Graduate Brain Slug

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<p>If you're graduating, doesn't your brain slug deserve at least some of the credit?</p> <p>Here's a heavily tweaked version of <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:33325">Brain Slug V2</a> that has the following improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Separate-print graduation cap (mortar board), complete with antennae holes and hole and cavity for mounting a tassel</li> <li>Separate-print eye, which can easily be printed with the eyeball in black by changing filament at the appropriate layer -- and you can use different filament, such as the glow-in-the-dark filament I used here</li> <li>Hollowed-out body reduces weight and material use, improves how your little parasitic friend sits on your head</li> <li>An internal cross bar spanning the base provides an easy way to attach this slug to hair, etc., for example, by threading hair through or using rubber bands</li> </ul> <p>I know Zarquon intended the antennae to be bent after printing, but if you do that before putting the cap on, you will not be able to put the cap on. Anyway, I think the straight antennae give an appropriately more formal, more surprised, look to the little graduate.</p> <p>Incidentally, the attribution, non-commercial, share alike license is inherited from Zarquon's design. The cap is my own completely new design, and I'm fine with it being just creative commons attribution license.</p> <h3>Print Settings</h3> <p><strong>Printer Brand:</strong></p> <p>Anycubic</p> <p class="detail-setting printer"><strong>Printer: </strong> <div><p>Kossel</p></div> <p><strong>Rafts:</strong></p> <p>No</p> <p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong> <div><p>No</p></div> <p><strong>Resolution:</strong></p> <p>0.2mm</p> <p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong> <div><p>10%</p></div> <p><strong>Filament:</strong> Generic PLA Various</p> <p><br/> <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong></p> </p><div><p>Very straighforward prints -- body, eye, and cap separately in the orientations given in the STL files. Everyone knows brain slugs have green bodies and graduation caps are usually black... feel free to get creative with the eye color(s). I used a white filament that glows bright green in the dark for the eye, with black permanent marker for the pupil. It's also easy to print the eye in two colors by switching at the appropriate layer, but I actually like the less perfect look of the black marker.</p> If you prefer, the cap from this design should be directly usable with the body-including-eye from [Brain Slug V2](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:33325)... provided you haven't bent the antennae yet. <h3>Post-Printing</h3> <p>Not a whole lot to do, but there is some assembly required:</p> <ul> <li>The eye needs to be glued into the socket in the body. After all, that is really where it belongs, right?</li> <li>The tassel for the cap can be made using a bit of string, which I'd recommend coloring appropriately using permanent marker. Once the string has been colored, run it through the hole in the center of the cap and tie a knot on the inside big enough to not pull through. Finally, unwind the strands of the string to make it more tassel-like. The string I used tends to stand-up a bit, but I think that look goes well with the straight-up antennae.</li> <li>The cap slips on over the antennae -- but doesn't have much clearance, so be careful. Once loosely on, the tight clearance with the top of the antennae should keep it from coming off accidentally, so there's no need to glue it.</li> </ul> </div></p></p></p> Category: Accessories