Making Kryptonite lights.

Maybe you should try one with 100% fill with the transparent PLA and see how the light diffuses through that...

Daddy Bearcat

"Good head"... *rofl*

Daddy Bearcat

the bare is when Big Clive finds out they have banned all LED'S

God 420

In the meantime I am still inhaling that sweet lead-based solder.

Lostngone

Looks pretty good. I might try printing that.

Big Clive

I don't know if it's usable in your case, but I like this one: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1376314" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1376314</a> Just a thought, in any case. Whatever you guys do, I look forward to seeing the results!

Interesting. Here in the States it went to molded LEDs that simulate the old tungsten mini lights. We can get the bare ones, usually flat or inverted cone, but those are getting in to the more speciality types which also come in various other tungsten form factors like the large old school bulbs.

Kadah

Christmas lights have almost completely gone to bare LED like the ones I showed now. Anything else is a cover shoved over the top or "exotic".

Big Clive

I've not even looked for a 3D printable hollow beard. I bet someone has made one though. This might work... <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2507880" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2507880</a>

Big Clive

The research is legit and seems they're trying to develop proper standards and printer emission targets, but as you suspected the TL;DR is to use good ventilation and avoid high nozzle temperatures and bad materials.

Thanks, Fredrik. I'll look into that.

(also, if you're in the UK or EU, they ship from a UK warehouse)

Just a headsup that they just released the Mk3, and if you're really quick you can still get it for the black friday price.

I was interested in PLAs biodegradability, but after some research it seems it really isn’t degradable under likely conditions. It’s still worth using as it is generally plant derived and not petroleum derived.

Adam Pepper

Excellent prints. I'll have to check out the Cetus Mk2.

I don't know the slicer in question, i'm used to Cura and Slic3r, and on those, you could just fine put a hole in a solid model and then print in spiral mode, and it would have the cutout on the bottom layer :)

Per 'Zapro' Jensen

I was originally thinking the same thing, but I think the problem is that those are solid models (not hollow inside), and he's printing them in "spiral vase" mode (or at least with no infill). If you modify the object to have a hole in the bottom, that won't work anymore and you'd have to do significant changes to the model to have it be an actual shell.

John Ridley

A green flasher that you looked at before, might be an option for your tree your video was called - "Inside a waterproof LED colour changing light from BM homestores" 5Aug2018 I also bought one around the same time, on mine the strong battery springs pulled through the battery connector due to bad solder joints (repaired twice) I have a glass paperweight with bubbles in it that I sit on top of the LED light unit (Ikea had them but the one I have is a bit more refined) this what the Ikea one looks like this <a href="http://legacy.mikenymanphotography.com/images/sbsb/5D-69609.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://legacy.mikenymanphotography.com/images/sbsb/5D-69609.jpg</a> Fast green FLASH option is most annoying ;-)) Needs a "H&amp;S certificate" Note - on my unit after a while FADE reverts to the default multi colour display ? FLASH ran for 30min then reverted to solid green ? just tested. EDIT- odd after it went from FLASH to solid green another 30min and it went back to flashing and it still is after an hour or more, very odd. Just quite interesting, I bet it is a bad solder joint or something. Hacks ? 1/ I guess it could be altered to run of 5V USB 2/ Run wires to just turn on the GREEN for your tree a good up lighter for the base of the tree. John

John Harrison

Clive, look into modifying the models to have the hole already printed. Meshmixer is a good piece of software that can do that. When you get to making your own models, i can recommend Fusion 360, free for personal use.

Per 'Zapro' Jensen

Patreon's shit app breaks the link but I'm sure they are taking about printing ABS, which is something that is wildly known about. ABS is crap and annoying to print with anyway.

Kadah

I've been working on a light cover recently that's going to be quite tacky indeed. What size are the typical Xmas lights in the UK? I'm going to be sizing the holder parts to the US standard mini light, but I don't know if that is a widely used form factor elsewhere. You might want to check out PETG sometime, by default it's transparent and shiny and almost as easy as PLA to print. Using some glue stick on the bed will help as a release agent as PETG can adhere too well.

Kadah

C.R.A.P click bait

Richard Boyce

Lots of very phallic things in this weeks video.... 🥖🍆 😱 😂

Lostngone

You mean Aspods? 😆

Lostngone

<a href="https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printers-can-spew-toxic-cancercausing-chemicals-new-report-reveals-/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printers-can-spew-toxic-cancercausing-chemicals-new-report-reveals-/</a> and now 3D printers will poison you!

Lostngone

Not even one glowing green beard, given the sponsorship? :)

Great video Clive, you should print some of the aspirin pill pods that people created and put on thingiverse following your video.

Jono Harley

It was stuffed into a connector attached to the little metal-clad lithium cell rescued from the shady touch light. It's interesting when inserted into one of the fluorescent green plastic crystals because the red does shine through, the green is much brighter, but the blue makes the whole crystal fluoresce.

Big Clive

Those look fantastic Clive. Yes I agree the more crystalline ones look the best! Awesome stuff!

Michael Thompson

I see there is a slow color changing LED running off to the side that I'm thinking didn't pass muster for these lights; however, I still recognize it and give it a big ol' Hee Haw salute. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgIMJcBpqKI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgIMJcBpqKI</a>

Michael Thompson