Ambition, thy name is Thingiverse.
The bar doesn’t stop going up on a site like this, and as you might have guessed, this is a render, not a finished print, and a lot of the fiddly bits look like they’d be a real challenge to get printed out, but something about the already-laid-out tray of parts tells me this creator has put a lot of thought into getting this thing printworthy.
I love the ridging in the texture on the model– kind of anticipates the final form…


Pete Prodoehl Said,
September 22, 2011 @ 9:13 am
I’m flabbergasted, and I can tell you, I rarely get flabbergasted.
I’ll be waiting (very) impatiently for a real-life print of this thing.
If you design it beautifully enough, someone will build it. Said,
September 26, 2011 @ 10:50 pm
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nycdesigner Said,
September 27, 2011 @ 1:55 pm
BTW, nothing was challenging to print. It sliced and printed very smoothly.