Every admins favourite undercover tool. The ban hammer is too obvious to carry around. :)

Asked by mattproc, I present to you Colbert Corn Screws!

These are printable corn cob screws that hold the corn in place while eating it.
I never remembered to buy these while in store and I'm not quite sure where these are located in there. Anyway, my previous attempts trying to eat corn with forks resulted with chipped tooth so I decited to finally to do something about it.
So if you find yourself in a situation with no corn cob holders around, print these and leave the forks alone.

After the trouble with the magnets and the old carriage I thought this might need the clamps as well.


With the help of the added bolts the platform slides down firmly to its place and gets lock down with the lever on the right hand side.
When closed the lever is equal with the platform edge and is nicely hidden out of the way.

I found out that oiling the z-axis rods is tedious work with awkward hand positions. So why not design something that does that for you.


This is designed to be added on top of z stage platfrom guides. Or to be used as a direct replacements (..5mm base.stl).

When printing very high prints, sometimes the "not-so-often-used" parts of z axis rods get dusty and cause skipping.
This is designed to increase the belt-pulley contact and thus increase the friction -> less skipping.

Designed to use the 623 bearings (the same as mendel inspired lowrider by twotimes.)


Even when this is in place I recommend to oil the rods regularly with some gun/sewing machine oil. This too helps reduce skipping.

With the new MK5 drive gears and smaller nozzles, the downward pressure has increased and so my old insulator retainers gave in one after another.
This is a simply/quick/easy fix for that.

The baseholes are widened for the bolt heads so you can use the original hex bolts to connect it to the main extruder body.





I know that the newer extruders have already solved this problem but as for me, I want use the old one as long as I can.

Glowing mushroom for your desktop that is powered by any colored LED and batteries(or usb).

The legend says that:
- Green mushrooms are magical
- Blue mushrooms are ghostly
- Red mushrooms are poisonous / viking fuel ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria )


Designed to be printed with PLA and to fit 2x 2032 lithium 3v batteries, a switch, led and a resistor. The leg of the mushroom is hollowed (3mm) for the wires and the resistor.

Batteries are neatly hidden under the base. Switch is behind the base.

Works ok as a ornament when printed with nontransparent plastic.

(as a side idea the glow was to be produced with a UV led and with a glow in the dark plastic..could still work)

Have a spooky vampire style glow in the dark evil eyes earrigns for halloween parties.
At far they'll look like (bloody)vampire teeth and at close the observer also gets the stare of the evil eyes.

Two different eyes. The one with plastic eye whites probably works better with the glow in the dark stuff. The other with normal plastic.

Also makes a great present!

Just in time for Halloween! Ghostly glow in the dark keyring.
Attach your car/house keys to this and you'll be able to locate them in total darkness. If lost in forest/dark areas, just use UV flashlight to sweep the surroundings and your keys just pop out.

Strong enough to handle everyday use (2mm thick) and not too big for the pocket.

Designed to be printed with glow in the dark plastic but works well as keyring with different colors too.

Fast to print (~10min), so if you're owner of ABP, you'll be able to equip your whole family with these never-to-lose keyrings in notime.

A Simple boat that is powered by a 96x50x6 mousetrap.

Magnetic pool cue chalk holder that clips on to your belt.
Once saw someone use similar and thought that would be easy to create Makerbot style.
As for a magnets I had a 20x2mm disk type neodymium magnets at my disposal. Strong enough to clip together thru a shirt.
The chalk cube itself fits snuggly in the box.



*If enough interest I can (or anyone else) modify the design to use the 3mm cube magnets that makerbot sells, but since I don't have those at hand I can't verify if they'll work.

Necessary addition to Makerbot Golf arsenal.

When teeing off to a really nice game from these:
thingiverse.com/thing:3626
thingiverse.com/thing:3722

You'll need something to fix up the damage.

As in magnet world there are norths and souths and in human world there are... well you know.
You can use these as a fridge magnets or a simple game thing (players take one piece each, hold them in firmly (one side up) and see who attracts who.. adults only ;)

Tee was little too long for my liking so I made two addional sizes.
(For comparison the original tee is the left one)

While in Thailand me and my friend came across this somewhat addictive bar game and when coming back,
I didn't have enough money to get my own (well budgeted trip ;). I thought "Oh well.. no worries thou, I have a Makerbot. I'll make my own and with some improvements."

So I decited to create a travel version of the game. Not like the big and bulky one they sell over there but small,
sleek and pocket size. Something you can take with you on travels and stuff.

And also I wanted to design it so that you wouldn't need extra parts to assemble it.
(If you own a makerbot, you can make this in the middle of the desert if needed)


(and for a added bonus. I included one extra set of game pieces that read instead of "Jackpot" but "TheGame")

For this you can either use jmil:s dices that has more realistic corners ( thingiverse.com/thing:925 ) or mine that has sharp corners.

Made the platform "hugging" part larger so it should be more stable and take some strain of the bolt.
Sunked the nuts inside so you can use the bolts that came with the platform.
When these are clamped in (closed), the clamp ends are aqual with platform and they are nicely hidden under the platform.

Nothing is no longer borderline likable. Just throw the coin like Harvey the two-face does.

Printable mouse trap for the Cathals Mouse Trap challenge.

This mouse trap combines the both desires of the mouse; the love for exercise wheels and peanut butter (and ours for catching those buggers).

Idea is simple. Trap spreads the aroma of the bait from the openings at the sides of the wheel.
The mouse then goes in to the wheel from the hole and in inside tries to reach the bait from the opposite side of the wheel.
Then the weight of the mouse turns the eccentric wheel and rotates it over 90 degrees, locking it in place and blocking the exit.
Weight of the mouse acts as a locking mechanism.

Not yet tested but in my mind it works.
dailymotion.com/video/xcfwgj_exercise-wheel-mousetrap_animals

UPDATE: In previous zip file, one file got corrupted at some point and did not work. This has been fixed now in the MouseTrap.zip -file. In the MouseTrapBPlat.zip are resized stl files that are for people who have build platfrom bolts still installed.
I don't know how these flaws got past me unnoticed and I apologize for the lack of quality control.
Big thanks to Cathal for bringing these to my attention.

UPDATE #2: Lesson learned. Never know what to anticipate when you're not printing these yourself. Nothing big but the orientation for the other foot was wrong, too big to print that way. Fixed now in the mousetrap.zip

UPDATE #3: Finally uploaded a video of this in action. Sorry for the wait :)
dailymotion.com/video/xfdi0y_better-mousetrap-challenge-test-vid_tech

Continuing Star Trek themed logos.


TNG here thingiverse.com/thing:1209 (by worldgnat)
Voyager here thingiverse.com/thing:1782

Continuing StarTrek comm badge series :)

TNG here thingiverse.com/thing:1209 (by worldgnat)

Reveal the hidden IR spectrum world with a RGB filter. Sky turns red, black clothes and hair look blue, flowers glow in the light blue bushes and a whole lot other neat stuff :)


The way this works is that the negatives create pictures by blocking the red, green, blue colors and when you stack a whole bunch of fully exposed films together, only other wavelengths go thru. And when camera's sensor can detect (and show) IR light, you'll get pictures exposed with only infrared light.

(I first saw this in a HackaDays article years ago but in that they also removed IRfilter from the sensor. I haven't done that so exposure times are measured in seconds -> CHDK comes handy)

The Nintendo's gift to the world. A block with leds that you can't live with and can't live without (Metroid 3.. ARGH)
I have a part of ghero drumset in front of sensorbar and it sometimes blocked the line of sight to the sensorbar and it F'd up my gameplay.
There were few times I really wanted to send the 50€ controller combo to the earth orbit through the tv set because of that.
This contraption solved that.
This raises the sensor bar 35-100mm over the possible obsticles (and closer to the tv screen)

(it stays up because of the friction from the clips clamping down to the wiibar)

This basically is a dust scrubber that removes dust and other particles from the filament as it goes thru the sponges. Normally this dust could potentially clog up the extruder nozzle or break something.


Story:
After one night of printing, I discovered a large dust ball inside the extruder just before the idlerwheel. After a disassembly I found more. Apparently I had thrown the filament spool in to a really dusty area and dust got sucked to the abs.


About pictures:
At the first picture top right is the dust that gathered to the temporary scrubber while these parts were extruded. (black stuff)
Lower right is the way the sponges are placed in side the cup. (10x10x20)x4

The second photo is installation pic (it clips on to the extruder).

My bot was one of those that got the extra build platform and I wanted to make it useful. Also these probably help with tall prints since these hold the platform down more tightly.

Babylon 5 PsiCorps logo.
Because..u know....they....rule... :)

This is my version of z-stage crank.
Felt natural to design this when I got my bot up and running but if someone feels lazy, here you go.