Fun design from micmey on Thingiverse:

The rotation energy of my wind turbine is passing to a clock face.

The basic files I used are collected from the “Wind energy stored in gravity”, but as I want to install the machine on my balcony handrail I change the base in order to have a strong hold on the pipe. Another dramatical change was the wind turbine itself. As I was unhappy with my 2 part printing, I invested time to redesign the turbine. Now, it is possible to print that complete wind turbine in nice quality without any support structures (My prining took ca. 12h with a 3layers and 10% infill – material 178g)

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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!