may have turned Shells down to 0), but it was totally worth it. As physically large as it is, the weight is very low due to the design of the object. For me, it only used up 49g, and yet is a little bit larger than a softball. Some of the thinner features on the outer ring are prone to breaking under horizontal / compressive stress, but nothing that a little acetone spot-welding can't fix! Great work, I'm happy I finally have something that was designed by Nervous :)

Thanks for the great design - its a fun and challenging print!

These cellular jewelry are beautiful, but it's a bit of a bummer that there's no way to download the generated geometry, only to buy prints - rather like a photographer that won't sell you your digital photo's, only printed copies. Of course, we can all download the one STL that you generated and uploaded here, but I don't think that's what DubLo7 was asking for.

We make our living through selling jewelry. I understand your disappointment with not being able to to download the geometry from our app but that's the arrangement we have for the moment that allows us to develop fun software. There are three jewelry designs uploaded to our thingiverse account that you can print in addition to this big thing.

Such a cool thing it deserves to be printed glowing!

I can probably do something about that, also, I have a spare gen 3 motherboard sitting around here, but most likely it just needs it firmware reflashed.

Just send me a message through my thingiverse user page and I can swing over and take a look.

hello, just click "bigmakerbottable4.stl" on the left column of the page under the word "Downloads"

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

(please delete the "Guest" comments. I wasn't logged in and the page just kept posting the comment for some reason.

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

How do you get the STL model from the web page? I have a neat model made but can't figure out how to download so I can print it.

I'm not totally sure. It's never worked since we assembled it. Most of the time it says not connected to the computer, but sporadically it does. it's never accepted a print job.

I can help with that if you like, I rebuilt Skidoo (the black and red one). Didn't know it was broken. What's wrong with it?

I've been once or twice. Our non-functioning Cupcake used to live at Sprout in the hopes someone would fix it. It was the lime green one.

You know that we have a group of people that meet up every now and again at the sprouts in Davis, right? There's even a google group.

http://groups.google.com/group...

I haven't made it across the river to visit yet :(

WoW! Nice, must print this.

Thanks.

Looks like it'll print fine, half way through.

Impressive. It seems to be handling the overhangs really well, what w/t are you using?

Nice! On a cupcake no less. :)

Love your stuff nervous... Thx for sharing some of it over here!

From building http://flic.kr/p/bAe7xi I think I can say that this won't work. The overhangs are too extreme and the horizontal "bridges" won't connect properly. Using a raft might give you the bottom part correctly but the middle part will likely fail.

If it had more vertical edges anchoring the bridges it would help. Nice to see you posting more though!

@tlalexander, I would love to see the Ultimaker output on this model. Please share your results!

Well, I stand corrected. Clearly magic is possible if you tweak the parameters enough. Good job!

I dunno, I think the Ultimaker can do it. I had extreme overhangs on my Helicopter blades:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...

But I was using 0.08mm layer heights (with 0.04mm perimeters).

Though the author specifically asked if the part was "makerbottable", I think perhaps they just meant printable without support on a home printer?

If I remember, I'll try printing one of these.

yo watz!

what if the outside surface was more vertical like so:

http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/cellC...