About the rhythm egg
The designer made this for their daughter, who loved a friend's egg shaker, and put her name on it. It's a lovely first instrument: a sealed egg with rice inside that makes a soft "shh" when shaken.
To get the rice in, add a pause to the print. The supplied G-code already pauses about an hour in and moves the nozzle out of the way; pour in a little rice and resume. The model was made in Onshape and the link is on the page, so you can remix it with a different name.
What you'll need
Printed parts
- The egg
Bought parts
- A spoonful of rice
Tools
- Nothing
Build overview
Our own outline of the designer's notes. Follow the full instructions on the Printables page.
- Slice with a pause just before the top closes (the supplied G-code pauses after about an hour).
- Add rice when the printer pauses and moves the nozzle aside.
- Resume and let the print seal the egg.
Print settings
- Material: PLA
- Layer height: 0.2 mm
- Pause: Add a pause at the right layer for the rice
Photos
All photos: Andreas, from the design page on Printables, licensed CC0. We resized them and converted them to WebP, and used the first frame of animated images.