Making a 3D PRINTED LED Sign - ON AIR Inspired

[@redherring5532]

I had that bottom layer funk too and for mine a quick pass of the torch actually made the tide go away

[@FixitFingers]

V2 with a battery to get rid of the ugly power cord is the only suggestion I have beyond what was talked about on CLAMP ;)

[@MorleyKert]

I’ll take an ugly power cord over having to change batteries 😊

[@Jindraxx20]

Nice design and very nice techniques. Designing enclosure with many features all together !

[@MorleyKert]

Thank you!!

[@deltafox52]

Thanks for showing me the "cardboard" 90° angle spraying setup for efficient job :)

[@MorleyKert]

Thanks for watching!

[@MakerCuisine]

Very cool

[@MorleyKert]

Thanks Jacob!

[@MrDrProfPatrick12]

Love it!

[@MorleyKert]

Thank you!

[@garagemonkeysan]

Nice video. Great to see how you use Fusion 360. Lovely design. Mahalo for sharing! : )

[@MorleyKert]

Thank you!

[@AndyCPugh]

That's very cool.

[@MorleyKert]

Thanks Andy 😊

[@andrhamm]

This turned out great! Embrace the jank! I would totally have gotten bogged down trying to fix some of the things you and other commenters mentioned. I definitely need to just get past that phase and get a working v1 finished before I hit that point. I struggle with it and have so many unfinished projects in F360 or SketchUp phase.

[@MorleyKert]

Yeah I guess it’s a double edged sword, sometimes it’s great for me being able to push through perfection and get things done! But it has its trade offs 😊

[@FixitFingers]

Sorry that came out harsher than intended. I think a battery would last a very long time for the amount of use the light would get. However the cord does add to the retro look ;)

[@MorleyKert]

@@FixitFingers all good!

[@TheGrantAlexander]

I wondered how you made that multicoloured part, and now I know!

[@MorleyKert]

Multicolour printing is amazing!

[@BearMaked]

For realz tho, fun project, came out very nice. Now I'm thinking what kind of cool lighting effect you could get by playing with the infill type/density on the word plate.

[@MorleyKert]

Thanks man! I would love to play with artistic infill patterns - I was getting inspired reading this article: help.prusa3d.com/en/article/inifill-patterns_177130

[@sickmind33]

If you ever livestream, you could put it outside your door

[@MorleyKert]

That was kind of the original idea behind this project! But like many projects, it sort of evolved as I worked on it 😊

[@sickmind33]

@@MorleyKert fair

[@jeremyspecce]

Ok, so, I’m actually surprised you didn’t hit a certain point in your design, because I felt you we’re heading this way, where you said “I can’t decide what I want the sign to say, I’ll make the letter plate interchangeable so I can print new ones out and easily swap them out as I feel like it”. I think that would be pretty cool as well as pretty easy to accomplish by just having it drop into a groove instead of being glued in. My only other critique would be that the power cord is very dominant, visually. Obviously it needs power but in version 2 perhaps the plug can happen behind the scenes instead of being exposed, then you’d only have a thin wire coming out. OK, one last thing!... those aren’t “half inch” nuts. You refer to a nut or bolt by the thread size, not by the head size, so if those nuts take a half inch wrench they should be 5/16”. Overall though, I think it’s a really fun project and I only offer all these comments because I know you like iterating and analyzing. 😻

[@MorleyKert]

Yeah interchangeable plates would be neat but for me, I’m happy with the single option😊 Totally feel you on the power cord, definitely could be improved upon. Re: the screws, totally my bad, and I realized that when I was writing the description with the material list. I designated them properly and added a link in the description! 😁

[@mudbrats]

did u just use standard PLA on the backlit sign part?

[@BearMaked]

Did you not just make a "THINK BIGGER" sign? And you follow it up with this, much SMALLER sign? Unsubscribe.

[@MorleyKert]

It’s all about the long game 😉

[@andrhamm]

lol!