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If you already know OpenSCAD, it’s easy to create your own objects that are customizable by anyone on the Internet. Customizer takes this OpenSCAD file, puts sliders and radio buttons on a web page, and allows you to create custom objects based on user-created templates.Īlready we’ve seen a lot of Hackaday readers send in some pretty cool customizable things, like ’s coil form for DIY inductors and ’s customizable PVC pipe couplers. The idea behind Customizer is simple: someone creates an OpenSCAD file with a few variables like the number of teeth on a gear or the number of turns on a screw. Enter the Makerbot Customizer, a web app that allows you to create custom versions of other people’s work right in your browser. The problem with this approach, though, is you’ll need to learn OpenSCAD or another 3D design tool. If you need a gear, just go grab an OpenSCAD file for a gear, and a custom smart phone case can be easily made by modifying an already existing one. If you use this technique make sure to document your experience because we want to hear about it! Posted in cnc hacks Tagged 2d, laser cutter, mill, openscad, router Custom 3D Printed Designs With Makerbot’s CustomizerĪlthough having a 3D printer means you can create custom object of your own design, that doesn’t change the fact that most object printed on Makerbots and RepRaps are copies, or slight derivations, of already existing object.

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By referencing the code itself, and playing with how it changes the render in OpenSCAD he makes a strong case for quick and easy enclosure design. His post is a quick read and shows off the bare bones of the case designs he’s been working with for a few years. Or you could go back about a year and read about creating 3D molds.

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Just this week we heard about the software in use with the Makerbot. When we read that we thought we must have seen a lot of 2D hacks but a search of Hackaday’s previous offerings proved us wrong. wrote about the project because he sees tons of 3D printing hacks that use the software, but almost never hears about it as a tool for laser cutting or CNC router/mill work. Here’s an enclosure which was designed with OpenSCAD and cut out on a CNC router. Posted in Software Hacks Tagged eagle, EaglePCB, openscad, pcb, traces OpenSCAD Is For Use With 2D Machine, Not Just 3D Printing

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If OpenSCADing touch sensors isn’t your thing, there’s also an Eagle library full of them – something we found last week.

Importing into Eagle was another challenge, but a quick Ruby script to convert a DXF file into a set of coordinates for Eagle’s POLYGON command made everything very easy. Eagle is terrible for designing anything that isn’t laid out at a 45 degree angle, so he fired up OpenSCAD to draw these triangles. The touch scroll wheel implementation found came from an ST touch controller datasheet and used oddly-shaped patterns to create a capacities sensor. One thing leads to another and now has a cap touch wheel Eagle part designed entirely in OpenSCAD. He hit upon a very cool touch scroll wheel made entirely with PCB traces, but the geometry – three interleaved zig zags is impossible to build in the decidedly ungeometric Eagle PCB package. Recent experiments with the Arduino CapSense library led around the Internet looking for interesting applications.