With wanting to bike more and track distance, speed, calories etc. and with an upcoming road trip to New York for a wedding, I needed to get cracking on making a cell phone mount. I finally had some time this weekend to design, build and test this simple mount. It can be mounted to a bike or a car and also configured various ways for different applications; horizontal bars or vertical bars.

It's designed to fit the HTC Evo 4G with a Rocketfish case as seen here:
rocketfishproducts.com/products/phones-tablets-gps/RF-WR542.html

Some other cases may work just fine.

My inspirations:

thingiverse.com/thing:9195

thingiverse.com/thing:5260

Thanks guys!

Some features:

-speakers & camera not blocked, so the sound is not muffled
-microphone not blocked, so people can actually hear you
-micro USB port not blocked, so you can charge your phone while mounted
-volume rocker accessible and 3.5mm head phone jack accessible
-easy swapping between clamps and car flex mount
-low parts count! Yay, for anti-rotation designs.

The 3 point contact appears to hold the phone very well. I tested this off some really sweet jumps and my phone never wriggled loose...but test it out first. I did lots of shake tests and then copious amounts of curb jumping.

I've been working on this thingiverse.com/thing:5264 for a long time and with MBI's recent support of selling the high torque NEMA 17 motors, we can now use some of the heritage designs to create a direct drive, dual stepper extruder.

The original design concept comes from the awesome Printruder II, by Zaggo: thingiverse.com/thing:1980

With a dual extruder design, it opens up the possibilities of printing in two colors or two different materials, such as ABS for the main structure of the print and PVA for water soluble support material.

The offset between nozzles is 35mm.

This is a laser scanning system that I designed to use with DAVID 3D Scanner software. I have yet to buy the software, but the free version really lets you try out everything before you buy...you can at least take some high resolution screenshots of your scans. You can save low resolution files and use meshlab to assemble them.

More info at: david-laserscanner.com/

The first scanner I designed was complicated and used gears and a stepper motor, this one works much better. It's cheaper, requires no electricity to move and has less parts. It even tells you when it's done scanning!

It uses a Taylor kitchen timer, this is a mechanical wound timer that you can purchase at Target, for about $3 PN: 5833-21

When combined with custom maker bot parts, two M3 screws/nuts and a red focusable line laser you have a nice smoothly sweeping laser system.

After enjoying some crackers I wanted to be able to close the bag to keep them fresh. Alas, I was out of twist-ties to close the bag...

Makerbot to the rescue!

I quickly designed this bag clip, based off of a bread loaf clip picture.

You can use this to close bags full of parts or any plastic bag for that matter, enjoy.

This is Barton Dring's buildlog.net laser cutter 2.0 (not the 2X laser cutter) x-y & z axis parts, plus the laser tube clamps for 3d printing. Printable pulleys to come later.

The parts have been modified to fit on a true 100x100mm build platform. (no allowance for screw heads on stock BP's) Added M3 holes and nut slots for parts that would normally need to be tapped.

I'd Also like to thank Nick Wilson for donating to the Pfierce.com Pflaser project; a low cost laser cutter project, because of you I thought I'd give back and help some others out by releasing this, thanks again!




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This is a handle for cabinets, drawers, doors etc.

Designed this real quick while on lunch, because I saw a need for it.

You will need a completely flat build platform for this (no screws in the way). Haven't printed it out myself yet, that's why I uploaded two versions.

Handle_1 is longer (ideal size for usage) and it may be at the limits of what a cupcake can print. ***update, it prints without a problem on my 100x100 platform, i'll leave both files up though.

With Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse and Snowzilla wreaking havoc on Chicago, I said SnOMG! and thought this may be a fitting upload. I've always wanted snowshoes for such occasions. Luckily, work has been cancelled today, so I wont have to walk in this blizzard, but I am looking for a fun project to do while i'm home.

These are low polygon snowshoes, now you can't print them out with a 3D printer, but you can print them out on a 2D printer with a papercraft program called Pepakura Designer. It allows you to make 3D objects out of paper.

Now, you're saying what good are paper snowshoes? Well, not good at all... until you fiberglass them and fill them with your choice of filler, like casting resin. So, the next big snow storm I'll be ready!

I left some areas of the shoe open for cloth covering and as you can see it has some good crampon spikes for grip.

I also contemplated making sheet metal snowshoes and even laser cut wood snowshoes, maybe someone else can give that a try.

From the picture you can see the garage is pretty well snowed in.

I also added the object file & STL if you want to unfold it yourself or do something else with it.

After looking at the some pricey name brand rotary tool accessories, at the hardware store... I asked myself, what am I doing!? I have an awesome bot that can make these, so I got to designing and here they are.

Circle cutter attachment- Cut large circles that would normally require careful jigsawing or just use it to for doing more controlled cuts. Use a general purpose cutting bit.

Sharpener attachment- Sharpen anything that needs to be sharpened.

Groove/cutting guide- Cut grooves or guide cuts along flats.

*Still working on testing and printing these all out, but in theory it should work.

***2/19/11 Updated circle cutter to rev.1 It Should be able to use bits that are shorter and it's a little less plastic and the file is way smaller.

You can modify the existing cutter if you printed it by cutting off the top right before the screw holes then drill the hole straight though to get rid of the counterbore.

Now you don't have to worry about tangled cords anymore, with this minimalistic way to store your awesome Skullcandy brand headphones.

I know for sure it fits the regular $6 Skullcandys and the awesome sounding $15 Ink'd series earbuds.

My brother called up one day with a dilemma. He needed to mount his Xbox Kinect on his plasma TV, but didn't want to spend $40 on a cheap looking commercial mount. Knowing that I have an awesome 3d printing bot (which he usually says i'm wasting my time with), he gave me a few measurements of the TV to design a mount.

I already saw the trik tripod adapter and liked the design a lot, so I took the original STL file and started taking point geometry from it to create a new solid model. I then printed it and went to his house. Every thing fit well! Now it's mounted and has been in service for about a month.

***I'll get some pictures up after next week when I go and visit.

After my ferrets' hammock fell a few times, I decided to create a mount that I could screw in securely, while also easily clip on and off the hammock clips.

The bracket has been in service for almost a year and the hammock has not fallen since. The bracket can easily hold ~10lbs of ferrets when they decide to all stuff into the one hammock.

Had some issues with the original design, being too long so I did a redesign to make it as short as it will go before hitting the pulley and I also beefed it up a bit.

BTW, This is great if you have an older belt that is stretched.

This is a derivative of the Printruder II - Rear Breech Loading by juniortan and of course the original design by Zaggo.

For some reason the derivative feature wasn't working properly :( ...So I made it a new thing.

Here is the PNEMAtruder! The "P" is silent :D

It has all the features of the junior tan's version: thingiverse.com/thing:3178 the rear breach and gear access.

It is a direct drive stepper extruder that uses a high torque NEMA 17 in order to drive filament to extrude. Or a high torque NEMA 23

Also, an optional filament tube clamp can be attached at the top, for those with filament spindles.

This is still a work in progress, but I thought I'd put it out there for all to see and make suggestions, etc.

The center has been changed so I can't use any existing support designs.

What do you guys look for in your supports? low part counts? Easy to print? Function/Flatness? Maximum Z height? Would you want me to make laser cut supports for purchase/download? Does anyone actually read this and answer? So far, no so I'm just designing features I want.

***1/12/11*** I'm currently working on a revised version that axes the NEMA 17 and utilizes a NEMA 23. Most high torque NEMA 17's that I can find just don't have enough torque to get the job done. I uploaded a screenshot of the new design. None of the files are updated, yet.

***6/4/11*** With MBI selling the 100 in-oz NEMA 17 motor in there store you can now use the 17 design.

This is a NEMA 17 template to cut 3mm or 1/8 inch cork board

The cork board reduces noise and vibration of the motors in your 3d printer.

This variation uses cork on both the motor and screws that attach the motor.

If you can't find cork board or don't feel like doing this, you can always purchase these very nice laser cut cork gaskets from MBI here: store.makerbot.com/accessories/nema-17-cork-gasket-pack.html


Update 02/12/11: with a new design and a DXF

These are the infamous Pfierce Z-axis extenders that helped me set my tallest print record: wiki.makerbot.com/hall-of-fame-tallest-print

Made famous by Makerblock:
blog.makerbot.com/2010/09/28/speaking-of-makerbot-upgrades/
makerblock.com/2010/07/mysteries-of-the-tall-print/

Now you can print over 5 inches tall with a standard cupcake too!

Sorry for the delay...but it was nice to hold the record for awhile :)

Ask and you shall receive Makerblock!

The PRBP is a derivative of the MBI ABP 1.0 and the Printable ABP. It can be printed and used to do continuous printing, to turn your bot into a desktop factory.

It features a 100mm x 100mm build platform and a tensioner, plus you get to keep your cool LED's and last but not least... all the pfierceness you'll ever need with it's awesome teeth!

I'd like to thank Twotimes aka Aaron Double of DoCo Design for helping me tweak and test this design while my bot was down. Contact him if you need 8mm tubing for the platform, or if you need a new Kysan extruder motor. Supplies are limited!

Gcode has been uploaded, this pops of prints with a pfierceness. You may need to edit the gcode depending on how you are set up.

**Update 4/07/11:I've revised the side's motor holes to slots, so you can adjust the gear mesh from roller to motor, this reduces gear slipping, strips and breaks. I added a file with just the new sides to save some plastic. Also, the files are half the size of the old ones...technology keeps making things smaller and smaller :) Deleted the old files to give thingiverse 3Mb of room back.

I'm also working on an extrusion catcher for this.

Happy printing and check back for updates.

This is a syringe adapter for Nordson EFD 30cc or 55cc syringes, it may fit other air powered or Luer locking syringes...

This is perfect for a Pfiercestruder build!


Update 11/29/10: Now with smaller file sizes

This is a printable Automated Build Platform 1.0 by MBI

This should get the advanced DIY hackers up and running for about $50.

Motor, PET film, gears and Neo magnets can be purchased from MBI.

I have not tried this out yet, so print at your own risk...It should work in theory. More updates to come.

Printable gears have been uploaded. I'm surprised howw fast they printed and that they work being so tiny! Use an M2 set screw for them. I may change the number of set screw holes if people have problems printing...keep me posted

A Pfierce version will also be released soon, with some different
features. Pfierce version: thingiverse.com/thing:4189

Update 11/29/10: Now with smaller file sizes. You can all thank Thingiverse user, naldarn for making me seek out and learn Rhino's exporting options. Now you can all enjoy smaller files!

After I had a theft of a Makergear superpack from my doorstep I decided to step up security the true Makerbot open source way! Now I wish the post office would pay for the lost goods already.

I had a really old Veo webcam laying around, took it apart and designed a small stealthy housing for it.

I then found some good old fashioned open source software from Dorgem and a tutorial.

Tut:
simplehelp.net/2006/09/27/how-to-use-your-pc-and-webcam-as-a-motion-detecting-and-recording-security-camera/

Dorgem:
dorgem.sourceforge.net/

Another alternative software with many more features, is Tebocam:
teboweb.com/WebCam.htm

Also my favorite software that I have found, Yawcam:

yawcam.com/


Also, i'm working on a printable pan and tilt for this webcam... it's not quite ready yet for upload.

Update 11/29/10: Now with smaller file sizes

This is the pfiercest printable pfrostruder around!

I wanted to expand my printing capabilities and instead of actually buying a Frostruder, I came to the conclusion I have an awesome 3d printing powerhouse...Why not just print one?!

This is still in the beta test stage, i'm waiting for my solenoids to arrive, but thought I should release this and see what people think and or can come up with to improve the design.

Update 11/29/10: Now with smaller file sizes

This is a magnetic coupling concept that uses 10 of the Makerbot 3mm x 3mm x 3mm Neodymium magnets. These comes in handy when you need to couple two shafts together, but don't want to painstakingly axially align the shafts, within thousandths of an inch.

I measured the holding torque of the coupling, with the magnets inserted into the couplings in both attraction and repulsion. I used a digital torque meter and analog torque watch, until the coupling slipped and recorded the data below.

Attraction: ~43 in-oz
Repulsion: ~25 in-oz

Accepts a 12mm shaft diameter. I plan to make couplings that have smaller shaft diameters later and I am also working on magnetic gears.

Update: Added 3/16" (4.8mm)ID coupling; accepts shaft size of a NEMA 17.
Added a 1/4" (6.35mm) ID coupling; accepts a NEMA 23 sized shaft.

This is a model of Chicago's Willis Tower, that I used to set a new tallest print record on 7/12/2010 @ 10:50PM. I took a Google sketchup model and heavily modified it, in order to print.

wiki.makerbot.com/hall-of-fame

The model is 155mm tall! printed out at about 154mm. My bot is hacked, but using mostly original parts that came with the kit and printed parts to achieve the new record.

Who: Brian J. Pierce
What: Willis Tower
When: July 12th, 2010
Height: 154mm
Build time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Material: 19cc of ABS
Source file: thingiverse.com/thing:3533
MakerBot: #1034


In case you're wondering, the actual building height without the antennae, is 136mm. The Willis tower's antennae is not counted in it's over all height, in real life.

OPPS (Oil Pressure Powered Shutoff)

This shutoff system is a proof of concept to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil leak; it is an expandable/modifiable open source design. The outer sections are modular, so it can be built upon and then reopened when new equipment is put in place to salvage the pipeline, instead of having to drill another adjacent pipeline. The key feature uses a supported piston on a threaded shaft that moves perpendicular to the oil flow to negate the high pressure oil flowing from the BOP riser.

Update 11/29/10: Deleted that 225mb STL file, so Thingiverse can have some more room!