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Well, almost. I didn't give myself enough tolerance in the cutout for the speaker and it doesn't fit well. On to v1.01!

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the very in depth response, I must confess I have zero knowledge in 3d printing and my comment was actually a joke about The Witness. Iit's a puzzle heavy video game, and one of those puzzles has you figuring the correct pattern on a screen, by noticing apple tree branches just like the one you printed

It looks like this lol

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lol, I see. Printer tuning is a very real struggle for some and it happens that tree supports are one of the things that you can run into.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds really cool! I wouldn't expect this kind of shape to be ideal for balancing