Week 5: 3D Printing

This week, I attempted to 3D print 3 objects, yet only two were "successful".

Spring Loaded Toilet Paper Holder Roll

Success!
For the past semester, each time I used the restroom in my partner's room, I always got annoyed at the fact that the toilet paper roll could not maintain tension in its holder and would always fall off. So, I decided to 3D print a spring loaded toilet paper roll holder.

I got the design for the spring loaded roll through Thingiverse, and the link can be found here: ____.

The design came in 3 pieces, the larger roll piece, the smaller roll piece, and a sizing cap. I loaded each of these pieces into PrusaSlicer, and then sliced them, including supports on the two roll pieces. I actually ended up having a print fail for the first time I printed the sizing cap, see image below. Once all the pieces were printed out in PLA, (each of the large pieces took about 2 hours). I removed them off teh build plate and then removed the support material from the inside. Unfortunately, I accidentally ripped the top nub off one of the large roll pieces off when taking off the supports, so I used a 3Doodler, a 3D printing pen, to seal the nub back onto the main body of the roll.

I then assembled the roll by putting the sizing cap on the smaller roll piece, and then putting the larger roll piece on top of the smaller roll piece, with a spring in the middle. It worked great!

Ball in a Cage Pendant

Success!

My second print was a ball in a cage pendant. I wanted to explore 3D printed items that were embedded within each other, and so I followed a tutorial on youtube to create a ball stuck within a cage pendant.

Here is the stl file: ____.

Here is the youtube link: _____.

This print almost worked, but I think I set the infill to be too small of a value and the bottom of the ball came off due to unknown factors, as it was already removed by the nezxt time I went to check on it.

This project was fun to CAD up, and fun to print, but it mostly served as a proof of concept for the project that I actually wanted to code up, which was a ball that could move through a caged loop.

Ball in a Caged Loop

Fail ! :( But will try again