The Half Penny Board // 3D Printed Skateboard

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] this video is sponsored by audible bizza audible.com slash make anything to start your 30-day free trial today how's it going everyone its devin here with make anything and I'm pretty excited today because I just got back from the thrift store and I got this great haul I love going to thrift stores because it's the perfect place to find inspiration you can get your hands on all kinds of random things and if you do end up wanting anything it's usually pretty cheap so today I got these roller skate bottoms for bucks and I don't roller skate I never would have thought to get these but I found them at the thrift store and I realized that they would be perfect for making a little tiny 3d printed skateboard so what makes this perfect well for one thing when you're making a 3d printed skateboard usually people will run some steel beams or some kind of reinforcement through it because as strong as the plastic is you want it to be strong enough to hold up your weight well these they have a full metal bottom there's your reinforcement they've got holes to screw your board on top of this piece of metal that's taken care of it has a foot brake on the front but if we just flip this around and make this on the back you got a little break on the back of our skateboard and it's tiny it's got bearings it's got really good trucks I think these are like professional skates anyways this is perfect for making a skateboard it doesn't seem like it'll be too difficult and hopefully I'll have something really fun to ride after all this so let's scoot I don't know I was China let's do it let's make a little tiny skateboard the first thing I'll do is use my good old flatbed scanner to bring in a scan of the bottom of the skate and I can bring that into illustrator and trace it out to get a really perfect to scale outline of this bottom plate so I'll just use the pen tool here in Illustrator and I'll go around and trace this as precisely as I possibly can because I want to make a nice clean connection and then I'll also make sure to get the holes in there that way my bolts are perfectly aligned I'll copy that for the bottom and then I can take all of this and reflect it on to the other side to create my full skate I'll consolidate that into one shape and then we can start working on the actual design of the board itself I started out with a kind of fishtail shape and then just kept working on that and tweaked it until I ended up with something more similar to today's penny boards or even those really old banana boards from way back in the day you know this design actually is pretty similar to some of the earliest skateboards when they actually took rollerskates cut them in half and use those as the trucks for the skateboard but in my case I want to make a really tiny board so I don't have to do any of that I'm just gonna use this skate itself once I was happy with the overall shape of the board I started working on the little details and the design of the actual board so I created an outline around the board and around the holes for the bolts and then I decided to take them make anything logo and just turn that into a repeating pattern so that I could possibly use that for the design of the grip on this board I didn't want to add a grip tape to this board I just wanted the design of the board itself to have inherent grip enos so that's what this pattern will hopefully do I made a few variations changing the angle of the pattern and I was really happy with this third one so we're gonna put that there into place and I'm also just gonna throw them make anything logo right in the center as a kind of emblem because this is a make anything board I'm gonna go ahead and separate all these different details into individual DXF files that way it'll be a little bit more manageable when I bring it in to fusion 360 if you're in fusion I'm gonna start out by importing first the outline of the board and I'll go ahead and just extrude all that to determine the thickness of my board then I can go ahead and bring in the outline for the skate and then I'll put a little bit of an indent into my board so that will fit right into place and I'll also do some cutting from the top to make my emblem pop out and also to make space for my grip finally I'll bring in my grip pattern and I wanted to save that for last because it's really slow down my computer because it's a pretty complicated outline but I did manage to extrude that and I gave it a taper so that all the triangles come to a point and that should make it nice and grippy I used the combine functions in fusion 360 to merge that pattern with my board and now I have my grant a p-- finally I'll do some small details finalizing the size of the holes for the bolts to go through and I did that with the bolts already picked out and I also put some Phillips around the edge of the board just to make the whole thing look a little more thin and aerodynamic all right so there's prototype number one for my half penny board let's go ahead and export that as an STL and start printing it out here you can see me printing out the board on my CR 10s using gizmo dorks PE TG plastic and I figured ptg would be a good material for this board because it's really strong but it's also got a little bit of flexibility to it which should help make this thing a little more resilient I haven't actually printed too much with ptg in the past so I had to look up the rules and some people were saying you should print with the heated bed at eighty to a hundred degrees Celsius while others were saying fifty was fine and just to save some electricity I decided to start with fifty and carelessly I left that overnight without even waiting for the first layer to finish I was already pretty late and I was lazy and because of that I was greeted with this wonderful site in the morning so clearly the print didn't stick to the build plate and all night it just kept extruding and extruding and adding to this giant glob of plastic that wrapped itself all around my extruder and went all the way up inside of the mechanics so that was a pretty bad clog and luckily I was able to get most of the plastic off by just heating up the hot end and pulling it off but it was quite a mess and it also did take off the thermal insulation that's normally wrapped around the hot end without that thermal tape I couldn't get the nozzle temperature above 232 degrees Celsius but that turned out to be just enough to still print with my ptg this time around I started printing with some green make shaper ptg and I actually brought the build plate up to 100 degrees Celsius and made sure that it was sticking to the bill play and sure enough it did work better at this temperature and I was able to get a successful print you can see I'm printing this pretty dense it's a 90% infill and that's just to make it really sturdy and make sure that I can actually stand on top of this thing and hopefully not snap it in half partway through the print I decided to swap the materials just to get some multicolor action going so I switched back to that white PT G and started printing a few layers like that once the top grip pattern started showing through I switched back to the green material and that gave me this really cool contrast II to color pattern going on for the top of the board [Music] after the print is done there's only a bit of post-processing to do I printed with a raft to make sure that everything would stick down and so I had to remove that with my spatula once I remove that we've got our board and it looks pretty great and it's really stiff so it's pretty promising now let's go ahead and attach the skate as you can see it fits in there really perfectly and then I just had to go ahead and attach the four bolts to hold it into place all right this thing is looking really cool and I just want to make one last modification I left a little bit of extra length here on the tail just so that I could bend it up and give myself a little bit of a kicker so to do that I just use my heat gun here and I've got this block of wood to kind of block the heat from the rest of the board I don't want to be melting the wheels or the stopper but I just give this a good minute or two of heat until it became nice and pliable and then I was just able to press the tail down and give it that little Bend that I want which will help me keep my foot on the back of the board it was pretty easy to get that bend in there and looks good and it also has the additional benefit of annealing the plastic basically heating it up so that the layers melds together a little bit stronger that's it we're ready to go nothing left to do now but try it out [Music] [Applause] luckily I have enough experience with penny-size boards that I was able to ride this thing right off the bat although the very tiny size does make it a little bit trickier still I was able to ride on sidewalks on the street I was able to go up and down driveways so this thing is pretty solid I really just wanted the smallest board I could possibly ride to get around town and this thing seems to work pretty well it's really fun since I have two skates I decided to start working on prototype number two right off the bat this one I printed with filament ins iced green CPE material which is kind of a PDG alternative that's less smelly to print with and I really just like this color as well as you can see there's a t-shaped hole in the back and that's meant to work with this part that I printed out on my Azure Trax m200 and this is a little clip to go in my back pocket and with that it's super easy to just stick my board there and hang it from the back of my pants it actually works really well and even better when I moved it up to my waist line now that's what I call a super portable skateboard I love that little clip so much that I decided to make a second version to stick up on my wall so I went ahead and made a couple holes and screwed this thing into place and on top of this plate you can slot the same type of clip so now I can just throw my board on the wall and it's super easy to just grab and go [Music] [Music] usually you should expect to have to do a few iterations to get a design to work just how you want it but in this case things were working pretty perfectly right off the bat so I decided to kick it up a notch and try throwing on some 3d printed wheels these are actually from a super early video that I never put out because I came to the conclusion that 3d printed skate wheels aren't really feasible but I never wrote on these specific ones that are printed with filament UM's flex fil filament it's a flexible filament but it's also pretty stiff so it prints easily and when it's printed at a hundred percent infill like these wheels it's pretty rock hard so I figured why not give it a shot hey guys so I'm super excited to take these boards to the park and really put them to 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slash make anything or text make anything to 500 500 I just finished listening to change by design by tim brown the CEO of IDEO and in the book he does a really great job of explaining what design thinking is means and how it can lead to innovation at all levels of an organization or even in your own life i'm a big proponent of design thinking so I would definitely give that a listen and you can do it with your free trial if you just visit audible.com slash make anything or text make anything to 500 500 gonna try alright escape my skateboard get on my skateboard it'll be great to make the video it'll make the video get up [Music] it well I may not be a pro skater but these boards held up really well well until I tried to do a kickflip all right well one out of two that's not bad at all and actually the board snapping was totally my fault because I was a bit impatient with printing this and I only used a 30% infill when I really should have gone more solid so it's not too surprising but what did surprise me is the fact that these 3d printed wheels held up for as long as they did I mean they look pretty much as good as when they were printed minus some dirt that was super impressive since I snapped that board I decided to give the cpe material a second chance and I printed it on the a5 printer which was actually able to reach 250 degrees Celsius and I also printed it solid this time so this is gonna be way more sturdy once again I did the post prep and while I wasn't trying to bend the tail here I decided to run over all of it with the heat gun anyways just to give you the heat treatment and hopefully make it a bit stronger that way as well I'm not even sure if it's necessary since this one is printed at a hundred percent infill but I'll do whatever I can to make this thing stronger so it actually holds up this time so I just took that broken board off and swapped it out for my new one and boy do I love having a 3d printer just being able to print out a new board and swap it out just like that is so awesome all right there we go good as new and ready to get back on the street [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] alright guys that was a fun video to make and you just witnessed the creation of a halfpenny board I know this thing might look kind of ridiculous but come on you guys know I don't mind looking a little silly but also it's got some function because I've got a grocery store like a block away and I like to skate over there to do some quick shopping but then I end up having to carry my skateboard through the aisles the whole time I'm in there with this thing I can just hang it from my back pocket and I think that's pretty awesome if you agree give me a little thumbs up on the video I would much appreciate that and as always you can download the files for free and my mini Factory com I'll put the wheels up there too if you want to try those out so yeah that's it for today until next time I'm Devon this is make anything and don't forget to stay inspired [Music] [Music]

Channel: Make Anything

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Keywords: 3D printed, 3d printing, 3D print, 3d printer, make anything, penny board, 3D printed skateboard, 3D printed board, 3D print a skateboard, mini skateboard, smallest skateboard, skateboard, skate, old school skateboard, vintage skateboard, banana board, alva skateboard, braille, CHEAPEST PENNY BOARD ON AMAZON

Id: g265gENlv6Q

Length: 17min 57sec (1077 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 19 2018