Cathal Garvey’s Mousetrap Design Challenge
Cathal Garvey, the man who brought you the makerbottable dremelfuge and micro-lathe needs a mousetrap and he’s willing to pay $25 for someone to design it.
I have a problem. There lives in my house a tiny mouse, and as I am friend to all animals I wish him no harm.
The live mousetrap I tried didn’t work: crafty mouse escaped it repeatedly. I also invented a few wacky methods involving pitfalls, narrow bottles full of bloating foods and even tried to suck him out onto a vacuum cleaner head covered with cheesecloth. No avail!
I am offering a bounty for something:
$25 to the first design that catches the mouse. It must:
- Not harm the mouse
- Be printable on a Makerbot
- WorkMouse get!
Whichever design Cathal chooses, we’re going to sweeten the deal and send them a MakerBot t-shirt if they will upload the design to Thingiverse under an open license.
Can you build a better (MakerBottable) mousetrap?
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Ari
I’ve thought of some potential designs (and really wish I knew Blender/etc in order to produce them…) but I thought you should know that it’s really easy for mice to chew through soft plastic.
Johnny Mnemonic
Luuuuke, use the search button; it’s already been done.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1920
Merry-go-round mousetrap
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Cathal
Hi all!
I’m really excited by how quickly the designs came flooding in, but suddenly I’m worried I’ll have too much to print in too little time, so I’m going to call a halt to submissions!
If anyone is *in progress* with a design, let me know on the Makerbot User’s Group, and I’ll wait for you to finish. Otherwise I’ll just go with what’s ready to print as of yet.
As mentioned on the group, I’ll judge ties by a few factors, including:
- Elegance or simplicity
- Economy of plastic
- Recycling of ubiquitous waste
Good luck to all who’ve entered, I can’t wait to try the traps!
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Erik de Bruijn
Great that you’ve added the animal friendly requirement. There are enough contraptions that do it otherwise: like this one. (if you look closely, you’ll see it’s probably not intended as a mouse trap).
zhongying
my entry in the Mouse Get! Challenge from Cathal Garvey. I call it the “Peanut Butter Jar Mousetrap .http://www.cx-jianer.com
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