Let's take a look at Thingiverse.
Here is the website:
the URL is simply thingiverse.com
It is full of objects,
it's a site that piques our curiosity.
There are so many surprising things,
silly ones too, all sort of things.
So once I looked for an object,
which was a Wiimote Tripod,
i.e. a 3-legged support to be used
with a three-egged support for the board --
for the Wiimote remote control,
to create an inexpensive IWB.
And I found this object here.
You can find so many more or less pertinent things,
at times an enormous quantity, it varies:
this one is already a rather particular object.
And I found this,
a project that was uploaded on November 16, 2009.
I looked at it and said yes, yes,
this is the thing I'm interested in.
I downloaded the file and sent it -- I realized
I did not have access to a 3D printer yet --
I realized that I could give it
to a photocopying service, there are some now
to whom you give the file on an USB key,
then they give you back the printed object.
and you pay
But afterwards, I
Well, I understood that for my Wiimote,
I preferred something a little similar, but different.
And so I made a remix.
In fact, this one was remixed:
it's mine, which I made some time ago.
And if you make a remix, well,
[the app] asks you to create an account,
you create it, etc. etc., OK.
However, if we go back
in the search I did, there is also this one,
which is mine,
And I made it on May 28 of this year.
So it's a recent thing.
Oh, I forgot to go and look:
let's go back a little:
this one, since November 16, has been --
has been seen 3900 times
and downloaded 1782 times.
These numbers give an idea
of how big today's world is:
because something so specific,
it seems almost surprising.
Mine, which is much younger, has nevertheless --
has been downloaded --
seen 840 times already and downloaded 85 times.
This is the object I had created
which, as you see, is slightly different.
Its shaping is very accurate.
It's very simple, here it's written how,
with what I created id, with Tinkercad,
and with what printer I printed the copies,
getting these -- these data,
i.e. what kind of thickness of the layer --
These are the settings. Some
we can mention are:
speed, object filling (check) --
As to instructions, I put little or nothing:
there are simply these photos
that tell, that show
how, basically, the thing works.
So here is the object and here is the trestle
on which I want to fix it
and I had accurately shaped
this slot, so I could insert
this little wheel.
And here is the little wheel in place.
After that, it becomes child's play
to fix it on the trestle: on this one
or on a more pro trestle.
And that's how it looks mounted
and how it looks mounted on this other trestle.
This is a very short example
of Thingiverse use.