Fidget toy: "Ollie the octopus" by Every Day Counts

Every Day Counts

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X1 Carbon

P1S

P1P

X1E

0.24mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

Designer

6.7 h

1 plate

4.2(12)

Open in Bambu Studio

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Description

Here is a cute fellow that is ready to sit at your desk and relieve your work stress. Bend him into all sorts of poses.

This is a print-in-place model with fairly tight tolerances. Be sure that your printer and filament are well-calibrated.

The joints should be pretty easy to release after printing, but take a little care on moving each joint for the first time. After that, go to town on him.

Please post some photos of your builds and poses.

Comment & Rating (19)

@Mr_Monaco_22

Print Profile

0.24mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

Love the legs, so clever design. Takes a bit of force to losen them up, but they work great. Full disclosure, my son asked for a nose and I let him play with it in the CAD...now he's scared of the thing...smh.

The designer has replied

@EveryDayCounts

Thanks for the photos and the story. I love the nose (not everyone does, apparently), and I'm not sure why he never had one. I really like your colour combinations too.

@user_1289307006

Just realised that it can actually store 10-bytes of data just by moving its arms around. (given the fact that each arm-segment can be put in 4 different positions, and that each arm consists of 5 segments, and that there are 8 arms) EDIT: Of course, only if the arms don't hit each other. Can they? I'll try printing it tomorrow

(Edited)

The designer has replied

@EveryDayCounts

Funny! Should I rename it to "The Binary Encoding Octopus"?

@user_1289307006

Replying to @EveryDayCounts :

maybe. Printed it and wrote 6x8=48 on the back to support my son with his multiplication table studies. so much potential

@rudolfharoldpot

I printed this in PETG. It looks cute but when I tried to carefully release the first joint, the leg broke off at that joint.

The designer has replied

@EveryDayCounts

I'm sorry that this didn't work out. Hopefully, the other legs were better. Whilst I haven't performed a test print in PETG, I would guess that it has to do with the 'stickyness' of PETG compared to PLA. I would instinctively set the 'XY contour compensation' to -0.1 to allow more distances in the print-in-place mechanisms. Also, ensure that the seam position is set to 'back' (so that the seams are not in the joints) and that the 'slicing gap closing radius' is 0.