I ordered a pair of Kendo practice swords from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H3FJD8) and one of the hilts was missing. So I designed this one really quick as a replacement.

This s customizable with a name/logo on it and for custom dimensions in case the kendo practice sword you have has slightly different dimensions. These fit on the Amazon ones linked above and a really old set of shorter ones we already had.

My nephew ran out of the apparently disposable engine retainers that came with his Estes rocket. The seem to get lost after every launch. Fortunately the design is simple and I was able to print these out as a replacement. The don't come out perfect without support but they more than serve their purpose.

These fit the Estes Model 000804 - Firehawk™ rocket.

My wife broke the presser foot lifter ever on her serger. She wasn't the first one this one had alredy been glued together once by the previous owner. I got out my calipers measured it up and made a "good enough" model. It doesn't have a thread cutter in it but it does fit and does work properly. The sewing places want ~$20 US for this part when a few cents worth of plastic and a few mintutes will do the trick.

Replaces Elna Serger Presser Bar Lifter (Part #396014-76)

Compatible with Elna Serger (Overlock) Models:
604E, 614DE, 624DS, 624DSE,704DEX, 744, 745, 845, 904DCX, 905DCX, 925DCX, 945, PRO4DC, PRO4DE, PRO5DC & PRO5DE.

Alternative Part Numbers Include 396010-85

For those of you feeling catty I also modified my rabbit nose to make a cat nose. Like the other mustaches simply print and slide onto your septum.

I made up this little "clip-on" rabbit nose for fun with the kids this year. Print and enjoy! This was inspired to some goofy glasses I saw.

My wife has a classic Fuji Club Fuji road bike but at this time of year in New England fenders help keep the water off the rider. Unfortunately all the fender sets out there today are V-brake setups instead of the classic style and mounting directly to the caliper mount doesn't provide enough clearance for the fender.

She asked me to whip up these adapters so she could easily mount the fenders.

I wanted a little electrical isolation between the PCB and the work surface so I mocked this up in OpenScad and printed some. This adds a little protection to this inexpensive and easy to use Arduino compatible micro-controller board.

More info about the Digispark and shields can be found at digistump.com.

I'll likely be making a full enclosure for the module with the RGB shield.

I recently bought a new car for my wife. Unfortunately it didn't have a convenient place to hang or place her purse while driving. She asked for a hook which can attach under the headrest to hold her bag and this is what I came up with.

Rev 1 - Uses a pin to hold the halves together and to increase bonding while gluing with acetone.

Thanks to all of the cool OpenSCAD libraries I found here on Thingiverse. And please forgive the "reactive red" ABS - it was what was loaded into the printer when I decided to print. I plan on printing another one in black to match the interior a little better :D

Needed an "extended" slightly longer version of the closet rod holder for my closet so I quickly whipped this up in openscad and printed it out. Works like a charm!


I added a Heavy Duty (denoted by "HD" in the name) version as well.

This is a replacement cap for a missing or broken bubbler style airlock. I always loose or break these things.

Sorry for the poor photo quality the "reactive red" color wreaks havoc with my camera.

I thought a barrel would make a nice tap handle for a beer keg so I threw one together from a couple great sources here on Thingiverse (see derivatives).

My son asked me for a lizard and this is what he got. This is a gecko shape for earrings or whatever. Wish it were better and 3d but I haven't found any great modeling software thats free to do what I want.

Enjoy!

This is a replacement snap-on cap for a brewing airlock. For some reason I lot mine and couldn't find it so I printed a new one.

My wife picked up a package of these at the store today and they wanted $8.00 for a pack of 4. I told her no way - I can print one of those for you. She agreed and I saved $8.00.

After modeling it for the photo she continued to wear it for several hours and even forgot it was there. Success!

This is a 3-d printable version of a quick change pen gondola for the DrawBot. It's capable of holding a fine point sharpie or slightly larger pen (like an expo dry erase - fine-point).

For a counter weight is uses 2 dead AA batteries (or what ever else you want to mount on it).

The servo arms are positioned to hold a Turnigy TG9e 9g servo. As of right now I don't have one of these to test pen up/down functionality but it should work with an appropriately positioned servo arm. For now I've added a couple washers to my servo arms where the weight contributed by the servo should be.

I'll be posting up another one capable of holding a Sharpie Magnum (the really big sharpie).

I needed a tidy counterweight for my Drawbot. I tried designing some different cantilevered pen holders with little success but did learn some stuff along the way. First the basic pen holder works good with about 3 oz of weight hanging off it it for a sharpie. Second, as well as the ball bearings work- i'd rather use them for something else.

I threw this together with the intention of filling it with sand - but like half the the stuff on the internet the weight per cc was off but 2x on the site I found it on. Fortunately for me the design I came up with is also the perfect size for a stack of nickels.

I put this together as an exercise to see how feasible it was to print a heim joint that actually works fairly smoothly. I plan on using this for a rocker-bogie style printable suspension.

I was pleasantly surprised that after printing with some pretty close tolerances and some very light sanding to the center piece that the joint operated very smoothly.

I tried to make the scad as parametric as I needed it to be but it works fairly well. I've tried printing it in one size and assembling it and am very happy with the results.

The total cost of this joint is around $0.40 for screws/hardware plus ~2.5 meters of plastic. Far cheaper and lighter than a metal Heim joint.

The original design was great but the size was a little too large for some tastes.

These were cleaned up in netfab, scaled 65% (x and y) and the hanger was adjusted back to the original size. Based on the STL since I don't have solid works.

These printed fine on my ToM at this size with 100% fill and zero shells.

A quick and dirty union of the two part base (saves 3 screws!)

Unprinted and untested but should work just fine.

My son came home from camp with this cool lanyard water bottle carrier scoutstuff.org/cub-scout-lanyard-water-bottle-carrier.html and I wanted to see if I could design something similar that was printable on my ToM. This is the result.

There is plenty of room on this to add a logo or name on the top and it fits the bottles just as good as the scout version.

Added crummy OpenScad. I thinkI need some real/better 3D design software.

I could't find my 1/4" NPT tap and I didn't want to spend a ton on brass fittings so I threw together this quick 1/2" NPT to 1/4" NPT adapter. I did it in OpenScad using the great "poor mans screw library". Took about 10 minutes to throw together and 30 minutes to print on my MakerBot (w/ Acceleration).

By request - I uploaded the .scad after adding a few comments to it. You will also need to download the screw library that this is a derivative of. Note that the threads in this library are not tapered so technically it's not NPT. At some point I might modify it again to add tapered threads but for now it works fine with teflon tape.

I leveraged the AI files for the punisher clock in Inkscape and Created this Pendant in OpenScad.

My Bike-E recumbent doesn't have a conventional seat post to mount a rear tail light onto and I don't want to drill the extruded aluminum frame. I made an adapter that slides into the frame that any standard seat-post accessory can mount onto. This will allow me to add my state-mandated light or reflector.

I broke the original I printed months ago by accident. I wanted to improve on the original design slightly so I merged the guide with the other end caps. It came out great and works great.

I had to clean-up the original mount in netfabb so it would manipulate properly in openSCAD.

For the stubby Ring-A-Thing

This is a derivative of the apparently impossible cube puzzle. While a Cube is cool a sphere is much cooler. I take no credit for the original design from which this was derived.

I didn't have to original model used so I grabbed the impossible cube STLs and unioned them with a sphere (as appropriate).

This holds a cheapie harbor freight dial gauge on the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic Z platform to aid in leveling. Using this I was able to square the platform within 0.025 mm (0.001") - which is close enough for me.

I recently purchased an Orbit outdoor misting system but the clips it came with required putting nail holes through my soffit. Instead I took a couple minutes and threw together this clip which slides onto the aluminum trim wrapping and clips onto the 3/8" O.D. tubing.

Some brain tokens to keep track of how many brains a person has while playing the game.

Scanned from the actual dice and cleaned up.

The brains_2x.stl is a 2x size brain. They print a little nicer and are more fun to throw around and harder to loose.

Mount up your favorite lego mini-fig with this fun ring-a-thing addition.

Compatible with the "shorter-peg" delicate ring-a-thing. Should also work with cymons stubby ring-a-thing as well but is untested.

Leveraged the hard work of for the button.