Flying Sea Turtle

Flying Sea Turtle in the Sea

When the video of a plastic straw pulled from a poor sea turtle's nostril spread across the internet, its misfortune slightly changed the world. Many people began to proactively stop using plastic straws, and chain restaurants no longer offer them. However, it's not only straws that harm sea turtles in the ocean! Marine debris, plastic bags, fishing hooks, abandoned fishing nets, and so on, can also cause sea turtles to drown. The rapid advancement of human technology has created many substances that naturally did not exist. Most animals cannot adapt to human progress, and sea turtles are an example. They haven't evolved enough to distinguish between the jellyfish they love to eat and the plastic bags that could kill them! Perhaps our progress should be more compatible with the natural environment; that would be the right direction!

I’ve seen sea turtles swimming below me when snorkeling.
Their forelimbs' slow waving movement looked like they were flying under the sea. This experience inspired the creation of the [flying sea turtle] project. I took my previous origami turtle creation as a prototype, added more details, and used a movable mechanism to imitate the body's undulations and even the relative movement of the sea turtle's neck and body under reactive force. My goal was to recreate the turtle swimming gracefully under the sea! After a few weeks of hard work, I completed the [flying sea turtle] automata! I really like this work! The design process and the final completed work brought me a lot of fun and achievements. I sincerely hope everyone can find delight during the assembling.

Thanks to SpiderMaker for sponsoring the creation of this work.
Materials used: SpiderMaker PLA
Matte Iron blue, Matte Clay, Matte Brick Red, Matte Orchid Purple, Matte Kraft Brown

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Print suggestions
1. Layer height 0.2mm
2. Flow rate down to 90-95
3. Add raft for the turtle itself, no support needed
4. After assembly, add some lubricant to the movable parts
5. Please select objects with '(new)' in their filenames to replace the original objects
6. FT-GEAR02 is recommended to be printed at 0.15mm or 0.1mm layer height, and it needs support