Animal mix n match - ball joint library + demo

prusaprinters

<p>This is a library to be used with my latest project "Animal mix n match"</p> <p><strong>Animal mix n match</strong></p> <p>Put a chicken leg in place of the crocodile head, a pig tail in place of its leg. Make the most absurd creature possible!</p> <p>Animal mix n match is not a new idea. I used to have a cardboard animal mix n match set when I was young. I also found a few toy set like that in toy stores, but they work with velcro. I want to make a more satisfying toy to play with.</p> <p>I created a "Demo" which is basically a box like animal. I made it to test the ball joint and see if it is fun to play with.</p> <p>It's not supposed to look good,<strong>don't print this!</strong></p> <p><strong>List of mix n match animals</strong></p> <ul> <li>Crocodile: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4751955">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4751955</a></li> <li>Minecraft Steve: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4761648">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4761648</a></li> <li>Chicken: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4862280">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4862280</a></li> </ul> <p>More animals coming soon</p> <h3>How I Designed This</h3> <p>The idea came to me a while ago when I was trying to design a ball join to hold my mobile phone in any angle. I didn't have good success, the phone is too heavy, but I made a very satisfying ball joint.</p> <p>It works by joining the 2 halves of the ball seat with a rubber band, which put constant pressure on the ball. The ball can be pull out and snap back elsewhere.</p> <p>You need small rubberbands. You should be able to find braiding rubber bands from most shops, they are quite common. Something like this: <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Hicarer-Elastic-Children-Braiding-Hairstyle/dp/B07BPZSXYC?tag=thingiverse09-20">https://www.amazon.com.au/Hicarer-Elastic-Children-Braiding-Hairstyle/dp/B07BPZSXYC</a></p> <p>I could use blender to design the animals, since they are organic shapes, but my blender skill is too low. That would take me way too long. I could use animal models from elsewhere, but I could not find models that are "puffy" enough to be adapted for this project. Also, it would be hard to find lots of animals of the same style.</p> <p>I prefer design everything in OpenSCAD. That's not the best tool for organic design, but my animals do not need to be realistic.</p> <p>I started with a crocodile. I will add more animals as I get more time to work on it, and if the community show interest in this project.</p> Category: Animals