Making something enjoyable often requires a clever trick. It could be a way to cut something funny or abuse some peripheral in a way it was never designed for. Especially good tricks have a funny way of coming up again and again. [DERAILED3D] put a 3d printed benchy in a bottle with one of the best tricks 3d printing has.
The trick is stopping the print part way through and tweaking it. You can add manual supports or throw in some PTFE beads to make a generator. The benchy isn’t the print being paused; the bottle is. The benchy is a standard print, and the bottle is clear resin. Once halfway through, they paused the print, and the benchy was left suspended in the bottle with a bit of wire. Of course, [DERAILED3D] moved quickly as they risked a layer line forming on the delicate resin after a minute or two of pausing. The difficulty and mess of tweaking a gooey half-finished resin print is likely why we haven’t seen many attempts at playing with the trick, but we look forward to more clever hacks as it gets easier.
The real magic is in the post-processing of the bottle to make it look as much like glass as possible. It’s a clever modern twist on the old ship in the bottle that we love. Video after the break.
Just print benchy using flexible filament and then squish it in using some piston that roughly resembles tampon applicator (or bottle corking press).
Or print Benchy in multiple parts and assemble in the bottle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmTUAIThtk
Printing a bottle around a benchy is so completely fake it’s fun again.
Would be cool (but a whole lot more work) if he made some kind of specialized printer that created the model inside a real glass bottle through a nozzle that reaches inside of the neck
That was the promise with computed axial lithography, but somehow they don’t seem to have felt the urge to print objects in bottles. Or did they?
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/13/axial-3d-printer-aces-test-aboard-virgin-spaceplane/
Now I want to see someone blowing a glass bottle around a metal 3D printed benchy.
That is excellent finish work on the bottle. Well done!
What were the lyrics to that song?
Printing out an SLS,
Benchy in a bottle,
Benchy in a bottle…
Aw, yes!
just perfect
Benchy McBenchface…
I heard that if you do this with a mouse and then bring the bottle to the packie they’ll give you a free case of beer.
Eh, take off, you hozer!
Thanks for writing in Mr. McKenzie.
Very nice, and fantastic bottle. I don’t have a SLA printer but was wondering, couldn’t you submerge a regular bottle and sudpend it from the “bed” would laser still print layers in the bottle?
i thought these work by using lcd/oledscreens wich gets black/white were to harden, so you would have problems with refraction and focus, but i like the idea, but propably same problems with a laser
Henry here! (DERAILED3D) Thanks for the article! Glad you all found it interesting :)
Of course, it would be even cooler to print-in-place: change resins at print time.
Is there any multi-material SLA printer?
I believe 3D printing nerd did something similar with FDM by printing a benchy in a bottle on an IDEX printer, leaving a small gap (like a raft) between the benchy and the bottle. I don’t believe multicolor SLA printers are even possible but I would love to be proven wrong.
Clever idea: 35 cents.
Absolutely friggin’ flawless execution: priceless.