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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: SirChurch on Wed, 11 March 2015, 02:27:31

Title: My Friend Jens 3D Printed a Few Designs
Post by: SirChurch on Wed, 11 March 2015, 02:27:31

Jens is a pretty talented artist and he happens to own a formlabs Form 1+ 3D printer. I nabbed an open source skull keycap STL here: https://github.com/kekstee/3dprint (https://github.com/kekstee/3dprint). I was pretty pleased with the first printing attempt so much that it is now my ESC key (album: http://imgur.com/a/jJqKw (http://imgur.com/a/jJqKw)).

Jens took a few weeks and decided to make some caps of his own design. Album: http://imgur.com/a/DEtdZ (http://imgur.com/a/DEtdZ)

What do you think?

Title: Re: My Friend Jens 3D Printed a Few Designs
Post by: PauloF on Wed, 11 March 2015, 07:11:07

I really love the details... man i wish i had a 3d printer  ^-^

They seem a bit fragile for an everyday use that can ruin them though.

Title: Re: My Friend Jens 3D Printed a Few Designs
Post by: CPTBadAss on Wed, 11 March 2015, 09:46:44

I mean if you're printing with ABS, the caps should be durable PauloF.

Did you do any acetone smoothing SirChurch or Jens? The finishes on the caps look pretty good :).

Title: Re: My Friend Jens 3D Printed a Few Designs
Post by: nubbinator on Wed, 11 March 2015, 10:55:52

Quote from: CPTBadAss on Wed, 11 March 2015, 09:46:44

I mean if you're printing with ABS, the caps should be durable PauloF.

Did you do any acetone smoothing SirChurch or Jens? The finishes on the caps look pretty good :).

The printer used is an SLA printer. 

I'm not a huge fan of the designs, but they did print well.

Title: Re: My Friend Jens 3D Printed a Few Designs
Post by: radish on Wed, 11 March 2015, 22:53:08

Quote from: PauloF on Wed, 11 March 2015, 07:11:07

I really love the details... man i wish i had a 3d printer  ^-^

They seem a bit fragile for an everyday use that can ruin them though.

You can always cast them. They would be durable enough then.