I made this as a simple single purpose tool to aid in inverting parts that are upside down when assembling PCB’s by hand. The component are first dumped into the front tray, all right side up parts are then placed, the button front is then pressed to clam shell the back plate forward, both move…
Category: 3D-Printing
Mini Injection Molder
A manually operated injection molding machine to make low volume prototype injection molded parts. It uses a PID controller and solid state relay to send power to three nozzle heaters on an aluminum tube. Thermoplastic pellets are added to the tube and a lever attached to a stainless steel rod forces the then heated pellets…
String Cutter
An automated Standalone String cutter. it uses a 12v barrel connector PSU, Arduino nano, 2x nema 17 stepper motors, 2x drv8825 drivers, a hm11 BLE module and a PCB to connect everything. The rest is 3d printed. Quarters are stacked on top of a razor blade and raised. string is fed from a stepper to…
Electronics Case
Design of a case to house electronics. 3d printed for initial testing. mold design and production with injection molding for large scale distribution.
Vibration Plate
Reverse engineering of a broken component and reproduced using 3d printing.
Keezer meter
Electronic monitor for a homebrew keezer. Keezer-meter11-8-2019I’m happy to say I have bought a new freezer to replace the broken keezer it is smaller and only holds 3 kegs instead of 4 but the overall outside dimensions are much better for the limited space in the garage. More importantly the freezer has been converted and…