Lazy 7 / Quick Build Edition

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<b>Update - 2021/07/15</b> Sketch v7 available. I also recommend having a look at the notes about electronics when building one of my things! https://www.instructables.com/ClockSketch-V7-Part-I/ -- <b>Edit:</b> What a great bug. The thing I published before didn't show up in various places (my designs, search). Turns out this is another known bug since at least march. *Workaround:* Delete the thing and create a new one. Seems to work now. Sorry for "double posting" this on the followers dashboards... -- Recently I published the [7 Segment Clock - Small Printers Edition](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4661153), the first 7 segment display I built using led strips with 30 leds/m. One thing that wasn't really possible was using a single led strip for the whole clock, like [Lazy 7 / One](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4363658). But Lazy 7 / One does require lots of material and is not really something you're going to print within a few hours. Then I remembered I only had published one 7 Segment Clock using a vertical layout, the [Retro 7 Segment Clock - Small Edition](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3095715). And I'm not really a big fan of that one. The "open frame" design doesn't help readability in my opinion and it doesn't feature dots between HH/MM. This is the result. Some kind of mix between the SPE and L7/One. It's a bit tricky coming up with reasonable names - but at least I'll try to stick to "Lazy = Single Strip", just like inside the [Lazy Grid Clock v2](https://www.instructables.com/Lazy-Grid-Clock-V2/) ;) This one requires a printer with a build size x/y of at least 179.5mm x 107mm, Z max is somewhere around 20mm. There's 2 leds inside each segment. 4 digits = 28 segments = 56 leds. Adding the two dots (2 leds each) we end up using 60 leds, no "wasted ones". I did several changes to (hopefully) make it fit on printers like the Prusa Mini. The goal of this thing was to make it an easy and fast print and build - so slicing everything down to small parts again would have somehow defeated one of the design goals...