MakerBot Industries

Thingiverse User Supermange has uploaded a design for a rotary sprinkler, thus making Thingiverse just that much cooler… water cooled in fact. He doesn’t have a MakerBot so he’s reaching out for help with prototyping. He doesn’t have a lawn either, so it’s not really going to be that practical for him. But it’s cool. Rotary sprinklers are cool like bowties are cool except that they turn your hose into an afternoon of fun and wetness. They go back and forth and do what they are told and they don’t even have a computer or arduino attached. They could water your lawn or your garden too.

The mechanics of it remind me of the Syvwlch’s clock escapement project. Very cool. Could you run a clock off a hose using this mechanism? Only the users of Thingiverse would dare to find out!

I love so much about this project. The designer wants it for no other reason that it should exist, it’s an opportunity for collaboration and shared development, and it’s just so freaking cool to see something like this show up as 3D printable. I also think it’s great that Supermange just decided that rotary sprinklers are cool and committed to showing us all how cool they are by whipping up a design in sketchup. If you’ve got spare time and the interest, help him bring the future of sprinklers to a MakerBot near you by prototyping the design and giving him some feedback or jumping in and making a derivative.