Makedo tools
Makedo is a set of tools created by a company based in Melbourne Australia. They were made to encourage creativity and develop critical thinking. The tools are simple, tough and reusable. That makes them perfect to be used by students of all ages in schools right around the world. The QUT Maker Club saw this as opportunity to show that 3D printing is for more than just printing toys and that it can be used to make usable items in real life.
Using the peices we printed and some cardboard that Sarah Kelly, Nicole Peck, Andy and Mitchell pulled together, we put together this human sized cardboard robot. (See photo below) The tools were very easy to use and worked perfectly.
The link to the designs of the tools on thingiverse are below.
All of these tools printed easily without the need for support. Repetier was the slicing software used and printed on TEVO little monster printer. I would suggest a higher infill density for the screws (close to 100%) and around 15%-20% for the other tools.
Tinkering With The Tools
The only tinkering I would do to these tools would be to add support to the base of the head of the screwdriver. I found it to be easily Snap-able when I was creating the robot, I thought if this was being used in a school it would be broken pretty quickly. On Tinkercad I added a pyramid (purple) to add extra support. I have put my tinker on thingiverse and you can it by pressing the button bellow.
This Makedo Tools project is made by Mitchell Blashak and Andy Yeh @makerclubqut