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I'm always looking for opportunities to design, model and print things on my 3D Printer - so I took this challenge and pursued the Big Red Button.
The Design
Inside the button, we just needed to have the original switch which the button would activate - but the design of the button could be pretty much anything we wanted. We decided on a simple Big Red Button in a yellow box.I ended up with three components to this design so that it would print easily on the 3D Printer. This is often the main challenge with #3DPrinting - modeling things that will actually print reliably - so multi-part designs are often the way to go. In this case, the requirement for moving parts also made it likely that multiple parts would be the answer.
1 - The Button Box - a big yellow, hollow box with a hole at the top to hold the actual Red Button.
2 - The Button - a big Red semi-circle which would stick out the top of the button box and move freely up and down.
3 - The Button Base - a flat base around which the button box would sit, containing a mount for the spring, a mount for the switch and some parts which would keep the button in the position we desired.
Building it to work
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The button works quite well.
At the last minute, we also decided to mount an LED inside the box, so we did that after printing by drilling a tiny hole in the side of the box.
I could see printing lots of these.... for... well... something!
Got ideas? Put them in the comments!
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