I designed and built this broom hanger from scratch yesterday morning. It took a few prototypes to get it right.
Umm… this is a design that’s been around for ages.
The hanger looks useful. Was there an inspiration?
What software did you use to design it?
@Peter_Warnevall Convergent evolution. Good on @Ben_Jackson for coming up with it independently.
Convergent evolution is when an idea is realized by multiple parties at the same time. This design has been around and mass produced since at least the 50’s (Have an ancient one of these at work). It’s like saying that someone coming up with a microwave oven is just converging with the ones from the fifties…
Eitherway, cudoz to the guy if he really came up with this on his own having never seen one before…
The concept of a cam based hanger has been around for ages. This is his design based on that concept. He never claimed invention of the idea, just like every car designer didn’t invent the car.
Even if you know the concept, bringing it to a custom design (and probably teaching yourself design software at the same time) is an achievement to be noted. I know it would take me a while to figure out how to do that cam in OpenSCAD.
It was more an exercise in modelling it in fusion 360. Going through the prototyping process, etc. Obviously the simple cam design has been thought of before. relax
nice
The thing I really like about 3D printing is that you can go from design to product in hours.
Is the black strip neoprene?
@Peter_Vautier It is just self adhesive foam. the Cam needs something to grip the broom. Pretty much anything that is grippy will work. Neoprene would also be fine.
Alternatively you could make the cam out of some sort of flexible rubbery material like Arnitel. That could work as well.
Nice! I’ve got a big roll of sticky back neoprene. Mostly use it for sticking over table corners so my little one doesn’t hit her head…