Bucket O' Octopi
Description
This thing was originally conceived and designed by MakerBot's own Matthew Griffin (http://thingiverse.com/mifga). Enjoy and please send comments, we're still working on it!
Check out v16 for our latest and greatest version! the sc55 version is the version that they are printing at MakerBot lately....
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The v10block on the TOM as-is, just scaled down a notch (80mm across). This is the first pretty much perfect build to date. Nice job on the design!
Got my Thing-O-Matic together and running just today, and this was the third thing I printed. I may need to work on my calibration- there were a few hanging loops on the back of the head.
W00t, Bernhard from Metalab printed this in 12 minutes on his Ultimaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I kind of like how a blue one looks with a raft, like the octopus is in the water.
We did a fund raiser last night and were selling these like hotcakes (like hot tako?). Kids loved watching them being constructed on the Thing-O-Matic.
By the way, Brian is brainstorming for the next version as we get closer and closer to the ability to print huge sheets of these, so those of you printing should let him know which footprint you prefer, square or round. It is easier to print the square one larger than the round one -- and the feet interlock better. But the round one is so cute! voice your thoughts here!
I definitely like the round one better, but I think it would be improved by making the centers of the foot circles align to the points on an octagon. Then you could link them easily into a sheet, with each octopus at any orientation. Also, it might be nice to make the foot curls consistent (either all right, or alternating).
Great job! My kids so love it, I printed one for both of them!
The original file kept bumping into the booger picker. I scaled down to 75% and printed two copies without any problems.
Awesome print and so much fun to watch the first layers going down!
I just got my Thing-O-Matic and had been trying to print the Stanford bunny as a first proper test but was really having trouble with the small base, so as soon as I saw this with it's big tentacled base coverage I knew it was perfect for me :D
Had to up the build platform temperature a bit to ge
t the tentacles to stick properly, and still had trouble with the tentacle under the head, but otherwise I am very very pleased with the result :)
Looks like an amazing print, Yeoldebrian.
Did you have to do much tweaking of calibration parameters to get it to come out nicely?
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I just loaded a copy of an experiment I did with Maker-ware and this octopus. I loaded two copies into Maker-ware shrank one, and overlapped them and turned one to put two octopuses (?). I wanted to see how it would handle merged files vs simply printing more than one item on the Replicator build platform and it worked.