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.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    20 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.socialEnglish
      2·
      17 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.

      • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        Those are expensive… just a quick search on aliexpress and I found 50 whistles for 5€ including lanyards.

        /edit: free shipping if you go over 10€, so 100 whistles.

        • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Not only is that still more expensive than printing, you have to wait a week to ship instead of waking up to a print bed full of them

          • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            You are right. You can beat the prices on alibaba though. Then you could even get metal ones for 11 cents a piece.