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Topic: Magnetic Building Toys

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I printed these 9 at a time at .3mm using RH/slic3r with Octave Natural filament. Print time was around 1hr20mins per plate. I found that stopping it at layer 25 of 26 made inserting my buckyballs a lot easier.

I was asked to teach some 3rd graders about magnets today with and these came in real handy. The kids enjoyed trying to create structures with them, and I think the fact that they werent your normal square design really helped them think about connecting them in different ways. I also brought in some ferrofluid and did some magic with my magnetic implant.  I think they had some good fun for the hour presentation.

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Re: Magnetic Building Toys

Here is a short video of my implant in action after realizing that my knife had been magnetized at a restaurant a few weeks back.

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Re: Magnetic Building Toys

Implant in your finger? Broken bone?

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4 Reply by nickythegreek (edited by nickythegreek 2013-03-01 00:11:14)

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Re: Magnetic Building Toys

When I was younger I was into the body modification scene. I have/had tongue split, several transdermal and sub-dermal implants including the magnetic implant and a RFID implant for some home automation stuff I want to do soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implant_(b … c_implants