In this week's episode I test out the anycubic ultrabase on my CR 10 and
build this little LED flashlight that I created based on a design from
Thingiverse. I'll show you all the steps on today's Filament Friday. Filament
Friday is brought to every week by the generous donations of my patreon
supporters. The first step was to remove the glass base from my CR 10 which is
held in place by these four clips. Once those were off I could lift the glass
off and then bring in the antecubic ultrabase. It comes in a nice box with
foam on both sides although I only show one here. You just slide it off and then
the glass is ready to install. There's no sticky back on this one you just put it
in place and then clip it back on with the same clips you use to hold the glass
originally. It's 310 by 310 millimeters and fits perfectly. You can get these now
at amazon.com right here in the US with prime shipping for about $35. I'll put a link
to it in the description below. I found this LED lamp by user REigenmann
on Thingiverse. I love this little design and it is small for printing on a CR-10
but that's what I like about the CR-10, it can print small objects really well.
Because these are flat it's a great test of the anycubic ultrabase. I had to
modify it though, like I always do, so I brought it into Tinkercad and here's
some of the modifications that I did. I actually printed one out originally I
just didn't like the way it fit together so I brought in the two pieces that made
up this design and the first one, here's what I did is I added a bump to the
button and then I made the LED slot for the leads a little bit wider and grouped
that together so I had my first piece. The second piece I basically did the
same thing, made the slot a little wider for the LED to go in, it was just too
tight. And then I added another block to cut out for a resistor just in case I
ever want to put a resistor in this design. I have some other ideas for this
that I want to do some things with maybe ultraviolet light and stuff. So once I
had that, I grouped that together and I had part two. In his design he used a
piece of tape to insulate the battery from touching the leads.
I wanted an actual plastic piece so that's what this middle piece is, is my
design, I call it the insulator. So I took a slice from that part on the right and
it's only 0.8 millimeters thick and then I put this red block in here that's the
actual insulator that the LEDs go around. I made the holes a little bigger with
these bars and then I cut out where the LED went and then I grouped all these
together for a nice thin spacer to go between these two halves and those are
the three pieces that make up my little flashlight design. I exported them as a
single STL and I brought them in to simplify3d. You can see it takes a very
little space on the CR-10. Now this is a pretty easy design to slice I did it
on the CR-10 profile with PLA, medium settings which is a 0.2 layer
height on mine, 30% fill so layer height point two, three top and bottom layers
three perimeter shells, infill like I said 30%. Temperature wise I did 40
degrees in a bed and found it probably should have raised that and then I did
215 degrees I'm just using a standard PLA. Speed 60 millimeters per second and
this thing was ready to slice so I went back to the main screen click prepare to
print and it sliced really quickly said it was only 28 layers and I scrolled
through him it looked fine and then when I checked the build time it said 22
minutes to build this very very quick and 1.2 meters of plastic so very little
plastic. So I sent it off to my CR-10. Now this is actually the second print the
first print I printed it actually warped a little bit and that disappointed me
but then I didn't realize I had my heat settings from my original glass not just
ultrabase I should have probably raised the temperature about 10 degrees or 15
degrees instead I cheated I use a one swipe of glue stick and it turned out to
be way too much these things are so hard to get off I had to get a painter's
knife to scrape underneath him the last one just kind of popped off but I didn't
need that glue I should have just raised the temperature so my fault there. Once I
had the pieces off though I cleaned him up with a little bit of water and then I
started assembling and the spacer fit nicely right over the base just
like I wanted and now I had my insulator layer and then I slid the led with the
positive lead on the bottom and the negative lead on the top and then I just
pushed the LED into its slot and it fit nicely and snapped in place. The next
step was just to install the three volt cr2032 battery so it slides in and goes
underneath that lip I created and now it's keeping the top or the, yeah the
top LED lead off the battery and then the cover comes down and pinches in
place and goes over those pins. And they fit really tight I had a hard time
pushing it with my fingers and so I wanted to lock this and good so I got
out my channel locks and just crimped it and it worked beautifully it just
crimped right together and held so I did it at all four pins and once I had that
done this thing was solid it wasn't coming apart. So now I could just press
the button on the top and the LED lit up fine. So this was working exactly as I
hoped. After I did this I went to the circuit assemblies for Tinkercad and
realized this would be a perfect add-on three pieces that you snap together add a
battery and an LED and you got a working flashlight so Tinkercad if you're
listening I highly suggest you add this one to the circuit assemblies. I used a
super bright yellow LED and in the dark this thing really worked well I could
see my hand I mean it was complete dark other than this so it worked really well.
So overall I think this is a great little project teaches a little bit
about electronics and it's easy to print on any printer. If you like this type of
project check out these videos that are popping up and if you don't want to miss
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about the projects. That's it for this week I'll see you next time on Filament
Friday.