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The New Hotness

  • Hexagonal Chain Mail

    Everybody at the Squidwrench Show-n-Tell loved the chain mail. I printed up a sheet of Ablapo’s hexagonal chain mail before the show (because it takes forever) and it came out very nicely on the M2’s larger platform:

    Hexagonal Chain Mail - on platform
    Hexagonal Chain Mail – on platform

    The first layers sprinkle a bazillion little shapes all over the platform:

    Hexagonal Chain Mail - first layer
    Hexagonal Chain Mail – first layer

    It makes a nice doily for my desk lamp:

    Hexagonal Chain Mail - lamp doily
    Hexagonal Chain Mail – lamp doily

    The odd blue coloration must be an optical effect, because it’s not visible on the black PLA.