Printed Pink Panther Person [11/22/2010]

[This is a funny bit of MakerBot / Thingiverse / 3D printing lore.  One of the earliest uploads to Thingiverse, #1216 uploaded on 11/01/2009, was the mysterious “Pink Panther Woman!!!” by “januario.”  Whoever januario was, they uploaded this model, provided zero context, and never, ever came back.  The original model was listed with a “no derivatives” license, but people still created lots of variations.  This was in my PLA printing days and on a MakerBot Cupcake CNC at that, so the print quality is not up to what you’d expect today.  The layer lines were around 0.28 – 0.3mm and the PLA was … a little goopy.  Even so, it was a fantastic looking model.]

This print turned out really well.  In preparation I made sure I had enough vertical clearance by raising the Z platform up 11.5cm (100 mm for the print, 15 mm extra for the Z platform raise at the end of the print).  I was a little nervous about the print since I had been having tangles in my filament spindle all day long.  Fortunately, that didn’t prove to be a problem.  I printed in PLA at 200 degrees, 1% plastic infill, with an extra shell all the way around.  Since nearly every cross section was fairly large, printing in PLA went very well.  In any case, I wanted to print this to see if I could.  I can, indeed, print it – and quite well at that.

1. Misnamer [11/28/2010]
2. The Lost Blog Posts
3. Plastruder! [Draft 12/25/2009]
4. UNTITLED [Draft 12/25/2009]
5. Preparing to print [Draft 12/27/2009]
6. More prints [Draft 01/04/2010]
7. Prototype Pricing [Draft 01/19/2010]
8. MakerBot tuning [Draft 01/20/2010]
9. Plastic Screw Anchor [Draft 02/02/2010]
10. Magic [Draft 02/03/2010]
11. How are you printing with PLA? [Draft 02/16/2010]
12. Rebuilding my extruder [Draft 02/16/2010]
13. MY robot [Draft 02/18/2010]
14. more things i learned [Draft 02/20/2010]
15. First commissioned piece! [Draft 02/22/2010]
16. MakerBot: Toy or Tool? [02/25/2010]
17. Idea for Skeinforge settings… [Draft 03/27/2010]
18. RepRap and MakerBot alternatives [Draft 04/05/2010]
19. RepRap Parts for Sale [Draft 04/07/2010]
20. Where is the Othercutter? [Draft 06/08/2015]
21. Mendel Parts – Printed, Cast, CNC’d, Lasercut or Injection Molded? [Draft 04/12/2010]
22. MakerBot Operator’s Manual [06/04/20210]
23. MakerBot on CBS! [07/07/2010]
24. New Print: Soft-Pawed Albino Stoat of South Wales Cookie Cutter [07/07/2010]
25. House calls [07/11/2010]
26. Digital assistant? [08/05/2010]
27. MakerBot + Junk = Stuff! [08/06/2010]
28. Design choices in RepRap, Goals of RepRap [08/14/2010]
29. Upgrades and obsolescence [08/25/2010]
30. Dear Anonymous [08/25/2010]
31. The ultimate in customer service [08/26/2010]
32. Open Source Makes You Smarter [08/27/2010]
33. Getting my Plastruder MK5 running [09/06/2010]
34. Weird new kind of spam [09/19/2010]
35. An open letter to Ms. Word [10/18/2010]
36. Printing with PLA again! [10/18/2010]
37. Halloween costume too [10/27/2010]
38. Dream jobs [10/29/2010]
39. The nuances of time travel [10/31/2010]
40. Printed Pink Panther Person [11/22/2010]
41. Skein them all and let ‘Bot sort them all out [11/24/2010]
42. The Patents for disc shooters [12/10/2010]