Sometimes a camera just needs a sock.
The Flock Sock is a slip on cover designed to help protect a Flock camera from the harmful radiation of the sun. Your city spent their very own hard earned tax dollars scattering these cameras everywhere to keep you safe, all it cost you was a little privacy. The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn.
I hope no one finds out that a class 3 laser is enough to burn the sensor rendering the camera inoperable.
Be careful about pointing a class 3 above the horizon. Pilots can see it if they are within a 8km radius.
Some heroes don’t wear capes, but if they did the cameras didn’t catch it!
Besides, he was with me at Bible Study at the time.
It’s not just the camera, you have to take out Bluetooth and Wi-Fi too, they can use both to track people.
So carry a hammer to smash tyranny?
Definitely don’t print that in PLA so it melts all over the camera in the sun. That’ll be awful to remove.
This is overblown. I’ve had a little watering can I printed for the kids sitting outside during these heat waves all summer and it hasn’t deformed at all. Slightly bleached from the sun, but same shape.
If you ever need to replace it, try with PETG. It holds up better in the elements
Doesn’t pla become brittle? And it takes a while? I printed out a plug for my motorcycle in PLA a couple years ago that I have been meaning to replace but it’s been just fine so far and it’s in the sun when I’m riding.
Doesn’t pla become brittle?
Maybe.
Eventually.
But but I’ve had PLA light shades and garden decorations out in the weather (direct sun, rain, freezing temperatures) for 3-4 years without any noticeable deterioration.
It melts at a lower temperature than other thermoplastics, but still not till closer to boiling water temperatures. If you put PLA in boiling water it’ll deform, whereas other plastics will still hold up at that temperature
Yeah exactly. It doesn’t turn into a sticky mess that would ruin a camera until around 170-190°C
You could hit it with a heat gun though
rocks are everywhere and they rhyme with flock so they’re natural besties.
Unless it’s a Faraday bag or something it’s not going to stop the signal tracking right? Might as well be a plastic bag.
Wrap with aluminum foil tape:
Make sure to wear gloves when applying so your hands don’t get sticky
A bit of super glue on the inside will help it fit nice and snug.
Spray foam insulation is easier to acquire, easier to apply, and more durable (i.e. it won’t be removed by pranksters wishing to expose the lens to harmful proximaster radiation)
Would be a better design if it was vase mode printable.
Most slicers can do that for you.
Only if its design allows and this one would be a issue.
Anybody in the Seattle area need me to print up a batch?
How ironic that it’s hosted at Makerworld, which is effectively a CCP platform for widespread surveillance and IP theft.
And a platform that requires login to download.
effectively a CCP platform for widespread surveillance and IP theft
source:
It’s run by Bambu Labs, a Chinese state-subsidised company that’s notorious for nudging users globally to let Internet-connected 3D printers map their home LANs and upload that info, plus name, address & other billing details, plus all their 3D models, to Chinese “cloud” servers where the CCP can siphon off any models useful for advancing Chinese industry.
They’re also notorious for letting Makerworld users rip off each others’ designs in flagrant violation of the design licenses. Look on Reddit or 3D printing forums and you’ll see tons of people complaining about this.
Bambu Labs also recently egregiously violated the AGPL by threatening a lawsuit against Pavel Jarczak, a hobbyist who found a perfectly legal workaround to reduce BL control over people’s printers. This was a big deal: the Software Freedom Conservancy, Louis Rossmann, and Gamers Nexus all pledged action.
Bambu Labs and Makerworld stand for dictatorship, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy.
If you support FOSS, user rights, and democracy, you really ought to boycott them.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/
Damn, I didn’t know all that. I only knew Bambu sucks, and I don’t use Makerworld at all anyway because they don’t let you download projects without making an account, and a lot of them require payment. Also, fuck bgcode format.
Literally if I can’t find it on either printables or thingiverse, then I either design it myself or I don’t print it
So no source at all for most of your claims. Thanks
thats definitely not what just happened there
I see no source for the claims you initially made. You made other claims then backed those.
You can’t “steal” IP. Ideas aren’t ownable.
Spoken like a plagiarism-happy AI tech bro, repackaging other people’s effort for profit.
In the context of IP, “theft” is an idiomatic way to say “infringement”. It’s bizarre of you to suggest it doesn’t exist: infringement law is quite well settled in most parts of the world.
IP doesn’t refer to “ideas”. It refers to creative works. If you’ve ever spent effortful hours/weeks/years:
- composing music
- recording music
- writing a novel, textbook, poem, teaching plan, essay, or a scientific paper
- painting a portrait
- etc
then you’ll know why the difference between “an idea” and a creative work is sometimes called “sweat of the brow”.
No, spoken like someone who has copyleft all my work, both hardware and software.
Fuck AI. And fuck copyright laws.
AI bros want to steal other people’s work and then copyright the output, and still sue others.
I’m saying you can’t steal other people’s ideas a and nobody should have the right to copyright anything. We are not the same.
spoken like someone who has copyleft all of my work… fuck copyright laws
You seem to be confusing copyleft with public domain.
They are not the same.
Copyleft licenses entirely rely on copyright law. In the words of the people who invented copyleft:
Copyleft is a way of using the copyright on the program. It doesn’t mean abandoning the copyright; in fact, doing so would make copyleft impossible. The “left” in “copyleft” is not a reference to the verb “to leave”—only to the direction which is the mirror image of “right.”
Public domain, OTOH, which is what you seem to be promoting, is a gift to AI tech bros, who want to behave as the middlemen described in the same article:
[IP] in the public domain, uncopyrighted … allows people to share [it], if they are so minded. But it also allows uncooperative people to convert [it] into proprietary [IP]. They can make changes, many or few, and distribute the result as a proprietary product. People who receive the [latter] do not have the freedom that the original author gave them; the middleman has stripped it away.
I’m not confusing it. I’m aware if it.
We built what we have within the framework of laws made for the purposes of capitalistic domination.
Ideally we’d eliminate copyright law and replace it with copyleft law. As of now, no copyleft laws exist
Ideally we’d eliminate copyright law and replace it with copyleft law
Fair enough, but it would still regulate what people can legally do with creative works. So, it would still be IP law - which a few comments ago you implied couldn’t/shouldn’t exist.
widespread surveillance
Every fucking corpo website is a platform for widespread surveillance. Best you can do is use a VPN and noscript.
and IP theft.
That part is based. Intellectual property, like most property, is theft.
Apropos then that it’s also deeply infected with “AI” designs that are shite to print (if they do), and with no sign they’re not allowing it. 🤔
