I got one of the Himalayan salt lamps for a gift to give this holiday. I swapped out the bulb and put in a balled string of multicoloured blinking fairy lights. The colours add a nice effect. Then added a switch that turns it on when the lights go out. Mood lighting that always turns on when you shut out the lights. Adds movement to an otherwise dark room like a fireplace does.
Wicked! Thanks Clive! A set of these currently adorns our tree alongside the crystal shaped ones you created last year. Clive's baubles becoming an annual tradition. Merry Christmas!
they look great. Reminded me of my nans old light set. They had screw in bulbs that were all different shapes, like grapes, snowman. a carrot, plain round.. torpedo shape and so on.
Disclaimer: Those prints are for decoration use only. Other use is not covered by any legal guarantee of any kind. Author is thusly not liable for any bits or pieces lost in any hole or orifice.
The OpenSCAD reminds me of something we would have had to do as a programming project in Into to CAD and CAM Modeling back in grad school. Looks like a fairly straightforward way to make simple designs.
I like how some of the green tones resemble the more pastel tones of fluorescent lights. And your scripts look like you found your workflow in OpenSCAD.
Thanks for providing these SCAD scripts Clive, they are very handy. They look nice printed in clear or white. In OpenSCAD, if you click View and then untick Hide Customizer, you can experiment with values for the variables from the Customizer panel (Hit F5 if the variables don't show at first and then the variables will be shown) and don't have to worry about pesky semicolons.
@@Okurka. the 4th dimension is time waiting for the thing to finish. Joking aside there are infinite-Z print mills now that will do long, long prints but even a small one will do fairy lights.
Bought a 2-head Geeetech years ago. Cheap, so plenty of opportunity to modify as new ideas come along. Definitely my best entertainment (and modification) "tool" ever!! It now has no more than a passing resemblance to the original design, but works just fine!!
I would recommend making wall thickness 0.8mm or 1.2mm rather than 1 mm since most 3d printers have 0.4mm nozzle. With 1 mm wall thickness slicer software would put a gap in between walls sides which significantly reduce strength.
nozzle hole diameter =/= extrusion width. A .4mm nozzle can easily extrude wider, I have mine usually set to values between 0.45 and 0.48mm. So 1mm wide walls are perfectly fine, you might just have to adjust the extrusion width a little to avoid gaps or unnecessary filler.
I really like OpenSCAD and use it personally for everything! My brain works better with numeric construction than trying to use 3D-CAD. I have a small improvement - add another parameter which rotates the two spheres against each other, this gives a new "twist" to the shape in low-segment-count versions.
I would have loved to have this script back in November when I printed a bunch of lenses for my lights. It ended up forcing me to learn enough of FreeCad to make mine. Turned out well in the end, though.
FYI, you can make it easier to use if you format comments of your variables to work with customizer UI, if it works with built-in customizer, you can then upload your openSCAD design to thingiverse, basically online OpenSCAD with customizer interface.
@@bigclivedotcom when the descriptive comment of a variable is not inline but in the line before it, it will get used as the description in the customizer (right panel) of OpenSCAD. If you want, you can also make variables in the customizer show up as drop-down menus, checkboxes (for boolean values) and sliders :)
OMG genuis ive got an old set of 20 tungsten lamps with 12v 3w MES base lamps. They failed this year and im not paying £15 for three lamps!! So I thought what would Clive do. So now with this video idea im converting them the led fillament and printing lenses. Thanks Clive Merry Christmas
A bit late, or very early for next year, but in Cura there is an experimental setting called Fuzzy Skin that makes these have good light scattering. I've used it in printing lamp globes along with Natural (un)colored PLA to great effect.
I have found that the squishing of the first layer can be reduced by raising the Z0 by .1mm. When setting Z0 it is better to have the paper slide freely rather than drag on the nozzle, this will give you the extra .1 :)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays ! Thanks for all the videos in 2020! The OpenSCAD looks interesting. I know you have shown scripts for it before, but wow look at all the projects in the Gallery on its website ! Something new for me to learn this Christmas! :)
omfg Clive uses OpenSCAD, i mean i knew he was a smart boi but now im seriously impressed... I looked that program once... never again! And Im used to CAD work :p
If you're used to CAD work it doesn't surprise me OpenSCAD isn't for you. I have no idea how to use CAD software but OpenSCAD wasn't hard for me to figure out a few years ago. I've since forgotten but it shouldn't be too hard...
Happy Christmas to you too BC - and thank you for a year's entertainment and education - always something new to learn, especially with the more complex reverse engineering videos! Have a great Christmas and an "acceptably non-sober" Hogmanay (with Ralfie of course!) :-)
Thank you. This saves me a lot of time trying to figure out how to use cad to make these... and yours can make a multitude of shapes. I am not very good at it. Could I offer a suggestion or make a request? If the bulb dimensions could be input as 4 to 5 diameters (every 1/4 or 1/5), I think this would allow for better faceting and add a hug variety to shape outcomes.
See, I'd like to try using those with golden-white LEDs and white translucent plastic, but painting the outside (or the inside...?) with Tamiya transparent colors, to get a sort of retro, not-so-perfectly-monochromatic look.
thanks for the Scad script. changed both the sphere(r=botrad-1; and sphere(r=toprad-1); to sphere(r=botrad-0.8); and sphere(r=toprad-0.8); to make printing with the standard 0.4mm nozzle more efficient when printing multiples. It now only does 2 shells instead of 2.2 shells. This knocks about an hour of of 30 of them. Hope that's OK.
When he showed the green pic, that's when I realised that this is a re-purposed and re-sized project, And that's not a semi-colon... It's a VERY full one, lol Merry Christmas Clive and the livestream fam
What would you say a good safety design for 3w Leds? a case the would not melt, that is. Is there a formula you know for the distances between Led and case?
All my working 3D printers are busy....must get more printers. Once you realize you can almost print any bracket, clip or brace....lots of things to do to keep busy.
I have the 3D Printer, but where did you get the LED lights? Any links on types of LEDs to get that are simple and ready to accept these lamp covers? Thanks for the great videos!
Maybe a small improvement, it is possible to use the built-in customiser (which also somewhat works with thingiverse I think). Variables that have direct definition can have their description put in a comment on the line before them so it will show up in the customizer. It is also possible to handle boolean and select values.
Hi Clive. What filament do you recommend? Your coloured prints look like PLA but the clear (frosted) ones look like PETG? These really remind me of an old 50’s Pifco set my Dad used to have.
For FDM printers you could add the nozzle thickness*2 for example. That way you get the/a perfect wall (I.e. Nozzle: .4mm * 2 is a .8mm wall ) Then the software and/or printer doesnt have to decide how to print the .2mm "error".
Perfect application for openSCAD. Merry Christmas everyone!
What's the point of creating CAD objects by coding when this kind of software is made to be used in visual form? 🤨 🧐
Hi Tom you too!
@@Offensive_Username Errr... Not Open S CAD. its math based.
Happy Christmas Thomas - and thanks for all the great 3-D printing videos, and all those ever-so-useful tips!
And to you 🥂
I got one of the Himalayan salt lamps for a gift to give this holiday. I swapped out the bulb and put in a balled string of multicoloured blinking fairy lights. The colours add a nice effect. Then added a switch that turns it on when the lights go out. Mood lighting that always turns on when you shut out the lights. Adds movement to an otherwise dark room like a fireplace does.
Wicked! Thanks Clive! A set of these currently adorns our tree alongside the crystal shaped ones you created last year. Clive's baubles becoming an annual tradition. Merry Christmas!
they look great. Reminded me of my nans old light set. They had screw in bulbs that were all different shapes, like grapes, snowman. a carrot, plain round.. torpedo shape and so on.
Disclaimer: Those prints are for decoration use only. Other use is not covered by any legal guarantee of any kind. Author is thusly not liable for any bits or pieces lost in any hole or orifice.
Sounds risky.
I could add a stem and rim, but they'd be a bit rough and might snap in use...
@@bigclivedotcom Maybe an example video of using a 3D print design to form a mould to produce something fro ma safer material. :D
@@bigclivedotcom what? the Scots aren't big enough as they are? :)
@@bigclivedotcom (cough, splutter, choke). I prefer Blender because it does all the maths, but SCAD is amazing!
The OpenSCAD reminds me of something we would have had to do as a programming project in Into to CAD and CAM Modeling back in grad school. Looks like a fairly straightforward way to make simple designs.
Merry Christmas Clive, hope the island isn't too stormy over the holidays.
It is so amazing what we can do anymore. These are some great times with technology. Thank you for sharing!
I like how some of the green tones resemble the more pastel tones of fluorescent lights.
And your scripts look like you found your workflow in OpenSCAD.
What a great video! The comments are all gold to your longtime subs Clive. Never change! Have a Merry Christmas!
I have no idea what’s going on in 90% of your videos but your voice is enjoyable so I keep watching. I wonder how much I’ll eventually learn.
Thanks for providing these SCAD scripts Clive, they are very handy. They look nice printed in clear or white. In OpenSCAD, if you click View and then untick Hide Customizer, you can experiment with values for the variables from the Customizer panel (Hit F5 if the variables don't show at first and then the variables will be shown) and don't have to worry about pesky semicolons.
I didn't know that. I'll check it out.
Dang it Clive I've resisted buying a 3D printer for so many years, but I think this video broke me.
The FLsun Q5 is very good value at the moment.
@@bigclivedotcom anything like the Ender 3???🤔
Anet A6 and Ender 3 are also a really kits if that's your budget
@@Okurka. the 4th dimension is time waiting for the thing to finish.
Joking aside there are infinite-Z print mills now that will do long, long prints but even a small one will do fairy lights.
Bought a 2-head Geeetech years ago. Cheap, so plenty of opportunity to modify as new ideas come along. Definitely my best entertainment (and modification) "tool" ever!! It now has no more than a passing resemblance to the original design, but works just fine!!
I would recommend making wall thickness 0.8mm or 1.2mm rather than 1 mm since most 3d printers have 0.4mm nozzle. With 1 mm wall thickness slicer software would put a gap in between walls sides which significantly reduce strength.
0.4 mm nozzle does *not* mean 0.4 mm extrusion width. It’s normally a bit more than the nozzle size, typically anywhere from 105% to 170%.
nozzle hole diameter =/= extrusion width. A .4mm nozzle can easily extrude wider, I have mine usually set to values between 0.45 and 0.48mm. So 1mm wide walls are perfectly fine, you might just have to adjust the extrusion width a little to avoid gaps or unnecessary filler.
Someone needs to share this with Technology Connections. His eternal quest for Christmas lights may lead him here anyway.
I really like OpenSCAD and use it personally for everything! My brain works better with numeric construction than trying to use 3D-CAD.
I have a small improvement - add another parameter which rotates the two spheres against each other, this gives a new "twist" to the shape in low-segment-count versions.
I would have loved to have this script back in November when I printed a bunch of lenses for my lights.
It ended up forcing me to learn enough of FreeCad to make mine.
Turned out well in the end, though.
Happy Christmas Clive, best wishes to Ralph too,
Thank you for all your live streams this year, they have helped a lot. Take care,
FYI, you can make it easier to use if you format comments of your variables to work with customizer UI, if it works with built-in customizer, you can then upload your openSCAD design to thingiverse, basically online OpenSCAD with customizer interface.
And happy holidays to you!
I've not come across that. I'll have to take a look.
@@bigclivedotcom when the descriptive comment of a variable is not inline but in the line before it, it will get used as the description in the customizer (right panel) of OpenSCAD.
If you want, you can also make variables in the customizer show up as drop-down menus, checkboxes (for boolean values) and sliders :)
Oh man, this is clever. You can easily print these in bulk at one very quickly with a resin printer.
OMG genuis ive got an old set of 20 tungsten lamps with 12v 3w MES base lamps. They failed this year and im not paying £15 for three lamps!! So I thought what would Clive do.
So now with this video idea im converting them the led fillament and printing lenses.
Thanks Clive
Merry Christmas
Great application Clive! I did one in Open SCAD for creating back boxes for my circuit boards. This is what SCAD excels in.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Xmas to you too Clive!
Actually, I prefer HAPPY FESTIVUS! :)
Cheers, thanks for streams and videos, for doing entertaining things. Glad to be a fellow P... Merry Christmas!
If I had a 3d printer I'd been making dozens of these, they look fab. Happy Christmas Clive, thanks for all the brilliantly entertaining videos.
Thanks, Clive. And A Merry Christmas to you as well!
Those are all so stylish!
Really cool!
Wishing a very Merry Christmas & A Happy & Prosperous New Year
to you, and to everyone visiting your TH-cam
channel.
I Love the Clear PLA and the Spun Glass Lensing Effect!!! Awesome As Always!!!😁👍🏻
Thanks for all the great content this year.
Merry Christmas to you Clive
Happy Christmas Clive!
I do enjoy watching your videos, you’re consistently relaxing despite the ten flavours of hell stewing away outside. Have an excellent Christmas 👍
This is amazing. Sounds like you're my introduction to openSCAD, thanks for the knowledge!
A bit late, or very early for next year, but in Cura there is an experimental setting called Fuzzy Skin that makes these have good light scattering. I've used it in printing lamp globes along with Natural (un)colored PLA to great effect.
I'll have to check that out.
I have found that the squishing of the first layer can be reduced by raising the Z0 by .1mm. When setting Z0 it is better to have the paper slide freely rather than drag on the nozzle, this will give you the extra .1 :)
IN the 3D printing world it's usually referred to as an _elephant's foot._ There are numerous videos about how to prevent it.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays ! Thanks for all the videos in 2020! The OpenSCAD looks interesting. I know you have shown scripts for it before, but wow look at all the projects in the Gallery on its website ! Something new for me to learn this Christmas! :)
Very nice. I like it. I agree with Thomas S. Very useful software. Used it for gears etc.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Brilliant! Thanks Clive! Merry Christmas!
I like the old fashioned type big lights. Good old fashioned pygmy and gls bulbs 😊
Happy Christmas from Mid Wales. Love your videos.
Thank you for a your videos and livestreams this year.
Merry Christmas Clive, and a Happy New Year. Good luck for another successful year in 2021, I have really enjoyed your videos this year.
Have a fantastic Xmas Clive.
Very nice! Merry Christmas, Clive!
Somehow it is hilarious for me that you decided to print screenshot and put it into video xD
I like it.
Also, that long blue diffused LED, I need a source now I've seen that!!! They look neat on their own!!! :D
Thanks Clive, you have kept us entertained for another year, Merry Christmas and lets hope next year gets better ⛄🎄🎁🎅🤶😁👍🍷
Nadolig Llawen 🏴 All the best for Xmas.
Merry Christmas Clive. Best channel in the world!
omfg Clive uses OpenSCAD, i mean i knew he was a smart boi but now im seriously impressed... I looked that program once... never again! And Im used to CAD work :p
If you're used to CAD work it doesn't surprise me OpenSCAD isn't for you. I have no idea how to use CAD software but OpenSCAD wasn't hard for me to figure out a few years ago.
I've since forgotten but it shouldn't be too hard...
Merry Christmas to you and your brother, Clive.
I love using OpenSCAD!
Cheers Sir. Merry Christmas. 👍👍🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅
Found this image on a Prusa Facebook group, seems very appropriate for this video:
www.haku.co.uk/pics/XmasTree.jpg
:)
Good one.
*kek*
Happy Christmas to you too BC - and thank you for a year's entertainment and education - always something new to learn, especially with the more complex reverse engineering videos! Have a great Christmas and an "acceptably non-sober" Hogmanay (with Ralfie of course!) :-)
Have a good Christmas Clive, thanks for the videos!
Thank you. This saves me a lot of time trying to figure out how to use cad to make these... and yours can make a multitude of shapes. I am not very good at it.
Could I offer a suggestion or make a request? If the bulb dimensions could be input as 4 to 5 diameters (every 1/4 or 1/5), I think this would allow for better faceting and add a hug variety to shape outcomes.
Someone needs to feature "Let me send you the model via telegraph" in a series or movie, and then show a screen with OpenSCAD running.
....
I need to get off the Internet...
All I can think is "anything's a butplug if you're brave enough"
If you're referring to the green picture... That deserves a feckin medal!
Paige, no!
That's why Clive should add another disclaimer. Just in case some one losses one in some one's orifice of some description.
@Robin Rastle Don't forget the rectum fryer (e-stim unit/egg)
th-cam.com/video/ClSch3zLC0k/w-d-xo.html
Mate - that should be the official comment for 2020!
Perfection!
Merry SCADmas Clive and family (also merry that other festival that happens soon whose name I've forgotten).
ooh pretty! Would it be possible to use uv/purple leds+ fluorescent plastic? (i've been thinking a lot about white leds lately)
Perfect! I wonder if I have enough time to make enough for a 100 light string in time for Christmas?
See, I'd like to try using those with golden-white LEDs and white translucent plastic, but painting the outside (or the inside...?) with Tamiya transparent colors, to get a sort of retro, not-so-perfectly-monochromatic look.
Merry Christmas Clive and a great New Year.
Merry Christmas Big Clive and family. 🎄 ⛄ Happy Holidays 🥂
I may have to have a play with these, thank you. Merry Christmas!
Cubes... Christmas cubes... Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas Clive!
I DO Like The Little Dumpy Blue Cover....
You calling it Open Scat, while seeing that shapes... ehhh
But hey, a perfect example of the use of Open S Cad
that's cool! Merry Christmas ⛄🎄
Happy Christmas Clive ~ best wishes from N/Ireland
Will this work with black PLA, or will that result in see-through clothing?
thanks for the Scad script. changed both the sphere(r=botrad-1; and sphere(r=toprad-1); to sphere(r=botrad-0.8); and sphere(r=toprad-0.8); to make printing with the standard 0.4mm nozzle more efficient when printing multiples. It now only does 2 shells instead of 2.2 shells. This knocks about an hour of of 30 of them. Hope that's OK.
Thanks Clive....You have a Good One too! 🍨🥧🍗🎁🎄 👍
When he showed the green pic, that's when I realised that this is a re-purposed and re-sized project,
And that's not a semi-colon... It's a VERY full one, lol
Merry Christmas Clive and the livestream fam
Merry Christmas. And happy NewYear,
I’ll have a play with these. Cheers! Merry Christmas!
What would you say a good safety design for 3w Leds?
a case the would not melt, that is.
Is there a formula you know for the distances between Led and case?
All my working 3D printers are busy....must get more printers. Once you realize you can almost print any bracket, clip or brace....lots of things to do to keep busy.
I have the 3D Printer, but where did you get the LED lights? Any links on types of LEDs to get that are simple and ready to accept these lamp covers? Thanks for the great videos!
Maybe a small improvement, it is possible to use the built-in customiser (which also somewhat works with thingiverse I think).
Variables that have direct definition can have their description put in a comment on the line before them so it will show up in the customizer. It is also possible to handle boolean and select values.
Merry CHRISTMAS to you Clive and your family
Telling fairy tales about fairy lights.
But this is a -fairy- very good video that might be useful at some point
Merry Christmas bud!!!
Very merry, and very well explained!
Hi Clive. What filament do you recommend? Your coloured prints look like PLA but the clear (frosted) ones look like PETG?
These really remind me of an old 50’s Pifco set my Dad used to have.
All PLA.
Instructions unclear, got it stuck in my rear.
Merry Christmas Clive ( from America)
Merry Christmas everyone.
If there's ever a remake of Close Encounters of the Third Kind can we get Clive to do the lighting of the alien ships? Just an idea.
For FDM printers you could add the nozzle thickness*2 for example. That way you get the/a perfect wall
(I.e. Nozzle: .4mm * 2 is a .8mm wall ) Then the software and/or printer doesnt have to decide how to print the .2mm "error".
Thank you for this. Merry christmas
Have a safe and healthy Christmas!
Why is it that Clive decides the buttplug looking one will be the one he showcases when he first turns the lights on HAHA. ;-)
Blender is free software too, you should try it, although i like the floppy disk flavor of scad
Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. You are the best!
God Bless You and Us All... :-D
Thanks for the video!
LLAP
I have been wanting to try something like this. Thanks
Merry Christmas to you to Clive