I was eating my breakfast this morning and decided I want to grow my avocado pit. I had one my dad grew me that lasted a long time that I had loved. I naturally went to grab some toothpicks to suspend it over a glass of water and then I remembered how I roll, so I designed and built a floating avocado pit raft while still in my pajamas 🙂
I didn’t go so far as to weigh and volume-displace the pit and sample a print to calculate density, and then optimize the design to keep the center of mass below the calculated water line… I just kinda eyeballed it … but my eye-chrometer is apparently finely tuned and here you go!
Breakfast:
Quick concept design:
3D CAD design:
3D printing setup:
3D printing:
And 3hrs later….
The next morning I did find it filled with water and sunk but I drilled a hole and drained and then coated the whole thing in wax and it has been perfect since!
