Arcade and Retro – 3D Prints

Star Lord · 30-11-2015 08:50AM

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Setting up a stall in Moore Street outside Cineworld for the Xmas ?

FYP, could be more lucrative, cash in on the fans!

Steve X2 · 30-11-2015 11:15AM

Currently have a very nice model of the Millennium Falcon printing at home(in my new favourite test colour, Traffic Light Red).

I do find it funny how some people on Thingiverse are trying to get around automatic copyright take downs with how they name their models.
This one is the “Fillennium Malcon”, and the Imperial Shuttle is “Mars Bars Scuttle”

MrVestek · 30-11-2015 01:15PM

Do they have any models of the EWE ESS ESS Genterprise up there? :P

The Last Bandit · 30-11-2015 01:18PM

Full size Firefly perhaps ?

Steve X2 · 30-11-2015 01:36PM

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Full size Firefly perhaps ?

I have a very nice model of that. But, it's so complex it would be a nightmare to print without a load of supports attached. And with the shape of the ship you really want it to come out as clean as possible.

Now, I'll have another 3D printer pretty soon, a resin based SLA one(Formlabs Form 2). This should allow a better print for models with small and/or complex areas, but the build area is tiny compared to my Ultimaker 2 Extended(145×145×175mm vs 230x225x305mm).
So the detail from the resin printer would be fantastic, but the size will never impress.

MrVestek · 30-11-2015 01:41PM

Steve X2 wrote: »

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Full size Firefly perhaps ?

I have a very nice model of that. But, it's so complex it would be a nightmare to print without a load of supports attached. And with the shape of the ship you really want it to come out as clean as possible.

Now, I'll have another 3D printer pretty soon, a resin based SLA one(Formlabs Form 2). This should allow a better print for models with small and/or complex areas, but the build area is tiny compared to my Ultimaker 2 Extended(145×145×175mm vs 230x225x305mm).
So the detail from the resin printer would be fantastic, but the size will never impress.

I was always told that size doesn't matter...

:-/

Steve X2 · 30-11-2015 01:49PM

MrVestek wrote: »

I was always told that size doesn't matter...

:-/

It was very nice of her to say that to you

Steve X2 · 30-11-2015 03:35PM

My “Fillennium Malcon” is complete

Bit of post processing required, but not a lot.
Now, to print max size or not??

trout · 30-11-2015 09:39PM

That is brilliant!

I wouldn't be able to hold off maxing that out ... go BIG or go HOME

Steve X2 · 07-12-2015 10:47PM

Star Wars month is in full swing

I'm just waiting on some new tasty Colorfabb ngen printing material before I go for the full size Falcon in white.

Steve X2 · 08-12-2015 08:43PM

3D printing is a slow process, sometimes you setup your print, walk away and come back 10 hours later to this:

But never give up, its just a tweak away from getting it right

By the way folks, I'm looking to give away a load of these 3D prints. Get on to your local mods to give me the go ahead

:):):)

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Doge · 08-12-2015 10:42PM

Steve X2 wrote: »

3D printing is a slow process, sometimes you setup your print, walk away and come back 10 hours later to this:

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That's the funniest thing I've seen all week.

It's like the Ultimaker just said "era f*ck it, I'll scribble in the rest!"

How the hell did that happen though?

Was the nozzle moving the print around the place or something?

Doge · 08-12-2015 10:45PM

Steve X2 wrote: »

Star Lord · 08-12-2015 11:08PM

Steve X2 wrote: »

By the way folks, I'm looking to give away a load of these 3D prints. Get on to your local mods to give me the go ahead :):):)

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Freebie thread in the marketplace with conditions? (so no 1 person grabs all the cool ones!)

Steve X2 · 08-12-2015 11:59PM

Doge wrote: »

That's the funniest thing I've seen all week.

It's like the Ultimaker just said "era f*ck it, I'll scribble in the rest!"

How the hell did that happen though?

Was the nozzle moving the print around the place or something?

I think the nozzle clipped a leg and that started a domino effect that knocked the whole print off.

Star Lord wrote: »

Freebie thread in the marketplace with conditions? (so no 1 person grabs all the cool ones!)

I was thinking some online raffle or something. Will see how it goes with the mods.

Thargor · 09-12-2015 02:18PM

Is this thread just for Retro stuff Steve? Do you have other projects going elsewhere? Im damn tempted to get into this now but just like VR Im always telling myself to give it another year and another year.

Steve X2 · 09-12-2015 02:57PM

Thargor wrote: »

Is this thread just for Retro stuff Steve? Do you have other projects going elsewhere? Im damn tempted to get into this now but just like VR Im always telling myself to give it another year and another year.

I'm trying to keep it retro related, but failing a lot of the time

What other types of projects do you mean? 3D printing?

I'm certainly printing a lot more than what is shown on this thread, and giving a lot of the stuff away as there are only so many models of owls and batman a person can have

Thargor · 09-12-2015 03:51PM

Oh sorry I meant do you have a thread anywhere else discussing maintenance/costs/abilities of the device etc?

Steve X2 · 09-12-2015 04:32PM

Thargor wrote: »

Oh sorry I meant do you have a thread anywhere else discussing maintenance/costs/abilities of the device etc?

Ah I see. No I dont have a thread anywhere else.

I've been meaning to stick up a thread/info dump over on my retrovia.ie site. But haven't got around to it just yet.

Steve X2 · 09-12-2015 10:06PM

Time for a break from Star Wars, the GF has insisted I print Xmas stuff for a while :0/
But I snuck in a Pink Vader before that

Corholio · 10-12-2015 12:21AM

Steve X2 wrote: »

Time for a break from Star Wars, the GF has insisted I print Xmas stuff for a while :0/
But I snuck in a Pink Vader before that

Genuinely couldn't stop laughing at that.

Steve X2 · 17-12-2015 06:37PM

Another break from xmas prints. Doing a large yoda head and am about 20 hours into a 34 hour print. I can't wait until they really sort out the speed with 3D printing :0/

Also, as no mods(well, no forum or cat mods that cover this section) replied to me on the whole Star Wars 3D print free raffle thingy, I assumed it was a no go and have distributed most of the stuff to friends and work peeps.

Sorry guys, i tried to sort something for here to give a little back to our retro community

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CiDeRmAn · 17-12-2015 08:20PM

Steve X2 wrote: »

Another break from xmas prints. Doing a large yoda head and am about 20 hours into a 34 hour print. I can't wait until they really sort out the speed with 3D printing :0/

Also, as no mods(well, no forum or cat mods that cover this section) replied to me on the whole Star Wars 3D print free raffle thingy, I assumed it was a no go and have distributed most of the stuff to friends and work peeps.

Sorry guys, i tried to sort something for here to give a little back to our retro community

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I'm sorry, I thought I sent a message to you via PM, apologies if it was borked.
I'll try again.

Myrddin · 17-12-2015 08:59PM

Steve X2 wrote: »

Also, as no mods(well, no forum or cat mods that cover this section) replied to me on the whole Star Wars 3D print free raffle thingy, I assumed it was a no go and have distributed most of the stuff to friends and work peeps.

Sorry guys, i tried to sort something for here to give a little back to our retro community

You prob could have throw a thread up on Retrovia, & linked back to it here...never even thought of suggesting that

Steve X2 · 18-12-2015 10:27AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm sorry, I thought I sent a message to you via PM, apologies if it was borked.
I'll try again.

No probs.

Myrddin wrote: »

You prob could have throw a thread up on Retrovia, & linked back to it here...never even thought of suggesting that

Yeah could have done that. But i wanted to keep it "onsite" here as I didn't want to really be getting anything out of it.

Anyway, its not exactly the end of the world

Doge · 18-12-2015 04:12PM

https://blog.adafruit.com/2015/12/17/bb-8-builders-club-share-files-for-designs-3dthursday-3dprinting/

Steve X2 · 18-12-2015 04:45PM

That looks pretty cool. Would take a while to print it full size at high res though.

Steve X2 · 04-01-2016 12:21AM

A little something I'm working on, a Raspberry Pi Zero inside a NES controller.
I robbed someone else's model and will need to modify it a good bit to fit my needs. But the basic plan is to get a tiny battery in there and also solder the NES buttons to the GPIO headers on the Pi.

Star Lord · 04-01-2016 07:06AM

What's the plan with that one? A NES emulator in a controller? Or using it to control something else?

Steve X2 · 04-01-2016 08:18AM

Star Lord wrote: »

What's the plan with that one? A NES emulator in a controller? Or using it to control something else?

I've got RetroPie running on it now. So NES emulator and the rest.
The software side is the easy bit on this, just need to modify the "borrowed" 3D model to hold the PI better and also allow the old controller cable to be used.

Arcade and Retro – 3D Prints

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