Since everyone seems to be all about space programs, here's a very silly joke device from 50 years back: The Zlotnian Calculator, "Official Digital Calculator of the Zlotnian Space Program"
While it was a joke, it was made by a very serious surveying instrument company, the Slope Indicator Company of Seattle, WA.
more info: https://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/SpecialSubjects/Zlotnian_Calculator/zlotnian.htm
re-created: https://www.printables.com/model/1672286-the-zlotnian-calculator-reproduction
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Allowing for political changes over the years, the current location of Zlotnia is Uzhhorod in Ukraine (where there is a big gas pipe supplying much of Europe).
I wonder if someone from Slope Indicator was originally from there?
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that makes sense - whoever did it had the geography of Eastern Europe in the map spot on, but it would have also made sense to pick an area many km from where your family still lived, in case the Soviet authorities lacked a sense of humour..
@vik okay, now it's done:
The Zlotnian Calculator (reproduction) — https://www.printables.com/model/1672286-the-zlotnian-calculator-reproduction
I wouldn't normally print detailed stuff in PETG, but it was in the printer, so it's what I got.
I even fitted the optional memory function!
By 'eck, OpenSCAD's nightly's Manifold mode is quick. This was about 90 seconds to render, while regular OpenSCAD is 40 minutes (and 3.4 GB RAM) in with no end in sight
@Beatpoet13 it's definitely plastic: look at the pictures on the site.
Use this in a fight, you get all you deserve
@scruss Love this.
But, maybe I’m missing something, why are holes #3 and #2 that way round? They seem reversed to me?
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