We finally sent off the PCB! I should be getting it in the next week or so, but for now I need to keep myself busy with things, so I've been brushing up on my 3d modeling skills.
I started off with making a cat. Someone I worked with before made a sort of cubic cat, so I figured I'd try my hand at it. I was quite proud of the end result, however there was a lot of overhang in the model, so we had to make some adjustments.
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See, when you have overhang, it means you have to print with supports so the print can actually come out as intended, but supports waste a lot of material, so I had to come up with a solution quickly.
So I beheaded the cat.
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Not the most elegant solution, but this allowed me to eliminate a good amount of overhang, and the end result of the print was something I'm quite proud of.
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6146f1_031f8279eb6f4252a43d1ad9e2fca85b~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_49,h_37,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/6146f1_031f8279eb6f4252a43d1ad9e2fca85b~mv2.png)
If you're wondering about the fish, dish, and mouse, I needed more stuff to do to be quite frank. So I printed stuff for the cat. Idle hands I guess.
Oh yeah I also made a dog!
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She got beheaded too.
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