Submitted 23 hours ago by AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world to 3dprinting@lemmy.world
There is a demand for locally printed whistles for communities where ICE is or forecast to be.
If you are interested in printing whistles for your area, search “ICE whistles [your area]”. You can use either your state or major nearby city. If you are interested in printing whistles, but can’t find anything, let me know and I can see if I can find a local org you can support.
No but I bought 500 to give out
I am very much of the opinion that ICE whistles should sound like those Aztec Death Whistles.
I just printed a few hundred and donated them to a local organization in town. A friend of mine is working with them and I asked if they wanted whistles and they were happy to get them.
You can buy plastic whistles crazy cheap on AliExpress. But yeah you can print them.
As a piggyback comment. I designed a reusable retractable protest sign handle that uses very little filament. It’s free. On printables, makerworld, and thingiverse.
Just search “protest handle” on the sites. Only one that exists as far as I know.
FREE model. And low filament use. Cost about $1 to print.
I will say in windy Chicago I did have 2 snap. But because of the way it’s made, I only had to reprint one piece and re-assemble.
They are of decent durability.
But a big sign and Chicago wind was a challenge to the design which I prioritized printing time and low filament use.
I’ve made about 8 total and none of those broke for other people using them or myself.
I’m planning on printing up quarter-page sheets on the importance your community plays in getting ICE to leave, and starting a Signal group for my neighborhood and including the QR code on there. Then printing a bunch of whistles and putting them with the flyers in mailboxes in my neighborhood.
I’ve printed a ton of these for a protest in the spring and they’re super loud: makerworld.com/models/502788?appSharePlatform=cop…
I printed a dozen of these and they’re fast and cheap but maybe not as loud as the other (they’re designed to print on their side): makerworld.com/models/2245044?appSharePlatform=co…
When I get home after the weekend I’m going to print these two to see if they’re louder or cheaper/faster to print (or both!). If they are I’ll use them for the above exercise.
Since the only ICE around here is in my freezer, no.
Nope
Triumph@fedia.io 22 hours ago
Printed ones are great - I'd never say not to. But cheap whistles bought in bulk are way less expensive.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 22 hours ago
Sadly it’s not just a question of expensive anymore, it’s also a question of whether they can track your purchases (they can) and whether those purchase records will eventually have ICE banging down your door in the middle of the night to have you disappeared for your seditious act of buying justice-obstructing terrorist whistles.
3d printing is not impossible to track either but it’s certainly a lot harder to track when you are using basic internet hygiene and money isn’t changing hands.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I don’t care if they track my purchase of whistles. There is nothing wrong or illegal.
Triumph@fedia.io 21 hours ago
Cash exists.
https://www.partycity.com/translucent-whistles-24ct-912860.html
Fondots@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I mean, we live in a time when 3d printed guns exist, I’m pretty sure having a 3d printer and ordering filament is probably about as likely to get you on a list as ordering some whistles
But whistles are readily available and cheap, without looking too hard I can get a dozen from them at target for less than $5 with lanyards. Leave your phone at home, pay cash, take a bus or park in the next shopping center over or wear a mask like you’re getting over a cold and a baseball cap and you’re about as anonymous as you can get.
Can probably get them even cheaper if you shop around a bit, if you have a party store around you I’ll bet you can get a bunch there for cheap as party favors for a children’s birthday party goody bag or whatever.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Printed whistles are like 4 cents each. I haven’t checked but I’d be surprised if you could buy them for cheaper than that. Also, I have so many points on Makerworld that filament is free
pageflight@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn’t more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It may end up being faster too.
rasterweb@fedia.io 12 hours ago
I did some math and the ones I printed probably came out cheaper than the online listing for 100 that a friend pointed me to.