Author: ottosaf

Organising printer nozzles starts simple, but then after a few reorders you tend to loose track of what you are stocked up on and what you’re out of. The trick is being able to see it all in one place. This tidy pill box should help.

This is my first attempt at art imitating life. In this instance we get a humble soy fish made into a much larger object and celebrate it with a light show.

I’ve discovered that a plastic drop sheet over the 3d printer seems to keep the drafts away, and therefore the printer makes better prints. How much that is true is hard to tell for sure, but I’m convinced that it works.

If you ever wondered if you can print your own printing filament spool, yes you can. Be sure to use a 1mm nozzle, for a speedy draft print. This one is designed as two parts, where one slots into the other.

This is a remix of an item that I found on thingiverse.com . After seeing how it works, I intended to design my own ball and socket from scratch. But you know what? The downloaded design is good enough, and a great time saver. So I just ran with it, and kept making more bits…

A flash grid is a simple light modifier that limits the direction of the light. The effect that it produces is similar to a snoot modifier and a vignette filter.

I’ve been trying to attach cameras and other things onto my Ender 3d printer, in a reasonably legit looking way.

The problem that I had was an ever growing collection of hex bits. The solution was to design a simple array to hold them all together.

Dresden eyewear is one of my favourite solutions. The gist is that they come in a choice of colours in one standard shape, are relatively affordable to everyone, and look cool.

Custom shelves are excellent because they are a perfect fit for what they were designed to hold.

This phone stand design started in 2019. The early version looked like an extrusion that may have been cut into lengths. Now in 2022, I noticed that there was a slight problem with printing this item consistently with an assortment of materials — at this point I was interesting in producing multiple colours.