ACL 3d printed bubble machines?

[darylc]

Bubbles are by far the most popular thing in my display. The 'fobble' machines I've been using to date are super unreliable for the price https://djcity.com.au/product/beamz-sb2000-led-smoke-bubble-machine/ I've had 2 die, one that just churns up a mess in it's tank so far, and one that is working well so far.

I was thinking, they are pretty simple, and it should be doable to 3d print them, add a motor and a fan etc

I've been toying with the idea of designing & making my own, so I could have more, smaller units, safer (low voltage), perhaps with auto bubble liquid refilling and maybe an option to plumb a smoke machine into the back of them to do the smoke filled bubbles. Make a nice modular stackable unit.

There are some 3d designs floating around, not sure how relevant they might end up being

Thingiverse - The community for Open Hardware

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Thingiverse - The community for Open Hardware

Thingiverse - The community for Open Hardware

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Thingiverse - The community for Open Hardware

Thingiverse - The community for Open Hardware

www.thingiverse.com

Does anyone have any interest in working on such a project? 3d design, prototyping, testing etc?

Daryl

 

[Pavle]

Happy to support where I can @darylc
I’ve got my own printer, but also access to a couple of options at work including a resin printer (commercial sized unit).

from a design / cad perspective, I don’t know much, but I can validate and get some assistance via colleagues who use it for their job. I work in manufacturing.

 

[burnt]

i very much like to be part of the support team

 

[BooY]

Happy to setup a fusion team for design work, and can cnc / laser parts for testing.

 

[samber]

Happy to be part of the testing of the machine.

 

[bpratt]

yep, my new SB2000 has one of the bubble wands stop spinning already, so will be looking at this project for next year.

 

[thewanderingpine]

I've got a 3d printer and would be interested in testing at least. I'm not sure my design skills are really up to scratch for it.

 

[BAZMick]

Happy to help out where I can.

 

[Zuseleets]

My son will happily test them

 

[BAZMick]

My son will happily test them

My daughter will too!

 

[drakky]

Happy to help out where I can , I have a 3d printer not a lot of skills in design though

 

[Dreamin]

Happy to help, have 2 3D printers, and some Fusion 360 experience (although I'm just about to move over to FreeCAD). Looks like a great project. I thought about adding bubbles but the units people have seem to stop working so I was thinking along the same lines.

 

[LawrenceDriveLights]

Interesting approach here (was shared in Holiday Think Tank)

View: https://www.facebook.com/1095716435/posts/10220712930868576/

 

[Jarrad33]

These were massive at my display too. Happy to help with this project. I dont know how much help ill be ( still working on my 3D printer to get it working right)

 

[BAZMick]

If the tin was baked beans we'd have 2 sources of wind for the bubbles