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20 Useful 3D Printed Gadgets of July 2022
If you already have experience with 3D Printing and are familiar with 3D printers, in addition to the parts and other designs required by your company, why not try printing some cool 3D gadgets that can simplify your life? We have collected 20 useful 3D printable gadgets that can be easily printed to provide more convenience for your life, and hopefully can inspire you to use 3D printing to print more handy gadgets.
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1. Customizable Cable Tie
This is a tiny handy gadget, but you may always forget to buy it or always consume it too fast. When you should use it but run out of it, at that time, you can use your 3D printer to print a tie, and you can find the corresponding 3D model online or design one yourself. Remember to print a practical tie with suitable material.
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2. Phone Tripod
When you want to use your phone to take a picture of yourself or a group photo of yourself and your friends, this phone tripod may help you. It is made of printable resin material and some simple standard screw mounting. Many people have tried to 3D print their phone tripods and install adjustable screw mounts on the top so that it is not only a cool phone gadget that can also be mounted GoPro and camera but also a multi-purpose tripod.
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3. GoPro Knuckles
GoPro is convenient for taking photos and filming a video, but when you are using GoPro, it is always inconvenient to hold because GoPro is so small and easy to lose. Why not try 3D Printing GoPro Knuckles, which can be well held to capture your landscape on the journey, but also according to the size of your hand to 3D print a GoPro Knuckles that best suits you.
It only takes you three hours to 3D print and assembles. You will have a unique and handy gadget made by yourself.
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4.Spice Rack Pullout
Always felt that the fridge is too cluttered? Can't find the drinks or snacks you want? Maybe a Spice Rack Pullout can help you organize your refrigerator. Its principle is straightforward. It is a 3D printable gadget. The advantage of 3D printing is that it can be designed to meet your usage habits and fit the size of your refrigerator. With it, you can quickly sort and organize your refrigerator.
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5.Cable Guard
Is your charging cable always damaged for various reasons? Especially the iPhone charging cable is always extra fragile. You only need a small gadget to help you extend the life of your charging cable. 3D Printing such a useful gadget will not take much time, but it will help you save money on purchasing charging cables.
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6. Screw-on Bag Clip
This useful gadget is a bag clip that consists of three parts. You can 3D print it separately with your 3D printer. This Screw-on Bag Clip can be excellent for keeping the food in the bag fresh, and more than that, because it has a design like a bottle cap, it can also be easily opened or closed.
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7. Charging Outlet Shelf
When you want to charge your phone, you will find that not all the outlets are just the right location, some locations are too narrow, and some have no places to put the phone. Then this Charging Outlet Shelf will be an excellent solution to these problems. This cool phone gadget will allow you to charge anywhere without any trouble.
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8. Lens Cap
Whether as a hobbyist or professional photographer, you will know how easy it is to neglect and lose the lens cap.
It is also a 3D printable gadget. Instead of spending money every time to buy a different size lens cap, why not print your lens cap at home? 3D printing your own lens cap can be much cheaper than buying the original one. Their role is not much different.
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9. Keychain Phone Stand
You may have ordinary keychains, or perhaps you can buy your favorite ACG peripheral. But since you are familiar with 3d printing, why not try printing a peripheral keychain of your favorite movie or anime keychains, you can design it according to an online 3D model, or you can design your peripheral keychain with iconic elements. It will be the most meaningful one of your cool gadgets.
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10. Buckle
Buckles may be very common but are not durable and often appear damaged. And it also belongs to 3D printed gadgets.
If you design a durable 3D print buckle model, it is simple and easy to print and saves you money in buying buckles.
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11. Sandal
Maybe you wear sandals every day, but you never thought you could print your pair of sandals, which can be customized to the size and shape of your feet because not everyone's feet are exactly the same as the standard size. If you print this cool gadget, you can choose the shape and color you want and choose the suitable soft and hard resin to print. It has the potential to be the most comfortable pair of sandals you've ever had.
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12. Desk Bag Hook
When the desktop is full of stuff did not have enough places to put your bag, you will need a 3D printable gadget called a desk bag hook. This desk bag hook is different from other hooks that require punching or EVA.
It takes the use of knowledge of mechanics to achieve balance. It is suitable for any table thickness and easy to carry. Remember to use PETG material to print to ensure that it is solid and durable.
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13. Glasses Case
A glasses case is a useful gadget for people who wear glasses, but it is always forgotten or lost, so why not use 3D Printing technology to promise a few more? They can be designed according to your glasses size and type, not only can reflect your personality but also can protect your glasses.
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14. Coin Sorter
Always get a lot of coins from the supermarket or restaurant for change, too heavy and inconvenient to put in the wallet, and easy to find at home, this time you can design a 3D printed coin sorter, you can set different heights, column such as the height of ten penny coins put full you set a dime, very convenient to calculate.
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15. Cable Organizer
Phone charging and mouse cables are always cluttered on the desktop and negatively affect our work and study. You can use 3D printing technology to print a small gadget named a cable organizer, design the color and size, print how many to store your charging cable, and the desktop becomes neat.
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16. Vases
There are many different styles of vases, but some uncommon vases are challenging to buy. For lovers of flower arrangement, the best 3D Printing small gadget is their printing vase design by themselves. Because it can perfectly meet their needs, the design of the vase is also relatively simple, and printing will not take too much time.
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17. Phoneholder
Modern people cannot leave the phone for a second, even in the bathroom.
If you 3D printing an phoneholder hang it on the glass door of the shower room, or hanging on the hook. You can design some hole on the bottom as a sound amplifier, you can listen to songs while take a shower, for modern people is really a useful and cool phone gadget.
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18. Pencil Holder
Whether you go to school or work, you need a pen to help you. So you will need a pencil holder since the market's pencil holders don't seem innovative. Why not print one if you want to show your personality? You can design some different pen holders. It can be simple, convenient, complex, and exquisite, using 3d printing technology to design cool 3D printed gadgets.
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19. Proteus Key Holder
Keychains can be great for stringing all your keys together, but a proteus key holder brings all your keys together and organizes them.
So, you can quickly find the right one from all your keys. Come along and try 3D printing this handy gadget.
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20. Toothpaste Squeezer
Toothpaste becomes very difficult to squeeze out when it only has the last bit at the end. It would help if you had a useful gadget. A toothpaste squeezer can be a good solution to this problem. You only need to print out the three parts and a simple assembly, and you can get this practical toothpaste squeeze.
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What kind of gadget? 3D printer”
07/06/2016
Once the great Michelangelo, when asked how he creates his sculptures, replied: “I take a stone and cut off everything superfluous.” This principle is followed by many modern industries, converting materials into tons of shavings, sawdust and other waste. But there is another approach, akin to pottery - when, in fact, there is no waste, which makes production cheaper, more environmentally friendly and more accessible. 3D printers are just the technical embodiment of this approach.
What is a 3D printer and how does it work?
A 3D printer is a device that allows you to create objects with the same ease with which conventional printers print text.
Of course, the speed of printing objects is significantly different from the speed of printing text - a modern printer will print one sheet in a fraction of a minute, and it will take several hours for an object. But hand-crafting the same item will also take more than a couple of minutes, and even an appropriate level of skill. And the 3D printer will do everything on its own, so that the freed up time can be usefully spent on other things. In fact, such a printer can be called a universal factory on your desk.
There are several basic technologies for printing objects. One involves the use of lasers, which crystallize the desired structure layer by layer from a special polymer. After the formation of the layer, a special clamp slightly lifts the object from the polymer bath and the next layer crystallizes. The process, in terms of entertainment, resembles the transformation of a liquid metal robot from Terminator 2. Although this technology is still at the development stage, it is already the fastest way to 3D print.
However, it is also the most expensive one. Lasers, special polymers - all this is very expensive. Although now there are models that use LCD displays instead of a laser, and the price for them is more reasonable.
The second way is a little cheaper. Lasers are also used here (some artisanal implementations work with solar energy to print glass vases). In this option, a container with a powder filler is used. The laser sinters one layer of material, after which the next layer of powder is added and leveled, and the laser passes over it again. As a result, as the capacity is filled, the required object is formed. Upon completion of printing, it is pulled out and cleaned, and the remaining powdered material is reused. Such models are more often used in industrial solutions, as they are rather bulky (due to deep capacitance).
The third and most common type of 3D printer creates objects layer by layer by depositing molten material onto a print bed.
Consumables in them usually come in the form of bays or bars. They are wound at one end into the print head, where the heating element is located. The molten material is fed through the extruder at the same speed, which guarantees the uniformity of each applied layer. The thinner the layers, the more precise and smoother the surface of the printed object will be. Most often, there are models with a single extruder, which allow you to print only one material at a time. But there are also devices with a large number of extruders, which make it possible to obtain not only objects of complex shapes, but also combining various materials. These are the slowest of the 3D printers, but also the most common, as they take up minimal space and do not require any special conditions. This technology is so simple that even a 3D pen printer was developed on its basis, allowing you to quickly and easily create small crafts and models. And at the same time, it is the most versatile – both solutions for printing buildings and bioprinters for printing internal organs have been created on its basis.
What is a 3D printer for?
The applications for 3D printers are varied. These devices, in addition to plastics, have mastered printing with metal, wood and mixed materials. Therefore, they are used not only for prototyping and various household trifles, but also for creating jewelry, dishes, art objects, mechanisms and many other things, up to parts of rocket engines. But this is the general case. At home, a 3D printer is useful for replacing broken parts of various devices - handles, gears, housings. It will allow you to forget about looking for a suitable smartphone stand or flower vase. The child will be able to supplement his homework with a visual embodiment of various geometric objects or chemical elements. And for fun, he will be able to print himself a designer, funny decorations for a doll, and even figures of cartoon characters or classmates. You can have fun yourself, testing your ideas in practice and creating designs that have never been seen before.
You can create everything yourself, or you can use the developments of other users. A lot of communities have formed around 3D printers, in which there is an exchange of recommendations, ideas and ready-made 3D models for printing. So if you got a printer and don’t know what to create, you can peep a couple of interesting ideas in them.
Which 3D printer models are on the market?
In the field of 3D printers, there is a division into open and closed systems. Openness implies the availability on the network of all circuitry, drawings, files for printing and instructions for creating and assembling your own printer. In fact, you can assemble it yourself from improvised materials, and then print another one for your friend. At the same time, the software of such systems is available in open source. The most popular and proven open system is RepRap printers. There are many models in this system. Some are assembled almost entirely from snap-on printed parts, some are geared towards miniature crafts, and some are geared towards large objects.
But all of them are united by an open design, as well as the ability to improve and upgrade the device in the future. So, choosing an open system, you get not only a device for printing, but also a hobby for constantly improving your 3D assistant.
There are no less closed systems. They are more focused not on enthusiasts, but on end users. The issues of modernization and updating in them lie entirely with the manufacturer, and if he does not want to develop your model, but releases a completely new model, then you will have to come to terms with the fact that the device is outdated. At the same time, commercial systems have external and internal completeness - in terms of the quality of the case design, they are no worse than other household appliances. There are devices of various brands on the market: Leapfrog, Makerbot, 3DSystems, Mankati, Ultimaker, FlashForge, XYZprinting, Malyan and others. Among them there are both small models for crafts no more than centimeters in size, and monsters capable of printing objects with a side of up to half a meter, or even a meter.
