Dinosaur Cage with Valentine Puns

I give out Valentine’s Day Valentines each year trying to be somewhat creative to my nieces and nephews and caregivers. This year I printed a bunch of 3d printed knitted dinosaurs and will place them in a miniature laser cut cage with a UV ink printed sign on the front with some dino-mite humor! This is my prototype to test slot fit.

I modeled the design in Fusion 360.

I printed the mini signs on my new eufyMake E1 UV printer on 1/16" draftboard. I used the snapmarks feature to get perfect alignment on the Glowforge.

You can find this file here: Etsy / My Website

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Awesome! How are you liking your EufyMake? Mine hasn’t been delivered yet :-(. I just have the laminator and rotary!!

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It’s been really great, but I’ve stopped printing for a bit. I don’t want to run out of ink in my first week, so I’m scaling back. Sounds like replacement cartridges won’t be shipping until March. I’ll just be selective on my projects until then. I have printed some really cool things so far, so this will be an amazing tool.

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These are so cute. I am sure your nieces, nephews and caregivers will be very happy to get your valentine wishes.

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I can’t wait. I hope they get the ink issues all ironed out!

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Very nice…that eufy make is tempting!

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What a great combination of maker tools! I am jealous! I hope to get a UV resin printer like that some day.

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That’s adorable. The “knit” on your triceratops is ab fab too!

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Adorable! Quite a nice gift for Valentine’s I love the “knit” designs. I did a pencil holder with a knit Stitch for our granddaughter … so cute!

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I love, love, love the dinosaur! And those sayings are great! My favorite is the “Stegosaurme + Stegosauryou = Stegosaurus.” :slight_smile:

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It’s a-roar-able!

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