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.
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Printed ones are great - I’d never say not to. But cheap whistles bought in bulk are way less expensive.
Sadly it’s not just a question of expensive anymore, it’s also a question of whether they can track your purchases (they can) and whether those purchase records will eventually have ICE banging down your door in the middle of the night to have you disappeared for your seditious act of buying justice-obstructing terrorist whistles.
3d printing is not impossible to track either but it’s certainly a lot harder to track when you are using basic internet hygiene and money isn’t changing hands.
Counterpoint: Flock cameras also exist. Surveillance police state dystopia is already here and it’s spreading much faster than I think most people are prepared for, we have to take it seriously.
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
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.
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.
I’m planning on printing up quarter-page sheets on the importance your community plays in getting ICE to leave, and starting a Signal group for my neighborhood and including the QR code on there. Then printing a bunch of whistles and putting them with the flyers in mailboxes in my neighborhood.
I’ve printed a ton of these for a protest in the spring and they’re super loud: https://makerworld.com/models/502788?appSharePlatform=copy
I printed a dozen of these and they’re fast and cheap but maybe not as loud as the other (they’re designed to print on their side): https://makerworld.com/models/2245044?appSharePlatform=copy
When I get home after the weekend I’m going to print these two to see if they’re louder or cheaper/faster to print (or both!). If they are I’ll use them for the above exercise.
I have printed a few
I want to print some more and make little bags with a whistle and a zine in it and start taping them to utility poles around town
That is a great whistle, but way too much filament and print time compared to the ICE whistles that have been optimized for print speed, noise volume and size for easy carry.
Any links to the models?
I apologize for not getting back sooner.
Start here: https://linktr.ee/wa.whistles
No problem, thank you!