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Let's take a look at Thingiverse.
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Here is the website:
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the URL is simply thingiverse.com
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It is full of objects,
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it's a site that piques our curiosity.
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There are so many surprising things,
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silly ones too, all sort of things.
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So once I looked for an object,
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which was a Wiimote Tripod,
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i.e. a 3-legged support to be used
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with a three-egged support for the board --
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for the Wiimote remote control,
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to create an inexpensive IWB.
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And I found this object here.
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You can find so many
more or less pertinent things,
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at times an enormous quantity,
it varies:
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this one is already
a rather particular object.
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And I found this,
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a project that was uploaded
on November 16, 2009.
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I looked at it and said yes, yes,
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this is the thing I'm interested in.
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I downloaded the file and sent it
-- I realized
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I did not have access to a 3D printer yet --
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I realized that I could give it
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to a photocopying service,
there are some now
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to whom you give the file on an USB key,
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then they give you back the printed object.
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and you pay
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But afterwards, I
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Well, I understood that for my Wiimote,
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I preferred something a little similar,
but different.
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And so I made a remix.
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In fact, this one was remixed:
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it's mine, which I made some time ago.
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And if you make a remix, well,
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[the app] asks you
to create an account,
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you create it, etc. etc., OK.
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However, if we go back
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in the search I did,
there is also this one,
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which is mine,
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And I made it on May 28 of this year.
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So it's a recent thing.
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Oh, I forgot to go and look:
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let's go back a little:
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this one, since November 16, has been --
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has been seen 3900 times
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and downloaded 1782 times.
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These numbers give an idea
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of how big today's world is:
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because something so specific,
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it seems almost surprising.
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Mine, which is much younger,
has nevertheless --
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has been downloaded --
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seen 840 times already
and downloaded 85 times.
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This is the object I had created
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which, as you see, is slightly different.
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Its shaping is very accurate.
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It's very simple, here it's written how,
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with what I created id, with Tinkercad,
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and with what printer I printed the copies,
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getting these -- these data,
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i.e. what kind of thickness of the layer --
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These are the settings. Some
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we can mention are:
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speed, object filling (check) --
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As to instructions, I put little or nothing:
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there are simply these photos
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that tell, that show
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how, basically, the thing works.
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So here is the object
and here is the trestle
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on which I want to fix it
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and I had accurately shaped
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this slot, so I could insert
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this little wheel.
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And here is the little wheel in place.
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After that, it becomes child's play
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to fix it on the trestle: on this one
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or on a more pro trestle.
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And that's how it looks mounted
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and how it looks mounted
on this other trestle.
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This is a very short example
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of Thingiverse use.