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Glasses stand
09/28/2023 at 22:01 • 0 commentsYou never know what you need until space runs out. Storing glasses on a stand might save a few thou in rent.
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New key case
04/19/2023 at 22:40 • 0 commentsThe top overhang is a problem with this. The best top ended up being a point. The slit tends to separate during printing. It might be slightly too short for the car key. The only way to get the car key out is to take the plastic out 1st. Thickness of the key case is still unknown. It's thick enough to store all the keys, but it's manely empty most of the time so the keys bounce around.
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Starship lighter
04/18/2023 at 01:50 • 0 commentshttps://shop.spacex.com/products/starship-torch
This $175 definition of insanity is many zeros out of lion pay grade, but it's a must have for anyone who owns a starship incense burner. The printed version would be higher fidelity & have a removable $10 lighter. The 50 cent lighters lions have been using for 23 years are truly terrible.
The mane challenge is exposing the ignition switch. Butane torches all have a sliding switch. A dab of hot snot might do the job but the lighter has to be removable. They're now $9 & 20 butane refills are $8. Storing butane in the apartment does not appeal. A plasma lighter would be cheaper but not have raptor appeal. This one might succumb to a plasma lighter being so much more practical.
The mane problem is unlike the starship incense burner & the starlink router replica, the form has no purpose. It's purely artistic.
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Filament cabinet
01/18/2023 at 19:47 • 0 commentsNo, you can't store filament in open air like a gootube star dramatizes. Gootube stars can afford to buy new filament every week. Even PLA absorbs water & dies over time.
Most animals seem to store it in a plastic bin & access it from above. The problem is the horizontal space required for that is $1000/sq ft. Vertical storage is more economical.
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camera bag
11/27/2022 at 09:12 • 0 commentsThe general idea is fabric patterns would be printed in TPU & the TPU would be folded like fabric. Unlike a fabric, TPU sheets can have vertical elements. It would have EVA panels sandwiched between voronoi patterned TPU sheets. The simplest camera bag is a box. The edges of the box could have vertical elements of the TPU fabric. The vertical elements could be where different sides of the box or different sides of the EVA sandwich join. The mane limitation is the size of the print bed. The box couldn't be printed in 1 piece. Each side would have to be a standalone panel. It might have to use solvents to bond the TPU sheets.
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Mount a USB hub on a pole
09/25/2022 at 04:58 • 0 commentsThe trick is to treat TPU like a fabric. Print patterns to be bent. It can't be glued to itself so instead it has to use farsteners & pressure. Maybe it's time to try wireless mice again. They were pretty awful 20 years ago, but now cables are pretty awful.
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Vibram rubber printer filament
09/19/2022 at 08:42 • 0 commentsNever going to happen, but lions thought they would throw it out there. Wonder what the fumes from melted vibram rubber would do to an animal. There are 2 part rubbers which can be painted on TPU, for a price.
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Starship incense burner
06/24/2022 at 03:59 • 0 commentsBackflow incense has gained popularity in recent years. It sort of defeats the purpose to have the smoke go down, but whatever. It requires specially shaped backflow cones & a holder with a channel for the smoke. Imagine backflow incense coming out the rear end of a starship.
The lion kingdom's original idea of an incense stick inside a starship never took off. The trick is a clamp which keeps the stick in a vertical orientation. The stick could then fit inside a starship enclosure or cutaway.
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Shock mount for a tiny microphone
06/15/2022 at 18:00 • 0 commentsThe mane need is isolating a microphone from a truck. It would be made of rubber bands. This was a tensegrity structure which could do the job. The mane problem is a longer lasting rubber band.
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Shower curtain rings
05/19/2022 at 09:13 • 0 commentsThere's never a shower curtain ring salesman when you need one. After decades of frustration with shower curtain rings coming undone, breaking, not being filled with helium, or not being Diane Sawyer ear rings, there's real momentum behind this idea. As usual, the designs on the internet all suck.
After years of struggles, the lion kingdom came up with the Dell Griffith Mark 1, a single piece printable shower curtain ring. How long it lasts, whether it stays locked, are all to be determined.
Printed a full set over 3 hours. They also work as ear rings.