Amuse yourself with antique-style animation as your music spins, with either:
- Small (38mm) - single print with depression for an optional M16 washer for a little extra weight.
- Large (84mm) - two-part print with 38mm puck and zoetrope that covers the label area. Strips fit in snugly against a stop on the inside rim.
Printing
- Settings are very ordinary - 0.2mm layers, 2 perimeters, 15% infill are fine. If you want
- Try lots of perimeters or more infill if you want a bit of weight.
- Concentric or Archimedian Chords for top infill are nice for a look that echoes the tracks on the record.
- Any rigid filament would be fine - I used PLA.
- Black is a good choice for colour, but white would also work well for brightening up the inside if you paint the outer side black.
Finishing
- If there's stringing between viewing slits, it's best to clean that up with a sharp blade.
- If the spindle hole is too tight to fit then it can be enlarged with a small rod wrapped in sandpaper or a round needle file.
Making Strips
- Try the example strip of dancers or use the template SVG files as guides to arrange your own sequences.
- Look for taller rather than larger frames of animation to make strips from.
- Print at 100% for accurate scale. (large strip needs landscape orientation when printing on A4 or Letter.)
- Ordinary 80gsm printer paper will do fine.
Source for dancers image used: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Print,_Zoetrope_Strip,_Dancers,_ca._1860_(CH_18760339).jpg
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