Emergency Stop Button Case #3DThursday #3DPrinting

marcusfecit shares:

This is a case to enclose a standard 22mm Emergency Stop Button. It also includes a second 22mm hole for a LED Indicator so you can know when the power is ON or OFF. The Case Body and the Base have both already some breakable hollows for 8mm or 16mm tubes or cables.
I provide STL files that are high enough to install either a cheap chinese emergency stop button or an expensive Schneider Electric one. The design is however a bit parametric if you need to install a higher button. To adjust the dimensions, open the FCSTD file with FreeCAD, then the ‘Dimensions’ spreadsheet in the tree view. You can have both the design and the dimensions sheet side by side by clicking on the ‘Windows’ menu then ‘Tile’. Once you are satisfied with your settings, export the new parts in STL. When some parameters combinations are impossible, FreeCAD will either ignore your choice or just crash.
This is an open-source design. FreeCAD file is provided.
Feel free to modify this thing at your convenience.
Good design is hard work, even small donations are welcome.

download the files on: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/emergency-stop-button-case

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Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

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Fridge Water Line Box Cover #3DThursday #3DPrinting

darklaser shares:

While finishing my basement, one of the things I needed was a box cover for the fridge water line. I’m sure I could have found one at the store, but I believe this was cheaper. I guess it looks pretty good because my general contractor (who was doing most of the construction work), didn’t even realize it wasn’t store bought.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5177183

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

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Clutch Gripper #3DThursday #3DPrinting

MoRaumZeitPiraten shares:

this is a clutch/gripper for holding or mount items, cameras, chemical stuff.
originally intended as a 3D sketch for a version made of aluminum, it turned out that the printed version is also relatively strong and sufficient for my purposes.
of course there are limits.
Maybe it will help others too.

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5214094

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

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Leveling Wheel Clips #3DThursday #3DPrinting

homegrown3d shares:

Released along side the HomeGrown3D newsletter! Check it out, learn more, and subscribe at HomeGrown3D.com

If you enjoy this model, give it a like so I can get more prusameters!

Print:

Support free, and easy print! Print 2 of each. Printed .4 nozzle, 60 % cubic infill, 3 walls. Should work with most materials.

Install:

Put one in each corner. Install on top of bed carriage facing downward with springs/spacers on top of the clips, so that the thumbs interact with the wheels.

download the files on: https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/115938-ender-3-bed-leveling-wheel-clips

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

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Mini-Thermal Camera #3DThursday #3DPrinting

N7DKQ shares:

Case for Adafruit 8×8 RGB LED display and the 8×8 Thermal camera chip

download the files on: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5206034

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord

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Shop for parts to build your own DIY projects http://adafru.it/3dprinting

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Overengineering Coffee Bean Storage #MagTag #eInk @denschub

There are three types of people who consume Coffees: those who drink it for the caffeine, those who drink it for the taste, and those who make coffee their hobby. Dennis Schubert is in the latter category.

One thing that always feels more complicated than it should be is the logistics around handling coffee beans. Buying and consuming those super dark roasts from the shelves of your local supermarket is easy. Things become a lot more complicated as soon as you buy fresh, lightly roasted specialty coffee beans.

You want your coffee to be fresh, but it’s actually possible for beans to be too fresh to consume. During roasting, a lot of CO₂ builds up inside the beans, so you want to give them two to four weeks to degas after roasting.

However, after that, you want to consume the beans within a month or so, or they’ll lose a lot of their finer flavors. You can prolong the life of your beans significantly by freezing them after the degassing period, but then you somehow have to keep track of what beans are currently inside your freezer, when they went into the freezer, …

… My plan was to develop both software and hardware to solve this: an application that allows me to keep track of all the beans I ever consume, and a nice solution for using that data to have my storage containers labeled.

The solution was an iPad showing the web-application with the bean inventory, as well as a single storage unit (pictured above).

I originally planned on designing my own hardware for the display unit from scratch. Designing my own hardware would have been months of work, and sourcing and testing parts is always a bit of a pain. Luckily for me, The folks at Adafruit came up with the product I need: The Adafruit MagTag. This is a small board designed around an ESP32-S2 (if you don’t know that chip: that’s basically a microcontroller with embedded WiFi), as well as a 2.9-inch E-Ink display.

It is always amazing how good Adafruit’s software support is, and this results in you having a lot of choices in how to program this unit: You can go as high-level as using CircuitPython to build your firmware, but you can also use ESP-IDF if you want to go deep and write C code. It’s a lot of fun working with their boards. However, as this is designed as a general-purpose development board, there’s also a lot of hardware on it that I simply don’t need: RGB LEDs, buttons, an accelerometer, expansion slots, … all of that results in the unit being a bit larger than it needs to be. However, that’s still better than designing my own hardware, and to be fair, the price is amazing.

Check out all the details in the post here.

Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien #ArtTuesday

You can now view a selection of Tolkien’s rarely seen Lord of the Rings artworks for free via the Tolkien Estate.

via Smithsonian

In his high-fantasy novels, British author J.R.R. Tolkien combined his academic training in languages and his love of storytelling to create Middle-earth, a fictional continent populated by wizards, elves, orcs, dragons, hobbits, talking trees and other mythical creatures.

But Middle-earth didn’t just live in Tolkien’s head: The Lord of the Rings author was also a skilled artist who sketched, painted and mapped the worlds that he was imagining as he wrote about them. Many of the original illustrations in the Hobbit were created by Tolkien himself.

Read more and visit Tolkien’s updated site.

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