exactly, I made a token for the supermarket, and because in Marseille, we can have 40° in the shade in summer now, you can imagine how hot it was in the car.
Hottest I’ve had to drive was 55° in the car, parked in the sun.
The thicker it is, the better. because even if it softens, it’ll have some inertia. but this is about 1mm thick.
Now, I’m moving near nantes / st nazaire, summers are not a shot, by a long shot (heatwaves there are normal summer in the south). so PLA might be fine. if not, I’ll switch to PETG.
yeah !
a few years back, chewing gum brands started to make round boxes with gums. they are smaller than can holders, for a good reason.
now I have space for some smarties. or ricola. or cocaine.
Riddle me this then. Why isn’t there a standard for travel coffee mugs? It’s like the car manufacturers believe people willingly leave their homes without coffee (and candy). Possibly more importantly, now that I think of it, there’s no standard doughnut holder in any vehicle I’m aware of either. Your good idea has led me to dark places…
No candy, no proper cup / mug holder… but I’m sure there was no pressure from big tobacco to put a lighter for death sticks in every car (yes I burned myself as a kid fucking around!). Thankfully my parents didn’t smoke.
I worked on and off for about 8 years back in the 90s in st nazaire, it was my first experience being in a place where they all spoke foreign. I can assure you as a young Australian I truly murdered the language.
Occasionally I’ll go through the drive thru for a morning Flat White and I’m constantly irritated by the fact that the cup sits so far into my cup holder I can’t get it back out unless I pack the bottom with some tissue beforehand.
Nice solution. I’m getting ready to start a 3D printing mod for my car as well. Right now I use a cheap magnetic mount to mount my cell on the middle a/c vent above the small and basic radio screen that my car has. I don’t want to spend the money to replace the radio as it’s very expensive so I’ve bought one of those “add-on” screens that can be mounted on the dash. I want to mount mine above the 3 center vents. There’s no problem there but I want to 3D print some type of cover to make it look a bit less.. ghetto (for lack of a better word). The new screen will be in the red box, it’s long and short.
The bigger problem I see is that candy could slide out from the sides of the candy dispenser. Melted chocolate is just a fact of life - no printer or culinary engineer can fix that.
I get candy holders, cup holders, and phone holders mixed up (probably because I’m chocolate-minded). But to get back on topic: this ‘chocolate slab’ concept has a bright future, IMHO.
This thread has reminded me that I commented a while back about a cup holder issue in my car.
Instead of sorting that out I went out and bought a new car instead. Perhaps I’ll find some reason to print something for that when I pick it up next week
training session yesterday, she is about to retire from a life of working with fabrics and wanted to learn 3d modelling. Turns out she learned on her own, and I have to say, she is really into it.
The last couple hours, since she didn’t have any more questions for me, we started playing with clothworks, and a bit of gpt-assisted imaging.
(she just wants to model her house and various stuff, as a hobby, going for a proper rendering engine was not in the cards)
