GFP Ribbon Model | NIH 3D Print Exchange

Ribbon model without scaffold, with LED and button battery.

Ribbon model hot off the print bed with scaffold.

GFP Ribbon model with green LED and button battery inside.

Reference Model

Printed at 2.5x scale (104.4 mm x 84.6 mm x 132.1 mm) using a Printrbot Simple Metal and the Cura software package. Support structure included a raft and the "touching buildplate" support structure with 20% support fill. Model infill was15%. This was a roughly 10 hour print job (~21m, 62g of material). Remaining settings were default.

If you want to mimic the green luminescence of the protein you can insert a green LED attached to a button battery. In my case I used a 3V watch battery to power a 5mm, 2.1 V, 30mA green LED. Both can be had at Radioshack for six or seven dollars.