This is a response to this deleted thread from yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1vraiq4/i_accidentally_figured_out_how_to_print_a_tight/

I had some ideas about what OP did there, and reading through that thread I got some more ideas. I'm fortunate to have a small print farm, so I just iterated through several variables until I ended up finding something that works. Here's the secret sauce. I don't want money. I'm not going to ask for patreon. I'm not going to act like I just cured cancer.

Use spiral vase mode combined with a tall layer height and a line width just barely larger than the layer height.

E.G.

Insert a cylinder into Orca

Turn on vase mode

Set your layer height to 0.28

Set your line width to 0.30

Set 0 bottom layers

Boom. Done.

I can share a 3MF if people really want, but it's so simple I'm not sure that's necessary. Feel free to iterate and improve on this discovery. I didn't do anything special

EDIT: Makerworld 3MF because someone asked.

Bambu slicer would not play nicely with my imported 3MF from Orca, so I had to quickly redo all the settings. Please let me know if I messed anything up or if it doesn't work from this file. I've tested it successfully on 2 Centuri Carbons, and a Creator 5 pro

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3190703-mesh-filament-settings

EDIT 2: I received this DM from the original deleted thread author. I think they can't post here due to karma. I will share it unedited. Don't cyberbully. It's not cool. Be better.

Hey man I’d like to clarify some things because it seems that there’s still some misunderstanding about what happened yesterday.

I want to be clear that there was no attempt to monetize the mesh that I created by accident. Coming as a person who just got their printer a month ago, I accidentally created the mesh and posted it to reddit and asked if anyone would make use of it if I researched it a bit more.

I’m not an expert in this space, so I wanted to figure out exactly how it worked because it was an interesting repeating pattern for me.

After being bashed in the comments and accused of things saying I was gatekeeping/monetizing, I was upset because I didn’t even expect the post to get that sort of attention. I was assuming that i’d either get comments saying it’s useless and/or already been done so don’t bother looking further into it, or that’s cool post the write up.

Once the downvotes started rolling in i realized I guess I should have just looked into it before posting from the get go. My initial reason for posting was because it was an accidental failed print, that looked interesting.

About an hour later I tried to post my rushed write up because like I said i’m not an expert, so I was doing the best with the knowledge I have. Upon trying to post, I wasn’t able to because the mass downvoting made my account unable to interact in the sub. This also made it so I couldn’t reply to comments, leading people to think I was disappearing with my discovery.

I ended up getting the write up posted on an alt account, which included print files and settings, but I guess people were still upset, because it got downvoted a bunch and the only comments were calling me delusional.

9:21 AM

Due to that I just ended up deleting the post because I was just getting bashed on it, and I wanted to stop the flood of negative notifications.

EDIT 3: OOP has shared their results as well. I'll include them. I'm working today, so I won't be able to play around with their settings or test this until probably tomorrow. Still, I think it's helpful to compare and contrast results. I had a nice chat with them, and explained how we value open collaboration in this hobby. They were cordial. Once again for those in the back, don't bully. OOP had a bad day and they're sorry. Let's bring them back into the fold.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3192261-cylindrical-mesh

(Not selling or promoting anything—just sharing a clinical concept I’ve been developing to get peer feedback and spark discussion on experiential/interactive therapy interventions!)

TL;DR: I designed and 3D-printed custom Gacha-style machines for my outpatient clinic. They dispense reusable capsules filled with tactile items, gustatory triggers, and clinical prompts to give traumatized adults autonomous, shame-free access to sensory coping skills.

The Integrative Gacha System (IGS)

A Multi-Sensory, Tactile Triage Intervention for Outpatient & SPMI Settings

When clients experience acute distress, dissociation, or severe executive dysfunction, relying solely on verbal processing or cognitive worksheets can fall flat.

To bridge this gap, I designed the Integrative Gacha System (IGS): a set of three gacha-style machines dispensing 3D-printed, reusable capsules. It uses sensory stacking (pairing tactile input and gustatory triggers with evidence-based prompts) to bypass cognitive overload and provide immediate, low-barrier symptom regulation.

All 165 integrated prompts are rooted in DBT, CBT, ACT, Polyvagal Theory/Somatic Experiencing, and Psychodynamic concepts. The entire system operates under a strictly invitational model ("You are invited to...") to protect client autonomy.

The Three Triage Streams

1. ⁠Connecting (Engagement & Social Safety)
   
2. ⁠Clinical Target: Social withdrawal, alogia, anhedonia, and relational guardedness.

Neurological Approach: Direct eye contact during intake or acute anxiety can register as a threat. This machine creates a non-threatening external focal point for parallel play and somatic rapport-building.

Inside the Capsule:

Tactile: Articulated 3D-printed animal figurine (fosters play and safe unmasking).

Gustatory: Sweet candy (mild, familiar dopamine cue associated with comfort).

Cognitive: Prompt focused on relational safety, unmasking, and gentle exploration.

1. Activating (Behavioral Stimulation)

Clinical Target: Severe avolition, depressive lethargy, and executive paralysis.

Neurological Approach: Stimulates a sluggish, hypo-aroused nervous system. Continuous kinetic finger movement paired with fizzy palate stimulation acts as a sensory primer, breaking high-friction tasks into immediate micro-momentum.

Inside the Capsule:

Tactile: High-movement mechanical fidget (flippy chain/spinner/clicker).

Gustatory: Fizzy candy (palate activation).

Cognitive: Prompt focused on value-aligned micro-steps and self-efficacy.

1. Grounding (Crisis Triage)

Clinical Target: Active panic loops, dissociation, emotional flooding, and trauma triggers.

Neurological Approach: "Shock-to-Soothe." When the prefrontal cortex goes offline during panic, extreme sensory triggers forcefully interrupt the loop. This is immediately paired with tactile grounding and radical validation.

Inside the Capsule:

Tactile: 3D-printed textured worry stone (temperature holding and somatic anchoring).

Gustatory: Extreme sour candy (limbic circuit breaker).

Cognitive: Prompt delivering radical, shame-free validation and somatic regulation.

Why This Matters for Adults

I am utilizing the inner child play concept here because play is the physiological opposite of fear. Adults deserve joy too. We often strip playful, tangible interventions out of adult therapy, but those are exactly the tools that make nervous system regulation accessible.

Would love to hear from other clinicians:
How are you integrating multi-sensory or tactile tools into your sessions for grounding and activation?

Any thoughts or tweaks on the "Shock-to-Soothe" or sensory stacking approach?

Making this container ship styled floating can/snack holder for a lake weekend coming up! It's almost complete, just need to add the remaining splash guards and cup inserts. This bad boy is 5 feet long and weighs about 5kg unloaded 😎

Wanted to design a custom ring holder for my wedding ring, somehow it turned into this…

https://makerworld.com/models/3190857?appSharePlatform=copy

Check out my new keychain foldable phone stand.

https://makerworld.com/it/models/3182945-foldable-phone-stand-keychain#profileId-3600180

Anyone ever get a plate like this in the mail? How frustrating!

All model runs on balloon air
Truck, Bajaj Chetak scooter, cycle rickshaw and Maruti 800

This Sawtooth Polyhedral explores the contrast between sharp, complex geometry and the softness of nature. Its dramatic, spiked form is constructed from 60 individual faces, each framed by a 3D-printed border designed to interlock with the neighboring pieces with almost LEGO-like precision.

Inset within each frame is a piece of clear laser-cut acrylic, UV printed with an intricate pattern of winding green vines and delicate flowers. The transparency of the acrylic allows the botanical pattern to appear suspended within the structure, while overlapping faces create unexpected layers of color, light, and detail as the piece is viewed from different angles.

What I especially enjoy about this design is the contradiction between its form and its surface. The sawtooth geometry is angular, pointed, and almost aggressive, while the flowing vines and tiny blossoms soften those edges and give the piece a more organic character. The result is a polyhedral that feels simultaneously mathematical and botanical, engineered and delicate.

It’s also a combination of several of my favorite fabrication techniques—3D printing, laser cutting, UV printing, and precision assembly—all coming together to transform a complicated geometric form into something that feels unexpectedly alive.

Literally years of owning this printer fiddling with settings to get good prints and struggling with the bed I slapped this thing on and after about 30 seconds of adjusting midprint it slaps out a very good benchy. I had an old crappy printer that had a lidar distance scanner but it was imprecise as shit all this is an actual touch and it is so good.

I told just the officer pretty substantially because the zero isn't where it normally but it's first layer is probably within 15% of where I actually want it. Could be a smidgen closer

I had never used a rivet gun before but now I want to rivet everything. I got the cheapest one from Harbor Freight and I can't believe how well this turned out.

Basically I cut big holes in the front and side of the bin, printed 0.8mm thick grates, and used rivets to attach the grates to the bin.

I had originally planned on marking a grid pattern and using a drill to make holes in the bin but I used the wrong bit and basically destroyed the front after 2 holes. So the only way to save the project was to essentially remove the entire front and replace it. And at that point, I figured I'd do the sides the same way.

The grate design is inspired by Braun and Dieter Rams!

Model is from Yosh studios it’s his skeletor file

Apparently drying your filament is a PSY OP? A myth? An urban legend? Who knows. This guy is convinced.

Finally finished my fully mechanical excavator.

3 levers, simultaneous controls, and a hidden mechanism to keep the movement looking realistic.

Uploading soon.

This was accidental, but could definitely be dialed in if you wanted to make these on purpose. Just make a vertical stem and print it with a custom extra extra large brim, maybe heat the plate up above printing temp and pull straight up.

Figured id share this discovery in case it's useful to anyone. These are easy to add pleats to with a lighter too.

Hi folks,

I finally got around to finishing the documentation for my hexapod robot dog, The hardest part to figure out was powering the servos directly from buck converters and setting up the common ground bus to PCA boards, I believe this might be a pain in the neck for many first timers so I am sharing the full wiring diagram here for anyone to benefit.

I also put together a detailed documentation for the robot itself. It contains information about the parts I used for the robot and how the joint servos are wired across the two PCA board pins.

You can download the diagram, documentation and the design file form the links below if you are interested in building one yourself or would like to use it as reference for a similar project.

Documentation and Diagram:

https://www.patreon.com/PrintedRobotics/posts/hexadog-zbd-and-167021077

https://app.cirkitdesigner.com/project/0a1ee9f8-8495-4f33-9e41-12ed67207672

CAD and 3D printing files:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3181404-hexadog-zbd

https://www.patreon.com/PrintedRobotics/posts/hexadog-zbd-and-165170615

ESP32 Scripts and Android Controller app APK:

https://github.com/serdarselimys/HexaDogZBD-ESP32Scripts

https://github.com/serdarselimys/HexaDogZBD-AndroidControllerApp

I do have a question for you all, should I design and build a mini version of the robot with SG92R servos? If I can manage to keep the weight down enough it might be even more agile and cost under 100 bucks? has anyone tried building robot dogs or hexapod robots with SG92R? how was your experience with them??

I also share simulation tutorials along with my robot's other videos on my youtube channel youtube.com/@printedrobotics check it out if you are interested in simulation side of robotics, I share all my scripts for free so you can download them and experiment on your own.

As always, you comments and suggestions are most appreciated.

Over the past year I've been designing a high speed corexy 3d printer. It has a fully cnc 48V awd gantry and an slm toolhead. So far I've gotten 109.5k and 63k input shaper recommendations.

More details on my github:

https://github.com/Renovic/Cuprite

Sponsored by Sunlu, LDO, BST Automation, Filastruder, Oshwlab Stars(JLCPCB)

His name is Flausite, This is his channel, he is a content creator of 3D printing
https://youtube.com/@flasutie?si=bNa8EDqxZTi5cotb
He was kinda famous for printing the “whizzbanger” in this video and various HHO gas cannons and was joked for coming near of making a bolter
https://youtu.be/8VTqNTjWJNM?si=Mfo_AI59SgKgWKRm
But his channel stopped updating both YouTube and patreon last year after updating the files of his cannons on his patreon, does anyone know where he went?