Global Link (Earth: Final Conflict)

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The "Global Link" smartphone from the TV series Earth: Final Conflict (which aired 10 years before the first iPhone was released). For best results with an FDM printer, it has been split up into sections which should be glued or epoxied together. This is not a "press print, wait for it finish, and you're done" model. Supports are strongly recommended. This is a static open/closed version. I will eventually make a "hero" version with the accordion arm and roller-shade screen; I just need to obtain the right kind of spring before I can design the mechanism appropriately. Print Settings Printer Brand: Ultimaker Printer: Ultimaker 2 Rafts: No Supports: Yes Resolution: 0.12mm Infill: 25% Notes: I got the best results with the screen printed vertically. To ensure that it remained stable, I put down blue tape on the build plate and wiped the tape down with isopropyl alcohol immediately before the print. This provided excellent adhesion (so good, in fact, that I had to soak it in alcohol again afterwards to get the tape off the part). The rest of the parts were just printed on bare glass. Post-Printing Assembly diagram is included. The whole thing was printed in 3Dom Ingeo PLA. Most of it was printed in white, and then sanded, primed, and then painted; the "power LED" was printed in natural PLA (translucent) and left unpainted; the belt clip was printed in black and left unpainted. Vallejo Black (ribbed portion on the main case) Vallejo Basalt Grey (handle, screen, outer bit on the main case part) Vallejo Neutral Grey under Golden Iridescent Stainless Steel (main case, button) Testors Gloss Black (camera lens, hat switch) Behr "Sun Valley" interior house paint (screen) How I Designed This Modeled in Blender, working from numerous screenshots from throughout the first season. I estimated a height of 6 inches (not including the camera housing). If you'd like to print out a screen graphic for display, rather than using a green or blue screen for chromakey, I've included an overlay to composite over your photograph of choice and print, in both SVG and PNG (300 DPI) versions. Inkscape was used to create the graphic.