This parametric OpenSCAD file will help you make a simple and easy-to-build printer case. The build output includes a full cut list and includes an estimate of the enclosed volume so you can choose an appropriate ventilation system, if desired.

The default units are in inches, but you can use whatever you want because this won't actually get printed.

As an example, the cut list output looks something like this:
ECHO: "Cut grooves in frame structure to 0.1875 deep."
ECHO: "Cut windows a hair small so fit is not too snug."
ECHO: "Frame components are organized Left, Right, Bottom, Top."
ECHO: "Enclosure is about 2.20269 cubic feet."
ECHO: "Table", [16, 19, 0.75]
ECHO: "Front Frame", [15.75, 0.75, 0.75], "", "Back"
ECHO: "Front Frame", [15.75, 0.75, 0.75], "", "Back"
ECHO: "Front Frame", [14.5, 0.75, 0.75], "", ""
...(etc.)...

This is a CNC rocking chair. The bed is made from a single sheet of 18mm Birch plywood and the sides from another sheet of 12mm Birch ply. I was working with "living hinges" made from zig-zag cut wood and wanted to see if a whole chair could be made that was flexible enough to bend around the curved form but strong enough to support a person. The clamping joint and "T" peg make it super sturdy once it is assembled. It is really comfy to sit on and makes a wonderful lounger for watching TV, reading or just hanging out. An extra bonus - the lower bed is at pet-level. The family dog, cat or raccoon (some families are bigger than others!) can enjoy the ride with you!

This is a complete ukulele. The tuning pegs are up to you, and can be found cheaply on ebay.

A wooden, laser cut iPad case. inspired by the wonderful folding wood booklets by SNIJLAB thingiverse.com/thing:12707

This is a device used for testing middle school students' structures. It is an improvement on putting a structure across two sawhorses and hanging weights from the structure!

I've used it for "Jinx Wood" bridge structures as well as sheet metal structures.

Check out my TeacherHann YouTube Channel - youtube.com/teacherhann - for videos of my students projects being tested to destruction!

Kudos to my colleague, fellow middle school Design and Technology teacher Gord McGill for allowing me to replicate his idea!

This is a bench top organizer for small spools of wire or solder. I have a ton of them all over the place and the get unruly. This is my attempt at organizing them all in the same place.

The 'axles' are offset in hopes of preventing the spools from colliding with one another.

The top of the box has a crude metric ruler without markings. I'd love to make this better.

This box is cut from 3mm plywood. I use Luau wood because a giant sheet of it costs $10 and they cut it down into laserbed sized pieces. (What is with people uploading designs that don't include material width? Or filetypes of proprietary software for that matter?).

The Axle holes are 5mm diameter to accomodate this 5mm(ish) aluminum stock I picked up at the local hobby shop for $2.

This is all rendered from openscad so please give me feedback on material width/axle size and I will glady provide the dxf's.

A marble maze made from wood (1.1" x 0.20" Pine).

An easily replaceable air filter for rewrap enclosures.

How do you replace a 1970s Style sliding door handle that broke at 2pm today!
Aha make use of SNIJLAB's bendy Plywood I used 6mm Plywood for this the drawing and making was done just within two hours.

I needed a small-diameter nozzle for my shop vac so I could suck goop out of the nooks and crannies found around my shop.

This nozzle fits on a fairly common after-market shop vac hose with an outside diameter of 45mm. It's available here:

woodcraft.com/Product/2000914/2780/Mr-Nozzle-Shop-VacDust-Collector-Tool-Kit.aspx

The nozzle gives you an 8mm vacuum aperture which moves a lot of air but is reasonably small.

This design requires a printer build envelope at least 80mm high.

This is a fork
You can Eat with it
You can stab things with it
You can launch it with a device made to launch such objects


This thing has changed the world, can you?

I had an old Apple iSight camera and decided to make it useful again as a nanny-cam for my Thing-O-Matic. You can clip it to your ToM and it will give you a view of your work remotely when hooked up to a computer.

A sentence clock, full box edition with LED mounting layer. (German words edition)

Example: ES IST ZEHN NACH HALB DREI UHR
Which means: IT IS TWENTY TO FOUR OCLOCK

So the LEDs illuminate the words and you see the time as sentence.

I used 4mm plywood and 3mm LEDs. Holes for mounting and the power cable is included.

Alex just send me a modification, so I added "v2" to the new files.

A servo motor construction for light and movement fun. The name Hex-a-Fnord is based on the hexagonal base structure and 6 moodlights called "fnordlichtmini" (see wiki.lochraster.org/wiki/Fnordlichtmini for details)

My intention was to have a light-installaton with moving wings holding moodlights. The wings themselves are controlled via servo motors.
So we have 6 servo connectors... perfect for an arduino with 6 PWM-outputs. And if you use LEDs or, as I did, the fnordlichtmini, then the light can be controlled by an serial bus system.

Oh by the way: Of cause you can move each wing separately.
This thing however just describes the construction. I used 4mm plywood, which is recommended in this edition. A laser cutter is helpful but not mandatory.

Electronics and holes for light are not included, just add it to your needs.

This 2D model is suitable for cutting the parts of a replacement wheel for a trolley bag (wheelie bag). The wheels of different bags are probably not standardized, thus you may need to adjust the inner and outer limits of the model.

The attached SVG model is suitable for the following dimensions:
- outer diameter: 64mm
- hole diameter (center): 22mm
- hole diameter (both sides): 12.5mm
- width of center disc: 9,5mm
- width of both side discs: 6,5mm

Slight differences of the outer diameter or the width of the discs should pose no problem. But you should take care, that the inner diameter of the two outer discs fits to your trolley.

This is the frame and candlelift for a raw hide lantern used by LARPers and Reenactors. Intended material is wood.

The included OpenSCAD script allows for parametrized construction of the necessary parts, just change the constants in the top part to your liking.

This instance is 25cm high and 20cm wide, and intended for the standard european tea light candle.

I will modify this thing after seein how well it works in practice, most probably with some nice handle for the candle lift. You might want to add a handle to the top part so that you can carry or hang the lamp.

Hanging file foldes trolley, folded when not in use, will be reflected as a decorative accent to hang on the wall.It´s a prototype made in the LABoral FabLab Gijon, Spain.
Carrito para soporte de carpetas de archivos de tipo colgante. Es un prototipo realizado en el FabLab de LABoral en Gijón.

I had some difficulties to get the wade screw ready properly. I tried the tap-method but was not successful so I decided to try the teeth version. This "thing" will show a method to get a desired amount of teeth into the bolt and how to divide the surface of this screw into exactly same sized teeth.

You will find all about the wade extruder here:
reprap.org/wiki/Wade's_Geared_Extruder

...and here on Thingiverse:
thingiverse.com/thing:1794

Can actually also be used on other similar extruder designs.

For various small Dremel and Proxxon tools, we needed a box to keep it. So this is a gcode-only-example done at the cologne fablab "http://dingfabrik.de".

This is a crude but working violin made in an 8-bit, pixelated style. Here's some videos of the thing in action: moonmilk.com/2011/04/17/8-bit-violin-played-by-real-fiddlers/
flickr.com/photos/ranjit/6884531615/

(It was on Make:Live on March 9th, 2011: makezine.com/live/)

It's laser-cut from 1/8" plywood (front and back faces), 3/16" plywood (bridge), and 1/4" solid wood (everything else). It's a messy design, and not fully refined, because I really didn't know what I was doing when I made it.

If you make any substantial changes or improvements to this design that result in a working instrument, please publish your version of the design to Thingiverse and tell me about it. And in general, if you make and/or perform with an instrument based on this design, I'd like to hear about it.

The document "8bit violin scratchpad" contains bitmap images I found on the net, and I don't claim any copyright on those.

For my wedding in October 2011 I asked my fiance if I could build something, she only asked that it not be tacky. This is what I came up with. It's a modular folding photo booth. I designed the model in Sketchup, programmed it in Autoit, and gave it a nice Glados voice. I needed an input device and I decided to make a serial comm button. I took a 555 timer and made it generate a 4.8kHz square wave. At 9600 baud this translates to UUUUUUUU plus one garbage character when the button is released. for now it only uses a Webcam to take photos but hopefully I will be find a deal on a canon power shot sometime in the next months to upgrade it. Since the printouts are resized, the small webcam resolution isn't noticable, however it won't be suitable if i wanted to incorporate the singles frames into a album. I'm working on some upgrades using the twitter api so I can have the booth update me whenever it is taking photos. This way I can tell it's status and share photos easier.


Here is a video of it's assembly and the software.

youtube.com/watch?v=jNGg821bC7c

This is my second DIY 3 axis cnc machine. It is designed in solidworks 2008 (~50-60 hours) and built mostly out of MDF. Provided are all the source files and drawings in both solidworks and edrawing formats. This machine is possible to make with just some hand & power tools, but I used my first cnc machine to make most of the smaller parts.

The machine uses chinese linear rails and ballscrews from ebay seller linearmotionbearings2008. With the 1.8Nm stepper motors I use with geckodrive g540 it achieves 10m/min rapids and 5m/min feedrates. The working area is about 110cm x 60cm x 10cm.

Expected cost to build a machine like this from scratch is 1000-1300 euros. It also took me over 80 hours to build.

Six rotating loops of numbered wooden tiles, each representing a single week ensure at least 4 weeks to record approaching appointments.

Week panels are covered by transparent acrylic to write with non-permanent marker or chinagraph pencil.

Old weeks are removed above and reinserted below to create new weeks, so you can always see the month ahead

v0.2 release candidate 2 product shipping from 27th September and SVG to be released simultaneously under CC BY SA NC licensing.
tacticalendar.co.uk

This design is based on a portable backpacker acoustic and a toy cardboard guitar for children. Its intent is to explore whether cardboard can be strong enough to withstand the stresses of a guitar string while flexible enough to produce an attractive musical tone.

I would also like to see if it's possible to make a flatpack version in pine sheets, but I would need to make a wood steamer first.

This is an entry into the Make/Makerbot contest :)

The human powered internet cafe looks at the issues of renewable power generation and aims to educate users to the energy requirements of surfing the internet.

Users are asked to peddle the exercise bikes in order to turn a dynamo which would in turn power the computers. If users fail to peddle hard enough the computer monitors will begin to flicker encouraging them to peddle harder.

The thing would ideally be placed in public areas where all forms of society could view it and try it out for them selves, thus educating as many people as possible.

For those whole like to ban things, this is a printed speldge hammer with the word BAN reversed out of the face.
Post about it on my blog: eagleapex.com/2009/11/01/ban-hammer-3d-printed/
Made at hive76.org

My Second design of a small geometric sculpture that explores the battle between cake and pie

This is an SVG file created in Inkscape that can be used to create a zoetrope. There are 21 slats that need to have images placed on them.

You need a laser cutter with at least a 12 inch by 24 inch bed. This design uses any material which is about 6 mm thick. I use Midwest Plywood 24x12 inch poplar plywood (6mm thick). However, I suggest getting baltic birch plywood. It's about a $1 more per sheet but I think it will look a lot better.