It definitely seemed like they were anxious to end this competition ASAP and they sure did.
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Oh my God! I’m speechless!
I just got back from the Midwest RepRap Fest with a ton of new filament too.
This is going to be one hard working machine, and make a bunch of kids really happy!
These are some other hands that I have printed customized, and donated if anyone is curious to see what I do in my off time.
http://imgur.com/a/cRYlb
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xadow
March 21, 2016, 8:22pm
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I know, I know it’s too late but I just finished the print (I underestimated the model complexity and the speed of my printer) and as it’s still March 21…
Hammerhead class cruiser: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/hammerhead-class-cruiser-kotor
As seen on the Knights of the Old Republic.
PS Congratulations to the winners, as for the management of this contest, I really hope you learned something, because was really poorly managed competion.
edthomp
March 21, 2016, 10:29pm
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Congratulations. You are doing awesome work and the smiles on kids faces reflect that. Well deserved.
edthomp
March 21, 2016, 10:32pm
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Yes. I noticed that before if you look up top right when Simona told us to ask if there was any questions and I knew immediately a time deadline was left out and tried to ask for everyone but it was never answered. Looks like a few others had asked later in the contest too without avail. The contest was quite a disaster in the way it was handled. Hope 3DHubs learn something from this experience. I wish we could have seen your entry. =(
Decadia
March 21, 2016, 11:45pm
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Hi everyone!
I thought the deadline was today at 23:59. Silly me.
Anyways I have been working on a sculpted Vader pencil holder(+misc holder) for the contest. The prop can also go on the tip of the car hood or on the interior as awesome decor haha. I skipped class for it but it seems I might not be able to enter.
I wanted the model to be easily printable and printer friendly so no Critical layers(tested on the Retina Software) and it is sub 100k polys. It was tough and alot of corrections made but I kept the printer friendly-ness in mind constantly while sculpting while keeping important details and pose. Most printers are able to print this. It is meant to be printed upright for FDM printers. This has been heavily sculpted and I wanted a detailed companion close to Yoda. If the contest ended at the end of the month it would have allowed for me to finish sculpting Obi-Wan and Anakin. There are two versions. One is with the cape and the other without if you want to save material for checking calibration detail. Enjoy for the moment! Vader.stl (5.04 MB)VaderwoCape-ByDecadia.stl (3.47 MB)
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edthomp
March 22, 2016, 12:00am
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Not your fault. They never properly stated a time deadline nor time zone. This is a high quality model. Great job. Did you try printing this yet? Can this be printed properly without support? Left arm may be trouble?
Decadia
March 22, 2016, 12:19am
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Thanks, I did spend lots of hours on this model to bring the quality up enough for the Yoda companion.
I aim to have others print this happily without supports.
I’m having it printed without supports myself and so far so good. I posed the left arm just at the right angle to have 0 critical layers but if other people have issues I can raise it a bit more. I dont currently have a FDM printer with me so I’ll be testing it out at school. Thanks for the comment!
I can not believe the winner was a 3D printing service who does it for a living & already have there own 3D printer. Talk about unfair is this another case of a rigged contest? I feel total cheated by this
I don’t even own a printer and had to have my good friend run the 48 parts and overnight them to be to make this thing happen. I didn’t know the winner was a company that actively provided services and did this stuff professionally.
Perhaps 3DHubs should have had stipulations on WHO could enter. You can’t get upset at Axis Labs as they didn’t do anything wrong. It’s a position you can take advantage of when those rules don’t apply It all falls on the people responsible for the contest who didn’t think this through well at all.
Hey @GIFT3D , apologies for the late reply. We share the same concerns as you, which is why about 3 weeks ago we announced switching from upvotes to a jury to assess the contest entries. Please see Simona’s message below:
‘Judging Criteria Update: Together with Ultimaker we saw the issues in the upvoting system for the design entries. For this reason we’ve changed the judging criteria system from upvotes to a jury, which will be composed by Ultimaker and 3D Hubs. The winner of the competition will be declared on March 21st. In this way everyone will have enough time to create and print the best Star Wars gadget around. Hope this can solve any issue around the competition. If you’ve any question, please ask’
Hi Wes, really sorry for failing to get back to you in due time. Fair point though, we’ll make sure to communicate the exact details of of when a contest ends moving forward. I do hope you got to enter the competition in the end! Thanks for understanding
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Hey @GIFT3D , albeit too late, let me to clear things for you. Multiple entries are definitely allowed, whether in the same comment or not, otherwise we would have mentioned it in the competition brief. Hope this helps.
Hey @tanwalin @edthomp @ItsATrap , thanks for your input. Let me start by saying that we certainly weren’t pressured in any way to end the contest sooner. I do agree however that we could’ve handled this contest better, and as one of the largest competition we hosted on Talk, there’s definitely a lot to learn from the experience.
@tanwalin I’m sorry you didn’t get to show us your project! I hope you’ll still share it with the community here on Talk.
Cheers
Congrats, well deserved indeed! Looking forward to seeing the printer put to good use
Mike, the only thing I can say to that to hopefully make you feel less cheated, is keep in mind this is a 3D Hubs hosted contest. 3D hubs is literally a network of 3D printer owners using printers as a service. 95%+ of us on here already have machines that we try and use professionally, and why we have a hub in the first place.
The only thing different with me, instead of doing it from home, I rented an office space to teach classes too, and yes, I’m trying to turn it into something full time. However I assure, sadly most days it doesn’t even pay for my lunch lol.
I’m sorry you are mad at me for it, but I assure you, any machine I have works it’s butt off off for limb different children, community events, and local school groups. I put that before everything.
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I’m not mad at you your doing a good thing for your community. It’s the way the contest was run. I feel cheated because I have mental health problems and are house bound, I could never afford a 3D printer of my own and I have entered many 3D printing contests and have never won a thing and it adds to my spiralling depression which does not help
GIFT3D
March 22, 2016, 5:04pm
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Hi,
all of my points were answer and I appreciate the response
I created a replica of the lightsaber Luke Skywalker ANH.
https://www.facebook.com/christophe.gonthiergeorges/videos/10208533720164713/?l=2225951761780510063
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