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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#10 - Elephant (bendable)
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257911
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We created this cute little articulated elephant last month for our friends in Nante, at IRT Jules Verne (France).

Their city is well known for their giant puppets. The most famous one is a huge robotic elephant, the size of a building.
Since they bought a lot of material from le FabShop, including a ton of MakerBots, our creative director, Samuel N. Bernier designed this little toy to be used as a goodie.

It had a great success, so we decided to share it with you.

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#11 - QR Code Dice
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257866
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The six sides will need to be glued together and paint added. I imagine it best to print in white and add black paint in the QR "holes".

as soon as i get a chance i will make one. I am a bit worried about warping - so it might be best to print one side at a time - the individual sides will spend less time on the hot plate.

I have included a diagram over the thing file

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#12 - Easy to Use Shirt Button
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257833
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A shirt button that can be used more easily by someone with the kind of impaired manual dexterity resulting from a stroke.

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#13 Star Wars Snowspeeder
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257633
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The rebels' hovercraft vehicle from "The Empire Strikes Back"

Approximately 12" x 10" x 4"

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#14 - Sonicare Extreme Mount
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257252
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No, the mount is not extreme, that is the terrible name for this sonicare series. This mount allows your toothbrush to hang out on the wall, decluttering your medicine cabinet. Just print and stick with a 3M command strip.

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#15 - Bud Buddy
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257310
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I modelled this on Ubermeister's Beer Bottle Stein Holder, which I printed early January, The one and only problem I had with it was the very thin neck support holding the bottle. I found that when printing, the neck tended to miss align so that the material didn't adhere very well and was quite weak. I remodelled this with Inventor 2014, after several trials came up with a quite solid and strong print. Get your BBQ's ready for summer and start printing.

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#16 - Sea Lady Bust
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:256332
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This was done back in the day when I was really into creature designs -- I think I finished one sometime around 2006. Figure'd it could be fun to print,

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#17 - Lara Croft Toon Figurine
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:256452
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This is a figure I made based on the style of Andreas' Agent 47 that he made based on the Hitman Absolution Collector's Edition Figurine. His Hitman can be found here:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:66072

I've cut my Lara into pieces to help reduce the amount of supports needed and to make the prints cleaner and easier to paint. The pieces peg together and will stay put, but she comes apart easily if not glued together.

I've included .x3g files that I used to print this (created for Replicator 2 with PLA filament). I've tried various ways to print the pieces and these files are the best combination that I've found. I've also included .objs if you want to set up the print files yourself or won't be printing in PLA. The body can print on its feet without supports and the left arm with the climbing hook seems to need a raft as well as supports enabled. The other parts only need supports. Here are estimate print times for the .x3g files I used.

Body - 96min
Head - 226min
PonyTail - 44min
Arm Left - 58min
Arm Right - 47min

Total - 471min (7.85 hours)

I hope you like this and thank you for looking.

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#18 - Bubble Pencil Grip
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:255326
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A bubble pencil grip for a more ergonomic #2 pencil writing experience. Or just for fun.

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#19 - Open Source Bong
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:255794
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Parts share mating features, and can be stacked as many times, in as many different configurations as you please.

Some parts are very intensive on your slicing engine, i recommend only attempting this with a good PC, and printing directly from SD card, if possible.

I have now added some cross section views for people to better understand the air flow.

**If you would like to see some new modules, let me know, and be very concise about the design you would like. a drawing or image to something similar helps tremendously!

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#20 - Double Decker Egg Ramp
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:256007
http://youtu.be/5ALTPbibgh0

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Store well over a dozen eggs on this compact and elegant bench top ramp. The eggs automatically flip from the upper ramp to the lower one so they stay in order. This is important for those of us who have chooks and get our eggs a few each day. Even if your buy your eggs by the dozen, this is still a fun way to display them.

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#21 - Spring Loaded Carabiner
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:251401
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I created a printable spring loaded carabiner. Now you can bring more printed stuff with you! Just clip it on!!

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#22 - USB Dogtag
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:251567
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A usb memory stick casing based on the dog tags from starcraft 2.

One of the things I wanted to make and being 1 year since I got my 3D printer I thought it was time I posted something I designed

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#23 - Heavy Duty Keychain
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:251571
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I know there are A lot of these on Thingiverse but this is my take on it.
This is my third design of the key chain and after a several months of use it still looks good.

It is bolted together with 4 3m x 13 bolts and nuts. and has spacers were bolts go though where there are no keys to stop flex.

This one was designed to hold 4 keys but one could modify the height of the spacers for more or less keys.

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#24 - Roger from American Dad
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:252136
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this is the best

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#25 - Toy Horse Jumps
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:252205
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My daughter likes horses a lot, having whole herd of the model ones. So I created a set of horse jumps for her.

Scale is (very roughly) 1:20, fitting the common horse figures.

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#26 - Cup Dryer
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:252643
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#27 - Flat Minis Weapon Pack
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:252683
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All of the FlatMini weapons, released in a single download. Print all of them at once, or just the ones you need. Mix and match with your favorite FlatMinis.

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#28 - The Squeeze - Slim, Flexible Wallet
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:253197
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A card and cash holder designed specifically with Ninjaflex flexible filament in mind.

Holds two to four cards in the top pocket, and cash in the front; however, the front pocket is also conveniently for regularly used cards.

Inspired by the George Castanza Wallet -- not really, but still a funny episode.

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#29 - New Ball Bearing Design
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:253753
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A new ball bearing for holding spools of ABS. Works much better than traditional "ball" bearing designs and the pieces don't fall out, ever. A great bearing design for any 3D printed object.

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#30 - Tooth Shaped Toothbrush Holder
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:253930
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I printed at 169% and the electric toothbrush featured above fits perfectly. You could put any toothbrush in it, though. There's a hole in the bottom to drain out any toothpaste/water gunk!

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#31 - 615mm Eiffel Tower
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:254133
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Having a Paris based design studio, we absolutely needed an Eiffel Tower. So, why not making it big and orange, like le FabShop. Thanks to B9 creation, who had already designed one, we only had to use Netfabb to slice their model in 7 main components and glue them together with epoxy. It is our most impressive part.

We gave an exact copy of our creation to MakerBot's office in Brooklyn to thanks them for our partnership. Like in the good old days with the "Statue de la Liberté".

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#32 - Customizable Movie Award
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:244025
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Here's something for all the party planning committees getting ready for the upcoming movie awards.

My wife asked if I could print out some awards for her red carpet viewing party. I thought it was time that I gave my Replicator 2X a little dualstrusion to play with.
Using Customizer you can add two lines of custom text to the base of this statue. This can be printed using a single extruder or with dual extruders. When exporting the model from Customizer pick your desired extruder configuration. "Single Extruder" will output a model with inset lettering. "Dual Extruder" will give you two models, print these in two different colors for the effect pictured in the photos above.

For those of you also hosting parties, print the included sculpture from cerberus333 (thanks for the excellent award statue sculpt! I'm not sure if I would have started this project if I didn't have access to your awesome sculpture) to stand on top. Or make your own award statue, this could be great re-purposed for birthdays, graduations, fathers day, etc (best maker anyone?).

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#33 - Numerical Scale
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:254220
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Inspired by Gyrobot's Seesaw Maths http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:182549 (miniland educational http://www.minilandeducational.com/en/numerical-scales/) and based on kids feedback I designed a new version. The counters are the same (I just copied the STL-file to complete the set) and the base is similar but the seesaw is splitted into several pluggable items.

This design makes it possible to print the items on a small 3D Printer or to increase the dimensions, it should also be easy to print.

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#34 - BMO 8X8 LED Matrix
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:253419
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Make your own adorable BMO with a mini 8x8 LED Matrix and Gemma, Adafruits tiny arduino-compatible micro-controller.

3D print the parts, solder the components and assembly this cute video game robot to have an awesome adventure time!

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#35 - Tiki Tap Handle
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:255024
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Fruity umbrella drinks can only get you so far.

Sometimes you need beer in your tiki bar.

This thing is derived from one of cerberus333's brilliant tiki's. The bottom was tapered to make it mate elegantly with the tap and the top was domed to give it a nice feel in the hand. It was more expedient to boolean out a pilot hole for a tap (the threading kind that is) than to print a 3/8"-16 thread.

The example shown was printed in colorFabb woodfill for that great tiki look and feel.

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#36 - Skateboard
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:255022
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#37 - Smartphone Holder
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:255493
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It's a first version, I think I will make it with a bigger front feet to enable anyone to plug the smartphone.

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#38 - Phil
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257322
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hEHtJTjKSEw

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This is Phil from the Phil and Freddy ipad app series. Annelle likes frogs, so the two stars were born. She created physical replicas from her drawings--and now I've scanned Phil.

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#39 - LEGO Miniature Wall Display Stand
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257320
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At my sons request we devised a way to display his Lego Mini-figures and small ships on the wall without having to set up shelves.
The stand was designed to fit the strips included with the 3M Wire clips.

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