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Just printed cushion extenders for my Audio-Technica headphones. The default cushions are too thin from my big ears and it was painful to use my headphones for longer periods of time.

Before the extenders I had to use different longer cushions that had worse sound quality, now I don't have that problem anymore.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7031701

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@rahix Are you thinking about adding a section on alignment pegs in your functional printing guide?

This is the way I use them. The parts are held together by screws, and the pegs make it easy to get the screws aligned and started. I can also keep the parts from being assembled the wrong way around by using asymmetric pegs. These parts have significant taper because the screws create the final alignment.

@3dprinting #FunctionalPrint #3DPrinting

Two large hexagonal printed pieces. One has four tapered, oddly shaped pegs on the mating surface, and the other has matching holes.

Another day, another functional print.

Spousey got a Thermapen® and wanted a place to store it safely.

🧵 14/N

#FunctionalPrint #3DPrinted #KitchenGadgets

A narrow kitchen drawer is open. It is full of silicone spatulas. Across the front, there is a fitted black plastic insert with a Thermapen stored on edge.

The kitchen drawer is open. The Thermapen is in its black plastic insert. There is a finger hole in the middle secton of the insert to lift the pen out.

The 3D printed Thermapen insert is sitting alone on a shelf. It is a black brick with a finger hole and a screw hole visible.

The Thermapen insert is sitting alone on a shelf. From this angle, two circular indents, 14mm diameter and 3mm deep, are shown. They clear the screws that hold the shelf front on.

We got a new knife block. It doesn't fit under the kitchen cupboards. 3D printer to the rescue!

🧵 13/N #FunctionalPrint #3DPrinted #KitchenGadgets

A knife block holds four knives at an angle. A line shows that the topmost knife would hit the cupboard above if extracted.

A 3D printed hollow wedge shape is beside the knife block.

The printed wedge is under the knife block, angling it foward so the knives clear the cupboard. The top knife is pulled most of the way out to demonstrate.

I got really sick of super glue on my fingers with magnets AND messing up the polarity.
So I printed these. #FunctionalPrint
#3dprinting

Two small tools for inserting magnets.
The left is blue and has a south polarity.
The right is red and has a north polarity.

Streaming soon on Twitch: #Maker Stuff, #FunctionalPrint,

👉Fixing a 🫖 kettle with 3D modeling, and 3D printing.
📢Noon PST, 3/28/2025

#HelloWorld #Introduction
#LiveStream #AMA
#Fellow #ElectricKettle
#Fusion360 #AutodeskFusion

https://www.twitch.tv/astroatomica

3D Print - Mop holder by WildVal

3D Print - Mop holder by WildVal #functionalprint

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6962145

Filament filter with clip by gelos73

Filament filter with clip by gelos73 #functionalprint

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6950567

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A strawberry stamp for a daughter making ceramics.

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https://ruby.social/@stepheneb/109869351837225855

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Free CAD was essential for this!

https://ruby.social/@stepheneb/113086795798395264

#3dprinting #FunctionalPrint

@debby

A few fun functional prints.

https://ruby.social/@stepheneb/113708577646965039

#3dprinting #FunctionalPrint

@debby

I’ve been very happy with the Prusa MK3s I built from a kit several years ago. If you buy a used one it is very easy to get parts and running advice for it.

Here’s something cool I made with it. These 60 mm diameter fillers I designed in FreeCAD have 1 mm pitch threads. I was blown away that I could print such fine detail so precisely.

https://ruby.social/@stepheneb/110913859564408638

#3dprinting #FunctionalPrint

I was going to tack the ramp down with carpet tape, but instead I made these straps that hook over the door sill. They work.

🧵 12/N

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Photo of an indoor door sill. To the left, the floor is hardwood. To the right, it is tile. In the middle is a marble-looking stone door sill, 134 millimeters wide and 20 millimeters high on the hardwood side. A 3D printed ramp is on the hardwood side. A 3D printed strap goes from under the ramp end, over the end of the door sill and down around the tile side of the sill. It is tucked under part of the wood molding.

A CAD screen capture shows two U-shaped straps, one at either end of the ramp. The strap goes under the ramp and hooks onto it from the bottom.

Robot Acceptance Factor is acceptable. I'll find out later whether it knocks the ramp away when cleaning the hallway.

🧵 11/N

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A white RoboRock vacuum robot is entering the laundry room from the hall. Its back wheels have just cleared the 3D printed ramp that help it climb over the threshold.

I measured the door frame on the right and designed the ramp to fit around it. But of course the frame isn't symmetric, and the left end doesn't fit. That end is going to have an unpleasant encounter with Mr. Dremel...

🧵 10/N

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The 3D printed ramp is on the hallway floor. It abuts a stone slab in the doorway that is about 20 millimeters higher than the hall floor.
It extends to the outer edge of the door frame on both sides.
It is snug against the slab and does not quite touch the frame on the right, but on the left it only touches the frame, and there is a gap of about 3 millimeters between the ramp and the slab.

I am printing a ramp to help our robot vacuum get over the threshold into the laundry room. Three of four sections are printed, plus a couple of test prints in black. I'm trying to use layer lines as a design element. N.B., the herringbones are not parallel -- they're straight at the edges and diagonal in the middle. I got the effect by lofting from a flat edge to a shallow sawtooth and back.

PolyTerra Limestone Marble matte PLA.

🧵 10/N

#FunctionalPrint #3DPrinted #WeServeTheRobots

Three speckled beige sections of a low ramp are joined jigsaw-style. The fourth section is missing. When finished, it will be almost one meter long and about 12 cm wide. The ends are cut out to fit around door molding. There are also two pairs of black pieces that are just big enough to have the interlocking edges. There is a faint herringbone pattern on all the pieces, not uniform in either the horizontal or vertical direction. (Herringbone is a pattern with columns of thin stripes. The thin stripes are diagonal, and each column's stripes go the opposite direction of its neighbors, i.e., either NW-SE or NE-SW. The effect from a distance is that the columns look like slightly different colors, and that changes with the viewing and light angle.)

Close-up photo of part of the ramp shows the herringbone pattern in more detail. Near the top and bottom of the surface, the stripes nearly horizontal. In the middle, they are about 45 degrees. They are noticeably curved near the edges.

A CAD screen capture shows a loft operation in progress. The front and rear edges of the ramp are rectangles. The middle of the ramp is a rectangle where the top edge has been replaced with a shallow sawtooth pattern. The edges of the sawtooth correspond to the vertical columns in the printed piece's herringbone.

I've replaced a broken part in my mop, thanks to my 3d printer.
The broken part is red, and the new part is yellow.

#3dprinting #functionalprint #freecad

Yet another kitchen thingie from the printer. This one is stone simple, but I like the way it came out. It just stores ZipLoc lids in a stack in the cupboard. Has a little handle so you can pull it out.

I published it to Printables just now.
https://www.printables.com/model/1070782-storage-tray-for-ziploc-lids

🧵 9/N

#FunctionalPrint #KitchenGadget #3DPrinted