UPcycling with an UP!
Personal and Portable 3D Printer.
This experiment of Project RE_ explores 3D printing as a DIY tool for upcycling. Customised lids are created using low cost 3D printing. They are then clipped or screwed onto standard jars, tin cans and bottles to create new and personal objects. In the first collection 14 objects were made : a watering can, an hour glass, a long pasta container, a bird house, a bird feeder, a mug, a rain catcher, a maple syrup bottle, a piggy bank, a orange juicer, a snow globe, a paint brush cleaner, a dumbbell and a lamp.
After finishing the content of a mason jar (pickles, mustard, jam...), I always clean it and keep it for later use. I quickly realised that I had almost no opportunities to actually reuse them unless I decided to turn my kitchen into a canning manufacture. These containers were going to be thrown away anyways and water would have been wasted for nothing. I remembered a design from Jorre Van Ast that could solve this problem by turning my jars into spice containers, but it seemed silly to buy objects just to reuse other ones. As a DIY'er, I had to find a better solution and 3D printing came to the rescue.
All is needed to reproduce these objects is a jar or tin can and a ABS FDM 3D printer (500$- 3000$)
After downloading any of these designs, people can calibrate the dimensions, choose the color, customize the shape and so on. What I provide is the main idea and a working assembly unto standard everyday objects. I hope that the DIY community will carry on with the idea and come up with more ideas for upgrading our daily waste. Let's hack all this trash!
I really really want this Objet 3D printer, so please, please, PLEASE vote for me!
Personal and Portable 3D Printer.
This experiment of Project RE_ explores 3D printing as a DIY tool for upcycling. Customised lids are created using low cost 3D printing. They are then clipped or screwed onto standard jars, tin cans and bottles to create new and personal objects. In the first collection 14 objects were made : a watering can, an hour glass, a long pasta container, a bird house, a bird feeder, a mug, a rain catcher, a maple syrup bottle, a piggy bank, a orange juicer, a snow globe, a paint brush cleaner, a dumbbell and a lamp.
After finishing the content of a mason jar (pickles, mustard, jam...), I always clean it and keep it for later use. I quickly realised that I had almost no opportunities to actually reuse them unless I decided to turn my kitchen into a canning manufacture. These containers were going to be thrown away anyways and water would have been wasted for nothing. I remembered a design from Jorre Van Ast that could solve this problem by turning my jars into spice containers, but it seemed silly to buy objects just to reuse other ones. As a DIY'er, I had to find a better solution and 3D printing came to the rescue.
All is needed to reproduce these objects is a jar or tin can and a ABS FDM 3D printer (500$- 3000$)
After downloading any of these designs, people can calibrate the dimensions, choose the color, customize the shape and so on. What I provide is the main idea and a working assembly unto standard everyday objects. I hope that the DIY community will carry on with the idea and come up with more ideas for upgrading our daily waste. Let's hack all this trash!
I really really want this Objet 3D printer, so please, please, PLEASE vote for me!
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Long before going 3D, I made sketches to determine what my empty containers were about to become. To test the volumes and function, I used paper models, then polyurethane foam models. I followed the same design process I use to create industrial goods. Once all the objects were determined, I used Rhino and Solidworks to make precise 3D models that I turned into .stl files, ready to print. In the next steps, you will find the specifications and the STL file for the selected open source product.
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The juicer
The one you made that looks like a wide funnel (roof leaks was the reference)
The paint brush one I really really really want.
The plant water bottle...that is great.
Ok so now you need to make them and sell them....
I genuinely love your ideas for Recycling glass jars and bottles. I thought of another one last night, and b4 I could get it on the site I got interrupted and not cant remember what it was....And what is the items made out of...rubber, plastic, polycarb....? Dishwasher safe, (no distortion or melting) or Hand wash only. I am just so curious. You have such good ideas. Thanks....Roni
Very cool dude
The last type are the greatest ideas. They're also the most difficult to conceptualize, the simplest and most elegant in body and because the concept has never been thought of before, very few are creative enough to imagine them.
Yours is a new and original idea, a great concept and a beautifully polished execution. Congratulations on your award.
Now, I'm off to make a few coffee can bird houses.
It isnt free but is quite affordable. :)
but sadly affordable isnt free which is what affordable is for a unemployed 16 year old
Is there a standard thread size for soda bottles?
But is this 3D printed material food/water safe? If you're making a jug out of it, be sure that there are no harmful chemicals washing along into your drink...
One question, though; how do you "knit on a jar"?
Up-cycling is a great idea and the stl files you shared will make it easy to get started.
Well done!