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title: "Pupple rebooted"
date: "2026-09-11"
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[_Pupple_](/blog/2008-01-19-pupple) is a concept car I designed when I was 14, winning the Outstanding Design Award in the [2008 Michelin Challenge Design](http://web.archive.org/web/20080220024248/www.michelinchallengedesign.com/MCD_2008/Site/mcd_gallery_2008/mcd_2008_gallery_d14.asp).

By the way, I also updated the older blog post with some more original renderings from 2007 to 2008.

:: Old Pupple blog post /blog/2008-01-19-pupple

I remade it! Completely made by hand with Rhinoceros 3D in 2022 (this needs to be said because right now it's also quite trivial to remake this simple shape using AI).

Here are the renderings with Cycles:

![Pupples](https://i.dllu.net/pupple2_e10b439021fccacf.png)

![Pupples](https://i.dllu.net/pupple3_2df6a15e7b34103c.png)

![Pupples](https://i.dllu.net/pupple4_3515466a1986266b.png)

![Pupples](https://i.dllu.net/pupple5_a27e4b58e25a794c.png)

## 3D printed

I also 3D printed it in January 2023!
It has nice ball bearings.

![Early exploded view showing how it fits together (I changed the wheels later)](https://i.dllu.net/image(1)_6a1b6d9609db45cc.png)

![Printing it with Ankermake M5](https://i.dllu.net/IMG_4342_71c11235e2350f14.jpg)

![Printed body](https://i.dllu.net/IMG_4359_8108a8dc07fc46ce.jpg)

![Test fit for the wheels after sanding the body a bit](https://i.dllu.net/IMG_4463_d0674ad89b35823e.jpg)

![Rolling smoothly with ball bearings](pupple-roll.mp4)

![Spray painting it orange](https://i.dllu.net/IMG_4543_3932bba9a9180550.jpg)

![Finished product](https://i.dllu.net/IMG_4584_8da4b832f1400962.jpg)

![Finished product](https://i.dllu.net/817A6879-97FC-483C-A45B-42B59144B83E-94474-000010D842C51004_d681767ce9b4128b.jpg)

I was too lazy to ever paint the front and rear lights to white and red as originally intended.
It doesn't have the gimballed interior.

Compared with the expected glossy finish, I did a bad job of spray painting evenly. Oh well!

![Expected result](https://i.dllu.net/image(2)_1cf2b9bce05e9702.png)

## Pupple with the babby

![Babby looking at the Pupple](https://i.dllu.net/2025-04-11-11-01-31_DSCF5420_197319aaff3ac6194f0303bda958fa43f595a568_a1471a08dfcde9ab.jpg)

![Babby looking at the Pupple on top of my 3D printed flatbed vehicle with the same wheel design.](https://i.dllu.net/2025-04-18-13-05-15_DSCF5658_e8fcf7e79c3249bf49607f3399817e0c5551cfcf_3759a3778d0c2a0b.jpg)

One day it disintegrated so we threw it away.

![The wheels fell off](https://i.dllu.net/IMG_0780_26f15d32f3b16b47.jpg)