Wanted Objects

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, 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 RepRap Associated Technology CameraScanningHead TouchProbeScanningHead Generic keypad Fabrication Tools Laser Cutter Large CNC router Micro Lathe Drexler Arm multi-material extruder/clasp 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 Whistle and ball for the Whistle Kazoo Harmonica 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 Rubik's cube Pentomino set Toy Tea Set Toy Plates, Cups, Bowls, etc. LEGO compatible spare parts Tangram puzzle Ornaments Klein bottle (will have to wait for 4 Dimensional version of RepRap) Useful Items Simple household Items Plates Cutlery Protective cases (eg Phone, Glasses) Tupperware and other containers Rulers Bottles Coat hanger Rope Vase Clothes pin (just add spring) 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 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) Educational Items Mathematical Items Platonic Solids 3D Model of a function 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 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)