3D Printers and Bowhunting The fun never ends

This is great!! Keep it up!!!!

 

Damn now i need to buy one of these things.. This forum gives me too many ideas that is going to end up in divorce =)

 

I know exactly what you mean. The Altoids Tin SD trail can card holders is the latest use for the printer.

 

We have a family friend that has a degenerative disorder that has resulted in her having to spend the bulk of her time in a motorized wheel chair. She is able to get out of it only to use the restroom. She can use the chair to get upright and then use a walker to transfer herself to the toilet. Sadly she is unable to bend over to reach the foot pads to swing them up and out of the way. She asked if we could design her an aid to allow her to reach the foot pads to lift them out of the way. Right now she must have a family member at home with her to lift the foot pads for her.

The criteria were that the aid has to have a large handle so she could grip it, it has to reach 24” but be able to be compressed into a smaller footprint to allow it to be stored in a bag attached to the chair and it had to be light weight. We began the project Friday night and completed it on Sunday morning so we were able to turn it around in less than 48 hours.

We were happy to help and to find another use for the 3D printer and to allow her to regain more independence. The final product weighed only 13 Oz.

 

Very cool!

 

I have a makerbot replicator 2X but I don't think I would by a makerbot again. If you asked me what I would buy, I couldn't tell you. I thought the dual extrusion would be awesome but I don't think its necessary. Ultimaker seems to have a decent machine.

Keep up the good work.

 

We stayed away from dual extruders as we didnt see the reason for it so we buy the Repilator 2, not the 2X

 

Where did you get the bolts for the hangers on the shelf? Did you just bend them and put heat shrink tubing on them?

 

Bend and heat shrink.

 

Just playing around with the 3D printer again. We modeled up the parts for a Carabiner with our logo.