Recent works
Repairs, replacement parts, and maker ingenuity.
Use project stories to show the original problem, the design or repair approach, material decisions, iterations, and the final result.
A little help for our friends
If you have ever had to push a stroller on a Manitoba street or sidewalk in winter, you know it can be a huge pain in the A%%. Local maker, Ed Van Zyl, came up with this idea to address this very pain that he was personally experiencing. Very functional, quick attach skis makes for…
Its just a small thing, but…
exactly our point… Super handy sponge holder that fits over the centre of dual sink to allow the drips to drain. Can be placed on either side. Works like a charm, and can be sized for specific sinks. Just another example how 3D stuff is household handy.
Massive Consumer Industrial 3D Printer
The folks at Elegoo announced this printer a while back for a very good price considering its size and features.
It seems fridge handles need to be stronger…
Here is another fridge handle replacement requested by a client. Apparently fridge handles are problematic and either not easy to find or more expensive than they should be to replace.
A Fix of a Different Kind
If you have read some of my other posts, you can sense how excited I am about the possibilities 3D printers can bring about – not just in land fill avoidance, or mass carbon container ship avoidance, or household repair. Seriously meaningful possibilities. Like the work going on in the e-Nable community with 3D printed…
A few more household items
As it happens coffee grinder handles of ths sort seem to break now and then. Sadly, it seems they cannot be purchased separately. So we scanned the broken one, repaired it digitally, and reprinted it – Voila – landfill avoidance. “Spaghetti” style lamp shades occasionally become brittle after a few years of exposure to incandescent…
Car Parts made at Home
Well not many manufacturers are doing it, and even those that are are not making it easy to find the design files yet, but Ford at least is heading in the right direction. This is an interesting article about printing 3d parts for some of the Maverick’s accessories. Ford releases open-source CAD files for 3D…
Not something we do..yet 🙂
Everything is Broken is not buidling 3D Homes, but I thought thsi was an interesting article about the many applications of 3D printing and how it is starting to change the dynamics and econmics of many industries. More to come but check this out; https://www.dwell.com/article/azure-3d-printed-prefab-tiny-home-plastic-bottles-82f174a8
The Workings of the Crew
Here is a short insta video of one of the repair requests we took on; https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cyntfg3s66q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== The finished product;