Originally shared by Adafruit Industries
Live Hinge Foldable Phone Stand #3DThursday #3DPrinting
Shared by stalljd2 on Thingiverse:
Nice little Phone stand that is about credit card size. I did make it in PLA and it worked better than I thought it would. I modeled this after a little phone stand I got a while back, I could find anything like it on the interwebs so I thought hey I’ll just model up a new one and print it instead!!!
So initial print is thinner, and it’s clever - I’ll give it that. Personally I’ve made a couple of these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:692523
3 interconnected pieces, printed in place - that alone gives it a “you can only do this with a 3D printer” cool factor!
Adjustable and folds down to just a few mm thick. Very handy!
I have allways wonder about this kind of desings, you relay on the flexible of the material, but how about the layer adhesion of the material itself, in my case i allways have problems because the part that should be flexible allways break at a bad layer. Any sugestions about how to fight this? I print in ABS only.
Don’t print in ABS? I mean really, PLA is more likely to deform like this and ABS is more likely to just break
+1 for the living hinge!
Another plus of PLA is that you can run a thin stream of hot water over that hinge before you bend it if you want to ensure nothing will crack – properly hot water from the tap will do it, no need to boiling water. Just don’t leave the phone stand in strong direct sunlight – but then that’s not good for the phone anyway.
Ok, and how about petg? I wana try it,but dont know how good it is, i want it for exterior use and drones, any idea??
PETG is interesting. It prints more easily than ABS and is extremely tough – the kind of tough that makes me think you could throw it down the road and it would survive happily. It may not take to bending like this particular model needs. It’s also, so far as I know, always translucent. The PETG I’ve used is from @rigid_ink .
I have a feeling that PETG is a better material for all kinds of models currently printed in ABS, it’s just that 3D printer owners, and particularly the public, don’t really know about it so Instructables for example tend to say “get it printed in ABS”.