Printable screwdriver
I just redesigned the printable screwdriver in order to make the parts fit together better and be more printable.
It should be easier to see how these parts go together.
Basically, you take the “mid-handle” at the far end of the build sheet, turn it upside right, clamp the two “lower handle” pieces on either side of it, and slide that bottom ring onto the lower handle.
I still need to redesign the upper handle, hollow out the mid-handle, and make sure there’s enough room inside for the GoodFET / electronic sonic screwdriver guts.
Now I’m wondering if it is also possible to make this a piece of MakerBot origami – and make it printable on one build sheet…
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This morning I received an e-mail from Bre out of the blue introducing me to Travis Goodspeed. Apparently Travis has been working on building sonic screwdriver guts out of the GoodFET, a universal JTAG programmer, a “sonic screwdriver of hacking.” Travis suggested a GoodFET could be programmed to act as a TV-B-Gone, light show, or any number of other things. Given that his circuit board is about 3″ x 0.85″ x 0.2″ , there shouldn’t be a problem finding space for it in the sonic screwdriver I’m in the middle of designing.
Freaking sweet.
So, here’s my real life sonic screwdriver wishlist:
- Lights. Red LED , white LED , green LED , and a UV LED
- An actual screwdriver bit or spot where you can attach a screwdriver bit. It would just be cool to have a sonic screwdriver that could be used as a screwdriver.
- A shakey Tic-Tac container style recharger. Having a sonic screwdriver that doesn’t need batteries would be awesome.
- A tiny speaker that played the sonic screwdriver sound.
- A tiny magnet. I remember watching Doctor Who back in the day, black and white old school episodes, where he used his sonic screwdriver to take screws out of things, bolts out of doors, etc in the worst stop motion animation the BBC could get away with. Still, if this sonic screwdriver had a magnet, it could actually affect a physical change via magnetic force.
- TV-B-Gone. On the episode “Midnight” Doctor Who shuts off a bunch of TV’s using his sonic screwdriver. This would be an INCREDIBLE feature!
- Flash drive and/or mini-memory card reader. Perhaps with the entire library from PortableApps.com installed.
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Or, “Design Constraints and Creativity”
Origami is another of my hobbies and it is all about design constraints. The rules are simple – one square sheet of paper only manipulated by folding. Yet, within these rules it is theorized that a sufficiently skilled artisan can design and fold any arbitrary figure. I find folding origami to be at once cathartic and contemplative.
Pondering the design constraints within origami reminded me of one of my own recent designs – the 3x2x1 Rubik’s style puzzle cube. Quite apart from the medium or subject matter, I really liked the idea of a single print job resulting in parts that could be immediately hand-assembled without tools to form a useful object. Then I thought – if the design constraints are one of the things I like about this design, what else is possible within these same constraints?
Thus, I propose a new style of “MakerBot Origami”: One MakerBot print , multiple components , no tools or hardware .
What’s the coolest most awesome thing you can design within these constraints?
Update: Cyrozap – sory fore mispellnig yoru mane.
((I waffled on that title.))
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