Parametric ball joint

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I came across Makerblock's post about the ball joint and thought openSCAD was a good fit, so I suggested it, but decided to try it out myself. This is a quick hack, but it can be easily modified since it's just code. In OpenSCAD, you can choose to see an animation of the ball joint in action by uncommenting "demo();" and commenting "print();". To print it, choose the latter, press F6, and export to STL. For a really cool implementation of this 'part' used in a camera mount, check out thingiverse.com/thing:2631 Instructions: Modify it with these parameters: size = 10; // size of the ball joint joint_spacing = 0.5; // some space between them? joint_thickness = 2; // thickness of the arms joint_arms = 5; // how many arms do you want? arm_width = 10; // actually: how much is removed from the arms Larger values will remove more Derived from thingiverse.com/thing:1967