Santa Claws (Tinkercad Christmas)
Santa Claws (Tinkercad Christmas)
Published 2017-11-30T15:16:20+00:00
Santa Claws is the robotic telepresence solution devised by Santa and his Elves to solve the problem of aging reindeer. Poor Rudolph and friends are getting too old to be flying around in the cold! The Santa Claws robot is remotely controlled by Santa from the comfort of the North Pole. Along with the accompanying jet-powered sleigh and autonomous fleet of gift delivery drones (disguised as snowflakes and candy), Christmas present delivery has never been easier! With his four omni-directional multi-spectrum eyes, Santa Claws really can see you while you are sleeping, even through solid walls. Gifts are dispensed from Santa's magic bag to waiting drones for swift delivery to multiple houses, simultaneously. Of course, the drones are monitored full-time by experienced elves and reindeer to ensure no gifts are accidently delivered to naughty, coal-worthy recipients.
This object was made in Tinkercad, and is an entry for the Tinkercad Christmas competition. This is how I imagine it assembled: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/9fO5giDadLI and here are the parts layed out for printing: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/4cM8MCDGPvp-santa-claws-for-printing . In reality you will want to print the parts separately, so I have uploaded individual STL files.
This is designed to be printed and assembeled into a mobile, or used as a set of ornaments.
Print the following at .3 or .2mm: 2 jet engines, 1 sleigh front, 1 sleigh back, 1 santa's bag. Print the following things at .2mm or .1mm: the SantaRobot, the santa hat, 1 sleigh arm (I used a raft for this one), the santa arms (again, I used a raft), 8 claws, 6 straight wrists, 2 tilted wrists, 6 snowflake drones, 2 candy drones, 2 sets of 6 gifts, and the license plate. The STL files should be properly oriented so no supports are needed, but you will need to cut the support built into the hat after printing.
I painted the parts using acrylic model paints. Use super glue for the small arm parts and the two halves of the sleigh, and hot glue for the larger parts (engines, Santa's hat, drone wrists, gifts, and Santa/Bag to sleigh). I glued three presents into Santa's bag, and then a present into the claws of the drones. Put just a tiny amount on the gripper part of the claws and then push the present in. The sleigh claw is designed to mount to the back of the sleigh without glue.
The drone "propellers" were cut out of clear plastic food containers, about 25mm in diameter. The trick for getting mostly perfect circles is to put a pushpin in the center, poke a hobby knife through the plastic 12mm out from the pin, then carefully rotate the plastic around the pin so the hobby knife cuts a circle. The props were glued onto the drones using a dot of hot glue. If you end up with a jagged part on your props, put that over the drone body where it is harder to see.
The drones have holes on top for fishing line (mobile) or hooks (ornaments). Once everything is glued into the sliegh, a large loop of fishing line can be passed around the front and back lip of the sleigh and up to the center for mounting. For the mobile frame, I used 16 gauge steel wire and fishing swivels. A dot of hot glue keeps the wire from slipping out.
Date published | 30/11/2017 |
Tecnología | FDM |
Complejidad | Fácil |
Sin apoyo | YES |