Usare Thingiverse

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,

a Wiimote Tripod, a 3-legged support

for the Wiimote 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,
this is the thing I'm interested in.

I downloaded the file and sent it

-- I did not have access yet to a 3D printer --

I noticed 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 understood that

for my Wiimote, I preferred some thing a little --

something 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, the app asks you
to create an account,

you do, 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

has been seen 3900 times since November 16

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

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
with what

I created id, with Tinkercad,
and with what printer

I printed the copies,

getting 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 using Thingiverse.