Alternative Waste Collection Box for Elegoo Centauri Carbon

So I told my sister I had been saving all of my printer's purge waste for over a year, with the intent of using it as packing material next time I send her something… she suggested that I put it in a Cologuard box and send it off, and the wheels in my head started turning :)

(Hopefully enough of you are old enough to “get” this, or at least have seen ads for the Cologuard product…)

So, this is “colorguard” (note the extra “r”), a simple alternate poop collection bin for the Elegoo Centauri Carbon. While that machine itself is not multi-color capable as of the time of this post, it's still a fun machine to use it on since it can easily be visible from the right-hand side.

See my YouTube video about this project here:

I have included several files. There are two parts that can be merged in the slicer (the 3mf has this already done in OrcaSlicer for the P1S). There is another variation with a single STL, with relief cuts for manual painting. Then there is a “debossed” version for single-color printing, allowing you to print it on the very machine it is intended to attach to.

It's just something I did as a goof really, but the video does explain a couple reasons I prefer to merge two models, representing the two colors, over “painting” in the slicer.

When printed “logo side down” definitely use TREE supports. When printed upright (single color), no supports are needed. See the description for each file to see which is best for you!

I also realize there are some VFAs in my single-color print pictured; I used a (cheap) filament I had not tuned… I'm pretty sure that can be easily tuned out with pressure advance, etc.

(I realize many who only have the Elegoo machine won't be able to use the multi-color versions… I plan to make an actual 2-piece variation where the blue part snaps into the box somehow… just haven't gotten to that yet - if someone beats me to it, that'd be fine as well).

Happy printing!