3D printing and PE devices?

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Submarine pneumatics, arduino microcomputer, 3d printing, and PE.. This sounds like fun.

Just wanted to update everyone. Still working on the 3D model. I’ve been prepping for a software engineering interview coming up tomorrow so that’s been eating most of my time. Once it’s over, I’m getting back to work on this thing.

Hey speaking of these prototype devices.. Anyone here have any experience with getting patents? I have done a bunch of research on them in the past, but it would be nice to hear from somebody who may have already done it - Especially if you have experience with patenting a PE device. Thanks in advance!

Patents cost money is the main problem I think and there are patent lawyers who know the lingo.

I always wanted to be a software engineer when I was a kid, I hope it went well :) Which language are you versed in, Im not sure what level of script these printers use or if its all done via CAD and drivers higher level

The printing part is insanely easy now if you have a few skills in 3d modeling. It’s luckily not scripting, although knowing some scripting in mel or maxscript would be a great skill to have if you wanted to model up some parts like nuts and bolts or some other procedural model.

I’m kind of a jack-of-all trades when it comes to languages. Everything from c to java to c# to python to haskell and everything in between. Besides hanging things from my junk, it’s probably my biggest passion. Great field to be in!

Spektrum - How’s it going?

I’m still waiting on my printer before I join the fun. :(

I have an idea for a device.

Would you message me privately so I can send you info?

Still waiting on my printer to join in the fun.

In the mean time, Spektrum - How’s yours progressing?

I started to work on some designs for PE devices but later abandoned the project for a hands on approach. I mean I earned most of my gains through manual PE and I can’t for the life of me see any long term use in a contraption. It’s like working with exercise machines at the gym in a fixed ROM vs heavy sandbags, kegs, and bodyweight exercises. You get more out of it in the long run if you learn to strengthen your gip, kegel muscles, and abs during PE instead of slouching and letting a device keep you enlarged. Don’t get me wrong I still believe in devices but only for those who have MASTERED MANUAL PE FIRST.

That being said I think your best bet is to design an extender that can be put together with a few snaps and clicks from just the plactic it’s molded from. No extra screws or glue needed just follow a step by step and put it on! The real trick will be make it supportive enough yet flexable from a lot of mini layers, but that’s not too dificult to do. You could make a damn extender out of legos and it would still work like the $200 versions sold in stores.

I just joined this forum specifically because of this thread. This is very exciting. Let me know if there is anything I can do. I own an afinia 3D printer. I’m still very new to designing but it’s something I want to master and the best way to do that is with progressive goals. This would be a great project for me to learn some intermediate design. I just stopped using tinkercad and am looking into Blender

Sorry for the delays in updating all as to what’s been going on.

My 3d printer had an extruder go bad during a print and it was out of commission for about a month. It’s back working now, better than ever, so I should be getting together some prints soon.

What’s made matters worse is that I moved to a different part of the country and started a new job so that’s taken priority.

If anyone has any designs that are ready to go feel free to PM me for an email address that you can send them to.

>If anyone has any designs that are ready to go feel free to PM me for an email address that you can send them to.<

They should work fine as an attachment. Zip/gz/bzip2/xz/7zip, if necessary.

If anyone has experience in scripting and wants to give this a go OpenSCAD would be the place to do it. Imagine a parametric design that could be completely customized to you! I wish I could attempt something like that but I don’t have nearly enough knowledge.

Hey guys, not sure if this thread has fizzled out or not but I’m working on a design of my own as well. I’ve started a thread here Link to bad thread (threadid 0) removed which is where I’ll be posting all my updates/files.