• nieminen@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yeah I’ve done a couple prints for friends or relatives. My most recent print is a simple miny peg-chess set so I can learn from my chess books with a physical board and pieces.

    Not exactly practical, but still useful.

    I’ve successfully solved several real life problems with my printer, and it’s always nice to find something practical to make or fix.

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        2 days ago

        So that’s a fun story. The light squares and pieces are all printed from the same color changing filament.

        I printed all the squares first, after putting them in, I realized I was missing one. And I was already printing the pieces. After removing several of the squares from the board in preparation for replacing them, I found the one I thought I lost (or didn’t print). Sadly removing the squares ruined several of them. So I was locked into replacing with newly printed squares. And because it’s color changing filament, they’re different from the second print.

        Anywho. Long, boring, (turns out not fun at all) story. But I thought it looked pretty cool in the end.