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Colored pentapod puzzle
by matveymoo
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This puzzle was invented Stewart Coffin and described in his book “The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections”. There it is shown made out of wood. The first 3d printed version it seems was made around 2013 by Steve Nicholls and Simon Bexfield. Recently ThePuzzleGeek uploaded a free model and an OpenSCAD code here on Thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4150933/files). I used his OpenSCAD code, to generate pieces with lower clearances, so all uploaded models are remix from the original ThePuzzleGeek's design. You can also check his graphical solution of the puzzle and tune clearances and dimensions of the pieces using OpenSCAD.
After printing ThePuzzleGeek's version on my Prusa MINI I found clearance of 0.25mm to be too huge, so that it was difficult to assemble the pentapod, and after assembly the last piece had to be held in place by sticky tape. I found clearance between
This puzzle was invented Stewart Coffin and described in his book “The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections”. There it is shown made out of wood. The first 3d printed version it seems was made around 2013 by Steve Nicholls and Simon Bexfield. Recently ThePuzzleGeek uploaded a free model and an OpenSCAD code here on Thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4150933/files). I used his OpenSCAD code, to generate pieces with lower clearances, so all uploaded models are remix from the original ThePuzzleGeek's design. You can also check his graphical solution of the puzzle and tune clearances and dimensions of the pieces using OpenSCAD.
After printing ThePuzzleGeek's version on my Prusa MINI I found clearance of 0.25mm to be too huge, so that it was difficult to assemble the pentapod, and after assembly the last piece had to be held in place by sticky tape. I found clearance between
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