Just wanted to give an update on my prize: I’ve used the voucher on led4power store, and added some other stuff I need.
Currently, the mail from there cannot be sent to Portugal, but we are in contact and as soon as possible, it will be shipped!
Mine is at the post office waiting for pickup but cant get there until monday.
My 2 cents on the 3d printed category
downloaded files for models should be allowed. Plagiarism is part and parcel of the internet, programming and computers.
But the printer is your machine and the person who enters should operate the machine that makes the light. That is what the competition is about. Making a light.
The surface finish of even the shapeways prints is quite bad, so you wouldn’t really get good results with just assembling them as-is.
How about a requirement that 3D Printed parts have a surface treatment by the contestant? That adds back in the personal touch and skill.
idk why his sideway plastik looks that bad, it can be pretty smooth if printed at 0.1 res. even 0.2 is still better, i used 0.2 res, and no fume smoothing, in my build, you actually get better finish on sides than top, but you have to orient it right for printing. that is why i believe designer and “printer” should be same person.
actually top can be pretty smooth too, if you use ironing option, but that is for fdm printers. sla printers offer much better res.
Oh ho ho, don’t think us 3D Modelers don’t have skills. I grew up on a family farm. I was making bird houses as soon as I could lift a hammer. Plywood Christmas tree decorations as soon as I could lift a jig saw. My Dad and I had an epic shop. We built metal weldaments constantly, and I did a lot of various builds myself too. My dad bought a junk riding mower once just so I could have fun tearing it and the engine apart to the last bolt. My knowledge of everything mechanical was so well known, an local mechanic with epic skills himself offered me a job as his first employee just based on what he heard. I took that job and worked there for years until I started college. I did an incredible job finding and fixing hard problems fast on both cars, trucks, and tractors. During college I took a 3D Modelling class. After college I moved away from home and no longer had a shop that lived up to my expectations. But discovered 3D Modeling was even more fun and useful. I sent a lot of metal working jobs to local shops that I modeled. I discovered CAD was a better fit for my work/family/life. Plus I just don’t have room to built a massive shop to meet my expectations. So I spent $4254 on a Solidworks license and built a $1200 PC to run it. I really know how to have fun. Life is good.
yea, that is kinda expensive,
my 123design soft is absolutely free to download from their site, and i run it on 300 dollar laptop. thou it did slow down a lot, to almost freezing when i did the pattern.
i honestly do not know who did prizes, i did what i had to do on my end, but never got any response from hke, i never followed up, not that i needed that light, or even really wanted it, but i formed my opinion of the company and never ordered from them.