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My daughters have been playing with these every night spin, spin, spin doing my head in, SO I thought I would try it see what all fuse is about I CANT PUT THE BLOODY THING DOWN but I must admit keeps me occupied stop me picking etc etc.


do your kids play with them :)
 
What are they? Read some schools have banned them as they are more of a distraction than smart phones lol

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I keep meaning to 3d print a few, especially seeing how much people are being ripped off for them. I saw a few 3d printed ones being sold for £20-£30 and at most they would have cost £1 to 3d print and including the bearings.
 
I keep meaning to 3d print a few, especially seeing how much people are being ripped off for them. I saw a few 3d printed ones being sold for £20-£30 and at most they would have cost £1 to 3d print and including the bearings.
They look like skateboard bearings or something like that.

Hmm, we have three 3D printers at work, including a SLA...
 
They look like skateboard bearings or something like that.

Hmm, we have three 3D printers at work, including a SLA...

Most of the cheaper ones do use skate bearings some of the better ones use ceramic bearings, but in any case you can find 100's of them on thingiverse to download and 3d print.

Some use nuts instead of bearings for the balance/weight.

I just sliced one in simplify 3d and it estimated the cost as 16p worth of filament. :)
 
@captain How to these 3d printers work ie if you have a part you want to replicate do you just scan it or what?
 
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Being sold around my way for £5 and you can get them from HK or China for about £1.63 so its a tidy profit for people selling them
That cost will come down with bulk buying of course.
 
Seen them for about £1`ish and upwards on fasttech
seen some very good videos on youtube how to make them out of wood/metal/plastic etc
 
@captain How to these 3d printers work ie if you have a part you want to replicate do you just scan it or what?

There are various ways to use them.

You can visit various websites that have lots of parts & things already sorted for 3d printing, these can range from small parts like cogs, knobs etc.. to huge jobs like a fully working and fully 3d prinable wall clock (even the spring it 3d printed).

If your CAD skills are ok then you can download various FREE CAD programs to design your "part" and then save the file ready for slicing and 3d printing.

If your CAD skills are not up to much then there are various websites where you can request someone design something for you but that costs, obviously. There are a ton of tutorials on youtube for CAD software like Fusion 360 (it's free for personal use too).

You can scan an object (the British Museum has scanned many artifacts and placed them on thingiverse for downloading & 3d printing) with one of the available 3d scanners or apps on your mobile (using the camera). The results range from really crap to really detailed (as in the British Museum scans).

Personally I have not scanned anything but I have used CAD software to make my own phone/tablet docks and various boxes and holders for things. Used thingiverse for many projects like various attachments for the Dyson vac, wall mounts for guitars, stands for things like Alexa Dotty etc...

Plus many upgrades to the 3d printer itself and many, many little trinkets and dust magnets. :)

It's not as expensive as it used to be ether. The Anet A8 (classed as one of the best 3d printers you can buy in kit form) is only £130 on Gearbest (as 11th may) and filament can be had as cheap as around £13 for a kilo spool.

I subscribe to Maker Box which gives me several filament samples per month, it's not too cheap at £40 bi-monthly for 8 samples of around 16m each but it's a good way of trying exotic filaments without the need of paying £60-£80 for a kilo spool.
 
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Fidget spinners are great for those who need to keep their hands occupied. They are such a simply and QUIET item to use that it keeps the user occupied without annoying people around them overly.
 
I feel like a lot of people just view them as “toys”, but mine really helps me pay attention and keep my hands busy! i was reading somewhere about how the number of schools banning them keeps rising..
 
I feel like a lot of people just view them as “toys”, but mine really helps me pay attention and keep my hands busy! i was reading somewhere about how the number of schools banning them keeps rising..

I had no trouble keeping my ex wife's hands busy, plenty of housework,decorating and gardening.
Can't understand to this day why she left :rolleyes:
 
Today I was talking about this with work colleagues.

They're children like to play with them or keep using them to concentrate​.

We also talked about this was invented to autistic people, in some manner to keep them occupied and concentrated.
Looks like some schools there are banning them just because it's a trend and distracts the children. I personally find it good. Although...
 
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