those are my 3d-printed teeth off course !
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Great addition to your tool arsenal!
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I’m currently showing off. did a scraper, then a benchy, and a small person asked me if I could print a rabbit. so I’m preparing a few for her duplo.
I can’t argue.
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I’m envious. My son-in-law got a Bambu P1S for Christmas and I helped him set it up and try it out. He gave me permission to use it any time, but of course, that means driving to their house and getting in line behind him and his two sons! They are madly printing stuff for his older son’s obsessive D&D.
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yes, I’m starting an Alien RPG campaign in a few weeks with friends, I’m gonna print scary facehuggers and various aliens before then.
Bambu did a great job, it’s quite intuitive, lots of parameters available but you don’t need to be a 3d master to use it.
and between my couple of years with a laser cutter and now with the paper plotter, the first steps were even simpler.
I chose to go with the A1 mini as a starting point. I might upgrade it later if I feel like it. Check the second-hand market, there are quite a few there (people getting one, learning to print, and upgrading)
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So, I started printing stuff. Stuff made by other first, to get a hang on it. Then I sketchup’ed a small box with an einstein tile pattern on top. The pattern took longer than
3d printing is nice. Feels like à obvious step forward
Fun fact. If you print a lego at 3:1 scale, its hands are the right size to hold a pencil. Or a bic pen.
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A1 Mini, best choice today to begin in the 3D printing world 
For Christmas, I gifted my son (and myself 
) an A1 based on great reviews I heard at the last 3DBC. High recommendations came from some folks who design exhibits and toys for children museums. Looking forward to seeing what else you print in the year ahead.
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I’m not dead.
I came home got super busy teaching, then a bit sick, then teaching again.
During this time, I got around to print lots of little things, playing with parameters and trying pre-made stuff. made a couple of reusable spools, upgrades for the machine, dessicant holders, and a crapload of fidgets. I even started giving a few to the people I train, some are really in need.
(this is during lunchbreak, proof that I actually teach.I was in the back of an awesome old art gallery. man it was cold.)
the forbidden candy.
I got 4 plastic bins that’ll fin in my Kallax, they’ll each get 2 dessicant boxes (yes, I need 2 more). Each bin can hold 5-6 spools, and that’s good because… well Sunlu had this deal… and well, I have a lot of filament now. 14-ish kg of various colours.
This one is based on a 3dwarehouse model, It’s the local Basilica, Notre-Dame de la Garde, symbol of the city. No building can be higher than its entrance, that caused some friction when Zaha Hadid designed the CMA-CGM tower and had to cut it shorter.
took a couple hours cleaning up the model and making it solid, at this scale I’m loosing a few bits here and there, a cross, the small pillars… but still.
next step is to re arrange my workshop/office. and more classes, near Nice this time.
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Interesting group of students you have. 
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the bears from the Xmas market, they were stored here before being sent to be cleaned.
by far the most attentive students I’ve ever had 
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You can tell because they’re not looking at their phones.
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working on something stupid right now, so I’ll start by giving an update on the giant lego thing. My niece (3 1/2) is really into firefighters. forget going to the park, let’s just go look at their trucks.
scale is 5:1 , lego is about 20cm tall (8 inches or about 31 grains of rice)
has to source lots of stuff here and there, remodel several pieces.
Grey (supposedly silver and gold) helmet is the french / european style one.
Red is the US style because my niece got a costume with a similar one.
I’ll have to rework a few things, separate the face from the head, I found another torso with separated front plate.
pretty sure a spaceman or a knight are going to be next, I also have a nephew you see…
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so I was looking to print something for a friend’s birthday.
he skates, and in marseille we have a world famous skatepark, so I thought I could 3d print a small version.
first, I checked the warehouse. turns out someone made it long ago, based on the skatepark in tony hawks pro skater 2.
it’s actually quite good, but a decade ago they renovated it and changed the street area on the right.
I have some plans, I’ll probably end up modifying the one above. but then I had a shower thought.
3d scanning. on screen. with my phone.
I set up my phone on a small tripod, aimed at my screen on googlemap, and did 2 scans.
with polycam.
pros :
- it exports for free as a glb file and SU25 imports that natively.
- it comes with properly mapped materials.
- it doesn’t mind if the camera is static, since the target is rotating around, it snaps many pics.
- pro version can export many different files formats
Cons :
- only 10 free scans, then you have to pay. so if you want to try it out first, don’t wast them.
- quality is a bit meh. it’s a bit bloby, it sees some weird topography in flat spaces and rounds everything. it’s good but maybe not for this.
with Reality scan, by epic.
pros :
- free. no limit of scans
- uhh… it’s sharper. less bloby. it still has defaults of geometry, but not as bad.
cons :
- only exports as obj format. I don’t know what I did with the extension I had to import those, so I just used meshlab to convert it to collada. the uv broke but I don’t care.
- it expects you to move around if you want to use the automated mode. so here I had to move the camera angle, manually snap, and so on.
also a funny thing, they are both supposed to scan actual objects. because of the way my phone and my screen were positioned, they both ended up making an angled scan.
any way, I picked the epic one, less bumpy, cleaned it a bit, traced the rough shape of the park and draped it onto it. blah blah blah made it a solid first try.
off to the printer, I don’t expect amazing results because it’s lots of very fine details. scans or ia-made models might look nice and be made very quickly but I can make a better / cleaner / smarter model by hand.
(prints to come)
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Quite the project you’re into. 
“Stupid” and “giant lego thing” should never be used together in the same sentence. Awesome Lego firefighter. Will there be a firetruck? That would be…, awesome!
no, the stupid thing was doing a 3d scan of google map on my screen.
the lego is far from stupid. and yeah, I could print pretty much anything, most of the blocks are already in 3d here and there (I have a lego collection in the warehouse). I might need a bigger printer though 
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Dani’s Lego car was pretty cool. A firetruck like that would be… awesome!
I spent a lot of time when I was little digging down to the bottom corner of the Lego trunk to find just one more 1x1 green ‘light’ to complete a phaser, star ship, or robot eyes. The more the merrier!
I’m going to make a formal request on your behalf.
Dear Trimble,
Please purchase a ‘Big’ 3D printer for Pierre. Also, please get him lifetime subscriptions to all of your software. Also, a scanner.
You should be all set!
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