May 9, 2011
Description
Castle MakerBot is my Entry into the BotBling competition! Hope you Like it!
Bot Bling Design Challenge by Carmiac: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7784
I decided to do a Castle theme. Included in Castle MakerBot are four turrets, several coat of arms, medieval wall torches, stained glass rose window, and runic keypad for the Gen4 interface. I also couldn't resist putting a dragon in there, but that is Tbuser's design.
Most of this was designed in OpenScad. Originally it was designed in Sketchup, but then I learned OpenScad and started over and redesigned everything. The only thing that remains in Sketchup is the stained glass window, but I will work on moving that to OpenScad as well.
If you wish to poke around in any of the OpenScad files, I highly recommend you check out the Coat of Arms. It is parametric and you have a choice of 7 different logos to be placed in 3 different positions. I have uploaded some renditions here.
The Torches are made from LED Tealights! They flicker kind of like real fire. These torches were difficult to photograph in low light, but I did the best I could.
The castle turrets snap right on to the rod end caps on a thing-o-matic.
The stained glass rose window has some pieces printed in blue PLA, natural PLA, red ABS and black ABS.
I have intentions to add a few more things to this, if I have the time. There is just so much more I want to do.
Hope ya like it!
Update... added this video of me showing the various parts of the castle. Focus is a little off on some of the close ups and the stills on the left probably do the project more justice. I recommend turning down the volume too, the only noises are me being clumsy and banging into things. I guess I should have talked through some of it, but it is getting late and it probably would have made the video worse than it is! ;P
License:
Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike
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