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  • Chipbytex64@awesome.garden
    Sep 1, 2026, 4:35 AM

    I’ve also gotten some Jessie Beige 500, which is supposedly a color match for the Amiga 500. So some of these will be in the proper beige. :D

    A spool of Jessie Premium PLA Beige #500, a very beige 3D printer filament.
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  • Chipbytex64@awesome.garden
    Sep 2, 2026, 3:53 AM

    One of the other things I got is a “transition roll”. For a little less than a regular roll (not enough less IMO), you get a reject roll during a color changeover. This one is mostly clear/natural, then it seems to turn translucent green. Gonna print some Amiga video connectors with it and see how they look.

    Interestingly, this one claims a temperature range of 220-235C, where the beige’s lower end was 200C. Printed Solid says they make it in-house, so I assume this is all the same formula. I wonder if the beige was just mis-marked.

    A spool of filament on the printer, which is a clear slowly transitioning into a vivid transparent green.
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  • Chipbytex64@awesome.garden
    Sep 2, 2026, 4:46 AM

    Okay, yeah, I like that. And it printed with no drama at 225C. If it’s backlit, you can kinda see the contact in there.

    Three quarters view of the 23-pin housing printed with transparent filament. It’s more of a diffuse translucent plastic than anything you’d call transparent.
    View looking down the holes of the housing, which are clean.
    A backlit shot of the housing with one contact installed, which is kind of visible inside the housing because it’s blocking the light.
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  • Chipbytex64@awesome.garden
    Sep 2, 2026, 4:53 PM

    You know what this reminds me of? The clear stuff Doozers used for construction in Fraggle Rock.

    The Doozers in Fraggle Rock, building towers and bridges out of clear, translucent sticks.
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  • Chipbytex64@awesome.garden
    Sep 2, 2026, 5:00 PM

    And as I recall, those sticks were made out of vegetables because the Fraggles liked to eat them. You know what else is made of plant starch? PLA.

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  • Eli the Beardedelithebearded@fed.qaz.red
    Sep 2, 2026, 7:54 PM

    @bytex64

    Sugar is made from vegetables and can be used in a 3D printer. To get it nice and clear like that is tricky. The Doozer structures would need sugar heated to hard crack with no air bubbles and rapidly cooled after extrusion to keep the shape.

    Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made several iterations of a sugar 3D printer which they called "candyfab", using a fused accretion approach that is decidedly not clear

    candyfab.org/

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