[Emily The Engineer] needed a 3D printing venture, so naturally, she determined to print a working bathroom. Take a look at the colourful contraption within the video under. At the beginning, we thought making it watertight is likely to be a bit tough, which proved to be an issue. Nevertheless, some cautious work with sealing and soldering irons did permit her to make a working flushable bathroom.
Mercifully, we don’t get to see the system in precise use, and, so far as we will inform, she by no means really related it to the plumbing in her house. Nevertheless it did fill from a backyard hose, shut itself off, and flush 3D printer waste, bathroom paper, and different materials out of its drain. It doesn’t seem that the designs have been made public, however since one thing of this measurement would possible take a whole lot of print hours to finish, we aren’t positive anybody would actually need to do that anyway.
Nevertheless, a number of the methods may come in useful in case you are engaged on one thing that has to deal with water. If you happen to do replicate this for precise use, contemplate that many 3D printed plastics aren’t thought-about food-safe as a result of you possibly can’t adequately clear the little ridges from the layer strains. If you happen to had been actually utilizing this for its meant function, cleansing can be a excessive precedence.
In the direction of the top, the over-engineering bug hit, and also you get to see an add-on bidet, armrests, and even cell casters. A enjoyable venture, even when a bit impractical. As an artwork set up, although, we’ve undoubtedly seen worse.
A cell bathroom is a novel thought, proper? Um — perhaps not. If [Emily] does a second model, we’d counsel making the TP roll holder heated.