Ah, smart. I might start designing some counterweights and selling them at competitions. Just for educational purposes, what program do you use to make your files? (anybody can reply to this)
I use Fusion 360. The free version is a little annoying because you can only have 10 files editable at a time.
I know a lot of folks also use FreeCAD.
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Thanks!
I use Fusion as well. I just take designs and move them to read only when done to keep my limit under 10.
I have no desire to sell prints so I post my designs open source under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Basically you can download, edit, change, sell prints of the yo-yos etc as long as you give me design credit and also make any changes you do open source too.
If you want to mess around with any of my designs I can post the fusion files to printables as well so you can edit.
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I am very dumb on the subject of 3d printing.
Question: Is it basically as simple as buying a 3d printer, loading it with plastic, getting a file through purchase or free source, and sending it to the printer and having a yoyo in my hand (assuming it’s one piece, I know if it’s two halves I’d have to STEM, cabal gut or put in a wooden or metal axle.)
Please tell me it’s much harder so that I don’t go down this rabbit hole lol
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The answer to your question is that it depends.
If you buy a quality brand of printer like Prusa or Bambu and you have a good 3d model then it is that simple. They are pricier though. There is a reason I’m rapidly filling my 3d printed yoyo shelf with 3d printed yoyos.
If you buy a cheaper brand like creality or anycubic there will be tinkering involved. You will have to fight through bed adhesion, leveling, z offsets, and you might regret the purchase unless you enjoy tinkering.
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Thank you, that makes sense. I appreciate the break down.
Bambu P1S look like it would be good for this use case?
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That would be very cool, but I’ll leave it up to you.
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Yeah I think there’s a couple folks here that use that one. Keith and Pyro?
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Word of warning. Do not type an emoji into fusion 360 text tool. 
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I don’t have a computer. I assume that it’s given I can’t do any CAD work on my phone. But can I use my phone to send people’s files to the printer?
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What happens?
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I have a P1S. Uhm you can do CAD on the phone but I wouldn’t recommend it. It’ll make it 100 times harder to do/learn.
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Cool, well now I gotta figure out how to mod it to use wood putty instead of plastic. Jkjk
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The P1S is phenomenal, I love mine. It is very much a plug a play machine. You can send files to the printer from your phone but I’m pretty sure they have to be from their Bambu Handy app. I haven’t tried it as I always use a computer. Here are some of the yoyos I’ve designed and printed for the FD stem system.
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Those look amazing!
Thanks! I designed a ton of them to use 6mm ball bearings as added weight which I just press fit after printing.
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The whole thing crashed hard and lost my file.
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Yeah don’t get an ender and expect anything like this. Supposedly bambu labs can do what you want without a bunch of fuss but your gonna tinker on a budget (hobbiest) printer.
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I’m not sure about printing from phone on bambu but you need a computer to slice for my machines. (Prusa ones)
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