This is my entry into the current Makerworld Hiking Gadget design contest. It’s my design of a Bagnold Solar Compass, invented by Major (later Colonel) Ralph Bagnold in the 1930s.
The only issue with this sort of compass is needing to know the exact azimuth (angle from true north) of the Sun. This was traditionally done with azimuth tables. Davis’s Azimuth Tables ran to hundreds of pages and was a pretty weighty tome to lug around! (You can actually still buy a copy on Amazon.)
I therefore wrote an app that can calculate the azimuth tables for anywhere on Earth, and for any time of year. You can then print out these two tables on a piece of A4 and then you’re good to go exploring.
The compass has a drawer in the base to store the gnomon and the printout of the tables.
Here’s how you use the thing once you have your tables
The files are available on Makerworld here:
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1332687-bagnold-s-solar-compass#profileId-1371339
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Total nostagia trip this week! These are my efforts for the latest Makerworld ‘Magic Trick’ themed contest. I was so into this stuff as a youngster, has been a lot of fun recreating, as 3D printable designs, stuff I played with years ago!
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1367289-dr-foster-s-magic-money-maker#profileId-1413130
This one is a lot of fun - and really quite a decent effect!
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1367288-nice-dice-close-up-dice-change-illusion#profileId-1413129
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Not the frame but the honeycomb inserts for my son’s bottle cap collection. 9 of them at 3.5 hours each.
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is that the honeycomb wall storage system?
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Completely surprised / overly-excited to learn today that my 3D design for the Bagnold Solar Compass (scroll up for full post) was chosen as one of the runners up in the Makerworld Hiking Gadget design competition. 
Am more surprised, and really pleased, that many of the winners (inc. first and second place) had not had many downloads. That speaks to me that it is not just a popularity contest and the judges do actually put some thought into it. But yeah - I would say that at this point!
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Cheers chap. Stoopidly chuffed. And a $40 gift card to boot. I’ll take that. 
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Well done 
Link for it please
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After years of catching my shins on the metal catches on my wheeled tool box( i made them to replace broken ones) i finally got round to cadding up some new ones and printing them off. Design was slightly off but sorted with a dremel as i wasn’t re printing them jyst for this.
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Recently treated myself to this bad boy. First thing I printed was the AMS riser.
Then I was struck by how easy everything was to assemble. Everything just…fit… If i had printed that on my Ender 3 it would have taken ages cleaning up joints and sanding stuff down.
Say what you will about Bambu, it prints everthing i throw at it with perfect presision anf flawless quality.
Forgive the state of my desk, I was in the middle of a large project.
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Great printer, I had the P1P for 2 weeks, sold it when my X1C arrived, and yes after my Ender they just work, I have the H2D now, brilliant printer
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Nice. My funds wont stretch that far.
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