Toggles by larsie
But that day shall not be today, thanks to larsie for his son’s shoelace toggles.
Hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution, billions of dollars in the footware industry, and using small ropes to lash bits of leather and rubber to our feet is the best we could come up with? Tying knots in shoelaces has got to be one of the most ridiculous activities in the world. It’s difficult to learn as a child, the laces always come undone at inconvenient times, you can trip on them when they do, and you never notice until its too late. Thankfully I don’t remember the days when I was frustrated with the vagaries and inefficiencies that are shoelaces.
Can you imagine putting yourself in larsie’s son’s place? The poor guy was so frustrated with tying his shoes that he didn’t want to wear them on the way to kindergarten! Thus, today’s MakerBot hero is larsie for leaping into action and realizing he could design and print spring-operated toggles so quickly he could get his child to school on time!
My son is not very good at tying his shoe laces, so I made him this thing instead. It's basically a well known device from shoes, jackets etc, that are apparently called toggles (thanks). It could be redesigned in all sorts of ways, maybe even showing a head or some other object. This was made quite quickly, since he didn't want to wear his shoes on the way to kinder garten. :-)
I have made another version and have added the STL files for this also. It's called toggles.stl. This one is smaller and has a slightly different shape.
Just a reminder that there are only 12 days left to enter the New Museum MakerBot challenge!
