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Graduate Brain Slug
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If you're graduating, doesn't your brain slug deserve at least some of the credit?
Here's a heavily tweaked version of [Brain Slug V2](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:33325) that has the following improvements:
* Separate-print graduation cap (mortar board), complete with antennae holes and hole and cavity for mounting a tassel
* Separate-print eye, which can easily be printed with the eyeball in black by changing filament at the appropriate layer -- and you can use different filament, such as the glow-in-the-dark filament I used here
* Hollowed-out body reduces weight and material use, improves how your little parasitic friend sits on your head
* An internal cross bar spanning the base provides an easy way to attach this slug to hair, etc., for example, by threading hair through or using rubber bands
I know Zarquon intended the antennae to be bent after printing, but if you do that before putting the cap on, you will not be able to put the cap on. Anyway, I think the st
Here's a heavily tweaked version of [Brain Slug V2](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:33325) that has the following improvements:
* Separate-print graduation cap (mortar board), complete with antennae holes and hole and cavity for mounting a tassel
* Separate-print eye, which can easily be printed with the eyeball in black by changing filament at the appropriate layer -- and you can use different filament, such as the glow-in-the-dark filament I used here
* Hollowed-out body reduces weight and material use, improves how your little parasitic friend sits on your head
* An internal cross bar spanning the base provides an easy way to attach this slug to hair, etc., for example, by threading hair through or using rubber bands
I know Zarquon intended the antennae to be bent after printing, but if you do that before putting the cap on, you will not be able to put the cap on. Anyway, I think the st
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