I made this about a year ago and it’s one of my favorite creations. Even though I made a mistake in measuring the bottom and had to cut out some slots. One day I’ll print it again, but it used a ton of filament and took forever last time.
I really hope you coated it or made sure to make it out of a food safe plastic, PLA will get microplastics in everything!
This is beautiful.
It might be the first thing that I have seen that makes me really want to have a 3D printer around.
Do you still need to minor in 3D printing to make them practical?
I know that might be an exaggeration, but I’ve heard they are a bit of a handful. One of my gaming buddies was really into them a few years back. Even as an IT guy, the way he talked about it made it sound like I would need to do a fair bit of research to make anything worthwhile.
I’d say 3D printing is as accessible as it’s ever been. There’s tons of options nowadays and there are quite a few “plug and play” printers. The hot new one on the block would be the Bambu printers. They have a range of prices and from what I’ve heard, are pretty easy to use. I haven’t tried them because they are proprietary and I like Prusa for it’s open source nature. I’m a tinkerer so I have no problem tearing apart and fixing things, as well as I enjoy adding custom mods to fit my needs.
Also, if you don’t mind a bit of tinkering, you can get a decent printer for under $200 nowadays if you just want to dip your feet in at a low price. If you have a Microcenter near you, they often sell one of the Creality printers for $100 on sale.
Interesting. Thanks for your thoughts. I might need to at least dip my toes into the water before long.
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Wow that’s crazy cheap, I had no idea
Yeah they have come down in price a lot and it’s easy to get in at a variety of price points depending on what you want to do.
that is a lot of chopsticks
also why did i never think to do this
Haha, yeah. Asian and grew up using them.
Care to share an STL for that? The modern western silverware drawer contains more than forks spoons and knives, there are soup boats, chopsticks, rice cooker scoops and all sorts of other things, compound that with the fact that the organizers on the market have to have broad utility which deminishes utility, and as a result they don’t hardly work for anyone, including me. I think your organizer is perfect.
I can, but it may not fit your drawer. It’s also in 6 pieces to fit on my printer that I “welded” together after. It was one of my first prints too so it’s not really optimized for filament savings. I can’t remember how much I used but it was a lot. I want to redo it and plan better at some point. If you use Fusion, I can share the f3d as well.
Damn, that’s awesome!
If you don’t mind me asking, how long did it take you in total? Curious how big of a project this is
Looks pretty solid too, is the filament stuff expensive?
Seriously making me want to get into this haha
Thanks! I had to split this in 6 prints and connect them after. Each one took around 12 hours to print and used around 1.5kg of filament, IIRC. But this was one of my early projects and I would change a lot knowing what I do now to use less filament and less printing time. Filament is not too expensive. Around $15-20 a 1kg roll. You can spend a lot more or a lot less depending on brand/quality and sales though. Still a lot cheaper than buying a nice organizer bin and this one is customized to fit my silverware and drawer. It’s my favorite hobby ever!
Next time, print forms and create a mold. You’ll spend a whole hell of a lot less money and you can make it food safe by applying wood putty and sanding the forms.
I might do that myself now…
