The NOG

Idea First of all, I love orange creamsicles and I like making magnets, so some bored lunch I decided to whip up a design. Not a lot of thought went into it. I wanted it big-ish, but small enough to use just one magnet. To add some detail I decided that it would need a bite taken out of corner. Add in those little ridges that they commonly have and tada, you have a creamsicle magnet. Successes Printing optimization The key to minimizing wasted filament and time with the Bambulabs AMS is to print multiple items, if you can. In this case I was able to print 6 on one build plate which led to 23 grams of purge for 89 grams of actual part. Pretty good considering there is white and most people believe that the AMS wastes 4x the filament actually used for the part. The stick A weird thing to think about, but I used Hatchbox Wood Filled PLA for the stick and it is satisfying. It has that subtle wood feeling you get from a real popsicle stick. Failures printing issues Not sure what happened, b...

Idea and Inspiration In the background of a show I was watching there was a quick shot of this clock that appears to be based on an inert anti-tank mine. Through casual browsing I couldn't ID it other than being an anti-tank mine. I liked the vibe and wanted my own AT wall clock. Here in the US of A weirdly enough I could only find eastern-bloc TM-62 landmines and frankly I'm not putting that on my wall, so I was left with 3D printing a US mine replica to use. There are two common heavy AT in the US service, the M15 and the M19. The M19 is basically a metal can full of comp-b with a pressure plate. The lesser-seen mine, the M19, is a less-metallic mine as it only has two metal parts which weigh a few ounces. It's also a big ol' plastic block of comp-b. I liked it, so I decided to go with it. As for the actual mechanical guts I decided to do nothing fancy and just use those cheap quartz based clock mechanisms you can find on Amazon for 7 for $15. Successes 1. It was quic...