As I walked through my apartment recently, I noticed how many 3D-printed stuff I have printed over the last 3-4 years. So I decided to create a larger post here, with some useful projects I printed for a loving home. May it can inspire someone for future projects.
Kitchen Utilities
Shelves
To be honest, this angels could also be bought but using printed ones just feels so much better.
Then I have printed this things. I never saw them in a hardware store.
Screw them on some planks ...
... and voila, shelves for spices are built!
I said spices!
More spices!!
Coffee utilities
There are some cool things to print for a porta filter machine. First, here is the most obvious device: a tamper for pressing in the coffee into the porta filter. The tamper works extremely well, because the bottom is very flat because of a flat print surface and a bit over extrusion.
This thing belongs to a...
small table trash can to remove the wet coffee ground from the porta filter after extracting a coffee.
Lightning tools
Light Box
I always wanted to have a softlight for filming videos on my desk. But instead of using a single bulb with a shade, I thought about soldering a long led strip (this one was one of the cheapest I could find) to a grid and building a box for it.
As a ground plate, I took some milk glass to soften the light. The milk glass is hold by some printed accessories and below the box there is a printed camera holder for a go pro (unfortunately the top part can not be seen in the picture). Because the lamp is 0.5 meters long and wide, the image of the go pro is lightened out perfectly.
Lamp
Here is a lamp with moving joints, I designed pretty early. Unfortunately, the joints are not so durable, so I ended up reprinting them and just glued them together with hot glue.
For Animals and Pets
The prints I enjoyed using most are those for animals and pets.
Bird swing
The bird swing was well appreciated by my budgies. I designed it with OpenSCAD and strengthen out the edges with a triangle structure.
Bird feeder
This was just a prototype, where I tested out if a print in combination with an RC servo can make a feeding machine for small grains. It really worked out but did not make it to a final product yet.
Bird shower
Also a prototype where I connected a small water pump to a printed shower head. This worked out perfectly but I could not get the damn budgies under that thing :(
For outside
Bird house / Food dispenser
Without a doubt, this thing was the best print to look at. Enjoying breakfast while viewing happy birds using this print for a living? - Just awesome!
Misc
Key hooks
Just a key holder for hooking up keys and smaller things next to the apartment door.
Fixing furniture
I bought a small drawer from IKEA some years ago and they have this very thin rails that broke super easy as you can see on the left.
So I decided to redesign them in a more stable way.
There you can see three iterations of it. The solid ones where much stronger - as expected.
Final result:
Curtain rod holders
I could not get these double rod holders for hanging up curtains infront of a big window/door in the living room, so I outsourced the design of those things and printed it out myself.
They are not solid but printed with a higher infill percentage. However, next time I would rather design them with two screws than with only one, to make sure it sticks to the wall even with pulling on the curtains.
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