Noah B Woodworks

In yesterdays blog post, I mentioned that I had trouble 3D printing last week because my wife was sick and the noise from the printer is quite bothersome. Well I was able to get some printing done early in the week. I ended up finishing the entire kitchen junk drawer full of gridfinity containers. There are around 12 containers, each took around 2 hours to print. The next on the docket to print is the M50 case. I tried doing the upper half yesterday, but the overall design and dimensions needed some attention.

I was very disappointed when the 4 hour print finished, and the camera didn’t fit into the housing. It was very discouraging. It made me think that perhaps the design could use some revision. Instead of printing an entire housing for the camera, why not attach a tripod mounting plate to the top of the battery housing? This way I could use the regular tripod mount to attach the camera to the battery. I’m thinking about 3D printing handles that have holes for quarter 20 screws, this way I can just mount the handles directly to the cameras metal shell.

Now I just need to try printing the battery housing. With all of the supports, and extras that I’ve added to the housing, the print will take 7 or 8 hours. The plan is to start it immediately as I return home from work today. Hopefully it goes well, and the battery fits into place. I’ve also determined that the little door drawer slides needed to be adjusted from 1mm to 2mm. Hopefully it’ll be easier to remove the supports from the grooves.