Stick man with magnets

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Try beating your coworkers or family members for the highest or weirdest stick-man tower. After that, you can use the stick-men on your metallic whiteboard or fridge. These easy-to-print series of stick-men are designed to be fitted out with 5x5 cylindrical or 5x5x5 cubic magnets. All should be printed using some TPE (e.g., Ninja Flex), but the 9mm ones also can be printed using a hard plastic like PLA. The 5mm ones are meant to be bendable, while the 7mm one is in-between, and the 9mm ones are stackable. The OpenSCAD files include the same code and allow for customization in any way you like, such as seeing the parent project for example or taking into consideration new parameters added. You can order magnets from AliExpress.com. Search for "5x5mm neodymium magnet" or 5x5x5 ones. A pack of 100 costs less than 10 Euros/$ and took two weeks to arrive in Switzerland. I did this project because I wanted to experiment with both TPE and magnets, and learn about their physical constraints. Two lessons learned: (1) Bigger than 5mm Ninja Flex sticks with 15% infill do not bend very easily. (2) Small strong magnets are not that powerful...