Announcing Three New Builds! -- Episode 279

The glue gun kick starter probably won't fly.  There is too much competition at low prices and none of the ideas presented are good enough entice people to buy at 2x+ the price.

The Hackmanji with logic gates and plugs would not have wide appeal because it lacks fantasy and requires interest in electronics/programming logic.  You might as well dumb it down so young kids can have fun with it.  For example, "The Boom Box", a game that slowly pumps up a balloon until it pops while ominous music plays in the background, growing ever more louder and faster to make the player nervous and panicky.  During the inflation, buttons must be pressed in combination.  Extra sounds are played and lights lock on as "tripwires" are tripped.  Buttons associated with locked on lights no longer work.  If enough tripwires are tripped, all lights come on and there is nothing the player can do but wait for the balloon to pop.  Once the target combination is reached, victory music is played and the balloon deflates.  The button combinations could be associated with musical cords and randomized between games.  Each button plays a note.  If not musical notes, use voice samples with the goal to combine matching items.  Higher levels require more matching items.  Voice samples can take on themes, like selecting the names of three kinds of cats or the two colors  combined to make purple.

I too like the mini pin ball game as an item of interest around the home for guests.  Maybe you can sell them to bars but then you'll need a coin slot.  You can get video pinball software for free too.  SUGGESTION:  If you want to do injection molds for mass production, put all the parts into one mold that you can break apart, sort of like the old VAC-U-FORM kits where you break off the tires, axles, and frame for cars.

I still hoped you might come up with something to easily remove parts from circuit boards, like the toaster oven.  Maybe a heat gun and a shaker/positioning mechanism would work.  I want to reuse parts, but if they aren't sorted in parts drawers, they are just not handy.

The glue gun kick starter probably won't fly.  There is too much competition at low prices and none of the ideas presented are good enough entice people to buy at 2x+ the price.

The Hackmanji with logic gates and plugs would not have wide appeal because it lacks fantasy and requires interest in electronics/programming logic.  You might as well dumb it down so young kids can have fun with it.  For example, "The Boom Box", a game that slowly pumps up a balloon until it pops while ominous music plays in the background, growing ever more louder and faster to make the player nervous and panicky.  During the inflation, buttons must be pressed in combination.  Extra sounds are played and lights lock on as "tripwires" are tripped.  Buttons associated with locked on lights no longer work.  If enough tripwires are tripped, all lights come on and there is nothing the player can do but wait for the balloon to pop.  Once the target combination is reached, victory music is played and the balloon deflates.  The button combinations could be associated with musical cords and randomized between games.  Each button plays a note.  If not musical notes, use voice samples with the goal to combine matching items.  Higher levels require more matching items.  Voice samples can take on themes, like selecting the names of three kinds of cats or the two colors  combined to make purple.

I too like the mini pin ball game as an item of interest around the home for guests.  Maybe you can sell them to bars but then you'll need a coin slot.  You can get video pinball software for free too.  SUGGESTION:  If you want to do injection molds for mass production, put all the parts into one mold that you can break apart, sort of like the old VAC-U-FORM kits where you break off the tires, axles, and frame for cars.

I still hoped you might come up with something to easily remove parts from circuit boards, like the toaster oven.  Maybe a heat gun and a shaker/positioning mechanism would work.  I want to reuse parts, but if they aren't sorted in parts drawers, they are just not handy.

Instead of printing parts on the 3D printer, could you print molds instead?

https://howchoo.com/g/mgyymza3nzi/3d-printing-molds-for-rubber-abd-plastic