🫧 CORAL🪸 ARTICULATED 🌊 TURTLE 🐢 Born from three months of technical sculpting and refinement, this articulated turtle carries a mesmerizing coral shell, unique flippers, and lifelike textures. Engineered to move with natural grace, it showcases the hidden beauty of gyroid patterns while remaining FDM-printable with almost no supports, a rare harmony of design, art, and technical mastery. 🌊 The Journey 🐢✨ The Coral Articulated Turtle was not born overnight, it was technically sculpted over months of persistence, trial, and discovery. It began with a vision. I had always wondered how to design articulations as fluid and natural as waves. But there was no ready-made tool or shortcut. What existed felt limiting, so I set out to build my own way, a path that would take me through months of testing, sculpting, and refining and creating various CAD software, custom algorithms, and hands-on sculpting into a process that was as much invention as it was cre...
The project started as a 1 meter Cartesian Cube. But for easy transportation around the house, I had to reduce the printer width to 83 cm from 1 meter. Printer details can be found below ; Max tested printing speed : 150mm/s Best results as of now : 75mm/s with 550 acceleration & 0.04 junction Deviation Printer dimensions : Length : 120 cm Width : 83 cm Height : 83 cm Current Print Dimension : 60 × 60 × 50 cm Print Dimension upgradable : 120*83*83 cm Endstops set to : 48x * 38y * 28z cm Firmware : Marlin 2.0.6.1 upgraded to 2.0.8.2 with SKR2 Steps per unit A4988 (100, 100, 2600, 95) DRV8825 (200, 200, 5200, 190) Iinear Advancement K = 0.22 Baud 250000 # printing Material (All metal) [PLA, ABS, Nylon, ASA, TPU etc] # 1.75mm filament # 100k ntc b 3950 Thermistor # 12v 40w heating cartridge # E3D V6 All Metal J-Head Hotend Extruder PID Tuning 195°c Kp : 41.88 Ki : 7.41 Kd : 59.18 185°c Kp : 42.65 Ki : 7.23 Kd : 62.90 # Fat Nema extreme Extrusio...