What that means is that you can choose to print, measure, tweak, and reprint, and eventually get exactly what you want. Even so, we're not talking big numbers here.
In the video, I estimated that one cable holder was about ten cents, but it's more accurately closer to about fifty cents for the largest holder. For all four cord holders, that's about $1.40 worth of plastic, and that includes the cost to make the rafts. The four cable holders used 0.061 pounds of material. To give you an idea of cost, the role of MakerBot-branded blue filament I used cost $48 for two pounds of filament. I picked the percentages relatively randomly, but if any of them printed either too small or too large, I could easily have tweaked the scale and reprinted them. I created one object at 100 percent, one at 75 percent, one at 50 percent, and one at 25 percent. In this week's hands-on example, I've used a very cool little cord holder design I downloaded from Thingiverse and scaled it to organize the wires for different size gadgets.
You can even print objects far larger than the print bed if you're willing to segment them and later assemble them with either screws, glue, or pins.Īnother interesting aspect of the flexibility and customizability of 3D printing is you don't have to create your own custom design to benefit from custom sizing. As long as the object can fit on the print bed, you can scale it up or down to any size. As a result, choosing to contract for custom objects only happened when I needed to prototype something very specific for work, for a very tangible reason.ģD printing changes all of that. This was not in any way inexpensive (we're talking hand work by the hour) and usually took a few months to get back. If I couldn't find something in the size I wanted, I had to be willing to compromise.įor a few work-related objects, I did contract out with fabricators to build me custom objects. If I needed something larger or smaller, I could call around or do more Web searching, but that was about the limit of my flexibility. Since I've never really been a fabricator, my access to physical objects has been limited to what I could buy. One of the interesting personal discoveries I've made about 3D printing over the last few months is you start to think about physical objects differently. I think if I do that, I may up the coconut palm sugar just slightly, as I’m not sure it would be sweet enough for me without the chocolate chips.Updated: If you're working on a DIY project of your own, this comprehensive guide to tech projects is a good place to start. I’m nervous, however, about making this with no chocolate chips, but I’d like a lower cal version, so I will try it sometime and see how it compares. It did thicken up quickly, and tasted delicious!!
I used So Delicious Coconut Milk Beverage (2 1/2 cups as directed in the recipe),ġ/4 cup Hersey’s Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder It didn’t add the correct calories for several of the ingredients for some reason.Īnd without the chocolate chips, it will be 64 calories per 1/2 cup! So I checked, and it’s 144 now, thank goodness! I’m SO glad that others posted their calorie count on this, because it made me double check the calories that MyFitnessPal recorded when I entered the recipe–holy cow, it tried telling me that one 1/2 cup serving was over 200 calories with the chocolate chips!