Here’s a silly hack for you guys. Turn your head (or anything else really) into a stick shift handle!
All jokes about vanity aside, [Haqnmaq] has outlined an excellent Instructable on how to take 3D scans, manipulate them, and make them 3D printer ready. He’s chosen to use a Microsoft Kinect (one of the cheapest 3D scanners around) combined with some low-cost 3D software. He’s used both Skanect and Reconstructme with great success, which both have free (albeit slightly limited) versions. The model he used for his stick shift was actually taken at the 3D Printing Experience in Chicago.
Anyway, once you’ve gotten your 3D scan turned into a .STL file, it just needs to be imported into Netfabb Basic to make any repairs necessary before 3D printing. Find out what size nut your stick shift uses, add a cut extrude into your model (he used Autodesk’s 123D design software to do this), print it off, glue the nut in, and your done!
Regardless of whether or not you want your head shifting the gears, its an excellent introduction to 3D scanning to 3D printing.
Generally “stick shift” implies a manual transmission. Picture depicts an automatic. What you’ve shown here is generally referred to as a “Gear Selector Knob” or “Gear Selector Handle” since it operates an automatic transmission.
For a manual transmission, the equivalent part would be referred to as a “Shift Knob”.
Otherwise, a good tutorial for taking and preparing 3D scans…
Yeah, I couldn’t think of what it would be called on an automatic transmission, so I went with “stick shift”. It’s easy to understand what I was referring to, and this can also work on a manual transmission as well. Though “shift knob” would have been a better term.
until you have something worth putting on the cover of hackaday, you don’t even qualify to make a judgement…troll.
Haqnmaq is a valued member of our hackerspace.
Where’s the like button for this post?
Awwww, How cute, Hagnmaq’s mommy shows up to protect him from those mean old HaD posters.
I’m guessing fartface and vonskippy is the same person.
It does have a manual mode and you could think of a dual clutch transmission as two automated manual transmissions in one…
Semi automatic != manual
Full speed ahead!
Until somebody prints a dildo and sticks it on their gear handle. Really takes the car e-peen contest up a notch.
Aherm, you beat me to it. Reminds me of this clip (possibly NSFW):
http://youtu.be/gKMkDFyZ6r0
Gives new meaning to the term road head.
1) Rule 34
2) Partner-shaped 3d printed dildos sound like something we’re gonna hear about again, especially now that there’s this comment, on the internet…
nothing new, there’s already several thingiverse spinoffs for adult toys.
And there have already been quite a few articles on people scanning their, eh, bits, and getting custom toys printer.
Plus you don’t even need a 3D printer for that, there are purpose-made silicone mold kits that come with included rubber.
You could replace it with a sawed-off dildo
next, scan your own foot for the accelerator pedal
then maybe 3D printed fuzzy dice for the mirror
:-)
This is hilarious. I am thinking of what a date might think if she saw my head on the stick shift. If someone gets made at you, they can take it out on the head!
Nice! But I will have my skull as stick shift handle :) I derived a model of it from CT images. I first viewed it in ImageJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7i_gGYGLQ
Later on I found a software called ImageVis3D, which is perfect to import DCOM images as well and is able to export a STL file. You just have to load the data, threshold the images and export the mesh. Highly recommened: http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/imagevis3d.html