I started my adventure with ants this week, and I loved the idea of Test Tube nest from Wakooshi, so I designed similar nest compatible with OpenFormicaria.
Dimensions:
I tested fit of CV1 version with OpenFormicaria Portal and everything aligns nicely (Printed on PLA with 0.6mm nozzle and 0.3mm layer height).
If my ant colony will grow to big for this nest, then I plan to print open formicaria nest and use this as a feeding station with:
For connectors and different modules please refer to original Schemen OpenFormicaria upload.
Note: Due to height limitation this nest dont have heating cable slot - I will create second version on the future with heating cable slot.
Please let me know in comments if you have any questions or you have any design change ideas. Please remember that this is still BETA/WIP version.
Thanks.
The author remixed this model.