Your Design is super impressive! Wish I would have seen this video earlier. I just designed my own 20mm blocks also with a snap fit connector. However I wanted a non releasable permanent snug fit. You design is really amazing. Rotating it 45° and the snap fit connector is really genius!
My dad worked a plastic injection molding company in the 70s and they made an educational cube which was 1cm x 1cm x 1cm. It had 5 sides with a circle indent and the 6th side had a circle pip. The whole thing weighed 1 gram, i played for hours with these, as Lego was very expensive and he brought home bags of these. But interesting update to Lego here.
I had been wondering how you made these blocks for a long time. Thank you so much for this video! I love explanations of how things are designed. The little "gotchas" that happen during design are super interesting. Also, I love the little hole in the connectors. I use a paperclip to pull them out so I don't crush them with pliers. My hands are too big and messed up to use pliers well on small things.
Happy to see a video about PrintABlok again. I look forward to the ElecktroBlok video, they have my interest. I made a my own PrintABlok frame for a solarcell and made a small ElecktroBlok project.
Wow the holes in your blocks have an optical illusion! I enjoyed watching this, I also learned alot just now. Even about my own developments. Thank you sir!
Thank you for sharing the full story. I learned a lot. I especially like the final design of your connector, how you can just change the number of perimeters.
I think that the printa-block needs flat-bricks 1/3:d of the thickness of a full block. So many lego designs are dependent on these flat sheets and bars.
12:50 I have "Rokenbok", and this removal aspect (for better, or for worse) was difficult, and also kind of sketchy at times in that you could snap the connection block/points. So the addition of this is nice!
Hey check out that project at the end!! Oh, and PrintABloks are pretty awesome as well! Kidding a side, PrintABloks are lots of fun for all ages, and only limited by the imagination!
You say you're working on a design that works with resin. I used a Form3 and got to use their Tough1500 resin. It has amazing deflection properties. Granted that stuff was $200 a liter o.O, but maybe you can find a resin with similar attributes at a more affordable price. Maybe just adding some flex resin (80a) to some ABS like resin will give you the flex needed without snapping
it is extremely hard to design! thank you for sharing this. just a couple of days ago i was designing a clip that needed to electrically connect to something while being springy enough in a perticular direction to both hold itself and put pressure on the electrical contact points. i am only using TinkerCad because i cannot manage to learn other software, but seeing your presentation with the cuttaway and animations i really want to switch now. edit: i forgot to say, it took me 6hours and about 4different part to finally get it working right. is Blender a free program? i this better suited for 3D printing design or it is more a general engine? i actually tried some other program in the past and some are made for entirely free-hand design and such. i love TinkerCad because it is easy to select shapes and size them.
Brace yourself, Spaceships are coming! www.3dpprofessor.com/2022/01/06/how-i-invented-printablok/
Your Design is super impressive! Wish I would have seen this video earlier. I just designed my own 20mm blocks also with a snap fit connector. However I wanted a non releasable permanent snug fit. You design is really amazing. Rotating it 45° and the snap fit connector is really genius!
My dad worked a plastic injection molding company in the 70s and they made an educational cube which was 1cm x 1cm x 1cm. It had 5 sides with a circle indent and the 6th side had a circle pip. The whole thing weighed 1 gram, i played for hours with these, as Lego was very expensive and he brought home bags of these. But interesting update to Lego here.
I had been wondering how you made these blocks for a long time.
Thank you so much for this video! I love explanations of how things are designed. The little "gotchas" that happen during design are super interesting.
Also, I love the little hole in the connectors. I use a paperclip to pull them out so I don't crush them with pliers. My hands are too big and messed up to use pliers well on small things.
Happy to see a video about PrintABlok again. I look forward to the ElecktroBlok video, they have my interest. I made a my own PrintABlok frame for a solarcell and made a small ElecktroBlok project.
I love this electroblock idea, I will see if there's anything I can add
Good stuff Prof!! Keep up the good work. Make printablok a household word!!
Wow the holes in your blocks have an optical illusion! I enjoyed watching this, I also learned alot just now. Even about my own developments. Thank you sir!
Thank you for sharing the full story. I learned a lot. I especially like the final design of your connector, how you can just change the number of perimeters.
It is interesting that all connectors highlighted are H style connections.
I think that the printa-block needs flat-bricks 1/3:d of the thickness of a full block. So many lego designs are dependent on these flat sheets and bars.
It has them. And it has panels that are even flatter.
12:50 I have "Rokenbok", and this removal aspect (for better, or for worse) was difficult, and also kind of sketchy at times in that you could snap the connection block/points. So the addition of this is nice!
Those pins look like a slightly flattened copy of the LEGO Technic pins to me. Definitely a great design but he certainly wasn't the first :)
Thank you for sharing your design process. Very interesting.
Hey check out that project at the end!! Oh, and PrintABloks are pretty awesome as well! Kidding a side, PrintABloks are lots of fun for all ages, and only limited by the imagination!
But that project at the end, though. Practical and attractive.
You say you're working on a design that works with resin. I used a Form3 and got to use their Tough1500 resin. It has amazing deflection properties. Granted that stuff was $200 a liter o.O, but maybe you can find a resin with similar attributes at a more affordable price. Maybe just adding some flex resin (80a) to some ABS like resin will give you the flex needed without snapping
Great design, love it
Thanks for sharing your progress :-)
Challenge accepted!
it is extremely hard to design! thank you for sharing this.
just a couple of days ago i was designing a clip that needed to electrically connect to something while being springy enough in a perticular direction to both hold itself and put pressure on the electrical contact points. i am only using TinkerCad because i cannot manage to learn other software, but seeing your presentation with the cuttaway and animations i really want to switch now.
edit: i forgot to say, it took me 6hours and about 4different part to finally get it working right.
is Blender a free program? i this better suited for 3D printing design or it is more a general engine? i actually tried some other program in the past and some are made for entirely free-hand design and such. i love TinkerCad because it is easy to select shapes and size them.
Yup, and I have a tutuorial series that might get you going. ruclips.net/p/PLaE_P552lCIFruOpwdxcYFY3WsE9EkD35
@@3dpprofessor woah!! thank you very much!
isnt that microphone backwards? the buttons need to be towards you.
its a cardioid meaning its like 300% worst when its backwards.
The buttons are towards me. Those are the dials that chose the mode and gain. They're on the back.
@@3dpprofessor ahhh sorry for the misunderstanding.