Jellyfish Swimming - Mechanical Interactive Art

Jellyfish Swimming, a mechanical interactive art for the "Mechanical Marvels" contest.
Have this mesmerizing print on your desk or in your living room as a novelty decoration and a conversation piece.

No glue or extra parts needed, just print and play.

See all my designs on cults:
https://cults3d.com/en/users/jajaum3d/creations

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Printing Instructions

All files are in STL to print without any support and already in the best orientation to print.
Most parts can be printed with your standard 0.2mm layer config. In the pictures, they were printed using 3 walls and the new lightning infill for almost everything.
For the clear parts you can use the great tips on How To Print Glass
The tentacles must be printed in vase/spiral mode, to avoid the seam line, they have a custom easy-to-remove brim.

Parts grouped by the colors used in the pictures:

Pink (or your jellyfish chosen color)

Dome.stl
DomeRing.stl
CenterGear.stl
GearsBase.stl
8 x ExternalGear.stl
8 x ExternalTentacle.stl (vase/spiralmode)
4 x InternalGear.stl
4 x InternalTentacle.stl (vase/spiralmode)
Axle.stl - can be clear

Clear

DomeUnder.stl

Blue (or your base chosen color)

Base.stl
BaseLid.stl
CrankHandle.stl

Silver

CrankAxle.stl

Random color (these parts stay hidden)

CrankAxleGear.stl
CrankLock.stl
AxleBaseGear.stl
 

Assembling

Tips

• Check all the connections, screwing and gaps before assembling, the parts must play freely.
• For the gears use the seam line "aligned" on Prusa Slicer  and activate the option “hide Seam” on Cura, the gears work better this way. Other parts can have the seam aligned back.
• For the tentacles you can use the option to print them individually (sequential printing), I recommend print some extra because they can break easily.
• The dome does not need supports, it have some bridge but have a gap to compensate bad bridging.
• Don't use the elephant foot compensation on the dome and the dome ring or you will have some bed adhesion problems, actually all parts except the axles already have some compensation. But even the axles can handle a bit of pressure on the first layer.

Updated October 31, 2022

Increased the tentacles gap. If you were having problems making the tentacles fit, you should try these updated version.

Updated November 10, 2022

It was pointed to me the tentacles didn't slice correctly in vase/spiral mode on PrusaSlicer. Fixed and improved to be stronger.