After more than a year of owning a 3D printer and barely using it I decided to finally learn FreeCAD.

I made an attachment wall mount for the vacuum cleaner I recently bought. It came with a wall mount, but that only has space for two attachments, while it came with five...

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@freecad I recently built a smart mailbox sensor that is integrated into Home Assistant. #FreeCad was the obvious choice for designing the enclosure. (See pictures in follow-up posts...)

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On this #freecadfriday, I finally got around to designing a paper towel roll holder for the stand I use in front of my bike that’s attached to the stationary trainer. For probably a year, I’ve wanted this so that I could blow my nose or mop up sweat off the bike, etc…

I took inspiration from a few other designs I saw around the internet. The hardest part was getting the thickness of the curved beam spring to provide the right amount of tension against the roll. It took me 3 iterations to get it just right. I effectively decreased the stiffness by 50% with each iteration, but I had no idea what would “feel” right to begin with.

A little #3dprinting, a little hardware, and a piece of PVC pipe I had around to make the spindle. We’re in business.

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