Patrick Eells designed and printed fully functional brushless DC motor. You can use any FDM DIY 3d printer, but you will need magnets and wind some copper wire coils. The motor was designed as a 3-phase, 4-pole brushless DC motor with 4 - N52 neodymium magnets on the rotor, and 3 wire wrapped solenoids connected to the stator. The motor is controlled by Arduino. The total cost to build this motor without the Arduino micro controller and the batteries was 27,71 USD.
Here is a great project of homemade 3d printable casing for underwater photography made by MoonLanding. Underwater photographs show it works well and it's fully functional. It consist of handles and enclosure mechanism mounted on thick acrylic pipe. The project is in development and end goal is to create fully 3d printed waterproof enclosure with only lens window as non-printed part.
Here are all the details, STL files and example photographs:
Here are some cool colored 3d printed molecule models printed on Form 1.
From top to bottom, DNA, a bacteriophage, a carbon nanotube, ATP synthase, and an unfinished model of chromatin with DNA, nucleosomes, topoisomerase, and a transcription factor.
Here is another printable camera: the P6*6 120 pinhole camera by Todd Schlemmer. It is small and compact and ,of course, it is based on pinhole photography with analogue film.
You can get very detailed data, more links and all the instructions to build it here:
Christmas is coming you dusted off your xmas tree and decorated it: everybody try to make it different, buying new decorations and balls of different colors. Well, if you are looking for something original, think of making your personalized balls with drawings and writings at will. Here comes this machine: a printer, or better to say a plotter, which will draw with a marker on spheres at will, derived from models transformed into G-code files. The machine is easily doable with a few 3D printable pieces
Louis Cordoba designed and 3d printed custom nebulizer mask for his asthmatic child. Regular mask was too big for his baby boy so he made a smaller one with better fit so that child could be administered with correct dosage of medicine. It took 3 hours to print using 20 grams of PLA.
I have a plan to build a music room in a old brick shed in my back yard. I want to have cheap HiFi vinyl listening setup. After a research I learned that sound diffusers are goot thing to have. I went to Thingiverse and found 3d printed sound diffusers by dkubicek.
The idea is good but the time needed to print sufficient are is ridiculous and the costs are just too high for me. I'll maybe make couple of modules just for decoration and stick with the wooden ones from wood scraps laying around.
From Thingiverse description:
What is a diffusor ?
If you have an room with unpleasing audio properties, one possibly reasons can be echos that occur in a structured way. Early echos (e.g. <0.4 sec) are e.g. well known for inhibiting personal speaking comfort. Now to get rid of echos, there are two practical ways: sound absorbers and sound diffusors. The goal of a good diffusor is to scatter sound, so that a specific incoming sound goes to all possible output directions. Hence echos are quite "mute" and do not start at a precise time, but one hears a slow buildup and decrease of echo noise. Audio absorbers create a harsh empty environment, similar to speaking in open air, while diffusors create a "warm" and sound of a well stocked living room. Mainly, there exist one and two-dimensional variants, and a you will find heaps of information in the references. And, they are extremely common in recording studios. Where do you want to put your diffusor ?On the sides and above the "viewing direction" to the sound source. In your rear, sound absorbers are a better choice.
Building a diffusor
Usually, diffusors are made from wood. The material should be reasonably stiff, so sound does not deform it. Ideally, the material should not burn, which sadly, PLA and ABS do. So, please be aware that a room with diffusors is a possible deathtrap. I figured that these diffusors can be printed easily with 3d printers, although the printsize requires to join many pieces to obtain a large enough area to actually effect the room sound. For a minimal effect, you want a couple of square meter (>25 prints).
Cost Analysis
I found one offer where 6 pieces of 0.6*0.6 mm diffusor cost 370 E. Thats 170 E per square meter. If you 3d print it with the octagonal structure, you will need 5kg of filament per square meter. Thats in a similar price regime. If you print for material costs. Also, you need to print for 16 days for a square meter on my printer...
The files
All files are created using openscad, the stls are just examples, and its highly recommended that you do not reuse a single part in a panel, but each part should be different. Also, you want to set the wall thickness according to your 3d printers nozzle. 2d rectangular diffusor. It has sideholes, to mount the pieces together. It is suited for 3d printing, but takes quite a while. Hexagonal diffusor. I figured that instead of a recitlinear grid, the diffusor cells can be aligned in a hexagonal layout. Really neat, no? However, you need to play with your slicing software, so that the outside walls actually print. Manhatten 1d diffusor, which prints quickest, but only diffuses in one direction. The figer structure might be to small, you might want to increase the cell size to 20mm, for even faster printing.
Reference:
The videos linked here are also shown above. They are not from me, and I just wanted to link them for further information for the reader.
There are two simple projects: one is a simple candy bar style simple DIY cell phone and second one is a Tyfone smartphone.
From project site:
The DIY Cellphone is a working (albeit basic) cellphone that you can make yourself. It can make and receive phone calls and text messages, store names and phone numbers, and display the time. It builds on the hardware and software in the Arduino GSM Shield but extends it with a full interface, including display, buttons, speaker, microphone, etc. The source files for the cellphone are hosted on GitHub (hardware, software), which also includes an issue list where you can file bug reports or request enhancements.
Who knows ... but this infographic from yeggi.com 3d model search engine is showing some trends in 2013 ... First are fantasy toys and figures, second are smartphone accessories and thir are 3d printers and parts for them ...
You can also see what can "average" 3d printer owner make in one year:
