I understand this may sound like a stupid question being the discs are made of foam and 3D printing is hard plastic, but does anyone think it would really matter too much if our team 3D printed our own discs?
yes funding is a slight problem for us at the moment so we would prefer to make our own elements before deciding to spend money.
3D print for testing sizing while waiting for foam game pieces to come in. Being rigid, they will not help answer questions about compression needed for flywheels and other launching mechanisms.
One of the high school team here has printed a couple.
I personally think that it would work great with tpu (tpu being flexible but not to flexible kind of like hard foam) I also happen to have a lot of yellow tpu so you could make it pretty accurate. Does anyone know the weight of the discs so I could try and print one with the same weight too?
Itâs a STEP file, put it into your favorite CAD (I used FreeCad - ugh⊠donât judge me, gets the job done, I know itâs not a multimillion dollar shiny piece of software âindustry standardâ people use) extract the disc export as STL voila.
EDIT: And yes, Thingiverse thing:5383070 - it was not there when I did this, only the approximate one from 1695E before the official specs were upâŠ