JoshK's Machine Made Light for the 8th Annual BLF/OL Contest

Thats scary.

My wife agrees, this looks good (from a makeup-gore perspective). I thought I was about to read a post about you dropping out due to some accident. I am glad that is not the gore it appeared to be.

I’ve definitely had my share of nicks and cuts on my hands, but luckily nothing that ever amounted to more than a modest scar.

Oh that’s a nasty pic. A workmate crushed his fingers the other day and it looked pretty similar :confounded:

This was your inspiration for the design…?? What exactly are you intending on lighting up?? :laughing: :laughing: … :person_facepalming:

I always say, the place a flashlight is needed most is “where the sun don’t shine”!

:laughing: :laughing:

I finally got a proper an image hosting account today. Dropbox doesn’t seem to work for everyone, and hosting them on my server is cluttering the logs.
I almost chose imgur, but they required me to put my personal cell phone number into their database. NOPE. We all know those things get hacked all the time.
So I chose ImgBB.com. It seems nice. It doesn’t have any basic editor features though, like correcting a sideways image.
I went back and updated my posts with ImgBB links, but there are quoted links I can’t edit. Can I get some help guys? Here are the posts and links you need to know to make it a quick job. It would be much appreciated.

raccoon city - post#27 - https://i.ibb.co/vzt4hJ4/hand.jpg :+1:
Scallywag - post#31 - https://i.ibb.co/vzt4hJ4/hand.jpg & https://i.ibb.co/sQ9GjWw/button.jpg :+1:
pinkpanda3310 - post#34 - https://i.ibb.co/GQz1ppB/sup.jpg :+1:
Scallywag - post#35 - https://i.ibb.co/GQz1ppB/sup.jpg :+1:

Thanks!

Dund’d

One ping only…

Has the bronze/silver sheet turned up?

It will be a few weeks until it is due to arrive. I took the cheapest steel option they had, they call it “polished bronzed-silver steel”. That’s going to be an interesting material to check out. It’s been years since I ordered anything from Shapeways, and I have never ordered anything but plastics from them before. This is going to be a first for all of us to explore.

If it’s going to be a few weeks there won’t be time :cry: .
There are only effectively 12 days left when you take out the holidays and non delivery days, and then you’ve got to make it and write the whole thing up.
I would quickly try to grab a substitute from somewhere or there is a good chance you won’t be able to finish, and that would be a shame.

This was shipped December 24th. Below is a full list if all the tracking events during it’s 1 week transit:

December 24, 2020 - Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS, USPS Awaiting Item
December 30, 2020, 6:10 am - Out for Delivery

:rage:

Fingers crossed it arrives today for you! :+1:

Uh, I’ve spent 3 hours trying to make the printer start correctly. It worked perfect all last week. Now it prints 2mm up in the air, and won’t respond to manual adjustment. But otherwise works fine.

As I mentioned in the other thread, this is done, I’ll be posting everything tonight. My family life is very demanding tonight, the posts might come slow.
I did throw together a YouTube video, the link will be posted as soon as the upload is complete.

A quick application of solder paste using the tip of an exacto knife…

Held over a heat gun to reflow…

And bingo.

Then a few wires.

The metal was 4% too small, so I spent about an hour with a Dremel removing material from the inside.
(This is not a one-day build, I fell behind with BLF updates :slight_smile: )

Upload complete! Check out the quick video to see what metal 3D prints are really like!