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ON Sweet Home - 3D printed parts

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With the technical side of the project progressing well, I started 3-D printing some enclosures for the RSL10 Beacons -honestly I always find an excuse to add 3D printed parts to my projects. At this point I got creative and came up with various types of enclosures.

3D Print settings

Below the settings used in Cura:

  • Printer: Creality CR-10S
  • Material: PLA White
  • Infill: 20%, Gyroid
  • Adhesion: Skirt
  • Supports: No
  • Layer height: 0.2mm

 

Assembly

There is not a lot to say here but let's mention some features that may not be noticeable:

 

Front Cap

The front cap has tiny holes that allow the sensors inside to breathe and a place for a 2mm light pipe2mm light pipe. I designed two of them with/without 20 degree stand.

Back Cap

The back cap also has tiny holes that allow the sensors inside to breathe and a Wall Mount option

Now that the beacons have a place to be, the project is ready for the final wrap up.

 

3D models are available to download in this blog entry

 

Blogs in this series

  1. ON Sweet Home - Introduction
  2. ON Sweet Home - Getting to know your RSL10
  3. ON Sweet Home - Collecting the Beacon data
  4. ON Sweet Home - 3D printed parts
  5. ON Sweet Home - GUI is alive and the project is complete!

 

Attachments:
RSL10-Sense Enclosure.zip
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  • in reply to luislabmo

    Luis,

     

    I'm definitely going to have a go at this. Thanks for tips on getting a good finish and protecting it.

     

    Dubbie

  • in reply to luislabmo

    It looks great.  I would definitely have to use your sandpaper tip to correct flaws given my lack of finesse with a brush.

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Thank you Enrico!.

     

    I totally agree. With 3-D printing, practice is the key to succeed -specially from the design stage.

     

    Luis

  • in reply to fmilburn

    Hello and ,

     

    Thank you for you comments. To make the colored logo this is what I regularly do:

    • Design a recess in the 3D printed part of about 2-4 layer deep (use multiples of your layer height settings for better results). On big logos you can use more layers.
    • For big logos use a small syringe to fill in the recesses with some paint (I used water-based but there are better and more durable options)
    • For small logos I just use a very small detail-paint-brush and fill in the cracks with paint as best as I can.
      • For small logos, since is nearly impossible to add paint just in the recesses, I just sand with 1000-1500 grit until the paint imperfections aren't visible. It really helps here if you have a printer with a very smooth print bed -mine has a glass bed so parts come up near mirror finish (not a lot of sanding needed in this case)
    • (optional) add a translucent protective paint coat.

     

    Here is how a Tennis Racket Butt cap looks like (this one is the first colored logo I made)

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Luis

  • in reply to fmilburn

    I definitely agree, Nice! And also, how did you do the coloured logos? I'm inspired to try doing this myself now - all I need is a Logo.

     

    Dubbie