Zootopia Fox walk sign by Hyena_Of_Doom 3d model
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Zootopia Fox walk sign by Hyena_Of_Doom

Zootopia Fox walk sign by Hyena_Of_Doom

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Last crawled date: 2 years, 11 months ago
So, this is the fox walk sign from the Zootopia movie poster. why did I make this? for reasons, mostly fox related reasons and it makes a nice light.
Apart from the printed parts to make it you need:-
16 16mm M4 screws
6 6mm M4 screws
24 M4 Nuts
101 White 5mm LEDs
1 appropriate resistor for your LEDs (I used a pot so I could choose the brightness)
1 sheet of black ABS 3mm thick with "Pinseal Texture" 21cm by 17cm (I got this on ebay)
2 (optional) DC 2.1mm barrel jack sockets, you can just have a wire coming out of the holes but this lets you use a detachable 12VDC power supply, there are two so it can both sit on a desk with the cable coming out of the back or hang on a wall with the cable coming out of the bottom
some form of 12V DC supply
the filament I used was called "gold colour" or "golden yellow" its slightly darker than the standard yellow filament and is the correct colour for the item.
as for tools apart from a printer with at least a 22cmx14cm bed you'll need:-
Drill with 4.9mm bit (yes they do them, yes you need it for the 5mm LEDs to fit nicely 5mm drill is too loose)
soldering Iron and solder
Glue of some sort, glue gun works well
Acetone (optional, for one part you CAN use glue but the join is much better with acetone)
You will need to print two frame fronts, two frame backs one of each of the box halves and two of the spacers, everything is designed to print directly without any support but due to the size it will take a long time for most parts and precautions need to be made to prevent splitting, curling and warping in whichever way you find works for your printer.
the frame fronts have a thin lip around the inside that is there only for support while printing ans must be snapped off for use
to make the face plate print the drill drawing image out so the box on it is 21cm x 17 cm, cut the paper to size and stick to your ABS sheet. you then need to drill out each of the dots, I recommend using an awl to mark each dot centre then removing the paper and drilling the holes first with a 1mm drill then placing a new blank piece of paper on the front to prevent scratching then duck taping the whole piece face down onto a piece of scrap wood and drilling the holes again from the back this time with successively bigger drills till you reach the 4.9mm (I used three different sizes) I used a pillar drill to do this (I took the piece into work and used one there over my lunch break, my co-workers are now confused as to why there is now a piece of scrap wood with a fox symbol drilled into it! one of them found it in the scrap box and brought it round the office to show everyone!) but if your really careful to make the holes vertical then a hand drill could be used. next you need to fit an LED into each hole and solder them all together (this is very tedious!) I arranged them with 4 in series in each parallel string as mine have a voltage of 2.8V so 4 together can be run off a standard 12V supply, you will need to work out the best arrangement for your LEDs yourself bearing in mind the voltage of your supply and the voltage of your LEDs REMEMBER TO GET THE LEDS THE RIGHT WAY ROUND WHEN SOLDERING THEM!!!
most of the rest of the parts are easily assembled with screws and nuts, which all press into nut shaped holes first (if yours don't quite fit you may need to file a bit)and you should refer to the picture or the sketchup file in the .zip if you can't work out how they go together. however the frame fronts need to be glued together as these would have ideally been one piece if that was printable the best way I found to do this if your printing in ABS is to brush each face with acetone then pressing them together, clamp them in place and leave overnight and if you lined them up correctly you will have an almost invisible strong join (I recommend you sand the faces first to they are definitely flat).
the only other part to do is to glue the DC jacks into the two holes in the back box, I used a glue gun.

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