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RJ45 Ethernet Cover

RJ45 Ethernet Cover

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I am working on a project and I needed an easy way to create an Ethernet jack from a standard patch cable. I found these cheap RJ45 Keystone Adapters (https://www.ebay.ie/itm/RJ45-Keystone-Jack-Wall-End-Plug-Cat-5e-Ethernet-LAN-Network-Module-Port-Adapter/252314420824) which you can easily wire to a standard Ethernet cable. I needed a way to cover the exposed connections and attach it to the project so I designed a cover for them. The jack has to be slightly modified in order to fit into my design, two clips have to…

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Hozelock Submersible Water Butt Pump Filter

Hozelock Submersible Water Butt Pump Filter

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The filter on the pump I was using was too fine so I designed a coarser one to replace it. I designed the new filter in SolidWorks. The final print can be seen below: The new filter installed in the pump can be seen below: The files for this model can be found on Thingiverse here.   As always if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask, Conor.

ANET A8 Side Filament Guide

ANET A8 Side Filament Guide

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If a roll of filament is new or a print is very wide or tall your filament is more likely to get stuck in the spool holder. This caused one of my prints to fail because the filament got tangled and jammed in the holder and the printer pulled the roll into itself. I designed this guide to go on top of the printer to guide the filament down to the extruder. The guide uses the bolt from rod guard…

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Outside Light Spacer for Garden Power

Outside Light Spacer for Garden Power

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I needed to run a wire from inside an external light to outside it to temporarily get power into my garden. I needed to print a large hexagon the same size and shape as the top of the light shown below but with a gap for the wire to get through. But this shape was larger than the bed on my 3D printer. So I designed the print in 3 parts. The parts are joined with cross-halving joints that will…

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Repair By 3D Printing: SD Card Reader

Repair By 3D Printing: SD Card Reader

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I dropped an SD Card reader while a card was in it and broke the card slot. The electronics were fine it but the enclosure that held the card had broken. I’ve highlighted in the picture below what broke. The enclosure that holds the card onto the pins cracked and would no longer hold a card. I thought I’d share the process I went through to fix this. In SolidWorks I drew a cuboid a bit bigger than the size…

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3D Printable Joints

3D Printable Joints

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I am working on a project that requires a large print that won’t fit on my print bed so I will have to print it in 2 parts. I was experimenting with different types of joints to join these two parts. The first was a press fit style of joint. The air gap was 0.2mm between the two parts on this print. This finger style joint had a 0.4mm air gap between the two parts on this print. This dovetail style…

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Model a Hinge in SolidWorks for 3D Printing

Model a Hinge in SolidWorks for 3D Printing

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I have created a video tutorial about how to model a print in place Hinge in SolidWorks for 3D printing. The finished model can be seen below: The full tutorial can be seen below (26 minutes), this goes into the full detail of how the SolidWorks was done: I have also created a shortened version (6.5 minutes), which only contains a time lapse and a quick overview of the SolidWorks modelling: The files are available on Thingiverse here.   As…

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Model threads in SolidWorks for 3D Printing

Model threads in SolidWorks for 3D Printing

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I have created a video tutorial about how to model threads in SolidWorks for 3D printing. The finished model can be seen below: The model consists of a main box: And a threaded cap: That thread together: The full tutorial can be seen below (32 minutes), this goes into the full detail of how the SolidWorks was done: I have also created a shortened version (8 minutes), which only contains a time lapse and a quick overview of the SolidWorks…

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Smart Environment Monitoring system (SEM)

Smart Environment Monitoring system (SEM)

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The Smart Environment Monitoring (SEM) system is an Arduino and web based (PHP) system that monitors, records and analyses environmental metrics both inside and outside (using external service) of the room that the Arduino device is located in. The circuit schematic can be seen below. The main sensor used is an AM2302 which is a temperature and humidity sensor. The system also uses a photoresistor to measure light levels. Most Arduinos could be used to build this system, I used…

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3D Printer Bed Leveling & Warping Test

3D Printer Bed Leveling & Warping Test

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I wanted to design a model to test how well my bed was leveled and to check if my bed was warped. I needed a way to quickly print a model that I could measure the thickness of at key points on the bed. My bed is 220mm by 220mm but the maximum size I use is 200mm by 200mm (to allow for the purge line) so I decided to make the test 180mm by 180mm with test points every…

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