Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Addendum: #8. buy and use a 3D printer

Since the last post, I already downloaded a program called Slic3r, found some skull keychain designs on Thingiverse, learned how to digitally double them up on the printing bed, and exported the STL format to gcode, so it would work on my printer.

While I printed them: I fixed the filament sizing on Slic3r; I digitally quadrupled the skull keychains on the printing bed, converted the file and saved to my new Mac desktop (old one is too outdated for Slic3r); I found three animal figurine designs I may print for my nephew someday, converted the files and saved to desktop; I found some anatomical heart keychains, quadrupled, converted, and saved them too.

I am terrified of getting everything wrong and sometimes it keeps me from doing anything, but I LOVE LEARNING OKAY.

Oh. And here are the skulls:



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