Thanks for watching! I know these are some pretty random projects but hopefully you still found it fun and interesting. What's your favorite functional print and what should I make next with the flexible filaments?
theres an awesome wallet design on thingiverse. I have made them in 4 different colors. the first one lasted over a year of daily use without any major damage. i rotate them all now.
TIP: buy stainless steel rods, 100mm length and 1, 2 and 3mm diameter. They make awesome pins and work really well with prints. I've used them as hinges and also as support inside vertically printed parts to make them stronger. Simple to use, drill a hole, push them in. Easy to cut with a Dremel and a cutting disc.
I found all those projects really interesting especially the mechanical one and also I am wondering did you already Release the winner to give away or are you still doing that yeah I really hope I didn’t miss anything
I think you doubted yourself in this video. Let me be the first to say that a video like this is inspiring. You found so many niche situations in which 3D printing improved your daily life. Little things add up. You are a master creator and a video like this shows that clearly. Keep moving forward!
I think in today's world the ability to do those quick fixes is going to become more and more accepted instead of "oh just buy another one". Even if I wanted to buy some music rack mount stuff it's not even in stock, so I've been cadding like a madman to get stuff organised for months haha
My Logitech mouse is developing issues and my first thought was replacing the switch. The soviets were great engineers. Built to last and buit to be repaired.
Honestly, I don't think it is acceptable to have a part on a 50$ controller break in the first place. Although I have had a few cases where I broke/needed a part that is not available at all anymore, for example a mount on a sewing machine from the 60s. In those cases, a 3d printer is invaluable.
Devin is one of the most humble youtuber. I have been following this channel for a long time and its astonishing how genuine and fair this guy is. Plus he is always on point with creativity, always showing new ideas which will instantly make you think how “cool” all his creations are..
I just got my first 3d printer last week and I've already modeled and printed 3 parts to replace broken things around the house. It is stupid satisfying to see the thing you measured and made on a computer screen be printed out and used for make something better.
There should be an Award for the 3D designer of the year, for contributions to advance 3D printing, bring forth useful and artistic/creative designs and inspire others. You'd certainly get my vote.
i made a new comfortable handle for my cane and a springy phone case that protects it from (frequent) dropping. both designs have been used by other people now and that makes me happy.
It's always really satisfying designing replacement parts. That moment when everything finally just works is the greatest. When I lived in an old travel trailer, I replaced a lot of the old plastic parts like light bulb covers and the sliding mechanisms in the locking cabinets. It takes forever to find the specific part that you need and ends up costing you an arm and a leg. Then, half the time it takes several weeks for the part to even ship to you. 3D printing absolutely made my life easier that way (Plus you have to come up with some way of justifying buying a several hundred dollar machine ;) )
This is what makes 3d printing so fun! Fixing big or small things that wouldn't hav been able to if there wasn't 3d printers, and adding or changing to things to have totally new features
My first real functional print was a replacement trigger button on an old, generic (and now out of production) bluetooth smartphone-compatible gamepad! Still working perfectly fine after about a year of regular use :D Really taught me a lot about modelling in freeCAD and getting used to the concept of manufacturing tolerances. Fixing small things around the house that would be infeasible to repair/replace otherwise is and probably will forever be my favorite application of 3D printing.
Thanks for sharing Devin! This clearly shows the limitless possibilities for functional prints and hopefully it will inspire more makers to pick up some basic modelling skills to go with 3D printing. On that note, I am also voting for a fusion 360 tutorial series 🙂
My mother had a knife block that used a bristle insert to hold the knives rather than slots. This is nice for when your collection isn't really a set, but it has two major drawbacks. The first is that once you have a few knives in there, it becomes very difficult to insert another or even pull them out. The second is that the bristles get damaged and dirty overtime. Made her an insert that holds a ton of knives and they are easy to insert and remove
The feet remote trigger was genius! My favourite functional i designed was probably my castor stoppers so I could play racing games with my chair without it moving
Dude he’s like the enigma of the kind of 3D printing chad that we all want to be. He repairs everything and it works perfectly and it’s all so creative
Devin, your speech at 15:04 was spot on! I feel completely the same way. There's nothing you can't fix or create when you have the power to 3D model and print. The only limation we have is our creativity and our imagination. And well of course our knowledge and skill in 3D design but that can always be improved upon. The satisfaction from creating your own solutions is second to none, you feel so accomplished and self-sufficient. Not to mention the cost benefits, oh you sell this 3rd party accessory for $50? let me just model my own and print it for $1.50 in material! See my reply to your question in the video.
My favorite functional print? So initially the power supply brick for my 1440p monitor was attached under my desk using cable zip tie mounts and zip ties as I'm really into cable management. For weeks, the power supply kept falling down after extensive use on my computer. I tried using more mounts and zip ties and the issue still prevailed. Then I tried using heavy-duty double-sided tape. Much to my dismay and shock, it still kept falling! Now the power supply brick isn't very heavy at all but I suspected that it just gets really hot, so it must loosen the glue on the mount and tape. I looked for brackets online but they are either too large, too expensive, and many of them are one size fits all solutions. I wanted a solution that was designed specifically for my power supply brick. Thus, in true Make Anything fashion I designed and modeled my own bracket and printed it on my Ender 3 Pro. It came out perfectly and utilizes a threaded screw already located on the back of the desk to be mounted. This solution has worked beautifully and my power supply has yet to fall, and I suspect that it will never again. :D
@@make.anything Ok, so, update to this... I think you were right, however, my design was flawed as well. A couple of months into its use the hooks actually broke. I used a hook design (it looks like an uppercase J from the side) in which the power supply slipped into the hooks and it was held onto the desk with a threaded screw. To save material I only used three hooks and they weren't very thick, probably a couple of millimeters in width. I updated the design to be one long complete hook that travels the length of the power supply and it's holding up much better now. Sometimes cutting corners isn't worth it...
The thing I keyed into in the intro was the capo on your guitar. I was expecting you to say that was 3D printed as well. That would be a good candidate for it as well.
a lot of people say that "3d printing is only useful for nick-knacks, and has no practical purpose." This video is the perfect demonstration of why that's untrue. 3D printing is not for solving any particular problem(s), but rather for solving the various problems you might find in day-to-day life.
I'm so glad TH-cam recommended this video. Great editing, great comedy, and great demonstration of the usefulness of 3D printing. Absolutely earned a subscription
Boom! These are really cool! Please more videos like these. My favourite one would be the replacement for game controller. Next, make the whole controller. Lol. Thanks for contributing to the space.
You're teasing us with those filaments we can't get yet 😂 Both those rubber filaments looks really useful. Most of my printing (*ahem*, well apart from printer modifications!) has been useful bits and bobs around the place - all those one-off pieces that you either can't buy, or are variations that fit what I want to do better than what's available. Even simple things like boxes or holders - instead of buying off-the-shelf size things that don't fit well - simply model my own that fits stuff perfectly; nice!
For some reason, my favorite part was the rubber chair feet 😄 The prints I appreciate the most at home are some toilet seat cover fasteners I had to design and print because it came with some unusable contraptions. There’s always some things you need to print, I love doing it 😊
Been a minute, Always love to see your videos. Yep, I think that most people don't realize how really useful 3d printing is for "utility" parts, and parts that would take too long to get or just too expensive. So if you have a modicum of 3d software knowledge (most CAD programs are easier than one thinks) you can get a LOT printed for things around the house or for work, as you've shown. Even though I'm an artist and have done some wonderful creative prints, the bulk of my printing has been Knobs, hooks, replacement parts etc.
I tried to make very similar thumbstick covers for my oculus quest 2, while I was working on them my controller covers came in and came with thumbstick covers, I didn't even know they existed but I guess that saved me from having to do any more work on the design!
Great video! The most useful things I found were rubber feet -- I printed some with PETG for my chair, but they don't work as well as I have hoped; and handlebar grips -- I need a pair my bicycle. I have direct extruder, I should get some flexible filament. Incidentally, one thing that I solved with the 3d printer is pins -- when designing a model, just shave off about 0.5 mm at the bottom of the pin so it's printable and the layers are lengthwise. Print it with PLA or PETG. A few of 'temporary' pins like that have been working for years.
Nice job Devon. Simple can be more satisfying than complicated. I designed and printed a simple clip to retain my toilet window screen as the old one perished and I could find nothing compatible. With the help of Tinkercad and one hour of printing and I am a hero in the wife's eyes with a free pass to buy all the filament I want.
I made a push tab for a water cooler at work when the cold water tab broke. A few years later, when the hot tab broke on the same system, I had a design ready to go. A water dispenser that would have only lasted 3 years has been going strong for 7+ years thanks to my part.
In November of 2017 you made a video about 3D printed fabric. There's another way to do that which doesn't involve mechanically linking the tiles with the plastic. One guy used a layer of cloth or fine netting in the middle of the print. He let half the thickness of the tiles or scales print, laid down the cloth/netting, and let the other half of the tile print. This sandwiched the fabric/net permanently into the tiles or scales and still made for a flexible printed scale armor that was still flat on the inside so it was comfortable to wear but could still be three dimensional on the outside, like spiked shoulder pauldrons, or something like Aquaman's fish scale armor. Regarding the Mint Green rubber filament in this video, if they made it in black it would be great for printing RC car tires, or maybe even flexible and shock absorbing but still protective cell phone cases. Use that black tire filament closest to the phone, then the softer rubber filament around that kinda like the Otterbox Defender cases.
Yeah, you're way more aggressive with your controller than you need to be. I'm thinking the grip strength you get from climbing as a past-time doesn't help the situation though. My SN30 pro+ has been working beautifully for 14 months worth of weekends so far.
I just want you to know, you sir, are doing this whole 3D printing this correctly. You’ve designed and printed so any fixes and upgrades to daily or frequently used things. The way you are using your printers is how I strive to use mine
16:25 This reminds me of my box fan. It has 2 feet that keep it from tipping over and over heating but one of them broke. So I used the other one to measure and make an exact duplicate in MoI3D, then I printed it. Of course the working foot then got lost so I printed one to replace that too.
I bought a used 14" raised platform bed frame and it was missing a corner leg. I used Tinker Cad to model a new leg that didn't require any bolts as it was a corner. I also designed some leg extensions to raise the frame an additional 2" for more storage clearance underneath. Eventually I bought a new 18" frame and gave the 14" frame away but it still works great and is sturdy.
Oh my gosh thank you Devin, I laughed so hard when you were doing your pull up with the one arm while pushing up on your legs, I probably replayed that 10 times! Funny
When you drilled that wall, and the drill fell into the wall fast, i had a little chuckle ... and thought, im glad im not the only one thats done that HaHa!
One of the most “useful to only me” things I’ve designed and printed is basically a wrist cuff with a stabbing part on the side that points away from the body. I work in a walk-in cooler and open a lot of plastic wrapped packages of bottles and cans. I wear gloves Bc I’m a weakling and operating a pocket knife isn’t hard with gloves on, but opening, closing, and fishing it out of my pocket is hard with gloves. I also run the risk of puncturing the product… which I’ve *neeeeverrrr* done. So this wrist cuff effectively pierces the plastic, has a “bladed” edge that “cuts” the plastic (more of a very controlled rip) and it fits between my sleeve and glove nicely, so it’s basically out of the way until I need it.
Also for me my best project were "reparing". Most successful, two non standard gears for glass wipers for a vintage car. The one I use the most, a lamp shader for my bedside table... the glass one died in an incident :D And several repair part for old appliance for my mother kitchen.
Dude this video is awesome, that's what 3d printing is all about, taking bad energizing engineering and making it more durable or better. You are a very smart young man. I really want to learn fusion 360 so that i can do stuff like this but i just find it so complicated but i think if i watched enough videos i could probably figure it out. 3d printing is fun already just going to thingiverse and downloading and printing parts, but even more rewarding is actually designing or creating your own parts and printing them. Nothing gives a better understanding than creating your own parts by actually designing them.
My favorite print is probably the nightstand And knock box I designed and gifed to my stepsister. I printed it in glow in the dark so I love turning it off. I regret giving it to her as a gift now xD For the knock box instead of paying 20$ I printed this cool looking bar for a yogurt container and it took 20m to print and I upcycled waste and saved myself 12h of printing and 100g of Filament with this idea
Nice video! This video made me realize how much I just miss printing with my filament. I've been working on my personal project lately and all my prints in the past year have been parts for it. To the point that I haven't actually "used" my printer for fun purposed. I'm gonna go print my dad a nightstand he wanted now!
I have fixed the toilet, a headset, added a vertical stand for a monitor, fixtures to hang an air filter, knobs for a door lock on a car, a cover for a water tank and maybe more things! 3D printing is an amazing tool!
I am surrounded by little fixes like that, but the thing I use and appreciate and use the most is one of the first things I designed -- a ring resizer. I lost weight after we got married, so my wedding ring is too big. I didn't like the ones available -- they're either metal and would damage the ring, or made of a grippy material that would irritate my skin or catch on surfaces. It's just a little saddle type thing that sits inside the ring. I lost (more) weight a couple years ago and updated the design with increased thickness.
This is exactly how I use my printer, always engineering a solution to a completely random problem. Although I'm probably less destructive as you Devin 😂
I Can't Wait To Get My Hands On Some Of The Flexible Filament's!! Sounds Awesome!! The Only Drawback I See Coming Is My 3D Printer Is BUILT Not Bought!! No Owners Manual! I'm Just Gettin' Into 3D Printing, I Think I'll Have Lots Of Fun, My First Print I Watched It All The Way Threw!
I love 3d printing functional parts in a few ways. I'm a mechanical engineer and quite a master in Catia V5 design skills. So i can make any adapter/mount i need, and for sturdyness in can eiter print it as is, Or embed steel wire/parts mid print (print the channel, pause print, insert the steel fully into the open channel and resume print to fill on top of the channel - this makes a steel part totally inside the plastic. Useful for mounts where i need a thin wall to be screwed.. i embed a washer in that wall. Also useful for embedding magnets Also another reinforcement can be done with epoxy. Print a shell of the part and fill it with epoxy. Or for flexible materials (that need to be sturdy and without layers or heat resistant) you can 3dprint a mould for a casting. Casting silicone or urethane or epoxy will give the final part totally in that material of choice (be aware of proper mold release agent or it will be very hard to release the part from the mould). Or print the mould from a filament that is disolvable in a solvent (PVAB support fillament with water, or ABS disolved by acetone, or others) where the solvent does not also disolve the casting material (silicone, latex, urethane, epoxy, other). ABS moulds work ok for me since the ABS is smoothed by acetone vapor and make a smooth surface for a mould. Otherwise the mould would need extensive postprocess to smooth out all the layer lines, or just fill with bondo then smooth out then paint with something glossy for a smooth mould. For the more diy-ers that have lots of tools and space to do forging and castings of metals, the plastic part can be the positive form for the sand casting mould for an aluminium cast or even steel (but i doubt many of you have a furnace at all, and even harder to get a blast furnace for cast iron or cast steel that is way above even serious workshops). For the jewlers, the 3dprinted part can cast a wax model and that is making the mould of the lost wax casting of gold and silver (or other). Some do the lost PLA method but is not a great idea for small parts. - but the resolution of FDM is not great for jewlery, but resin printers are great for making either the model itself or mould for small jewlery cast. There is also silicone mould making by pouring silicone around the part (the 3d printed model) and later split that silicone to remove the model and get a silicone mould that can cast epoxy and other materials with great details. Also in the 3dprinted mould category i can mention dies for shaping metal plates in a press, or making a split mould that is covered by carbon fiber mesh (or fiberglass mesh) and resin impregnated and when you close the mould you can shape that carbon fiber part precisely. All mentioned are a derivative of the industrial process, but the models/moulds/dies are very expensive to do traditionally (now there is also CNC to make cheaper parts but way more expensive than 3dprinting). So a 3d printer gives me acces to all sorts of processes that are very hard to do without a means to make a model. In the older days a wooden model was made block by block, glued and sanded, and sculpted for each draft angle needed, and other stuff and could not have a very complex split line of the mould. A plastic mould if it can contain the casting material can be as complex you need, with multiple part lines, cores, features to align the moulds and all sort of stuff done in a CAD software.
A cog broke on my robovac leaving one of it's brush hands not spinning. Still riding the high of successfully printing that tiny cog and it working after putting it all back together!
The controller switches repair is vastly underrated wizardry. It demonstrates a valuable collection of many skills, and patience. I made a bottle opener for my grandma last week and she likes it. :) Although it could be better with some grippy filament. r o b u s t
a small plastic part of the handle for my freezer broke. replacements cost >$200 dollars, and you had to buy the whole set, including new handles for the refrigerator doors too. i designed a replacement in f360, and it only took 2 iterations before I had a perfect fit. just like that, i had offset more than 1/4 the cost of my mk3s, and it took me less than a day.
For your grips on your gym equipment, just get a can of compressed air that you use to clean a pc and use the tiny straw nozzle thing to blow air between the grip and the bar to get it off. They're like the grips on dirt bikes but we used an aircompressor back in the day. [edit] another fella mentioned the hairspray to get the grips on, forgot about that. age woes.
13:56 something about this bit completely destroyed me, I laughed for a solid minute. Just your unapologetic matter-of-fact recognition, and no follow up statement, just a shrug.
Great video! That feeling of satisfaction when you design something, print it... AND IT WORKS! I designed repair items for arround the house as needed. And parts for the model rocket kits that I sell. Thank you for inspiring me to make even more fixes. FYI, I used TPU to make rubber feet for the launchpads I sell for my kits :D.
My grandparents dog chewed up the battery cover for our TV remote. When I first got my printer I immediately tried to find a print to replace it I wasn't able to find one untill last week. Printed it in petg and it works great!
The 8bitdo is a really easy controler to assemble and disassemble once you figured it out, i opened mine a few times for cleaning purposes (i play a lot), and once you got it figured it's just LEGO
As for the grips being annoying to install, use some hairspray! It makes it super easy and dries up to a tacky substance so it sticks! We use it all the time replacing handles on motorcycles :D
Getting to improve functionality and longevity of things to suit your lifestyle and personalize prints are some reasons I really want to learn CAD in-depth and have access to CAD programs.
Me too, the only way those tiny pins could last longer than a month is if the entire trigger was cast steel. I'm pretty sure gaming equipment manufacturers know this very well, I cannot seem to find any modern game controller that's built to last.
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Thanks for watching! I know these are some pretty random projects but hopefully you still found it fun and interesting. What's your favorite functional print and what should I make next with the flexible filaments?
theres an awesome wallet design on thingiverse. I have made them in 4 different colors. the first one lasted over a year of daily use without any major damage. i rotate them all now.
@@technodrone313 link?
TIP: buy stainless steel rods, 100mm length and 1, 2 and 3mm diameter. They make awesome pins and work really well with prints. I've used them as hinges and also as support inside vertically printed parts to make them stronger. Simple to use, drill a hole, push them in. Easy to cut with a Dremel and a cutting disc.
I found all those projects really interesting especially the mechanical one and also I am wondering did you already Release the winner to give away or are you still doing that yeah I really hope I didn’t miss anything
I think you doubted yourself in this video. Let me be the first to say that a video like this is inspiring. You found so many niche situations in which 3D printing improved your daily life. Little things add up. You are a master creator and a video like this shows that clearly. Keep moving forward!
I think in today's world the ability to do those quick fixes is going to become more and more accepted instead of "oh just buy another one". Even if I wanted to buy some music rack mount stuff it's not even in stock, so I've been cadding like a madman to get stuff organised for months haha
And the catalogue of 3D printing files online just keeps growing :D
My Logitech mouse is developing issues and my first thought was replacing the switch.
The soviets were great engineers. Built to last and buit to be repaired.
Honestly, I don't think it is acceptable to have a part on a 50$ controller break in the first place.
Although I have had a few cases where I broke/needed a part that is not available at all anymore, for example a mount on a sewing machine from the 60s. In those cases, a 3d printer is invaluable.
Louis Rossmann agrees! Or at least hopes, dreams, advocates, etc.
@@Throneos I don't know about built to last, most soviet things I owned broke down fast, very fast.
Devin is one of the most humble youtuber. I have been following this channel for a long time and its astonishing how genuine and fair this guy is. Plus he is always on point with creativity, always showing new ideas which will instantly make you think how “cool” all his creations are..
Yup
I just got my first 3d printer last week and I've already modeled and printed 3 parts to replace broken things around the house. It is stupid satisfying to see the thing you measured and made on a computer screen be printed out and used for make something better.
Yeah man! That's the spirit!
There should be an Award for the 3D designer of the year, for contributions to advance 3D printing, bring forth useful and artistic/creative designs and inspire others. You'd certainly get my vote.
With my level of destructiveness, 3D printing will be a Ship of Theseus situation for me soon.
The proportion of things that are printed in my home keeps rising!
Planing to join the club. Been a long time coming.
8:08 Those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. We've previously seen evidence of your innate chi powers.
That's why PlayStation controllers are so popular. Very sturdy.
i made a new comfortable handle for my cane and a springy phone case that protects it from (frequent) dropping. both designs have been used by other people now and that makes me happy.
It's always really satisfying designing replacement parts. That moment when everything finally just works is the greatest. When I lived in an old travel trailer, I replaced a lot of the old plastic parts like light bulb covers and the sliding mechanisms in the locking cabinets. It takes forever to find the specific part that you need and ends up costing you an arm and a leg. Then, half the time it takes several weeks for the part to even ship to you. 3D printing absolutely made my life easier that way (Plus you have to come up with some way of justifying buying a several hundred dollar machine ;) )
This is what makes 3d printing so fun! Fixing big or small things that wouldn't hav been able to if there wasn't 3d printers, and adding or changing to things to have totally new features
love the transparency. from showing the failures and what became of it. as well as learning from older prints and making another version of it better.
i was into 3d printing for almost 5 years before i got into tpu. now i barely use rigid materials :)
Tpu master race
I'm about to start flex printing. What all do you print?
My first real functional print was a replacement trigger button on an old, generic (and now out of production) bluetooth smartphone-compatible gamepad! Still working perfectly fine after about a year of regular use :D Really taught me a lot about modelling in freeCAD and getting used to the concept of manufacturing tolerances.
Fixing small things around the house that would be infeasible to repair/replace otherwise is and probably will forever be my favorite application of 3D printing.
Thanks for sharing Devin! This clearly shows the limitless possibilities for functional prints and hopefully it will inspire more makers to pick up some basic modelling skills to go with 3D printing. On that note, I am also voting for a fusion 360 tutorial series 🙂
My mother had a knife block that used a bristle insert to hold the knives rather than slots. This is nice for when your collection isn't really a set, but it has two major drawbacks. The first is that once you have a few knives in there, it becomes very difficult to insert another or even pull them out. The second is that the bristles get damaged and dirty overtime. Made her an insert that holds a ton of knives and they are easy to insert and remove
No wonder you destruct everything. Look at the size of those dumbbells you work out with!
Been a fan of your channel for almost 5 years now, thanks for sharing your creativity with us!
The feet remote trigger was genius! My favourite functional i designed was probably my castor stoppers so I could play racing games with my chair without it moving
You might be the only person who has broken a controller that way, but still pretty cool that you made a fix that works for you!
Dude he’s like the enigma of the kind of 3D printing chad that we all want to be. He repairs everything and it works perfectly and it’s all so creative
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm watching this with headphones repaired by 3D printed parts.
Devin, your speech at 15:04 was spot on! I feel completely the same way. There's nothing you can't fix or create when you have the power to 3D model and print. The only limation we have is our creativity and our imagination. And well of course our knowledge and skill in 3D design but that can always be improved upon. The satisfaction from creating your own solutions is second to none, you feel so accomplished and self-sufficient. Not to mention the cost benefits, oh you sell this 3rd party accessory for $50? let me just model my own and print it for $1.50 in material! See my reply to your question in the video.
My favorite functional print?
So initially the power supply brick for my 1440p monitor was attached under my desk using cable zip tie mounts and zip ties as I'm really into cable management. For weeks, the power supply kept falling down after extensive use on my computer. I tried using more mounts and zip ties and the issue still prevailed. Then I tried using heavy-duty double-sided tape. Much to my dismay and shock, it still kept falling! Now the power supply brick isn't very heavy at all but I suspected that it just gets really hot, so it must loosen the glue on the mount and tape. I looked for brackets online but they are either too large, too expensive, and many of them are one size fits all solutions. I wanted a solution that was designed specifically for my power supply brick. Thus, in true Make Anything fashion I designed and modeled my own bracket and printed it on my Ender 3 Pro. It came out perfectly and utilizes a threaded screw already located on the back of the desk to be mounted. This solution has worked beautifully and my power supply has yet to fall, and I suspect that it will never again. :D
So I just want to say thank you for inspiring me and countless of other creators Devin. I love your channel and your work is amazing. Stay awesome.
Yes, inconveniences be gone! :D Hopefully the power supply doesn't get too warm and deform the print (if PLA). I could actually use something similar
@@make.anything Ok, so, update to this... I think you were right, however, my design was flawed as well. A couple of months into its use the hooks actually broke. I used a hook design (it looks like an uppercase J from the side) in which the power supply slipped into the hooks and it was held onto the desk with a threaded screw. To save material I only used three hooks and they weren't very thick, probably a couple of millimeters in width. I updated the design to be one long complete hook that travels the length of the power supply and it's holding up much better now. Sometimes cutting corners isn't worth it...
The thing I keyed into in the intro was the capo on your guitar. I was expecting you to say that was 3D printed as well. That would be a good candidate for it as well.
I printed a handle for my screen door! Was my first self designed part that I printed!
Great job!
a lot of people say that "3d printing is only useful for nick-knacks, and has no practical purpose." This video is the perfect demonstration of why that's untrue.
3D printing is not for solving any particular problem(s), but rather for solving the various problems you might find in day-to-day life.
Me: I built a crude escapement mechanism once.
Mechanistic: Hold my beer.
That's my life, designing and printing parts to replace little things that break everywhere.
Awesome! like the Antikythera mechanism! Well done!
I'm so glad TH-cam recommended this video. Great editing, great comedy, and great demonstration of the usefulness of 3D printing. Absolutely earned a subscription
Lured in with the 3d printing and rewarded with a repair guide!
Very glad to be subscribed
Boom! These are really cool! Please more videos like these. My favourite one would be the replacement for game controller. Next, make the whole controller. Lol.
Thanks for contributing to the space.
You're teasing us with those filaments we can't get yet 😂 Both those rubber filaments looks really useful.
Most of my printing (*ahem*, well apart from printer modifications!) has been useful bits and bobs around the place - all those one-off pieces that you either can't buy, or are variations that fit what I want to do better than what's available. Even simple things like boxes or holders - instead of buying off-the-shelf size things that don't fit well - simply model my own that fits stuff perfectly; nice!
God, I love the sound effects you add over the stop motion bits, so satisfying!
You should print tires with that tire filament
I watch a lot of 3D printing videos, you displayed awesome prints in a useful way. Great job sir
For some reason, my favorite part was the rubber chair feet 😄
The prints I appreciate the most at home are some toilet seat cover fasteners I had to design and print because it came with some unusable contraptions. There’s always some things you need to print, I love doing it 😊
Been a minute, Always love to see your videos.
Yep, I think that most people don't realize how really useful 3d printing is for "utility" parts, and parts that would take too long to get or just too expensive. So if you have a modicum of 3d software knowledge (most CAD programs are easier than one thinks) you can get a LOT printed for things around the house or for work, as you've shown.
Even though I'm an artist and have done some wonderful creative prints, the bulk of my printing has been Knobs, hooks, replacement parts etc.
As soon as I saw that rubber filament I had to search for it! Still not available, but here's hoping it will be soon!! It looked great
I tried to make very similar thumbstick covers for my oculus quest 2, while I was working on them my controller covers came in and came with thumbstick covers, I didn't even know they existed but I guess that saved me from having to do any more work on the design!
Great video! The most useful things I found were rubber feet -- I printed some with PETG for my chair, but they don't work as well as I have hoped; and handlebar grips -- I need a pair my bicycle. I have direct extruder, I should get some flexible filament.
Incidentally, one thing that I solved with the 3d printer is pins -- when designing a model, just shave off about 0.5 mm at the bottom of the pin so it's printable and the layers are lengthwise.
Print it with PLA or PETG. A few of 'temporary' pins like that have been working for years.
"I'm not an aggressive gamer." breaks his controller from pushing on it to hard.
*twice
Nice job Devon. Simple can be more satisfying than complicated. I designed and printed a simple clip to retain my toilet window screen as the old one perished and I could find nothing compatible. With the help of Tinkercad and one hour of printing and I am a hero in the wife's eyes with a free pass to buy all the filament I want.
Designing and fixing things with 3d printing really is satisfying. Fixed some sandals with some flexible filament recently.
I made a push tab for a water cooler at work when the cold water tab broke. A few years later, when the hot tab broke on the same system, I had a design ready to go. A water dispenser that would have only lasted 3 years has been going strong for 7+ years thanks to my part.
That's a perfect example!
All these examples are awesome, I'm so happy to see you back!
In November of 2017 you made a video about 3D printed fabric. There's another way to do that which doesn't involve mechanically linking the tiles with the plastic. One guy used a layer of cloth or fine netting in the middle of the print. He let half the thickness of the tiles or scales print, laid down the cloth/netting, and let the other half of the tile print. This sandwiched the fabric/net permanently into the tiles or scales and still made for a flexible printed scale armor that was still flat on the inside so it was comfortable to wear but could still be three dimensional on the outside, like spiked shoulder pauldrons, or something like Aquaman's fish scale armor.
Regarding the Mint Green rubber filament in this video, if they made it in black it would be great for printing RC car tires, or maybe even flexible and shock absorbing but still protective cell phone cases. Use that black tire filament closest to the phone, then the softer rubber filament around that kinda like the Otterbox Defender cases.
The amount of content in this one video alone….. wow…. Awesome job and thank you! Though I’m 2 years too late to this one
Definitely, the HDD storage that I designed and kept close to my desktop is the print my eye keeps revisiting.
Yeah, you're way more aggressive with your controller than you need to be. I'm thinking the grip strength you get from climbing as a past-time doesn't help the situation though. My SN30 pro+ has been working beautifully for 14 months worth of weekends so far.
That's what I was thinking. Haven't seen anyone break an SN30 like that before.
Yeah that problem is news to me xD
I climb a lot as well and still i have yet to break my sn30pro+
I just want you to know, you sir, are doing this whole 3D printing this correctly. You’ve designed and printed so any fixes and upgrades to daily or frequently used things. The way you are using your printers is how I strive to use mine
I have never owned a 3D printer in my life. And I’ve been watching every single one of your videos. Lol. I need to come up on a 3D printer now.
Nice! I love using my printer to repair broken things and parts!
16:25 This reminds me of my box fan. It has 2 feet that keep it from tipping over and over heating but one of them broke. So I used the other one to measure and make an exact duplicate in MoI3D, then I printed it. Of course the working foot then got lost so I printed one to replace that too.
Now, do a tourbillon that's print in place!
I bought a used 14" raised platform bed frame and it was missing a corner leg. I used Tinker Cad to model a new leg that didn't require any bolts as it was a corner. I also designed some leg extensions to raise the frame an additional 2" for more storage clearance underneath. Eventually I bought a new 18" frame and gave the 14" frame away but it still works great and is sturdy.
18:08 hey Devin, did you know that using the air compressor to blow air in between the part gets it on very east
Just make sure the whole projects doesn't go south
Great tip!
Oh my gosh thank you Devin, I laughed so hard when you were doing your pull up with the one arm while pushing up on your legs, I probably replayed that 10 times! Funny
When you drilled that wall, and the drill fell into the wall fast, i had a little chuckle ... and thought, im glad im not the only one thats done that HaHa!
One of the most “useful to only me” things I’ve designed and printed is basically a wrist cuff with a stabbing part on the side that points away from the body. I work in a walk-in cooler and open a lot of plastic wrapped packages of bottles and cans. I wear gloves Bc I’m a weakling and operating a pocket knife isn’t hard with gloves on, but opening, closing, and fishing it out of my pocket is hard with gloves. I also run the risk of puncturing the product… which I’ve *neeeeverrrr* done. So this wrist cuff effectively pierces the plastic, has a “bladed” edge that “cuts” the plastic (more of a very controlled rip) and it fits between my sleeve and glove nicely, so it’s basically out of the way until I need it.
Great solution! That must be satisfying to design a more efficient way to get your job done :)
Also for me my best project were "reparing".
Most successful, two non standard gears for glass wipers for a vintage car.
The one I use the most, a lamp shader for my bedside table... the glass one died in an incident :D
And several repair part for old appliance for my mother kitchen.
Damn
These are some cool prints
Dude this video is awesome, that's what 3d printing is all about, taking bad energizing engineering and making it more durable or better. You are a very smart young man. I really want to learn fusion 360 so that i can do stuff like this but i just find it so complicated but i think if i watched enough videos i could probably figure it out. 3d printing is fun already just going to thingiverse and downloading and printing parts, but even more rewarding is actually designing or creating your own parts and printing them. Nothing gives a better understanding than creating your own parts by actually designing them.
My favorite print is probably the nightstand And knock box I designed and gifed to my stepsister. I printed it in glow in the dark so I love turning it off. I regret giving it to her as a gift now xD
For the knock box instead of paying 20$ I printed this cool looking bar for a yogurt container and it took 20m to print and I upcycled waste and saved myself 12h of printing and 100g of Filament with this idea
Nice video! This video made me realize how much I just miss printing with my filament. I've been working on my personal project lately and all my prints in the past year have been parts for it. To the point that I haven't actually "used" my printer for fun purposed. I'm gonna go print my dad a nightstand he wanted now!
I have fixed the toilet, a headset, added a vertical stand for a monitor, fixtures to hang an air filter, knobs for a door lock on a car, a cover for a water tank and maybe more things! 3D printing is an amazing tool!
I love it when a plan comes together 👌😁
I saw this clock when the campaign first started. It's really cool but I was a little disappointed that it only runs for an hour, not a whole day.
Can you imagine not having a 3D printer and having to wait several months for the wrong part... wow
I am surrounded by little fixes like that, but the thing I use and appreciate and use the most is one of the first things I designed -- a ring resizer. I lost weight after we got married, so my wedding ring is too big. I didn't like the ones available -- they're either metal and would damage the ring, or made of a grippy material that would irritate my skin or catch on surfaces. It's just a little saddle type thing that sits inside the ring.
I lost (more) weight a couple years ago and updated the design with increased thickness.
'Installed this bumper so I didn't break it again'
If you managed to snap that screw with gamer grip alone, I'd be impressed
I once fixed a joy con that wasn't locking in on the switch rail anymore. That Part was 8x7x5mm big. Proud of that print to this Day.
I love how for the grommet presses he just HAS to find a way to help with 3D printing, even after buying something. Lol.
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This is exactly how I use my printer, always engineering a solution to a completely random problem. Although I'm probably less destructive as you Devin 😂
16:27 You are a true menace! A one man wrecking ball. 😆
Holy crap, 3D printed stop motion is such an awesome idea!
I Can't Wait To Get My Hands On Some Of The Flexible Filament's!! Sounds Awesome!! The Only Drawback I See Coming Is My 3D Printer Is BUILT Not Bought!! No Owners Manual! I'm Just Gettin' Into 3D Printing, I Think I'll Have Lots Of Fun, My First Print I Watched It All The Way Threw!
So much cool stuff in this video. I’m so inspired right now!
You are the person that inspired me to buy an Ender 3
It's really cool to know the juicy backstory behind that controller trigger print. Heh.
I love 3d printing functional parts in a few ways. I'm a mechanical engineer and quite a master in Catia V5 design skills. So i can make any adapter/mount i need, and for sturdyness in can eiter print it as is,
Or embed steel wire/parts mid print (print the channel, pause print, insert the steel fully into the open channel and resume print to fill on top of the channel - this makes a steel part totally inside the plastic. Useful for mounts where i need a thin wall to be screwed.. i embed a washer in that wall. Also useful for embedding magnets
Also another reinforcement can be done with epoxy. Print a shell of the part and fill it with epoxy.
Or for flexible materials (that need to be sturdy and without layers or heat resistant) you can 3dprint a mould for a casting. Casting silicone or urethane or epoxy will give the final part totally in that material of choice (be aware of proper mold release agent or it will be very hard to release the part from the mould). Or print the mould from a filament that is disolvable in a solvent (PVAB support fillament with water, or ABS disolved by acetone, or others) where the solvent does not also disolve the casting material (silicone, latex, urethane, epoxy, other). ABS moulds work ok for me since the ABS is smoothed by acetone vapor and make a smooth surface for a mould. Otherwise the mould would need extensive postprocess to smooth out all the layer lines, or just fill with bondo then smooth out then paint with something glossy for a smooth mould.
For the more diy-ers that have lots of tools and space to do forging and castings of metals, the plastic part can be the positive form for the sand casting mould for an aluminium cast or even steel (but i doubt many of you have a furnace at all, and even harder to get a blast furnace for cast iron or cast steel that is way above even serious workshops).
For the jewlers, the 3dprinted part can cast a wax model and that is making the mould of the lost wax casting of gold and silver (or other). Some do the lost PLA method but is not a great idea for small parts. - but the resolution of FDM is not great for jewlery, but resin printers are great for making either the model itself or mould for small jewlery cast.
There is also silicone mould making by pouring silicone around the part (the 3d printed model) and later split that silicone to remove the model and get a silicone mould that can cast epoxy and other materials with great details.
Also in the 3dprinted mould category i can mention dies for shaping metal plates in a press, or making a split mould that is covered by carbon fiber mesh (or fiberglass mesh) and resin impregnated and when you close the mould you can shape that carbon fiber part precisely.
All mentioned are a derivative of the industrial process, but the models/moulds/dies are very expensive to do traditionally (now there is also CNC to make cheaper parts but way more expensive than 3dprinting). So a 3d printer gives me acces to all sorts of processes that are very hard to do without a means to make a model. In the older days a wooden model was made block by block, glued and sanded, and sculpted for each draft angle needed, and other stuff and could not have a very complex split line of the mould. A plastic mould if it can contain the casting material can be as complex you need, with multiple part lines, cores, features to align the moulds and all sort of stuff done in a CAD software.
A cog broke on my robovac leaving one of it's brush hands not spinning. Still riding the high of successfully printing that tiny cog and it working after putting it all back together!
That's a good one! What material did you use for the cog?
@@make.anything plain old PLA. It was 15mm in diam so had to use smaller nozzle. Worked like a charm though
@@crumpet_ Cool! :)
The controller switches repair is vastly underrated wizardry. It demonstrates a valuable collection of many skills, and patience. I made a bottle opener for my grandma last week and she likes it. :) Although it could be better with some grippy filament.
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a small plastic part of the handle for my freezer broke. replacements cost >$200 dollars, and you had to buy the whole set, including new handles for the refrigerator doors too. i designed a replacement in f360, and it only took 2 iterations before I had a perfect fit. just like that, i had offset more than 1/4 the cost of my mk3s, and it took me less than a day.
For your grips on your gym equipment, just get a can of compressed air that you use to clean a pc and use the tiny straw nozzle thing to blow air between the grip and the bar to get it off. They're like the grips on dirt bikes but we used an aircompressor back in the day.
[edit] another fella mentioned the hairspray to get the grips on, forgot about that. age woes.
I've printed retainers and rear washer nozzle for my Fiat. The last one was nowhere to be found.
13:56 something about this bit completely destroyed me, I laughed for a solid minute. Just your unapologetic matter-of-fact recognition, and no follow up statement, just a shrug.
The SD card guide is dope!
Great video!
That feeling of satisfaction when you design something, print it... AND IT WORKS!
I designed repair items for arround the house as needed.
And parts for the model rocket kits that I sell.
Thank you for inspiring me to make even more fixes.
FYI, I used TPU to make rubber feet for the launchpads I sell for my kits :D.
My grandparents dog chewed up the battery cover for our TV remote. When I first got my printer I immediately tried to find a print to replace it I wasn't able to find one untill last week. Printed it in petg and it works great!
Awaiting the arrival of my first printer (Ender 3 S1). Thanks for the inspiration!👍
THE EXACT THING happened to my 8bitdo. thanks for doing this!
Dude you are one buff gamer. I have 3 of these controllers and I've not had a single problem.
Thanks for the faceplate ideas though. I might try this.
The 8bitdo is a really easy controler to assemble and disassemble once you figured it out, i opened mine a few times for cleaning purposes (i play a lot), and once you got it figured it's just LEGO
Really like the video, I think this is one of your better ones. It is something to refer to when I want to explain why 3d printing is great
Oh man. You’re the best for creating stuff. Thanks for showing.
More, more more! Can't wait for your next functional/cool 3D prints video! 😊
As for the grips being annoying to install, use some hairspray! It makes it super easy and dries up to a tacky substance so it sticks! We use it all the time replacing handles on motorcycles :D
solid advice
AMAZING VIDEO DEVIN!!! LOVE THE INTRO.
Getting to improve functionality and longevity of things to suit your lifestyle and personalize prints are some reasons I really want to learn CAD in-depth and have access to CAD programs.
It's so cool that you have an OP-1! I love those things. Great video as usual!
I litteraly broke that exact part of my controller yesterday, nice
Me too, the only way those tiny pins could last longer than a month is if the entire trigger was cast steel. I'm pretty sure gaming equipment manufacturers know this very well, I cannot seem to find any modern game controller that's built to last.