Kategorie: 3rd party

The company i work for http://www.wolffolins.com has a ’sit where you want‘ hot-desk policy, but how do you show people which desks are available? Easy, just download and printout these cute low poly trees, glue together and pop them on the desks – job done!

You can also choose the ‚blank‘ based versions and just print them as sweet little window trees

They could also make great ‚build‘ toys for children.

4 tree designs – each tree is split into 4 parts:
Pot (with additional ‚Hot desk‘ or blank base)
Soil
Trunk
Tree
Optional ‚fruit‘ to add a touch of colour

Printed in Faberdashery PLA

Print them at low res, low-ish infill, no supports needed.

Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER:
If using as a toy, Please, please keep small parts away from young children.
They could be a chocking hazard.

UPDATE: 290515
Added a ‚desk hottie‘ base – for that ’special‘ work colleague!
Tree_4_pot_hottie.stl

You need filament swatches for testing different colors and makes? You want to know the colors you have on spool at the moment?

Here are customizable filament swatches / tests, where you can change all the text using the thingiverse customizer (Press the button „Open in customizer“ above). This way you don’t have to print and stick any labels anymore.

You can customize:

• 3 lines of text (for make/type/color/printer settings for the material): upper, lower left, lower right
• By default, all kinds of test patterns are included in the swatch. This way you can easily see how well the filament printed. You can select how many round test pattern are included. You can check overhangs, bridging, pyramids, roundness, etc.
• There is a fourth text on the top side to indicate the material type quickly when the swatches are in their box. You can set this text using a drop-down box or a free text field, as requested by Sembazuru.
• Thickness progression of the ‚layers‘, defined as an array of numbers
• New: Wether the thickness steps numbers have include leading zeroes, trailing zeroes or nothing, as requested by sparkyman215 and Sembazuru
• Font, font size (font size can be set for the main text and the steps separately. Setting a font size to 0 removes the text), text line distance, wether the text is raised or embossed
• Size of the swatch
• Hole diameter, grooves, etc
• Wether to rotate the text on the steps, as requested by IllyStorm
• As default, „Pathway Gothic One“ font is selected for better readability. You can also check the V5 .stl files as font samples. The first line on each swatch is the fonts name. You can check if the text is still well readable after slicing these swatches all at once.

If you print a swatch, please share a picture using the „post a make“ button.
This way we can collect here filament print quality via pictures…

If you like it, please have a look at all my customizable creations. There are configurable-text-based creations, multi-line label, gadget display stand, sweeping name plate, bunting banner, customizable text box III, pyramid text, name plate, Customizable text box with lid and round text. Have also a look at my configurable pack of dogs, rabbits, reindeers and santas. There are also useful coat hangers and finger toys.
Just have a look at all my customizable creations.

And…

As they are, the swatches fit into the configurable box from Jaxel. You can see the box in the 2nd picture. The box shown is also added here as .STL. Thanks a lot for the design!

Insipration came from different swatch cards here on thingiverse, all attached in the „remixed from“ section, and they seem to all go back to the design from venegade. Thanks go out to all of the designers for the idea and the subsequent iterations!

Thanks go out to teruteru314 for supplying the same model as solidworks file (.sldprt) which is now also included here.
There are some bug fixes in version „S“, thanks to Lyl3t for the review.

Thanks!

Made this for my sis to hang her headphones. A lot of hangers on thingiverse are great and waste less filament, but I wanted to make her something special.
Printed at 0.12, 10% infill. No supports, most printers should handle the bridging on the notches for the screws, and I left room for some sagging.
Holds my big MDR-Z7s no problem, you could scale down if you have smaller cans. You can fix it to the wall with one or two screws, nails or some heavy duty double sided tape.

UPDATE: Fixed a problem that base was not completely flat.

[Note for those saying „do you have the old version“, or „tolerances are crap“. Follow the link below and you can make pretty much any version and adjust tolerances as much as you like.]

This is a multiple level maze puzzle box. i.e. you solve one puzzle, and find there is another, and maybe another, before you finally get to the middle and the prize.

Customise: https://www.me.uk/puzzlebox

Multiple parts often print better (and faster overall) if printed separately rather than all together, and you can change colours for each, which is a nice touch. No support needed.

Ideal for birthday/Christmas presents like cash or lottery tickets – or even a ring!

Examples here include a lottery ticket gift box, a box for pound coins, some useful boxes (e.g. for a ring, etc), and a number of test boxes to check the clearance works on your printer. Use the link above to make a random maze with your choice of settings (of which there are many).

If you like this, do click like even if downloading from www.me.uk

The example files here have been updated from time to time – see version.stl for date/time.

New Version (Christmas 2018)

The new version adds: maze inside and alternating version; text on end and side of box; helical mazes; grip on the base to make is easy to use; cleaner model with much faster render in OpenSCAD; many more controls; and, a simple web form to create mazes.

You can create a new, random, and customised Open SCAD file from https://www.me.uk/puzzlebox
Or make it yourself – the C code is in github https://github.com/revk/PuzzleBox

The possibilities are endless! Credit to my son, James, for the idea of taking my maze boxes one step further for multiple levels – well done.

P.S. Yes, there is one small loop near the end of the maze just for fun.

[Note, licence is creative commons ATTRIBUTION. A commercial licence is available if not using CCA, at £10 per print sold. If you are not attributing you are either breaking the law by using without a licence and so costing me the £10 I would get, or are agreeing to the commercial licence. Either way you owe me £10 a print, plus legal costs if I choose to sue you to get it. So ATTRIBUTE any usage of this model.]

This is a Hairy Lion. As the name says it is lion with hair.
This is a remix from Geoffro’s design Lion HD (no supports required).

UPDATE #2: I made about 3 times bigger version. It has a lot of hair and they are also very long.
Watch Joel Telling’s (3D Printing Nerd) video about it: https://youtu.be/OTXPU2P-ElE

UPDATE #1: I made 50% smaller version. It should only take about 1-2 hours to print. But you must be much more careful when cutting the hair. This model has much less hair, so if you break or pull out too much hair, there will be visible bald spots.

The hair is connected to sacrificial wall, which is removed afterwards.
(See picture: post_processing.jpg) You can also try hot water to form the hair. Anyway, be careful not to burn yourself.

There was a request to add a brim to sacrificial wall. So I made it: „Hairy_Lion_with_brim.STL“

This was printed with ABS, but it should also work with other materials. If you are having problems, adjust bridging settings in your slicer.

You can find dual extrusion version here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2050208

Nine different little low poly pumpkins ready to be printed for Halloween. Included are: Chompy, Slurpy, Crushy, Piercy, Slicey, Crunchy, Munchy, Smoochy and Squashy

They print quick without any support.

They can be stacked by snapping them together. LED lights can be put in them through the bottom.

Use single little pumpkins as decorations or stack them together then you can have them as a tower or hang them up.

Want to print them bigger and use a torch light with them? – Here is something for it: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1091056

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/TocoGamescom
All my Designs: http://www.thingiverse.com/Davision3d/designs/page:1 (sending a tip works now)

For my electronic projects I often need battery holders of various size and for different number of cells: single, multiple cells in parallel or in series, or serial lithium-ion type cells with connectors for balanced charging between the cells.

So the project here was to generate fully parametrized, printable battery holders for cylindrical cells of arbitrary size and number. The additional challenge for me was to have the battery sit firmly in the holder without the use of the metallic spring that is usually found at the minus pole. In this design the metallic spring is replaced by a flexible printed curled structure, which presses the contacts firmly to the battery. This plastic spring flexes about 1 – 2mm, which is just what’s needed to comfortably insert and remove the cells.

The contacts for the plus and minus pole can easily be made by a few windings of the uninsulated ends of the connecting wires. Each battery compartment contains are several holes to the outside as well ad to the neighboring compartments, through which connecting wires can be passed for easy configuring of parallel, serial or balanced-serial battery packs. Also, on the bottom of the case, there are longitudinal and traversal wire channels, which can be used for assing wires outside the case.

Given that the printed plastic spring needs to be flexible, ABS is the material of choice here. Also, I use a some „ABS slur“ (mixture of ABS and acetone) to cover and insulate the otherwise exposed outer part of the pole connectors.
In addition to the SCAD source file, I have added STL files for 1/2/3/4 cells of type AA, AAA, 18650(Li-Ion), as well as single cell versions for 18650P (protected Li-Ion), CR123A (aka 16340) and C (this one is untested yet, as I don’t have any C-cell around here).

Of course, you can also just use these battery holders without any wiring to serve as battery cases, for carrying your spare batteries around. But for this, you should also have a look at my battery caps…

Update 2014-09-17: Upon request of user wohenzhuce I have also added STL files for 26650 type LiFePo Cells. These are still untested. They were produced in OpenScad with the call:
flexbatter(n=n,l=65.7,d=26.4,hf=0.72,shd=3,eps=0.28);

Update 2015-04-10: Upon request of user h4wk3y I have now uploaded extra long versions (70mm) needed for some protected 18650 cells, these are named flexbatter18700xN.stl._

Update 2015-07-25: I just published a new version of this project which supports multi-cell compartments housing 2 or 3 cells in a row:

The episode in [ENGLISH]: http://www.mojoptix.com/?p=108
L’épisode en [FRANCAIS]: http://www.mojoptix.com/?p=75
Note: To see more inventions and contraptions (like this one ), suscribe to Mojoptix on Youtube !

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Update

For those who have trouble slicing the gnomon, I ran the files through netfabb and re-uploaded them as:
— Gnomon_Southern_NETFABBED.stl
— Gnomon_Northen_NETFABBED.stl
Let me know in the comments if they don’t still behave nicely with your slicer.

If you wish to print the gnomon in two halves :
— Gnomon_Northen_half_1_of_2.STL
— Gnomon_Northen_half_1_of_2.STL
They should fit on a 100×100 platform. (Thanks Zarlor for building these two files and fixing them ! )

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[ ENGLISH ]
Tadam !
A Sundial displaying the time inside its shadow, with actual digits ! There is a tiny bit of magic inside…

No batteries, no motor, no electronics… It’s all just a really super-fancy shadow show. The shape of the sundial has been mathematically designed to only let through the right sunrays at the right time/angle. This allows to display the actual time with sunlit digits inside the sundial’s shadow.

The sundial displays time (with actual digits !!) from 10:00 until 16:00, updating every 20 minutes.
You can precisely adjust the displayed time simply by rotating the gnomon (the magic box that displays time). So you can even adjust for Daylight Saving Time.

You’ll also need :
— an (empty !) jam jar
— 3x M6 screws, flat head, length = 20 mm
— 1x M6 screw, flat head, length = 50 mm
— 4x M6 nuts
— 4x M6 washer, outside diameter < 14mm

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[ FRANCAIS ]
Tadam !
Un cadran solaire qui affiche l’heure dans son ombre avec des vrais chiffres ! C’est un peu magique.

Sans piles, sans moteur, sans électronique, etc… Il s’agit juste d’ombres chinoises très compliquées. La forme du cadran solaire a mathématiquement conçue pour laisser passer uniquement les bons rayons du soleil au bon moment/angle. Cela permet d’afficher l’heure en chiffres lumineux à l’intérieur de l’ombre du cadran solaire.

Le cadran solaire affiche l’heure (avec des vrais chiffres !!) de 10:00 a 16:00 toutes les 20 minutes.
On peut ajuster l’heure en tournant le gnomon (la boite magique qui affiche l’heure) sur lui même, par exemple pour passer de l’heure d’été à l’heure d’hivers.

Vous aurez aussi besoin de :
— un pot de confiture (vide !)
— 3x vis de taille M6, a tete plate, longueur = 20 mm
— 1x vis de taille M6, a tete plate, longueur = 50 mm
— 4x boulon de taille M6
— 4x rondelles de taille M6 diametre exterieur < 14mm

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Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGVb82uCnA

Model of Amazon´s Echo Dot 3
For your own developments around the Echo Dot 3 I put here a template of the Dot as Sketchup file. You´ll find the skf-File in download section „Thing-Files“

Click in here too:
DeckenHalterung
Ständer
WandHalterung

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Modell von Amazon´s Echo Dot 3
Für Ihre eigenen Entwicklungen rund um den Echo Dot 3 stelle ich hier ein Modell des Dot als Sketchup-Datei zur Verfügung. Sie finden die SKF-Datei im Downloadbereich „Thing-Files“

Siehe auch:
DeckenHalterung
Ständer
WandHalterung