Adventures in plates (3D Printed)
I want to try and ride my softboot board with plates.
However, dropping $$$ on a power plate or gecko system is just not in the cards right now. What is? 3D printing!
Fire up the CAD, sketch up a snowboard, drop in some plates (3 degree cant, 27/9 front/back, 25mm rise)
Slice it up
Print in ABS
And 16 hours later we have this:
Which is totally unworkable! For some reason I placed the screw
Every alpine boarder I've ever met is probably diagnosable with an obsessive personality disorder, so just add OpenSCAD to your list... ;-)
For those w/o access to a 3D printer, there are online services that you can use to print your customized model. Shapeways is probably the most well known, but also tends to be rather expensive. 3DHubs is a collection of local geeks with printers who will print things for a price, and tends to be the least expensive option. One of @erazz's plates, via S
