u/Ztaxas

EDIT @ 6:57 PM 06/28: We've done it you beautiful people, we filled the quotas for body braces! THANK YOU everyone who helped! Right now we are pivoting towards Neck Stabilizers and braces for PETS!

Makerworld for Neck Stabilizers

Google Drive with pet braces

EDIT FOR VISIBILITY: I've opened the Makerworld and Printables profiles for remixes to eliminate any potential bottlenecks I could have cause, please make sure to credit them properly!

Makers, on June 24, at around 6:30 PM, Venezuela was shaken to it’s foundations by 2 long, 7.1 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes 39 seconds apart which combined lasted over 3 minutes, ending with the earth growling like a lion.

it’s no secret that our government has plundered all our resources and we have almost no infrastructure to deal with this, the current unofficial tally is 63k reported missing, with 50k unaccounted for, but the number could be much higher because we have a lot of rural areas and places without power or communication.

The international community has thankfully sent a lot of aid towards our way, but logistics take time and the government are ACTIVELY hampering efforts for any international help to be effective, while almost everyone on the ground helping being regular civilians.

I’m not going to ask any monetary donations to any one person or foundation, instead, I ask for something only the maker community can do, and that is make things out of thin air.

A company here called Ostec3D gave away their files for 3D printed casts, they are printed using PLA and thermoforged around people’s body by softening it with warm water.

There are a lot of Venezuelans all around the world, for obvious reasons, who have set up aid centers where you can drop them off, if you have spare machines/material or want to help, ALL Venezuelans would appreciate it.

I myself have an H2D and have printed 5 casts already, but I’ve been without power since 10 AM.

Here are the relevant resources.

Ostec3D Instagram Account

Tony Montana’s Instagram account, he’s working with Ostec3D and aid companies to explain how you can help and with logistics

APNews Hub for Venezuela

Discord Server with more information

WhatsApp English Maker Group

Canva Board with aid centers around the world

Aid Hubs map

Original Google Drive with print files shared by Ostec3D

Print files for other useful things we need

Makerworld Profiles

Printables Profiles

To anyone that decides to help, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

So, I was exploring >!Cromville Castle!<, fuming at the fact that I can't reclaim it because it's so beautiful, when I noticed some diagonal arches in some recesses, knowing I'm not the only one to have use ceilings as railings I figured that's how they did it, but these were flush, now, I'm a perfectionist so I immediately started experiment to try and recreate them, and after playing with them for a bit, and while I didn't get to do flush shingles, I managed to get a transition into the wall.

You have to use the Castle blocks and ceiling tiles, the trick here, is to embed ONE of the ceiling tiles into the wall, that's it, the only caveats are that you'll need a double thick ceiling if you're building a floor above it, and sandwich the arch between walls to hide the shingles and border created between the block/ceiling tiles.