So, last night, feeling inspired by
@lqdsnddist 's fine craftsmanship, I spent a couple hours playing around with Tinkercad and built a quick 3D model of a FC Extension for printing... spent some time designing supports and tapers inside. The plan was to print it out, drill out the correct holes, then wire it all up.
ATTACHED is 3D MODEL if anyone wants to improve upon this or try a print.
With six points, I'm figuring four switches (in the same spacing as FC-12, plus room at the top for two potentiometers. I use two expression pedals, so have two open expression ports... was thinking of doing something like
@2112 with easy footpedal dial access for delay time and feedback.
Here's some renders: (below is the attached model, if anyone else wants to take this design further or try and get better results than me.)
Last night, I que'd up a print on my 3D printer in white ABS (I don't have any black currently) It all started off great! (but don't they all
I watched over it for about an hour, and then headed off to bed. I woke up this morning, excited to see the progress!!... and... drum roll....
FAIL!! Ugghh.. Every time I try and leave a more complex, or larger print overnight, something like this happens... so frustrating. It appears I've got two issues here: 1. The ABS is cooling/warping/bending upward from the print surface. 2. For some reason, the whole print seems to have gotten offset by about a half an inch part way through. The first issue seems like maybe it can be fixed with putting glue on the print surface? The second issue, I have no idea what happened... the machine completely lost track of one coordinate. At my printer's speed it took 8 hours to make this 1/4 finished pinstrosity. So frustrating. I can already tell this is gonna take more time and effort than I have to spare right now.
Anyways, maybe I'll try it again. I think the whole print will take my printer about 30 hours though... and based on previous experience, its likely this will end up taking multiple prints to get it right (at least on my printer) Does anyone know of a print-on-demand type of company where single or short runs can be made for not ridiculous cost? I'm thinking that may be a better route.
ATTACHED is the 3D Model (zipped in STL and OBJ format), in case anyone wants to play around with it, improve upon it, or try and print it out. I'd buy one of these if anyone has luck. If printing with hollow/infill interior, just make sure that you set a bottom solid and top solid of at least a 1/4 inch, so the top will be solid and you have something to screw a bottom plate into. There may be other things that need fixing/improvements too. This was going to be my test print before ordering some black ABS and doing a final... now, I'm not sure I've got the time and patience to follow through with it... at ~30hrs per print, with a high chance of failure or need to make adjustments, just not sure I can tackle this right now with my other obligations.