Prusa Mini: my 5 cool upgrades!

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I have designed 5 cool upgrades for the Prusa Mini machine. It is an awesome machine out of the box, these are unnecesary but fun and helpful small upgrades!
NOTE: I’m not affiliated to Prusa in any way, all the upgrades are of my own design licensed under Creative Commons license on Thingiverse (check the links below)
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🔩 Ribbon cable clip: www.thingiverse.com/thing:432...
🔩 Thumb rest: www.thingiverse.com/thing:432...
🔩 Fan cover: www.thingiverse.com/thing:438...
🔩 Extruder gears: www.thingiverse.com/thing:450...
🔩 USB extension cord attachment: www.thingiverse.com/thing:450...
🏭 Link to Myminifactory in case you prefer it over thingiverse: www.myminifactory.com/users/a...

[@mateng7707]

That’s a new record for a 3D printer channel: the word awesome thrown out in the first seconds of the video

[@AMakeDesigns]

🤣

[@lindsayreid8347]

Great videos and upgrades. Many thanks

[@alex.germany]

Want to see the wheel spinning 😁

[@AMakeDesigns]

Print one!! :-D

[@kishorsoni2040]

Plz give me stl

[@AMakeDesigns]

Links are in the video description

[@chuysaucedo7119]

Very good!!!!

[@SM26]

At last I got my Mini, and I came straight back to this video,
and the screen clips were one of my first prints.
but... it's a bit too small, so one of them snapped while I fitted it.

[@AMakeDesigns]

Sorry about that! It's a very simple print, I hope it was OK to print one more ;-)

[@SM26]

@@AMakeDesigns the design was 99%
but the instruction was 101%
print 3, put on 2.
haha
Keep this stuff coming!

[@WesWilsonMakelivedotnet]

Very nice, concise and useful

[@AMakeDesigns]

Glad you liked it

[@buster349100]

These are great ideas! Thank you for sharing!

[@AMakeDesigns]

Glad you like them!

[@espariz]

Great ideas, thanks!

[@AMakeDesigns]

Glad you like them!

[@genmasaotome3503]

definitely need those ribbon wire clips. mushing it in is kinda sketchy.

[@michaelwinkler7007]

Hi, very good video you made there :-) also your upgrades are nice.
When you show parts in your hands, can you zoom in more? Or maybe show it in CAD? I am very interested in details and I wasn't really able to see your parts closely.
Thanks for the video! Keep on making more :-)

[@AMakeDesigns]

Noted! These comments help me improve!! If you head over to Thingiverse you will find all the details.

[@andreschu5670]

Big ups! very informative. I will be adding these to my prusa Minis and will keep following!

[@AMakeDesigns]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Hxvox]

I love your videos, keep going and keep it up!

[@AMakeDesigns]

Thank you so much!!

[@silverchannel3651]

Hello, great video...thank you....this r2d2 is great...did you printed the droid on the mini?...where do i find the file to download it. thank you . Greetings from switzerland

[@AMakeDesigns]

I printed it on my Ender3 but I guess it prints well enough on the mini. Here is the file, I think I scaled it 200% don't remember exactly. www.thingiverse.com/thing:766574

[@StuerPatrick]

Hi, Love these upgrades. but would it be possible to look in to updating the Extruder gears? the current design of the hatch prevents it from fully going up. if you look at the latest revision of prusa the hatch is at an angle clearing the top bracket of the Z axis

[@AMakeDesigns]

I will give it a look, thanks!

[@StuerPatrick]

@@AMakeDesigns nice. With a knife i carved the angle in to clear it. But would look a bit nicer if it where printed that way

[@frankvonthienen3862]

The required site of the USB plug got a USB sign on the top, so it is very easy to plug it in correctly :-)

[@AMakeDesigns]

I always plug it in correctly at the third try! :-)

[@JeezyLul]

Thanks dude. Should I take the BOTH STEEL SHEETS for 30€ plus?

[@kalletaimi5094]

If you want to print with PETG, then yes.

[@sfahadrizvi]

I knows its an old video but can you post the link to the R2D2 pen holder that you have ?

[@AMakeDesigns]

I think it might be in one of the video descriptions. Let me check and cons back to you.

[@daemon3spade]

Then the extruder gear will affect the function of the extruder?

[@AMakeDesigns]

No it won't

[@valerioturrini9414]

bel video grazie

[@AMakeDesigns]

Prego!! :-)

[@justforfun-sz6jc]

lol ! use hockey tape

[@richardalpert76]

I am leaving this comment only for the automated Algorythm.

[@AMakeDesigns]

the robots are pleased!

[@kellypainter7625]

Mine sure wasn't. FIrst the PTFE tube was 1mm too short and that caused clog after clog causing me to replace nozzles just to have another clog. I finally figured out what was wrong and replaced it with the spare that was the right length. Then, the heat bed thermistor failed. They are completely out of them so mine is completely dead now. It did print well when it worked but mostly, I view it as a dud. I would not recommend this machine.

[@LimpiezasMyG]

the fan cover is a downgrade... you need more airflow, not less

[@AMakeDesigns]

I don't think that the cover has a significant effect on the air flow

[@PeterAcrat]

👍 Do some test prints with Nylon or PCTPE - then say again whether there is no need to upgrade anything.

[@AMakeDesigns]

That's pretty specific material, out of specification for this machine 😉

[@nicolafabris6806]

...ma parla in italiano Andrea

[@AMakeDesigns]

Prima di iniziare il canale ho considerato attentamente se farlo in italiano o in inglese. Alla fine ho deciso per l'inglese per due motivi : raggiungere un pubblico più grande e il fatto che nella comunità la maggior parte del supporto è comunque in inglese, quindi è abbastanza importante conoscere la lingua.
Ad oggi il grosso del mio pubblico e straniero, quindi parlare in italiano non sarebbe la scelta giusta 😉