3D Printing

Dan Bolt · Issue 102, May/Jun 2018 · pp. 42–45

Products mentioned: Shapr3D, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Flip Snoot Pro, Subsee 5+, Aquatica AE-M1, 3DQuickPrinting.com, Stratasys 1200 SE, BlazeWear heated vest

Perhaps the only up-side to a long, wet, windy and (as it turned out) very snowy winter in the south-west of the UK, is that it gives the idle mind time to wander off in directions it might not otherwise have found itself. These past few months haven’t been the best for diving opportunities, so I decided to pick up on a few projects I’d been meaning to look into for some time. The most interesting of these was to set about designing & 3D printing some new parts for my camera setup. Nothing vital, but some parts that would make my underwater photography just that bit easier. Home-made projects in the underwater photographic world are nothing new, and indeed there are many fine people out there all contributing to self-help forums and sharing their knowledge. I’ve never been one to use forums and prefer to find these things out the hard way… trial and error. I find it much more fun that wa…