3D Printing - Printer Projects

Here are all of the projects that I have done on my 3d printer starting with the first test print. I will continue to add my projects to this site and I work through them and print them out. I will keep the printer upgrades as a separate page, since I had already started that page first.

3D Printing 1st Project

3d Project 01 Here is my first project, which is just an initial test of my Qidi Tech 1 3d printer. It actually turned out pretty well overall as the quality seems to be pretty good. The orange PLA that I used was the plastic that came with the printer.

3D Printing 2nd Project

3d Project 02 Here is my second project, which is a keychain design that I wanted to do for this website. The initial design I ended up doing from scratch, using TinkerCAD, which is an online design application. It allows you put simple shapes together to form a complex object. I think that my first design and print turned out pretty good, even though I did want to re-design this right away.

3D Printing 3rd Project

3d Project 03 Here is the re-design of the JVO Racing keychain. I much happier with the oval design versus the square design. I believe that this looks much better and is a bit more functional, since you don't stab yourself like with the square version.

3D Printing 4th Project

3d Project 04 Here is the final version for the keychain design along with a ring that has been installed. I do plan on designing a few more keychains as I get more used to the TinkerCAD website. I have a few ideas, which I will post here if I end up creating and printing them.

3D Printing 5th Project

3d Project 05 I ended up creating this Battery Tool in order to assist in getting the batteries out of my Kyosho Mini-Z cars. This took actually works really well. It allows you to pop out all of the batteries from the car at the same time. I found this project to be very worth while. I did end up printing a few of these and gave away a few to friends that also race RC cars.

3D Printing 6th Project

3d Project 06 I did end up creating a custom camper keychain for myself, which I think turned out pretty well. I did end up putting my name on the keychain for a bit more customization.

3D Printing 7th Project

3d Project 07 Based on the Battery Removal tool, I ended up designing a tool that could remove the small connectors on the Kyosho Mini-Z car. It worked pretty good, but the material has a tendancy to break at the ends, which are very small. I am not sure if this would be corrected by printing this in ABS, but I would imagine not.

3D Printing 8th Project

3d Project 08 This is a project where I made a cell phone stand for the nightstand for my iPhone 7+. It worked great up until I updated my phone, which it is now not the correct size. I guess I could make another stand, but I think that I would end up making a simpler stand, since this took quite some time to print out, I believe it took a total of 14 hours.

3D Printing 9th Project

3d Project 09 I designed this Camper Keychain to see about maybe selling this online. I did end up creating an Etsy store, but did not sell any of these keychains. I do still have a few just in case.

3D Printing 10th Project

3d Project 10 I thought that this was a great idea, making a Cloud Storage to hold USB and SD Cards. I initally designed this for myself and still have this on my desk to hold my USB and SD Cards, but I also listed this on my Etsy account and even sold one or two. I believe that this is one of my most creative designs

3D Printing 11th Project

3d Project 11 This was another design that I originally made for myself, which I have a few of these at my offices, but I also listed this online on my Etsy account and ended up selling a few.

3D Printing 12th Project

3d Project 12 I ended up finding this online at the Thingiverse, which I thought was very cool and ended up printing this out. I just keep it with all of the rest of my 3d printed items, so I don't really end up using this at all.

3D Printing 13th Project

3d Project 13 This project was more of a necessity as we had batteries in packages all over. Most of the packages have already been opened with a few batteries removed from each. This little design came from Thingiverse and turned out great. We are able to organize all of our double and triple A batteries into one container.

3D Printing 14th Project

3d Project 14 This was my first large project, which required multiple 3d prints and some assembly. I used the Count Dooku lightsaber because of the unusual design. It is not just a straight lightsaber like some of the ones that are featured in Star Wars. I believe that this ended up turning out pretty decent for my first big project. I am still working on the gluing and finishing of these, so I am hoping that future projects will turn out better.

3D Printing 15th Project

3d Project 15 I printed this toothpaste slider, which I found here at Thingiverse. This was a more useful project, which I ended up making several. I made two for myself and one for my Mom.

3D Printing 16th Project

3d Project 16 I printed this No-touch door opener, which I found here at Thingiverse due to this whole Covid-19 issue. I ended up using an infil of 50% just to make it more sturdy, which it really is. I think you could go for a higher infil, but it would add to the printing time in order to do that.

3D Printing 17th Project

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