This seemed too simple to pay $30 for, from Tesla, so I made this one for myself.
Wanting to avoid tons of support material (and the rough undersides it would cause), I made this in two pieces and attached the bottom with a few #4-40 countersunk screws. Any screw length up to 1/2″ will fit, and the holes in the bottom part are countersunk. It could have benefited from one more screw on each side, but a drop or two of superglue on each side instead, worked just as well.
I printed mine solid (5 vertical shells) for strength, but I think that was overkill. 2 or 3 vertical shells would be plenty strong, and print a little faster.
If I were printing another one, I might make it slightly shallower, and possibly a few mm shorter front-to-back, but this one is pretty darn good, IMO.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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