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How to Make a Steel Marble Track with Rail Segments

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Magic Trick

8:41

Sea Turtle

6:23

Visiting the Mountains

Making a Steel Marble Track with 3D printed forms

This marble track is made using segments formed using 3D printed parts. I used my ender 3 to create forms to bend the steel wire tracks. I created 4 basic shapes that were bent with the forms, including a 450 degree spiral corner. Once the rails are solder together into segments, track assembly can begin. Each segment is soldered to the last starting at the bottom and working my way to the top! The 3D printed forms were particularly useful for the more complex bends that would have been difficult to get right by hand.
STL files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:4839838
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How to Make a Steel Marble Track with Rail Segments

18:07

How to Make a Steel Marble Track with Rail Segments

Просмотров 90 тыс.3 года назад

This video explains the step by step process of making a steel marble track using pre-assembled segments. I made three different types of segments - straight and two types of corners. These are constructed individually by laying the 16 gauge wire on an assembly board and clamping it into place. The pieces of wire are then soldered into place to form each segment. Once creating all of the rail s...

8:41

Magic Trick

Просмотров 2423 года назад

This ball levitating over the hand was drawn using my 3d printer. TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - Staedtler Triplus Rollerball Pens amzn.to/2UFL3q0 - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amzn.to/30HBv1r

6:23

Sea Turtle

Просмотров 843 года назад

Drawn in green ink by my 3d printer TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - Staedtler Triplus Rollerball Pens amzn.to/2UFL3q0 - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amzn.to/30HBv1r

10:06

Visiting the Mountains

Просмотров 633 года назад

A mesh rendering of the mountains drawn in ink with my 3d printer. TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - Staedtler Triplus Rollerball Pens amzn.to/2UFL3q0 - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amzn.to/30HBv1r

10:14

Humming bird

Просмотров 713 года назад

Here I use my Ender 3 and custom pen attachment to draw in ink a humming bird. TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - Staedtler Triplus Rollerball Pens amzn.to/2UFL3q0 - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amzn.to/30HBv1r

6:35

Engarde!

Просмотров 593 года назад

In this drawing I use custom code to convert an SVG file into a single stroke and then into gcode for my ender 3 3d printer with custom pen attachment. TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - Staedtler Triplus Rollerball Pens amzn.to/2UFL3q0 - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amzn.to/30HBv1r

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Geometric Blue Rhino

Просмотров 504 года назад

From lines to rhinoceros. Using a single pen stroke my 3d printer draws this abstract and geometric rhino. TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - Staedtler Triplus Rollerball Pens amzn.to/2UFL3q0 - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amzn.to/30HBv1r

Contours - Uncut at 5x as drawn with my 3D printer

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Contours - Uncut at 5x as drawn with my 3D printer

Просмотров 1884 года назад

One of the challenges with drawing with my 3D printer is making as few pen lifts as possible. The z axis is rather slow. However processing an image to combine many strokes into one can also be slow! This is a drawing I wanted to do for a long time, but it was going to take forever. Finally I had the magic insight that sped up my processing code a ton, and here is the result! Enjoy! TOOLS & MAT...

PANDA! - Uncut at 5x as drawn with my 3D printer

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PANDA! - Uncut at 5x as drawn with my 3D printer

Просмотров 1204 года назад

PANDA!!! So cute! This drawing started as an SVG. The solid areas were filled with cross hatching. Some of the other drawings on this channel were optimized by removing points to approximate the original image and to combine the different lines into a single stroke. The optimization itself is very slow, but greatly speeds up the print at the cost of some detail. For the panda, I kept all of tho...

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Making a Steel Marble Track 👍

Просмотров 26 тыс.4 года назад

Here is a the step by step of making a steel marble track, with a twist at the end! This is one of the toys I always wanted as a kid. One year I finally got one and it was as awesome as I hoped. I lost that one over time, but never the fun with it. Here I make one out of steel wire inspired by: ruclips.net/video/kPguktA674w/видео.html. I tried a few different types of wire before finally settli...

Pulling the Line off the Page - Wire Bending with a 3D printed Form

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Pulling the Line off the Page - Wire Bending with a 3D printed Form

Просмотров 8414 года назад

Here I take the single line drawing of the woman and pull it off the page! The vector ink drawing made on my 3d printer is recreated with wire bending. Instead of making a wire bending machine right away, I tried to recreate the image using the wire manually. My first attempt was to just bend the wire over the line drawing. My second attempt uses a form. Here I used my 3D printer to actually 3D...

Island Time! - Drawn in Real Time with my 3D printer

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Island Time! - Drawn in Real Time with my 3D printer

Просмотров 1444 года назад

Want to get away? Enjoy some island time. This drawing is done with a gold metallic pen on white card stock and this video shows the drawing uncut and in real time from start to finish. Enjoy! TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amzn.to/30HBv1r - Dyvicl Metallic Markers amzn.to/3d1UG8M

Golden Hair - Drawn in Real Time with my 3D printer

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Golden Hair - Drawn in Real Time with my 3D printer

Просмотров 734 года назад

This drawing is done with a gold metallic pen on white card stock. The source was a vector image that I processed to simplify the lines and connect into one stroke so my 3D printer could draw it faster. This video shows the drawing uncut and in real time from start to finish. Enjoy! TOOLS & MATERIALS (affiliate) - Creality Ender 3 3D Printer amzn.to/2AAO6ZQ - 8.5x11, 90 lb/163 gsm Cardstock amz...

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A Portrait of Circles

Просмотров 1304 года назад

Using circles drawn by my pen bot, an Ender 3 3D printer with a custom pen attachment, I draw this portrait. With some image processing and a custom tool, the circles are used to create the image. Each circle touches the last so that one continuous path is created. In drawing the circles, the first part of the arc is drawn until it touches the next circle, then the first part of that circle is ...