Hello friends,
my local fifth graders are doing a series of astronomy lessons which uses this mythical artifact as a focus. The class teacher thought it would be neat to try and 3D print the artifact and let the kids actually handle it vs the print version they are working with now.
The teacher got about this far before hitting issues that prevented printing. I have done a bit of 3-D printing on my ender so I gave it a try but I wasn't able to get even as far as the teacher did by the look of it.
Is anyone aware of any foss tools that might facilitate this or have time to help get us to a printable .stl from these 2d views? It's not supposed to be very thick just a sort of broken disc thingy. TIA!
Do you know the Nebra Sky Disk? This one has a nice science trail. The book about it is awesome. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc
no I did not, I have never heard of sky discs I assumed the artifact was just something the teacher made up. I sent them the link to this post so they will probably see this thank you for sharing!
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LOL
Hete is the book about the entire story. Well written by a journalist and a scientist. This Sky Disc rewrote many assumptions of the bronze age in Europa.
E.g. Still they don’t know how they could figure out the stars as it is too cloudy in Europe for those observations. They assume a very ancient trade connection to the Middle East where those star images where known already. And some of the gold for the star decorations where from England and Turkey (if I remember correctly) Worth a read :)
https://www.amazon.com/Sky-Disc-of-Nebra-Plaque/dp/B00A4N7QLE