Print Yourself a Merry Little Marvin

Printed at 0.125mm layers with a 0.25mm nozzle in gold PLA. Turned out great! Turns out the gold PLA is translucent with such thin walls (0.3mm), and it looks great with a light inside as well. Really twinkles! and weighs next to nothing (only took 1.1m of filament).

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gabriela3d · 2014-12-11T18:35:11.000Z

Oh, yes! Merry lil’ Marvin looks awesome

gabriela3d · 2014-12-11T18:36:00.000Z

Thanks, Guy, Merry Christmas and all the best to you too! The Merry Marvins look really nice btw

Brian · 2014-12-11T18:37:39.000Z

Love it! We have them on christmas lights here at the office, looks great!

gabriela3d · 2014-12-11T18:38:54.000Z

Merry Christmas to you too, Rolf! Awesome Marvin, thanks for sharing

k5o52 · 2014-12-16T18:59:19.000Z

So I woke up this morning and my printer gave me an early christmas present. Santa Marvin Printed on ColorFabb Translucent Red PLA @ 100 micron.

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Luuk · 2014-12-17T09:57:30.000Z

Nice one Ken! I really like the color. Are you going to put a christmas light in it, or just hang it in the tree?

Luuk · 2014-12-17T10:28:40.000Z

Check out that luminous idea from @kevtl! You can hook up your Christmas Marvin to some lights, and party like it’s 1999. See GIF in the images section.

ho ho ho, disco!

k5o52 · 2014-12-17T10:56:15.000Z

Thinking of attaching an LED & servo+arm to it so it “swings” or rocks left to right.

gabriela3d · 2014-12-17T11:01:19.000Z

Cool print, Ken, and really nice photos as well! @ColorFabb should love this

smallnetd · 2014-12-19T18:30:53.000Z

Sadly, Makerware does not slice it correctly. It can’t print it hollow, and also leaves some voids on the surface. Which slicer do you recommend that I try for this?

DH

gabriela3d · 2014-12-23T09:35:05.000Z

@Luuk would you be able to help out with this?

Luuk · 2014-12-23T17:20:03.000Z

Hi @smallnetd,

I’m not an expert on Makerware, but i’m sure you can modify your profile to have it print 0% infill. Any makerbot experts? @jwwirtz?