{"id":1293,"date":"2019-05-26T22:09:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T03:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2022-06-26T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T21:24:19","slug":"week-21-2019-improving-your-space-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Week 21, 2019 – Improving your Space-Life through technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is well-known that I take my life as a professional imaginary spaceship pilot<\/em> a little too seriously. Like “4-point harness on my computer chair”<\/em> seriously. And while I certainly liked the old version of the harness, it was missing something; It was just a little too simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure I’ve talked about it before, so I’ll take a minute here before moving on… I was originally planning on making a 4 or 5-point harness from scratch, and actually designed my own cam-lock release mechanism<\/a>, but my 3D printer at the time simply wasn’t up to the task, and the prototype’s flimsiness really dissuaded me from the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a little while after this that I found a 4-point racing harness on eBay for under $30…cheap enough that I wouldn’t trust it with my life, but in my case, it’s just a prop. I replaced all the plain nylon webbing with proper seatbelt-weave webbing which looked much better, and added little pull straps in red. All the new stitching was also done in a contrasting mil-spec bonded nylon thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally I 3D printed a knob to go over the release lever…which required filing off the protruding lever, and drilling holes in the face of the cam lock plate. For the last added touch, I cut some paint-mask vinyl on my Silhouette Cameo 3, and used that to paint markings on the knob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It did the job<\/a> and I rather liked it, but now that I have the new printers, I wanted to give it another go. I recreated the original knob I had designed for a far earlier incarnation of the project and printed it in some bright red eSUN PLA+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think the results speak for themselves. 😏 At some point I’ll probably do it again, just to add the arrows back in as actual 3D printed inlays. Though I should probably also prime, sand, and paint it next time for an even more polished look…not that there’s anything wrong with the raw print…especially when viewed anything but up-close.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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