Haha, I have the same problem. Wake up, take the phone, check whether something interesting happened, see 245 versions of a weird car, put the phone aside, continue sleeping OR find an interesting topic and don’t go back to sleep. 
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For me its so I have to get up to turn the alarm off. If I have it in reach from the bed I will turn the alarm off and never know it lol. Or never remember it anyways
HIJACK ALERT!
I finished upgrading the MK4 to “S” yesterday, and since @Tokoloshe has been hassling me to play with some 70° overhangs, and I’d already started on an idea for the phone holder I thought I’d just go a bit silly.
Why not, I thought, stick your $2000 phone in a cradle that holds a $5 Ikea charger, complete with analogue amplifier. (I don’t care if it doesn’t work, I have the choice of a couple of blue tooth speakers and the phone talks directly to my hearing aids anyway).
I was going to print without supports - and I think it will do it, but I chickened out in the end and plonked in one lonely little organic support in for giggles, and while I could print it in four hours at .28 layer heights, that would finish at around 12:30 am, so why not, I thought, see what .1mm layers look like? If it doesn’t topple over while I’m sleeping, it will be finished for breakfast! 
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Love it. Make the amplifier multi material in gold and reap those meters!
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Looks awesome!
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Hehe, thanks! I’m really chuffed about this one because I am learning that useless dust collecting objects can be fun! 
I don’t think I’ll be making a career out of making copies of action figures, but there’s another spool of filament in the Bank of Prusameters so that’s nice. They used to send out actual filament, but I think once they learned how expensive postage to Australia is they had a better idea!
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Wow, that’s awesome! I know that’s at least twice that @bitingmidge has won first place, and I know at least one other time he won either 2nd or 3rd. Peter, you are the man. How many times have you won so far?
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It’s actually quite fun when wheels can move. Of course, it would be even more interesting if you’re willing to install a toy electric motor inside.
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What’s oddly interesting about that phone charger car thing I did is if you glue the rims but not the tires, the tires can actually still spin. Since the rims don’t spin, it’s not as realistic, but still kinda neat.
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Thanks Doug, yes, I have been lucky enough to score a couple of runners-up - one was particularly disappointing as I had a real shot at first with it and it was for a Mk3s! That was the printed table and bookshelf system, which never really fired anyone else’s imagination, but I still think it has potential.
I don’t think you can take the judging too seriously though, it all seems to be a bit arbitrary, but I do tend to take the competitions seriously as often I do things that I wouldn’t do normally - this current one was just a test to see if I could print a coiled pipe with minimum support - I could! D
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