Austin Philp on Nostr: The tiles you can get for it are highly varied, and easy to print. You can also make ...
The tiles you can get for it are highly varied, and easy to print. You can also make your own if you have even a relatively small amount of skill in 3d modeling. There are way more tiles out there at this point than you're likely to want to print.
The board itself is a somewhat different story though.. I chose to build the "fancy" board, because I wanted the gutters so that balls weren't bouncing all over the place. I quickly found that a lot of the board pieces are NOT all that easy to print. Many require supports, and even with supports I had some gnarly overhangs that led to some pieces coming out functional, but ugly. Then you have to glue dozens of pieces together to get the whole thing set up.
Looked at objectively, it wasn't THAT rough of an assembly process, but the whole time i couldn't help but think that a relatively small number of design changes could have made it so much easier to print/assemble. For instance, the legs print out in like 4 segments (cont.)
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The board itself is a somewhat different story though.. I chose to build the "fancy" board, because I wanted the gutters so that balls weren't bouncing all over the place. I quickly found that a lot of the board pieces are NOT all that easy to print. Many require supports, and even with supports I had some gnarly overhangs that led to some pieces coming out functional, but ugly. Then you have to glue dozens of pieces together to get the whole thing set up.
Looked at objectively, it wasn't THAT rough of an assembly process, but the whole time i couldn't help but think that a relatively small number of design changes could have made it so much easier to print/assemble. For instance, the legs print out in like 4 segments (cont.)
(2/?)