ON Sweet Home - 3D printed parts

20 Mar 2020

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

My Think ON Design Challenge entries

Attachments:

RSL10-Sense Enclosure.zip

Top Comments

dubbie over 4 years ago 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
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fmilburn over 4 years ago 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.
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luislabmo over 4 years ago 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
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luislabmo over 4 years ago in reply to fmilburn
Hello fmilburn and dubbie,

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
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dubbie over 4 years ago 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.

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