This page collects suggestions for useful things for a RepRap machine to make. If you are a designer and wish to help out the project, pick something from this list (or WhatWouldYouMake), design and test it - then add it to the List of available files and remove it from here.
Suggestions
Mechanical components
- Gears and GearTrains
- Tracks and bogies
- Wheels Systems enclosures
- Battery boxes for standard battery sizes
- Pulley Wheels and Blocks
- Gaskets
- Chain
- Knobs
- Handwheels
- Electrical Terminal Blocks
- Knife Switch Parts
- Van Allen Geiger Counter
- Bearings
- Skate Bearing Pillow Block
- Drive Chain/Belt
RepRap 3D Printer
- RepRapSlurryHead
- Recycler and Filament Extruder
- RepStrapMini (smaller version, specialized to make only reprap parts for full-sized machine. Easy to give out. Palm sized?) (Mini-Mendel and Bonsai RepStrap are big (pun!) steps in this direction)
RepRap Associated Technology
- CameraScanningHead
- TouchProbeScanningHead (Scanning)
- Generic keypad
- automated part unloader -- see thesis by Øivind Brockmeier: "AUTOMATED LOADING AND UNLOADING"[1]
- Adapter plates to mount a RepRap in a "cube" for http://cubespawn.com/ . Eiffel and doboz might be able to fit with some very minor tweaking.
Fabrication Tools
Home Improvement Items
- Outlet Cover
- Light Switch Cover
- Electrical Outlet Box
- Child Safety Plug for electrical outlet
- Sharp Corner Cover
- Plastic Light Switch spacers for outlet boxes
- Threaded wire nuts
- Plastic drywall fasteners
- Plastic C-clamps
- Decorative light bulb covers for electric fans
- Plastic elctric cord hole covers for desk/cube worksurfaces
- Plastic end caps for clothes hangers
- Electric conduit connectors (elbow and tee)
- Drain pipe connectors
- Drain pipe end caps
- Flat plastic fence for a garden
- Screw on loops for hanging hollow tools that already have threaded ends
- Door stops
Home Improvement Tools
- Ruler
- T-Square
- Architect's 3 sided ruler
- Level (just add water, requires clear plastic)
Architecture, construction and prototyping
- A scaled model of cities, such as London, for design and planning puposes
Toys
- Kazoo
- Harmonica
- Ocarina
- Hollow Plastic Pins and Bowling Ball that with screw on caps for filling with water.
- Poker Chips
- Dice of different sizes (6 sided, 8 sided, 10, 12, 20, 4, etc)
- Chess Set
- Checkers (different faces on each side, so you can tell when it has been 'kinged')
- Generic playing piece pawns to replace the lost pieces in other games (with variations? like Monopoly pieces)
- Stackable playing pieces (like Trouble) for games that require that.
- Juggling balls--hollow, filled, solid
- Juggling clubs--hollow one piece
- Golf tee
- Wiffle ball
- Frisbee
- Hula hoops (on a really big RepRap!)
- Paddle blades
- Pentomino set
- Tabletop items, e.g. free own army units and W*hammer compatible bases, templates, markers, dice, ...
- Toy Tea Set
- Toy Plates, Cups, Bowls, etc.
- LEGO compatible spare parts
- Tangram puzzle
- Spiral drawing toy (a.k.a Spirograph) - older, fun toy. Some lo-res images.
Ornaments
Useful Items
Simple household Items
- Plates
- Cutlery (File:Fork.blend)
- Protective cases (eg Phone, Glasses)
- Tupperware and other containers
- Rulers
- Bottles
- Coat hanger
- Rope
- Vase
- Clothes pin (just add spring)
- Old-fashioned Clothes pin (no spring necessary)
- Ice tray
- Coasters
- Pretty Display pieces for holiday parties.
- Measuring Cups and Spoons
- Fly Swatter
- Letter Opener
- Pet Dish (various sizes - with support for big dogs so they don't have to squat to eat/drink)
- Sprouter
- Salad tongs
- Chopsticks
- Comb
- CD Case
- Bookends
- Screwdriver
- Coffee filter holder (problem with thermoplast?)
- Pillbox -- rounded shapes so that people with arthritis can easily slide pills out of today's slot. Perhaps someday a smart pill box.
More complex / functional household items
- Coin sorter
- Slidingly engaging fasteners
- Fish tank filter body
- Fish tank light hood
- Fish tank rock vacuum
- Drawers (might have to extrude the frame in multiple pieces)
- Sports Glasses Frames (for when your glasses break, but you have two lenses)
- Coffee machine
- clothes washing machine : perhaps something like the open source washing machine project
Handy aids for the handicapped
- Easy Grip handles for toothbrush, keys etc.
Educational Items
Mathematical Items
- Platonic Solids
- 3D Model of a function
- slide rules (can a RepRap use the gcode generated by "slide rule" software by Hugh Aguilar?)
Biological models
- Skull/ vertebra/ Hip-joint (human)
- Entire skeleton that can be wired together (human and various animals)
- Inner ear anatomy
- Animal tracks(various example animals)
- Animal Jaws(Herbivore Carnivore, rodent etc.)
Chemical Models
- Simple Molecules
- Enzyme (active site and substrate)
- DNA Helix
Physics Models
- Boomerang
- Archimedes screw
- 3DModel of a 2Ddipole scalar field
- Mystery Object(Sphere with an internal structure to be probed non-destructively by students)
Further reading
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