Cat gears key chain.
Description
It's cute and fun to play with. It's also hard to print it.
It was inspired by my cat, and the screwless cube gears that people always like to play with. And someone totaly energic about the cube gears print.
I wanted something that people could still play with and be inspired by, but that would also fit in your pocket.
Instructions
Then print 3 small gears.
Check if they fit.
Next, you need to slice the center gear (upside down again), and modify the GCode so you have the printer head move away half way during the print, and then add the knob on the gear during the print.
Finally slice the case, and also have a pause in here to insert the 3 small gears and the knob+center gear.
Note: It took me quite a few test prints to get this to print correctly, fit and work. Took me a full day to design and print correctly. You also need to be able to print proper bridges at thin layers.
Finally give it away, and make someone happy. Because you should always give prints away IMHO.
Notes:
* Printed at 0.1mm layers.
* The broken gear was not because the gears are figile, but because that gear was slightly to large, and thus broke when trying to fit it.
* My branch of Marlin has a M0/M1 stop command if you have an LCD panel. This really helps in inserting the previous prints.
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Haha, "add the knob on the gear during the print" Nice one 8-)
Is the M0/M1 stop commands like pause/resume for the control knob on the ultipanel? If so, it is increadible useful, thank you for sharing this cool idea. You expanded my horizont quite a bit :-)
Yes. The M0/M1 is like a pause/resume on the UltiPanel.
What I did is slicing with Cura RC4. Which adds layer comments and starts on E0 for each layer.
Then I looked up the layer at which I wanted to pause. And added the following GCode:
G1 E-5 F6000
G1 X190 Y190 F9000
M0
G1 X0 Y0 F9000
G1 E0 F6000
The M0/M1 is only in my development branch right now,
but you can build it with: http://daid.mine.nu/~daid/marl... or download it from https://github.com/daid/Marlin
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Here's a video of it (+ cool sounds by the Ultimaker team): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
It was taken with my phone, at night :P
This print is really awesome, I'm going to print a 2nd one. I think it really shows what you could do with an Ultimaker. If you have this one with you, a yoda and the screwless cube gears, then you can really amaze people.