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3D Printing Sex Toys
- d33 5y agoHm, reminds me of something: http://dildo-generator.com/ http://dildo-generator.com/ Thus the question: what exactly is novel about the approach here?
- app4soft 5y agoMethod of 3D printing use in manufacturing soft surface solid things from silicone.
- ddingus 5y agoYes, and useful in many contexts. What a great technique! Other methods, such as solvent mists and such, can be toxic and or dangerous. And doing all that costs a little time, space and money. Not a huge deal, but given how simple and cheap this is...
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y agoWhy does it have to be novel? Maybe it’s just well presented instructions that work?
- BillieRuben 5y agoI hadn't seen the beeswax smoothing done anywhere else, so I felt I had to share, hence the article. But yea, I dunno why it should have to be novel.. But hey, haters will attempt to find literally anything they can to try and cut you down. I've unfortunately learned this well in my time producing content.
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y agoEven if it was something you read somewhere else, I often find that if you’re deep into something you’re pulling ideas together that a beginner would not think of at first or simply be unable to google the right words. So thanks for a well put together article. Please do a more SFW version. How am I even going to explain where I learned this? Hahaha.
- BillieRuben 5y agoYou'll just have to be brave. :) Sex is a healthy and important part of life.
- genewitch 5y agoAnd toys take so much pressure off everyone involved, as well. As an aside I made a clamshell thing that can hold three cellphone vibrate motors and wiring with whatever the free web browser stl site is and published...
- d33 5y agoSorry to have come across as a hater. To be honest I can't remember the exact reason I asked why there's anything novel about this - might have been some wording I found either in the title or in the excerpt, but I can't seem to find it anymore. I might have misread it.
- BillieRuben 5y agothe bees wax to smooth it instantly and painlessly.
- tacon 5y agohttps://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sex&type=things&sort=relevant https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sex&type=things&sort=re... >No results found for sex. Please try another search or upload your own design. Yeah, sure!
- sebazzz 5y agoThingiverse word filter is case sensitive. Try again.
- pixl97 5y agoWhy in the world would they have a case sensitive search.
- linsomniac 5y agoClearly you are not familiar with Thingiverse. Their slogan seems to be "Why fix it if it's broke?"
- ravenstine 5y agoYeah pagination and back button are so broken they must believe those are features and not bugs.
- sebazzz 5y agoThe search is not case sensitive, only the word filter is.
- yorwba 5y agoAdd "toy" https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sextoy&type=things&sort=relevant https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sextoy&type=things&sort...
- tacon 5y agoWow! They aren't as prudish as it first appears.
- kneel 5y agoHer name is Billie Ruben, interesting choice.
- blowski 5y ago...because? I'm not sure what you mean.
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- boomskats 5y agoMight be insinuating that whoever named her Billie had a jaundice fetish? edit: the other answer is a way better answer
- hlieberman 5y agoI think it's a reference to bilirubin[1], a compound used in the liver for breaking down red blood cells. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilirubin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilirubin
- BillieRuben 5y agosorta yes: It's a reference to my teddy bear (Billy Rubin) who I've had all my life. He was named after I made my mum's bilirubin wonky in the womb, my parents have a great sense of humor. A few years ago I wanted to study medicine, but I knew we would miss my income, so what's a girl to do to make easy money while studying? ... Porn of course! So when I made my porn accounts I used Billie, the name was so familiar and it had a good alignment with my goals. But my porn went unexpectedly viral and I kinda got overwhelmed by that. And in the mean time I took up 3D printing, and that's how I ended up moderating the largest 3D printing community on earth under the username BillieRubenCamGirl. lol. I ended up meeting lotsa doctors because of the name (doctors love puns as much as I do it seems) and decided through talking with them I didn't want to be a dr after all. Ended up starting a double degree in two other STEM fields. I still have the teddy, he sleeps on my bed every night.
- crobertsbmw 5y ago> So traditionally you'd have to print a blank and smooth it (with loads of manual sanding and buffing), and then cast a silicone mould around it, add a mold release ($$$) and THEN (finally!) cast your actual sex toy. The process is here to print the negative and then do a thin layer of beeswax inside to smooth the layer lines from the print. I haven’t done either method but would like to try it out soon. I’ll probably stick to figurines instead of sex toys though..
- ddingus 5y agoOr, depending on the polymer, smoothing can be done chemically. This is simple, cheap and clean by comparison. I have the same inclination to try it too. I think it's brilliant.
- BillieRuben 5y agoThanks!
- ddingus 5y agoYou are welcome. I love it when we can share process info like you did. Who knows what people my think of or do?
- SamBam 5y agoShe mentions that it loses a fair bit of surface details, so good for largish organic things, but maybe not so good for miniatures?
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- WediBlino 5y agoIf you're planning to make figurines you're better off with a resin printer (as opposed to filament).
- InvaderFizz 5y agoNot interested in her specific application, but good info none the less about how to do reusable and fast 3D printed silicon molds with smooth surfaces. It suffers a loss of detail, but that acceptability depends entirely on your intended application.
- john_yaya 5y agoAnother technique is to print in ABS and then give it an acetone vapor bath - you preserve details much better, but setting all that up is a pain and a little dangerous.
- BillieRuben 5y agoAlso you end up with gooey ABS to leech VOCs into your toy. :/ I really worry about that method.
- Causality1 5y agoI have questions. If you're doing it all yourself why do you need to go to a silicone shop and "talk to the experts about your needs"? Why tell a beginner to use 3D Builder or Meshmixer when you could do it in ninety seconds in Tinkercad? Why would you slice it in Chitubox to get the volume when your original modeling program or regular slicer would give you that info? On what printer is 0.25mm a step-integer layer height? Finally, is this really any better than printing your dildo and using a $35 clone-a-willy kit?
- the-dude 5y agoFrom the Guidelines : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
- BillieRuben 5y agohey thank you for saying this, I also though the tone was pretty off.
- Causality1 5y agoThat's not a shallow dismissal. I don't understand some of these choices and I want to know why they were made. I want to know why I'm wrong.
- the-dude 5y agoAllmost all your 'questions' are closed questions and include your assumed preference. They are not really questions. The tone is belittleing ( is that a word? )
- h2odragon 5y agoI disagree with all your assessments. I think specific, discuss-able questions like this lead to educational answers. Asking questions about something isn't disrespectful.
- dTal 5y agoThe core of this technique is the use of beeswax to act as both a filler/smoothing agent and mould release. A clever hack - but I'm confused by some things: - the assertion that 3d printed materials are not body safe; PLA (the most common 3d printing material) is nontoxic and used for utensils (although agreed that the layer lines are a hygiene hazard) - the description of the "traditional" method as printing a positive shape, then casting a negative in silicone, and then casting a positive also in silicone (with release agent, presumably because silicone bonds to itself). Why would you not just print a negative directly - as indeed she later does? Is it because she considers the concave surface difficult to sand smooth? - Why is release agent "$$$"? There are a variety of extremely cheap household items that work as release agent, notably dish soap. - Pouring 100C beeswax into a print. This is well above the glass point of PLA. She doesn't say what material she's printing with, which may explain the earlier remark about not being body safe. - The need for any sort of release agent. Silicone does not bond to thermoplastic, at all. She's not casting silicone in silicone, so what's the problem?
- h2odragon 5y agoI wouldn't fear a PLA thing first use; but cleaning it thoroughly enough to re-use is going to be a challenge without special effort applied to finishing it after printing. Beeswax temp: Thermal mass of the print is probably high enough that it sucks the heat out of the wax before melting much surface feature. in this case, smoothing bumps is beneficial.
- lostlogin 5y agoBeeswax melts at about 65 degrees centigrade. Going higher than that discolours it and if you go very hot, when it sets it cracks. These things would seem unlikely to be an issue when using it more like paint.
- Freak_NL 5y ago> […] presumably because silicone bonds to itself […] Silicone absolutely loves silicone. If you pour silicone into a silicone mould you end up with one piece of silicone — which now includes the mould. So a barrier is absolutely essential.
- convolvatron 5y agothis is totally off topic. but where did she get those scissors that are in the video at the end - they are gorgeous. never thought i'd have scissor envy
- Levitz 5y agoGod knows what is the actual model, but googling for "Stork scissors" yields a lot of results.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y agoI think they look more like unicorn scissors like https://hiyahiyanorthamerica.shptron.com/p/hiyahiya-rainbow-scissors-unicorn?pp=8 https://hiyahiyanorthamerica.shptron.com/p/hiyahiya-rainbow-...
- BillieRuben 5y agoaren't they great? I got them at Spotlight here in Australia but I've since seen them on aliexpress too. :)
- xor99 5y agoThe author highlights a good consideration that its not just the filament (e.g. pla) but also the printing process (e.g. hotend materials and bowden tubes) that may effect the body safety / biocompatibility.
- drummer 5y agoWhy go through so much trouble when you can easily find a man who would love to lend you his dick? Oh right, sexual suppression.
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- throwaway387235 5y agoI think 3D-printed silicone would be useful for making a condom-like sleeve with fluid channels, so that males can use a diaper more reliably.
- linsomniac 5y agoYou can go a long way with just 3D printing a mould in PLA and then just filling it with silicone. I've done some parts this way, and haven't felt the need to use mould release for either the silicone from the mould, or the resulting glass reinforced epoxy parts from the silicone. Not for body use in my case. I modeled some plastic parts as a meta-mould to make a mould for some parts I wanted to make.
- BillieRuben 5y agoyeah but silicone will pick up microscopic details, so you will retain the grooves from your print doing it that way, which retain moisture, which gives bacteria a chance to grow.
- linsomniac 5y agoIndeed, and that is a very clever use for the wax. Seems like you might be able to reduce the loss of detail by having a warm mold, as long as it doesn't warp the mold. Might also be fun to experiment with the opposite side: 3D print the mold and use it directly, then dip that in silicone to coat it and eliminate the artifacts that way. Plus then you could have the outer layer be a softer composition, like an overmolding, which might give an interesting feel.
- BillieRuben 5y agoIt would warp the mould. It doesn't lose much detail, the coating is about a half a millimetre thick. It just won't show up with like a linen texture or something. Body safe silicone is very thick, you'll have a very hard time getting an even coating.
- ahefner 5y agoI'm not judging, but that is an amusingly non-human looking phallus that she has crafted.
- BillieRuben 5y agoI already have a great human dick I get to play with. A dildo would be a poor substitute for him.
- fennecfoxy 5y agoThe market for nonhuman sex toys is huge, mostly driven by the furry community: bad dragon, primal hardwere, weredog etc.
- 4g 5y agoIn my experience using beeswax in contact with platinum cure silicons will cause the silicone not to set properly. For the record the molds were for a different purpose.
- BillieRuben 5y agoWhen using 100% pure beeswax, it seems to be an issue with just Smooth On Dragon Skin. Is that what you used? I've added a note to the article about it. I've also had a few folk think they were using pure bees wax, but noticed when they poked around on the label after that it wasn't actually, it's often mixed with other oils and waxes.
- 4g 5y agoI was using smooth-on ecoflex, the wax was bought from a reputable seller. The result was a sticky uncured expensive mess.
- BillieRuben 5y agoyea, seems like it's a smooth on thing, unfortunately.
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- howolduis 5y agowhy is this shitpost on the first page?
- BillieRuben 5y agowow, rude. The guidelines for this site state to be kind and not snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- howolduis 5y agoI think pornographic content is banned too
- mrlonglong 5y agoWhat an excellent idea, this way you make it perfectly fit in, and noone knows you have it. It's all private.
- BillieRuben 5y agoI don't understand your meaning.
- axegon_ 5y agoI envy you.
- Shadonototra 5y agothis shit can't be healthy there is a reason why sextoys that are sold are using medical grade materials
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- BillieRuben 5y agoActually most sex toys are sold as novelty use items specifically to get around medical device laws. It's a whole terrible issue. With regard to my article, I specifically talk about using the right silicones in it. There's no need for this level of snark.
- Shadonototra 5y agoyou are right, my comment was unnecessary, i should have only mentioned the importance of choosing right materials, i apologies
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- PostOnce 5y agoIt's mildly hilarious to me that the phallus depicted herein is non-human, absolutely no one has mentioned it, and we're all just discussing the engineering. The Alabama legislature must be having a fit. I bought a 3D printer for under $200 a year ago, and it has been the absolute best investment I have made in years, and doubly so. It would have been worth it as an educational tool alone, I have learned so much (and so quickly) about CAD and mechanical engineering in general. It inspired me to buy books and hardware and poke at things. On top of that, it is also practical. I have printed parts for things for less money and in less time than it would take to go get from the hardware or auto parts store. Car wouldn't pass inspection without seatbelt cover thing? 3D printed. (Don't worry, it's a decorative plastic part, not a safety-critical part...) That alone paid for the cost of the printer. I'm making electromechanical devices and the corresponding software now, for no dollars, at home, with no help and very few tools. It's amazing, the possibilities! $2 Arduino + plastic + software + minor components = ??? What a time to be alive.
- ofrzeta 5y agoWhat printer did you buy?
- drzoltar 5y agoCould you recommend a beginner 3D-printer?
- BillieRuben 5y agoWhat do you want to make? What's your budget? How handy are you?
- hackarimoo 5y agoSpeaking of budget, it'd probably be possible to save quite a lot of money on silicone by using a different, cheaper material as the "core" of the toy. As long as the surface isn't exposed, it doesn't matter if it's sterile or not, all it needs is to be sufficiently durable and flexible for your needs.
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- kyleee 5y agoIs that a horse cock?
- BillieRuben 5y agoNo. It's just a made up one. My boyfriend modeled it for me. I made it a bit thinner and smaller though. Dude is a bit ambitious for me.
- kyleee 5y agoInteresting; the stepped shaft for some reason is reminiscent for me of a horse cock, but I'm not an animal cock expert
- sedivy94 5y agoCasually 3D printing a dog penis.
- BillieRuben 5y agoDunno what dogs you've been looking at but you should take them to a vet. Lol
- goldenchrome 5y agoUnnecessarily attention seeking content
- BillieRuben 5y agoUnnecessarily snarky comment (which btw, is against the rules of this site).
- fennecfoxy 5y agoThe furry world has been 3d printing sex toys for a very long time now. Bad Dragon is still better quality overall, but you pay for it. She's also not added a flared base to it, which with her equipment probably isn't an issue but still a nice touch for completion's sake, especially if she's going to share the file.
- BillieRuben 5y agoIn the article I explain how to go from print to safe dildo very easily and quickly using a technique I haven't seen anywhere else. With this technique I have made toys that legit are on par with the bad dragon dildos I own. I compare them in the article. I also mention adding a base if you're going to use it for anal play, so I'm not sure why you felt the need to assert my article wasn't "complete".