Action #Chess 2.X
Description
Thanks to those who printed the original Action Chess I learned a lot so I returned the the drawing board. While this assembles similarly to the original, every part has been adjusted somewhat. Improved base-to-base connections for the pawns and rooks, an improved king/queen conenction, and an improved overall design. If all things work out this should be a vast improvement over the original. And cooler looking.
Plus I added a tinkercad logo to the chest for shameless pandering. (Well, I wanted a logo, but I couldn't design one that I liked, so I went with this.)
Special thanks to PrettySmallThings for helping me with the couplers and for pointing out that I need to send my files through netfabb.
This part was made with Tinkercad. Edit the part online at: tinkercad.com/things/8kCHfmDya9y
EDIT Made a version scaled by 80% so the pieces fit in the sizes specified by the contest rules. You can edit that version at tinkercad.com/things/03FJJx1dw3l
Instructions
2. Insert the dial into the king (see illustration).
3. Play Chess.
To assemble in robot form:
1. Slide the tab from the queen into the notch on the king and slide downards to lock the body together.
2. Twist the dial to lock the king and queen together.
3. Take the 2 type A pawns and slide into the shoulder slots.
4. Take 4 type B pawns and lock their feet together to form 2 legs.
5. Flip the knights over for feet and snap the legs into them.
6. Snap the legs into the body.
7. Take the remaing 2 type B pawns and lock their feet into the feet of the rooks to form two upper arms.
8. Snap the shoulders pawns into the upper arms.
9. Snap the upper arm pawns into the bishops to form the hands.
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Great work! This version is orders of magnitude improved over the previous. I successfully printed everything from the V2 zip file. I had to do a little bit of filing on the King/Queen interlocking tab -- the tolerances were a bit too tight on my print. I also found that the Knights were a little tough to print. I haven't verified by looking at the Z coordinates in Blender yet, but it felt like, after having ReplicatorG place the object on the platform, there was one small layer of just one end of the Knight (the horse's nose, if I recall correctly?) and then the actual structural base was printed as the second layer. This made it not as sturdy as it could have been. So the "floor" of the Knight might not be 100% even. Again -- I haven't yet verified, it just felt that way during printing.
I split the full size model in half and rotated it around so it will fit in the center of my bed. I am not sure if I introduced an issue, but several of the piece's bases don't appear to be on the exact same Z level. For example the rooks and the associated pawns are a little high as is the one not-chess piece.
Anybody else seeing this as well?
WooT! Cymon FTW!
Finally you will be able to print stuff! About freekin time. :)
Well done glad to see your design win.
Congratulations!! Now it works 8-)
Mine derivative is still on the way.. I've printed a beta version and found some joints are too tight..
I just looked up "redux" to be sure I was using the word right.
...I'm not.
So I'm not going to call this "Action Chess Redux."
License
This is really a neat chess set and I can't wait to play it with my son (who found it on this site). Unfortunately, I am having a little trouble printing it on my Ultimaker with a layer height of 0.1mm. I looked at the stl in Meshlab and found the bottom of the knights are not flat. The tab on the back middle is lower than the rest of the knight causing it to not stick on the bed of my machine. Is there any way we could get a fixed version?
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Always check the derivatives.