Hungry Hungry Chickens

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Just a set of those mesmerizing chickens that peck the ground as you swing the ball around. Make a good toy for distracting yourself from better things that you should probably be doing. Each chickens head is attached to a thread, that feeds through the baseplate to a ball that hangs directly below the plate. When this is gently swung around, the chickens peck the seeds. ## What to Print & Assembly * baseplate.stl * grass.stl * 2 x handle_half.stl * 2 x ball_half.stl (Or alternatively the ball.stl file, I don't know) The handle halves just glue onto the baseplate, and the grass has ovals that can be painted as seeds (This is what I have done) There are 5 chickens on the board, for each chicken you need to print: * left_side.stl *right_side.stl * legs.stl * 2 x standoff.stl * tail.stl * head.stl To assemble each chicken you also need one M3*18mm screw. Look at the image to work out assembly, but essentially put a standoff on either side of the head, then a screw holding this assembly between the two sides. Slot the tail into the body, then glue the two sides to the legs. Take some fine thread, tie it to the smaller hole in the head, and thread it through the hole in the baseplate. Then glue the chicken down into the square slot. To attach the threads together, use some sort of weighted object, it does not have to be the printed ball, one option is to simply group all the threads together, and tie them to a large nut.