Matterhackers challenged us designers to invent tools to make life easier for people with limited use of their hands, like folks with arthritis, Dupuytren's Contracture, etc. Fun challenge; I have lot's more ideas to model in the future.
This is my contribution - to hold your smartphone.
This necklace enables people with crippling arthritis to use all the features of their smartphone . (I originally invented this for myself, because phones get more slippery and fragile each year, yet the obvious camera-strap has not appeared yet.)
I hope to have prints for sale on Confounding Contraptions too. I will make them in two colors: GNG and SMFJP (that's Gangsta-Nerd Gold, and Samuel Jackson Purple).
Printing this design requires great bed adhesion, so use hair spray on top of the blue tape or the heated bed. No support material is needed if your printer can print 45° overhangs and 11mm bridges. I use 0.3mm layer thickness and 1.5mm wall thickness, so the chain links and phone case are solid plastic, but the neck support is hollow with 20% infill. The print is 182mm x 207mm x 14mm high. I use PLA to save the polar bears.
On my Art website, I have published a coloring book for grownups, sort of a comic book to unwind from your work week with some positivity.
Since I am still having no luck with my job search, I am trying new ways to do something valuable and maybe make a little cash. Publishing books and art and selling contraptions have been a dream of mine for a long time. I should have started years ago, but when I had an aerospace job I was always too busy with the responsibilities to pursue arts and crafts. Maybe I needed a coloring book.
Posted May 21, 2016, 12:05 PM by Eureka Confounding
