Thingiverse Design Contest For Feb 17-March 3 - Winner Announced!

WINNER ANNOUCNED!
3D Mouse Housing

Winner, please PM me.




Here are the nominations for the top designs posted on Thingiverse between Feb 17 and March 3, 2014. Voting has begun and run until March 10th in this thread. Winner will win a $25 Amazon Gift card, and have their model featured as the winner on this site. Winner and some non-winners will also have a chance to have a write-up and interview done about their model on popular 3D Printing news website 3DPrint.com.

Feel free to share your nomination with your friends and ask them to vote for your design. Who knows, maybe you will win!

Voters: Please vote on all of the designs that you like. Multiple votes are allowed.

Please see rule and the explanation of how this works at: http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...This-Will-Work

One vote per person will only be allowed. Creating multiple accounts to vote more than once will get you disqualified.

Nominee #1 - Sprocket Chain Becomes Bracelet
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257578

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I was designing a PLA chain for a PLA sprocket drive work in process, then my wife saw it and, thinking it was a bracelet, snapped it on her wrist. So here it is, the "Sprocket Chain Becomes Bracelet" thing. Kind of a re-purposed before purposed thing.
Prints fully assembled and ready to install on your favorite wrist (a first for my designs, e.g. no motor, no cranking, no cyanoacrylate, etc.), simply snip/cut off the chain segments from the non-hook end of the chain to make the bracelet fit the wrist of your choice.
Hey, my wife liked it as a bracelet, maybe your significant other will too. Print 2 or more, snap them together, and it becomes a "Sprocket Chain Becomes Necklace". Who knew?
Designed using Sketchup 8, and printed on a Replicator 2 in PLA using Makerware 2.3.3.42 "Standard" settings.

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#2 - Hammer Assembly
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257582
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hammer Assembly you will need 2 screws to put it together. Let me know how it turned out? i created it with autodesk inventor. i printed it for my son....

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#3 - Cat Collar Magnet
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257553
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Our cat is forever losing his (very much over-priced) collar magnets that trip the latch on his cat-flap.
This thing works as a cheap replacement when a 'standard' fridge magnet (17.5mm diameter + 5mm thick) is inserted + hot-glued.
Note that the magnet slot is deliberately several millimeters taller than the magnet in order to allow for the inevitable intrusion of printed support material.
Thing dimensions: base = 23mm square; height = 22mm.

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#4 - Begging Bulldog
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257491
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This little fella either wants you to throw his stick or some treats, but I bet either one of them would be welcomed enthusiastically.
Can be either printed in 1 piece or split into top and bottom. Either way I suggest you use support and infill where needed.
Note to myself - don;t be lazy with cleanup next time :-)
modeled in Silo 2, balanced in C4D, Remeshed in Meshmixer, split with netfabb, sliced with slic3r, and printed on a Solidoodle 2 with repetier host

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#5 - PS4 Stick Extender
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257482
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Extends the stick for more accuracy. 9 & 13mm tall.
Its supposed to be printed up so its like the picture on the controller. There is a little bridging involved, but its a pretty small distance to cover.

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#6 - iPhone 4 Case
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257477
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This is an epic iphone case. EPIC

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#7 - 3D Mouse Housing
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257387
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Source file for 3d Mouse housing. Media Computing Project at RWTH Aachen, Germany
The mouse housing is not only be suitable for normal mouse movements, but also comfortable for 3D interactions in the air. Therefore, the design includes formings to easily pick up and manouvre in midair, as well as being comfortable to grip and hold for a while. Holes on the side can support this.

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#8 - Push Button Switch with LEDs
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257349
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This switch is intent to control the heating grips on my motorcycle (Honda GoldWing GL1500) so it fits into a switch mount on the brake reservoir.
This switch can be used as a replacement of standard snap-in switch used in automotive a lot, even it has no snap-in brackets. So you have to glue it or make the diameter so that it fit really tight into the mounting hole.
The LED used are pin hole LEDs with flat top (Kingbright L-13ID).
The switch is a standard 6x6mm SMD switch with a total length of 13mm, the switch has to be glued to the body!
Because the size of the LEDs I had to turn some to not interfere with the switch.
Even it fits nicely as you can see, I wait for a different illuminated SMD switch (so I can find the button in the night). However, this does not change the overall concept.

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#9 - Flexible Tripod
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:258824
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLmO...layer_embedded

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This is a flexible tripod for Galaxy S4 (can be adapted to any phone).
Usage: http://youtu.be/tMLmO11TfsE
I have designed it for my own phone for usage in extreme snow kiteboarding sessions because in past we have a lot of shaking video (http://youtu.be/URNIPVCqAkk?t=12m58s)

Source code on github: https://github.com/chertykov/Tripod

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