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Introduction
I bought and owned first 3D printer in 2024 (yay!), a used Prusa MK3S on at my local Facebook marketplace for a banging deal. I’ve played with printers during my college years and always wanted my own, but the price for them back then was a lot higher than I could afford. It’s amazing how affordable 3D printers are now for hobbiest like me.
Since getting my printer, I’ve used it to print many useful day-to-day items such as a Nintendo Switch and controller holder holder for my Ikea Skadis board, a plastic container handle that fell off, or even an SD card holder. But one of the best things I’ve found that my printer can do is being able to print designs I’ve created to fix items or reimagine a way to use product.
So here I present the list of things I’ve designed in Fusion360. (I’ve tried to attach screenshots of my Fusion360 designs, but the cloud save for Autodesk is extremely wonky and I was unforunately not able to recover one of the designs I’ve created.)
Ikea Skadis Mic
This was the first design I created. The idea started from wanting to make more space on my desk and since my Ikea Skadis board is mounted next to me, I thought perhaps I can mount my mic holder on my Skadis board.
Designing my first model taught me to test multiple small components first before printing the whole thing. For example, getting the hook size and distance apart from each other took many many tries. It wasn’t until I was positive that the hook will fit into the board before I printed the entire thing.
And it was super cool to see it mounted on my board! It works super well and sleek. When I need to use my mic, I extend it out, when I’m done, I can just put it back near the board.
Door Ball Catch Holder
A closet door in my house has never been able to close properly for as along as I can remember. I bought replacement parts, but during installation, I noticed that it didn’t exactly fit the slot of my door (who knew doors have so many designs??). The problem was that the container-thingy the replacement part came in was too small for my door.
Thus I made a custom holder-thing to wrap around the door ball that also slots the outside metal wrapper. It was pretty cool to design a model to fix something.
Pipe Connector For Sink
The sink in my house was broken and to wash anything, you would have to bend uncomfortably forward to reach the water. I knew a pipe was something I can easily mock up in Fusion360 which I did, but I had a lot of trouble printing my design on the 3D printer.
I don’t use my 3D Printer often so the first-layer configuration had gone all wonky during my hiatus. It took many hours of misprints for me to finally configure my printer correctly. During this process, I separated the pipe into two parts that slot against each other to reduce fail prints. Instead of printing 1 giant design that took 5 hours, I separated them into 1 2 hour print and 3 hour print.
Although the printed pipe wasn’t 100% the best replacement there ever was, it was still a huge win to getting the water to flow closer to the middle of the sink.