How To Print Moving Parts With A MakerBot: Bearing Contest Winner Announced
The winner: twotimes' Mendel-inspired x and y carriage lowrider
Thingiverse user twotimes won pattywac‘s contest a few weeks ago on the best 3D printed object requiring bearings. Users submitted more than a dozen proposals on how to get 3D printed objects moving with bearings!
These were the guidelines:
1. Needs to be printable on a MakerBot
2. Needs to use bearings in some way
3. Post submissions on Thingiverse by 5pm cst Sunday, Oct 3
4. Post a comment to this thing with a link to your submission
5. Seriously anything that uses bearings in some way…..
Congratulations, twotimes! According to pattywac:
He didn’t win my vote because it was a replacement and improvement part for the Makerbot, but because he made something that people really liked (average rating is 5/5) and because of the dedication he showed in revising the design so many times to make sure it was 100% usable.”
Check out all the incredible designs users submitted, and print them out yourself on your Cupcake CNC or Thing-o-matic.
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9 Comments so far
Twotimes
Thanks for the write up! I am happy to say that there is another working version in the wild, j_siegel is printing Mendel parts on it! Check it out: http://www.thingiverse.com/derivative:4193
Dave Durant
USPS.gov says my bearings are (finally!) in the local mail truck and should be waiting for me when I get home.. Got all the M3 nuts & bolts, got all the STLs printed up, just have to assemble it and stuff it into the bot.
Really psyched to get this one going. I’m hoping for nicer prints at higher feed rates but I’ll be very happy if it just knocks the noise down as much as I expect it will…
Twotimes
Cool Dave,
If you want to see it in action, give a shout. I don’t think Thursday is going to happen.
Dave Durant
I’m hoping to see it in action tonight – USPS.gov has now changed to saying “delivered”! Woot. Love that past-tense.. That said, I’d be surprised if I can get it all together and installed in one short weekday night.
I’d definitely like to check out the Sprout (http://thesprouts.org, for us Boston-area people) sometime but this week isn’t really very good. :\ Maybe on the next gathering…
Twotimes
You should be able to get it together tonight, Then again, I build 7 of them so in the end they would go together pretty quickly.
pattywac
woot! I’ve got a copy printing on a commercial machine. New contestS are up!
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4527
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4528
Twotimes
Pattywac, I can’t wait to see how it came out!
Twotimes
Hey Makerblock, I guess the big bearing store noticed people buying 19 623 bearings at a shot and has offered us a promotional discount ($.99 each) if you put LOWRIDER in their promo code section on their website. See the mendel inspired lowrider page for details.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4213
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