This model was designed by Skalla_J and reposted as permitted by their CC-BY license.

Original description:
Are you tired of throwing away empty filament spools? This project allows you to re-purpose them instead of recycling. It is designed for the Inland filament spools from Micro Center.

A goal of my project was to not only create boxes that fit in the spools, but to make a storage system that is stackable and portable. I also wanted to make drilling the holes for the hinges easy and repeatable.

The files contained here are:
1) 'Reel Box' - you will need four of these per spool.
2) 'Joiners' - two parts, one for the top of the hole in one reel and the bottom of the hole in the other.
3) 'Handle' - two parts, an adapter and the handle.
4) 'Drilling Guide' - assures holes are located where they belong.

There is at least one other project of this type on Thingiverse ("Spool drawer organizer" by Tanatof). I only discovered it a few days ago. Hence, my project is not a copy of that one, but I am happy to see that we have some similar features. Props to Tanatof for a great, attractive design.

Spool Storage Boxes

Reel_Box.stl

This model was designed by Lammesky and reposted as permitted by their Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

YARRRRR!! Add some salty sea flavor to your extruder shaft. Needs an 8x3mm magnet and some glue.

Extruder Rotation Pirate Wheel

This model was designed by knickers. I've reposted it as permitted by the Creative Commons Attribution license.

The attached files are for a V-Twin engine. Print each part individually, or an "all parts" model to get the whole thing at once. The engine.scad file can be used to generate new configurations!

Original description:
Kinetic visualizer pistons for a more discernibly active extruder, inspired by extruder visualizers from other designers. Reciprocating Engine built to attach to your direct dive extruder motor. Can also attach to any motor which has screw holes in the corners.

The engine block is held in place by circular tabs that press fit into the screw holes of standard NEMA 17 stepper motors. The fit should be tight so the assembly holds itself in place securely. If the mounting tabs don't fit in your motor, edit the tab size in Thingiverse Customizer.

The crankshaft requires a neodymium magnet to hold itself to the stepper motor shaft, 8 mm diameter by 3 mm tall.

Kinetic Extruder Visualizer Engine

Ready-to-print V-Twin extruder spinner with tight tolerances.

v-twin-all-parts-0.2mm-tolerance.stl

This slick Cherry MX keycap was generated by the KeyV2 library by Robert Sheldon and uploaded with his permission.

This is a G20-style 1u non-spherical 'flat' keycap for Cherry MX-compatible keyswitches. I tuned this model to print on my Phrozen Sonic Mini 4k with an 80/20 blend of Elegoo ABS-like and Siraya Tenacious resins, and fit Kailh BOX stems. 

If it doesn't fit, or if you'd like to generate other variants like scooped OEM or SA sets, check out the KeyV2 library at https://github.com/rsheldiii/keyV2

It's implemented in OpenSCAD and quite easy to use. Just edit src/settings.scad to generate your perfect key.

This model is licensed Creative Commons Noncommercial.

KeyV2 G20 Cherry MX Keycap

G20-style 1u non-spherical 'flat' keycap for Cherry MX-compatible keyswitches, generated with the KeyV2 library by Robert Sheldon.

I tuned this model to print on my Phrozen Sonic Mini 4k with an 80/20 blend of Elegoo ABS-like and Siraya Tenacious resins, and fit Kailh BOX stems. 

If it doesn't fit, or if you'd like to generate other variants like scooped OEM or SA sets, check out the KeyV2 library at https://github.com/rsheldiii/keyV2

It's implemented in OpenSCAD and quite easy to use. Just edit src/settings.scad to generate your perfect key.

This model is licensed Creative Commons Noncommercial.

Designed by Tom Short and uploaded as permitted under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

The most ergonomic open-hardware keyboard on the Internet is yours for the making. Be warned: Detailed assembly instructions are not available for this keyboard, and I recommend it for experienced keyboard builders. 

The Dactyl ManuForm may look wild, but it's really just an Ergodox-style keyboard, warped and bent into a hand-cradling, comfortably-tented configuration. This is the 5x6 version, which actually has four rows of six keys under each finger.

You'll need one each of the Left, Right, Left Bottom Plate, and Right Bottom Plate. If you have access to a laser cutter, the designer recommends cutting bottom plates from the included DXF files from 3mm acrylic. Otherwise, print the STL bottom plates from the stiffest material available.

In addition to the printed parts, you'll need:
56x Cherry MX-compatible switches. I used Kailh Box Jade - https://amzn.to/3a3MNAc
56x Diodes - I used 1N4148 - https://amzn.to/3qOE9fW
52x Cherry-compatible keycaps, 1u
4x Cherry-compatible keycaps, 1.25u
10x 5mm-long M3 screws - https://amzn.to/2KIdnpV
10x M3 heat-set inserts - https://amzn.to/3oeWPnk
2x Arduino Pro Micro - https://amzn.to/3oii7Am
Rubber feet - https://amzn.to/2Nozi6u
Solid-core wire
Solder and soldering gear
Note: These are affiliate links

For more information, including the Clojure scripts used to generate these STL's, visit the repository at https://github.com/tshort/dactyl-keyboard

The Dactyl Manuform is copyright 2017 Tom Short, based on the Dactyl by Matt Adereth. The code used to generate these models is licensed GNU GPL and the models themselves are licensed Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike.

Dactyl-ManuForm 5x6 Mechanical Keyboard

right-5x6.stl

Designed by MattDB and uploaded with permission.

Split ergonomic custom mechanical keyboard with handy thumb buttons. The Redox is a smaller, simplified remix of the classic Ergodox with fewer keys but just as much comfort. It's easy to make, inexpensive, and looks great in any filament.

The Redox is a great first keyboard project - it's easy to print, easy to build, and runs the free and easy-to-configure QMK firmware. The 1u version is especially interesting, because you only need to buy one size of keycap for the entire board!

Configure and download firmware at https://config.qmk.fm/#/redox/rev1/LAYOUT

Print one BottomL and one BottomR. Then, print PlateL1u and PlateR1u OR PlateL and PlateR. The 1u versions use only 1-unit-wide keycaps, which makes the board smaller and reduces the number of differently sized keycaps you need to buy. Otherwise, the two are identical.

Consult the schematic while assembling: https://www.thingiverse.com/download:4894954

In addition to the printed components, you'll need:
70x: Cherry compatible switches - I used Kailh Box Jade - https://amzn.to/3a3MNAc
70x: Diodes - I used 1N4148 - https://amzn.to/3qOE9fW
70x: Cherry compatible keycaps - I printed some KeyV2 G20 caps
--> If using 1u version: 8x 1.25u keycaps and 56x 1u keycaps
--> If not using 1u version: 6x 1.5u keycaps and 54x 1u keycaps
14x: M3 8mm screws (M3.5 if fit is loose) https://amzn.to/368H1wh
2x: 4 poles 3.5 mm plug - https://amzn.to/2Mg6tZw
1x: Short 4 poles 3.5 mm male-male cord - https://amzn.to/2NyqDP6
2x: Arduino Pro Micro - https://amzn.to/3oii7Am
2x: USB micro male to female cable/adapter - https://amzn.to/2Y6ZULA
Rubber feet - https://amzn.to/2Nozi6u
Solid-core wire
Solder and soldering gear
Note: These are affiliate links.

For more information, visit the author's page at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2704567

The Redox Handwire is copyright 2017 Mattia Dal Ben and licensed Creative Commons Attribution. Please credit MattDB and not myself. 

Redox Handwire Mechanical Keyboard

Left-hand switch plate. Requires only 1u keycaps.

PlateL1u.STL

Designed by Fedor Sosnin and uploaded with permission.

The Super Inexpensive Cheap Keyboard is a handwired 60% mechanical keyboard that's easy to print, easy to build, and quite low in cost. Not only does the SiCK-68 look great in any filament, it uses the common Tada68 layout, complete with arrows and four macro keys. A ready-to-run QMK firmware is included, and you can use the online QMK configurator to craft a custom layout.

You will need to print one copy each of Upper-Left, Upper-Right, Lower-Right, and Lower-Left, and two copies of Dowels. An assortment of Keycap models are included in case your set is missing them.

This project needs less than $50 of components, which are easy to get anywhere keyboard parts are sold. You can view the complete bill of materials at https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/9c/58/5b/49/69/SiCK-68_Cost_Breakdown.pdf

Use the QMK configurator at https://config.qmk.fm/#/handwired/sick68/LAYOUT_65_ansi

Or, download the ready-to-use firmware and programming software at https://www.thingiverse.com/download:7835690

Unfortunately, Thangs doesn't allow us to upload non-model files, so we can't include those here!

For more information, visit the original page at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3478494

The SiCK-68 is copyright 2019 Fedor Sosnin and licensed Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial. Please credit Fedor and not myself.

SiCK-68 Mechanical Keyboard

Upper_-_Left.stl

Get a shout-out in every video produced this month, and the Booster Pack too! You'll be supporting Hextraction and the rest of my projects.

This is exactly the same as becoming a Hex-ecutive on Thangs and a Lab Assistant on my Patreon.

Hex-ecutive Assistant

Make a huge difference in my YouTube videos, and kickstart Hextraction, at the same time! In addition to the monthly Booster Pack, you'll get a special shout-out in every video produced this month, and I'll make your name a permanent part of my workshop.

This is exactly the same as becoming a Hex-ecutive on Thangs and a Co-Lab-Orator on my Patreon.

Hex-ecutive Co-Lab-Orator

Get a new Hextraction Booster Pack each month! Each themed pack has 5+ brand-new tiles and mods, designed for serious players!

Each month, you'll get five new tiles, each with a tricky rule, intricate mechanism, or other advanced element. Some even introduce new keywords to put in your own designs!

Hex-ecutive

Take a detour through the extradimensional Backrooms with these liminal tiles for Hextraction, the hackable, 3D-printable board game. The first tile in Booster Pack 2: Time is of the Hexes features intricate decoration, fascinating gameplay, and THREE brand-new keywords. 

The Backrooms are a modern classic in horror media - an infinite maze of dim corridors, empty vestibules, and pitch-black crawlspaces, a chaotic sprawl of purposeless rooms populated only by flickering fluorescent lights and the occasional ambiguous stain. It's said that anyone, anywhere, can take a step, fall through the floor, and find themselves hurtling face-down into the Backrooms' worn yellow carpet. While most are lost under strange circumstances, a lucky few find their way to the single stable exit, staffed by mysterious men clad in head-to-toe quarantine suits. 

Some trudge through the labyrinth for weeks. Others enter mere meters from the exit. But time passes differently in the Backrooms - escapees have emerged seconds, months, or even decades after they went missing, and in one case, before they were even born. 

This set pays homage to its namesake's iconic architecture while functioning as a sort of funneling teleporter. Like the Teleporter Tile, the Backrooms Tile can warp a ball further up the board. The main difference is, no matter how many Backrooms Tiles are installed, every one sends the ball to the same place. This required giving the exit two new keywords - Virtual prevents it from being permanently destroyed, and Unique ensures there's only a single way out. It's also got another quirk - the first ball to enter the Backrooms will manifest the Exit, but won't survive to use it. Where did it go? Perhaps it's best not to imagine.

Note that the Backrooms Tile is NOT destroyed after a ball enters the hole. Rules Update 1 changed the "falling through a slot" rule so it still applies if the slot is occupied. In other words, if a ball falls through a tile, that tile is no longer removed. Another rules note: for flavor, I decided NOT to make the effect a trigger, so even though it behaves like a triggered effect, it doesn't have the keyword.

I strongly recommend putting the Backrooms Exit in the Virtual Pool. It's not a very useful tile to draw, since it has no top-side holes and a very restrictive Limit effect. Since it's Unique, there's no reason to print redundant copies.

These tiles can be printed in any rigid filament. To print the single-color version, just run off a few copies of Backrooms Entrance, Backroom Exit, Single-Color Entrance Card, and Single-Color Exit Card. For multi-material fun, open the pre-colored 3MF file in PrusaSlicer, SuperSlicer, or Bambu Studio. 

Fun fact: This is the most time-consuming element I've ever made for Hextraction, except for the videos about the project itself! I don't even want to think about how much time I wasted on this thing, but it's probably almost a week. That's why this one's not neatly split apart into separate STLs - this project just seems to make Fusion go berserk, and I'd basically need to start over from scratch to do it right. I'm not doing that, I got  [ r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s ]

If you'd like to edit the tile, the source is here: https://a360.co/3NxkUUP
While you're free to re-distribute the tile outside Thangs' paywall, I'd like to ask that you at least modify it a bit. The fewer people buy Booster Packs, the less time I can devote to making more.

Hextraction: The Backrooms Tile

Backrooms Colorized.3mf

Backrooms Entrance.stl

Backrooms Exit.stl

Entrance Card.stl

Exit Card.stl

When this tile starts rocking, you best start knocking... your ball one way or the other. Goose your gameplay with this dynamic tile for Hextraction, the hackable, 3D-printable board game. The third tile in Booster Pack 2: Time is of the Hexes combines a skill-testing physical challenge with the game's very first activated effect, and a heaping helping of pure chaos!

When I set out to make a time-themed booster pack, I knew it needed a temporary effect, and not temporary like a few turns - temporary like a few SECONDS. But making a delayed effect was harder than it seemed. Clockwork was too finicky, hourglasses too large, electronics too complex. I found the solution as I was tossing old projects - a prototype Sozu Tile without the limiting peg. After dumping the balls, this version would rock back and forth, often settling slightly misaligned. I added the peg to cut that motion short, but what if I did the reverse? What if I made the flipper even heavier and even less balanced?

This is the result. When still, it's basically MrPancake's Left/Right Randomizer Tile, a fork in the road that randomly sends balls left or right. But it's got an effect printed right on - once per turn, you can set the pendulum swinging. Time it right and you've got a Flip-Flop Tile you can adjust at will to send the ball where you need it. Time it wrong and it's got a mind of its own, or worse - the ball can jam the mechanism when the pendulum is hanging still at the edge of its swing. Since it uses two balls for weight, you're not going anywhere - that tile is going away, giving the next player an opening. 

As for strategy, it's all about the timing and preparation. Hold a ball near the ramp as you swing the pendulum, so you can roll immediately and boost the odds of hitting your sweet spot. If the tile is far away, you might want to flick the pendulum hard enough to do full rotations, to ensure it's still in motion when the ball arrives. 

Note that it's not physically possible to make this pendulum swing slower - the rate at which a pendulum swings is proportional to the distance between the weight and the fulcrum, and the 50mm tile constrains that length. Adding more weights won't help - the reason I added a second ball was to kick more balls back onto the track. If you want to make a slower version of this tile, you'll need to make the pendulum hang UNDER the board.

This tile and its pendulum can be printed in any rigid filament, though I recommend smooth PETG or nylon. To print the single-color version, just run off the Pendulum Tile. For multi-material fun, drag Pendulum Tile and 2-Color Lettering into your slicer simultaneously, and when prompted, select "Load these as a single object with multiple parts" and assign filaments as desired. I've prepared a ready-to-print 3MF file with three Pendulum Tiles that should work in PrusaSlicer, SuperSlicer, and Bambu Studio. Note that these do NOT include the Pendulum - to reduce the number of filament swaps, I recommend printing this separately. 

As for the Pendulum, print the one that fits the balls you're using. Assembly is just like the Sozu Tile, but with two balls instead of one - snap them into the spherical voids BEFORE installing the pendulum! Then, use an [M3x8 screw ](https://amzn.to/3O7JLAv)to mount a [3x7x3mm ball bearing](https://amzn.to/3BoDh96) to the base, and GENTLY press the Pendulum down. It should swing freely at a light touch, then gradually come to rest. It might need [a little grease ](https://amzn.to/3pEmkVz).

If you'd like to edit the tile, the source is here: https://a360.co/3NDfQi6
While you're free to re-distribute the tile outside Thangs' paywall, I'd like to ask that you at least modify it a bit. The fewer people buy Booster Packs, the less time I can devote to making more.

Hextraction: The Pendulum Tile

2-Color Lettering.stl

2-Color Tile - Add Your Own Pendulum.3mf

Pendulum 10mm.stl

Pendulum 3-8in.stl

Pendulum Tile.stl

Warp through time and space with the fastest tile yet in Hextraction, the hackable, 3D printable board game. The fifth tile in Booster Pack 2: Time is of the Hexes features a turbo-speed effect, optional multi-filament details, and TWO brand-new keywords.

As soon as it hits the board, the Subspace Tile clones itself over and over into a hyperspace corridor, projecting your path further and faster than anything the game has seen before. Like Star Trek's iconic faster-than-light warp drives, this star-streaked secret weapon packs some new technology: the Virtual and Create keywords. 

When a Virtual tile is destroyed or discarded, it doesn't leave the game - it enters a separate Virtual Pool so future Subspace Tiles can Create it again. Since Virtual Tiles can begin the game in the Virtual Pool instead of the main pool, you can provide enough copies to crisscross any board over and over, without overloading your draws with boring straight-line tiles. To keep things fair, the Subspace Tile must be installed at an angle - otherwise, you could get an easy straight shot from directly above the end zone. 

Just remember, the effect isn't optional! Unless a tile blocks the path, the chained Creation effects will continue until the edge of the board. You may want to derail the train yourself by pre-emptively dropping a tile in the way. For a super-sneaky play, instead lay down a path between an end zone and ANOTHER edge slot! Then, roll for your turn, drop the Subspace Tile, and your opponent will have to waste their turn falling off the side. Unless they have a tile to block your path, your next play will take you to victory!

This tile can be printed in any rigid filament. To print the single-color version, just run off a few copies of Subspace Tile and Single-Color Card. For multi-material fun, drag Subspace Tile and 2-Color Details into your slicer simultaneously, and when prompted, select "Load these as a single object with multiple parts." Repeat with 2-Color Card and 2-Color Card Details, and assign filaments as desired. I've prepared a ready-to-print 3MF file with five Subspace Tiles that should work in PrusaSlicer, SuperSlicer, and Bambu Studio. 

Remember, the more tiles you print, the more consistently the effect will work. Don't be stingy!

If you'd like to edit the tile, the source is here: https://a360.co/440cAnG
While you're free to re-distribute the tile outside Thangs' paywall, I'd like to ask that you at least modify it a bit. The fewer people buy Booster Packs, the less time I can devote to making more.

Hextraction: The Subspace Tile

2-Color Card Details.stl

2-Color Card.stl

2-Color Tile Details.stl

5x Subspace Tiles.3mf

Single-Color Card.stl

Subspace Tile.stl

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