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<\/a><\/p>\nI’m probably not going to see many of these for real, but I thought I would like to own one, even just a small one….<\/p>\n
So here is how I created my\u00a0“Totally Unofficial Micro Bee In The City”<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n Having taken a look at the basic geometry of the real Bee in the City from photographs I decided to create my own 3D model approximation of it using my favourite 3D Modelling Applcation… OpenSCAD!<\/p>\n The model is (mostly) built of primitives, almost exclusively spheres, stretched and squashed and sliced to the various dimensions required – only the abdomen with its slot-strips, and the wings with a very specific profile were built using an X\/Y approach.<\/p>\n Having got to the point where I had a decent shrunken down facsimile of the real thing, today 3rd August I decided to print the model using my CEL Robox 3D-Printer – nearly four years old now, this fantastic piece of kit has never let me down.\u00a0 The closest you can get to a Commodity Fit-and-Forget 3D Printer, mine has received literally NO maintenance since the day I bought it – I follow a simple regime of a wipe of the printbed with IPA before every print.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n