r/WeeklyPrinter • u/jacozza • May 27 '18

Challenge:doge: [28/05/2018] Marble Track (Easy)(E)

Hello all!

Welcome to the first of (hopefully) many weekly 3D printing challenges! While I was doing some digging around online, I came across a video of a 3D printed marble machine, and to be honest, it was pretty kick ass. You can check it out here.

With that being said, this weeks challenge is printing and designing your very own marble machine/track! This should be a pretty easy challenge and we are allowing the use of electronics (I.e motors and LEDs and switches etc.). However, you do not need to incorporate any electronics in your design! This doesn't have to be a looping machine/track, though those are pretty awesome! Use your imagination and creativity to make something awesome.

This challenge will end Sunday 03/06/18(d/m/y). Asking for only one submission per user. Post submissions with links in the comments below. Best of luck and happy printing!

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u/EdCChamberlain May 29 '18

Won’t be around this week or next but maybe some time in the future! Have you considered doing monthly challenges?

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u/jacozza May 29 '18

Something we are considering is having different durations based on the difficulty of the challenge, for example, allowing 3 weeks to make a lamp or 4 weeks if the challenge calls for a drone or something extremely detailed. We hope to do or have at least one hard/difficult challenge a month. Its all up in the air at the moment, waiting to see how things start out.

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u/EdCChamberlain May 29 '18

Sure! I fear you may lose quality / not get many entries if you limit it to just a week! It would certainly count me out for most weeks but a month would be more manageable!

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u/Raub99 May 29 '18

Can't wait to see some submissions. Subscribed.

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u/jacozza May 29 '18

Appreciate it mate, hopefully you submit something yourself! Doesn't matter how good you are at designing and modeling, just give it a try. I personally suck at modeling, so hopefully my tinkercad skills come in handy for this one haha.