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Customizable Fish Scale Impact Vest
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Published on March 7, 2013
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Description
Fish scales that are printed permanently connected together, but can expand to make a flexible protective impact vest/armor.
This was designed to collapse and expand, and to be flexible to some degree.
This was designed to collapse and expand, and to be flexible to some degree.
Instructions
1. Select the number of Rows and Columns of scales
2. Select the number of faces/polygons
3. Select Yes for the Print Mode
4. Select the size of individual scales
5. Print it.
6. Individual pieces should be able to slide to expand into a vest piece.
7. Affix it to your chest/back for some sort of impact protection/armor.
This has not yet been printed or tested.
2. Select the number of faces/polygons
3. Select Yes for the Print Mode
4. Select the size of individual scales
5. Print it.
6. Individual pieces should be able to slide to expand into a vest piece.
7. Affix it to your chest/back for some sort of impact protection/armor.
This has not yet been printed or tested.
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License
Customizable Fish Scale Impact Vest by Roidzo is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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Cool idea, but I don't see how it can be printed - there's no flat surface. Perhaps you could modify it to have the "slot" flat on the print bed with the "pins" sticking up? Then it'd be easy to print tons of them.
Thanks.. they're supposed to print upside down as the 2nd and 4th pics are showing. In those pics the edge on the plate is supposed to be flat but I've only put this together in the last few days and still have a few things to sort out.. spacing and such. I'm not sure how I could print them already assembled to each other but slideable if I made the slot flat on the print bed as you suggested.