Overview of Our Filament Poop Derby Car for 3DPrintopia

Every year my sons and I team up to design some cars for the 3D Printed Derby at 3D Printopia (formerly the East Coast RepRap Festival). This year, one of our cars took advantage of some of the 3D Printed waste that comes from all the color changes the Bambu Labs A1 Mini has been making. The 3D Printing Community has been calling that waste “Filament Poop”, so we embarked on making a the “Filament Poop Mobile”.

I got to learn some new skills along the way – using Alumilite Amazing Mold Maker to make silicon molds out of 3D Prints (big hat tip to Uncle Jessy’s 3D Printed Molds for Casting 3D Prints! video).  We also worked with Alumilite Deep Pour Epoxy and learned to apply a thin layer of Alumilite Coating Epoxy on the piece to make it shine.

There were a lot of revisions along the way, including the name. A member of my household has a distaste for the word “poop”, so we rebranded to the “Number Two Mobile”. 🙂