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From: Adam Mayer <phooky_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Toasting the 3D Printer
To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss_at_lists.hackerspaces.org>
It's an old RepRap tradition dating back to at least 2007, referenced here:
http://reprap.org/wiki/ItemsMade
I'm pretty sure that a shotglass was the second object printed on the
prototype cupcake. (The first was a dodecahedron.)
-a
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Stewart Dickson <mathartspd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Makerspace Urbana has a SoliDoodle http://www.solidoodle.com
> http://makerspaceurbana.org
> http://www.facebook.com/groups/118240874874433
>
> During the meeting(s) we had to plan how to get the machine set up and
> begin printing objects on it, it was mentioned that...
>
> A tradition exists within Hackerspaces that, after the Calibration
> Pyramid is printed,
> the next object to build is a shot glass - Or, preferably one glass
> per person in attendance -
> And a toast is drunk to the 3D printer using glasses that it printed.
>
> Can anyone confirm this tradition and say whether it is documented anywhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Stewart Dickson
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