I think I'm getting the hang of designing plastic parts that act like plastic.
The next step in the office organization project is an IKEA BESTÅ that is a smidge too low for the Roomba to get under. So I made a foot for its legs. It snaps on, stays on, and snaps off.
The square cutout on the bottom is for a nonslip rubber pad. The six small holes are to create columns of perimeter to stiffen the load bearing area.
@3dprinting It took the entire day, like 12 hours, just to model this power supply cover. It doesn't look that hard, but it took a long time to collapse the infinite possibilities down to this one. It's on the printer now; I'll see if it fits in an hour.
@3dprinting I plan to put the printer's power supply outside the enclosure attached to one table leg. The bottom of the power supply will fit into a cradle, and a cap will slide down over the top of the PS to keep it stable. To remove, I'll just slide the top up and lift the PS out.
@3dprinting I am still working on the printer enclosure when I'm not traveling. Today I made a test piece that slides along an IKEA LACK leg. I put steel dowel pins on two sides for a tight but low-friction fit. It works better than expected.
Oh, that will work. Now we can apply a test texture (or I could have used a decal, I know) to the outside to get a sense of how it might look to install art on a standard night stand. #unreal #IKEA #IkeaHacks
@3dprinting ??? This was supposed to be a video. It looks like I just uploaded a still.
@3dprinting I've solved the problem of mounting LEDs to the underside of the LACK table in my printer enclosure. I'm very happy with the result.
@3dprinting Now that we know where the solid parts are inside the table, we see that most of the screws in Prusa's enclosure design are screwed into air. Hmmm...
(Source: https://blog.prusa3d.com/mmu2s-printer-enclosure_30215/ )
@3dprinting Calling it wood was far too generous. As I expected, there's a block of sawdust-glue porridge in the corner just slightly bigger than the leg. It's hard to measure in there, but it looks like it extends about 60mm from each table edge. When I drill the hole for the cable, I can get a better measurement.
@3dprinting I suspect most of you, like me, get to see the insides of IKEA furniture far too rarely. So here's a LACK table undergoing surgery.
Now I'm trying to excavate out to the corner to find out how much wood is there for the legs. I want to run a cable in next to the leg and hide it inside...
As promised, there's just a little #gridfinity storage under the lid.
It's about time to stop pushing pixels and start melting filament. I think this is at least a week of print time and about three Kg of PETG, if I get everything right on the first try. Which I won't.
IKEA’s Billy Bookshelf is a Useful 3D Printing Enclosure - The results from your 3D printer may be improved if you use a dedicated enclosure ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/29/ikeas-billy-bookshelf-is-a-useful-3d-printing-enclosure/ #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #3dprinter #ikeahacks #ikea
I was annoyed that the IKEA #KNAGGLIG crates fit into #IVAR shelves perfectly in depth, but not in width, so of course I had to fix this with a quick #woodworking job. Luckily (?) the sides are only attached with pin nails, which I could even reuse, but I also added some glue just to be on the safe side 
#ikeahacks
Hacking the IKEA OBEGRÄNSAD LED Wall Lamp - The IKEA OBEGRÄNSAD is a pixel-style LED wall lamp that comes with a few baked-in ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/25/hacking-the-ikea-obegransad-led-wall-lamp/ #homehacks #ikeahacks #pixellamp #ledhacks #ledpanel #esp32
