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I fix broken stuff for my house all the time. A 50 year old exterior crawlspace vent broke, and so I modeled up a new one and printed it in two pieces. Sliding
by sgtnoodle 4y ago
I fix broken stuff for my house all the time. A 50 year old exterior crawlspace vent broke, and so I modeled up a new one and printed it in two pieces. Sliding closet door brackets, folding table feet, pieces for light fixtures even.
I replaced a Hi-ho-cherry-o board game piece that got mistakenly thrown out.
I've made anti-tip brackets for furniture.
I made replacement nuts for a handed-down Fisher Price activity center.
I made a new encoder wheel for a Logitech force feedback joystick.
I made a sharpie egg plotter a few years ago. That's fun to pull out for Easter. I can run the same gcode files from previous years.
My half-decade hobby project has been to build a force feedback steering wheel from scratch. I started it before I got into 3D printing. Printing became my hobby for a few years, and last year I started over with primarily 3D printed components. I did some prototypes with cycloidal gearboxes, but it was a dead end. I designed a compact 2-stage planetary gearbox with an 80:1 reduction and printed it all out. I printed a bracket to mount all the electronics. Most recently, I printed a slick dashboard for it in wood PLA. It's pretty much done now, and looks pretty. It's a full size steering wheel, and can put out more torque than you would ever want.
Most recently, I printed out some custom play coins for my daughter's preschool. They have our dog's face on one side, and the school's name on the other.