The plastic feet that come with standard Modushop chassis certainly work fine as it, however, I felt it would be a useful endeavor to try some 3D printing designs that can be used as feet, or in conjunction with the included feet.
I have made a number of designs just to try them out and will post them all here in the first post as I get around to it.
For now, the first post is a TPU (Thermal Polyurethane) print design that fits inside the plastic feet that come standard with the chassis. The purpose of these is to add a small bit of isolation by adding this squishy material (the inside of the print is a gyroid infill, aka, not solid). The design also helps with alignment when using M3 bolts that go through the holes for the bottom plate attachment, and add a few millimeters of height (the height could easily be adjusted if more space underneath is desired). The feet then are part of the bottom plate attachment and don't require drilling any additional holes. 3MF files are attached in the ZIP file. You'll need to use a longer M3 pan head bolt than what comes with the chassis kit (a washer could be helpful too).
If you don't have a 3D printer and want to get a set, I'm happy to print them out and provide at my cost plus shipping ($1 for the four feet, plus shipping).
More designs to come.....
Below is another design that is functional as a foot on it's own showing what the gyroid infill looks like. 3 "walls" plus 15% gyroid infill for those who know what "slicing" is. I'll add this design once I take a few picture of how to insert the fender washer I've designed into the print.
I have made a number of designs just to try them out and will post them all here in the first post as I get around to it.
For now, the first post is a TPU (Thermal Polyurethane) print design that fits inside the plastic feet that come standard with the chassis. The purpose of these is to add a small bit of isolation by adding this squishy material (the inside of the print is a gyroid infill, aka, not solid). The design also helps with alignment when using M3 bolts that go through the holes for the bottom plate attachment, and add a few millimeters of height (the height could easily be adjusted if more space underneath is desired). The feet then are part of the bottom plate attachment and don't require drilling any additional holes. 3MF files are attached in the ZIP file. You'll need to use a longer M3 pan head bolt than what comes with the chassis kit (a washer could be helpful too).
If you don't have a 3D printer and want to get a set, I'm happy to print them out and provide at my cost plus shipping ($1 for the four feet, plus shipping).
More designs to come.....
Below is another design that is functional as a foot on it's own showing what the gyroid infill looks like. 3 "walls" plus 15% gyroid infill for those who know what "slicing" is. I'll add this design once I take a few picture of how to insert the fender washer I've designed into the print.
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