Floating Prusa Research Shelf ft. Josef!

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Ladies and gentlemen, fanboys and fangirls, I present to you the ULTIMATE Prusa Print for your office! Beautiful (I mean Josef's face is on it, duh), aesthetically pleasing and extremely functional! To give a bit of a background to this design: I only have a Mini, so it certainly was a challenge to try and think of a way to make something striking, appealing and different than the usual. Then I thought: what better way of showing our loyalty to Prusa than having a giant Prusa Research logo on the wall? And let's make it functional! So, the Floating Prusa Research Shelf was born! :)Anyway, down to business. The Floating Prusa Research Shelf (technically shelves, there's 2 of them) is made of a total of 20 parts, divided between the 10 letters needed and their respective floating mounts, of which every single one is a straightforward print if your printer is tuned properly. PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS - You CAN 100% print this on a Mini!USE PLA/PLA+.  If you use the right settings, PLA/PLA+ is ideal for this situation (considering it's used exclusively indoors) due to ease of print and mechanical properties;Rescaling is NOT advised! If you scale up (or down) the tolerances will be altered and the shelves might either be wobbly or just not fit the mounts. The screw holes will also be scaled and won't be as secure (same for suction cup slots holding the shelf);Print all letters and floating mounts with the big flat faces down on the bed, no supports will be needed, just like provided on the STLs;I highly advise using honeycomb infill (20-25%), at least 3-4 perimeters and make sure there are plenty of top and bottom solid layers (ideally 2mm thickness);Printing the multicolour Josef Prusa's Face:I provided a .3mf with the colour change markers already in place and what I consider the ideal printing settings for it. No MMU is needed! In this part only there are supports needed for the mount holes but I already painted them using the paint supports function. Only thing to worry about is that I use Prusa Mini+ with a 0.6mm nozzle so adjust those definitions accordingly for your printer! ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS:You can assemble it in 2 ways:Each letter can serve as an individual shelf positioned freely (apart from maybe the “u”, but you could make it work) and then use your imagination!Or, and this would be my recommendation: build what is on the rendered representations in the photo gallery, which has the shelves working as supports for 10cm deep glass/clear acrylic shelves. You can obviously use other shelf materials but I personally think glass or acrylic will look BEAUTIFUL here. What you will need (besides the printed letters and respective floating mounts):Josef Prusa Face - 3.5x50mm Flathead screws + wall plugs4 Units"Prusa" Letters Shelf - 3.5x50mm Flathead screws + wall plugs16 Units“Research” Letters Shelf - 3.5x50mm Flathead screws + wall plugs26 Units“Prusa” Letters Shelf - 25mm suction cups for anti-slip (If build 2)4 Units“Research” Letters Shelf - 25mm suction cups for anti-slip (If build 2)6-10 UnitsShelves (depth must be ~100mm, max 104mm counting floating mount)2 UnitsAll floating mounts have screw holes positioned in a way that if you mark a parallel line on your wall and use that line as a guide for the screw plugs, the shelf should* automatically be level, please see pictures below (also bigger in the gallery):* Disclaimer: your walls have a good chance of not being perfectly straight as all builders are human and subject to error, so I would pay some attention to WHERE you will mount BEFORE. IMPORTANT NOTE: You will see some holes without a chamfer. Those are meant for leveling ONLY, do not attempt to screw in through them or the letters might not sit flush on the mount.You have the decision on how long you'd like each shelf to be, but I wouldn't advise too long. In the original design there is about 20-30mm of space between each letter, so I wouldn't go much further away than this (besides if it is too far it probably won't look as good). Once all the holes are marked, checked, drilled, walls plugged and floating mounts screwed in place as you'd normally do with a wall shelf, the letters can just be fit into the mounts straight.They should be nice and snug but not too hard to remove, if needed. Make sure you re-check leveling various times as you go as this is a multipart wall mount and can easily go unlevelled.After everything assembled, fit the suction cups in the appropriate slots on the top side of the letters (r, a, e and h have slots) and place the shelves on top of them, pressing a bit to make sure the suction cups stick to them (I used these ones as a guide for measures).And that's it folks! You should now have yourself a new, aesthetic, beautiful shelf to display your best (or worst) prints on and a brilliant Josef's to keep it company! :) I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed designing this! It was a work of love and I paid as much attention to detail as I am able to. Obviously, if you spot something wrong or anything that can be improved please leave a comment or send me a message!And, finally, if it isn't asking too much, please leave a like and post a make if you built this, it would mean the absolute world to me! I can't even begin to say how much I want this on my wall but, unfortunately, the Mrs. is seriously against putting it up on our office walls so I guess your walls will have to do instead…Fully designed and rendered in Fusion 360.