This gadget gives your screw bottom new life

Rotation knob extender for Lulzbot taz

For the Chinese, from successfully completing a complex wrist surgery or deliverring pizzas to soldier outposts in 30 minutes to manufacturing of engine parts of a race car, 3D printing is not only simplifying complex creations but also giving a pace to new inventions. Maker Bot Thingiverse is a great initiative to bring the enthusiasts of this futuristic technology together and pool in their own creations, inventions and line of products they made using 3d printing. It is then our responsibility that the product and the ideas behind it reach the aimed and interested mass.

First of all, we should know what this Thingiverse is. It is a website dedicated to share the digital design files created by user. It primarily provides open source hardware designs for all its users. This website is widely used by many technological companies. Several projects use it as a source for shared innovation and propagation of source materials to the public. Many of the objects made by Thingiverse are for the purpose of repair.

The ideas and new products accumulated at one place makes it easy to search for all the incredible creations that others have created and get inspired to make your own. As a result of this community Thingiversehave come around numerous diverse products and ideas in past years. Now have a look at this new idea; a 3d printed product to make 3d printing simpler and lazier.A latest project of Thingiverse which will ease your 3D printing is Rotation knob extender for LulzbotTaz. The company was very excited to announce the project as it not only make easy for you to take 3D prints but also makes you lazy. 

Lulzbot is known as one of the leading the manufacturers of user friendly and simpler 3d printers which are also capable of producing industry and professional level 3d prints. We already know that these printers have rotational knobs for various fine tuning and adjustments. Though it is not a very hefty task to rotate a knob but what if it can be done with less effort and force. This extension allows you to rotate the knob with just one finger instead of two. It makes it less snappy and takes you closer to perfection.

It's one of those simplest ideas like using a pencil instead of pen in space which make a big impression. Now this knob extender snaps on the knob easily and is slightly keyed with a little nubbin going into the set-screw recess to keep it from slipping. The front of the piece does not line up with the front of the knob so that you can still easily push the button without hitting or dislodging it. Just like this Thingiverse have got similar simple products that makes 3d printing more of a fun task like Simple Spool mount to print small 3d objects, a spool holder which is as simple as a toilet paper roll or a tip box for storing tips for a StratasysFortus system.

This is an amazing technological innovation. It has come at the right time in the industry. 

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