interesting shelf

Finished splitting the arms into pieces and made 3 part studios that have all the individual parts inside of them, organized to make the printing process more efficient by reducing overhangs and minimizing space taken up. Now the cads done :)

Split the main part fully now just need to split the movable arms and I’m done with cad!

Started splitting the parts. I completed all of the parts on the bottom. Some of them are a little long at 235mm so if I don’t get anyone with a printer bed of that size I might have to modify it.

Made that ledge at the top of the shelf so that it’s hangable and also looked at common plywood sizes and resized the side holes so that the wood can fit. The overall design is done and now all I need to do is make it into pieces so that it can fit on a printer bed

So I realized that I could use my shelf for more stuff so I made these little rings intended to hold things like keychains

Did some pretty small things. I made the second screw thing to lock with the one that I made in the previous devlog. Then I also made a mirrored version of the arm so that the holes aligned with both sides.

Ok so I added holes on the arms for the shelf boards to slide into like how there is on the bottom of the main part. I also deepend the holes that were on the main part for the shelf boards because I realized that theres was nothing to hold them in place from behind and it would’ve been really unstable.
To add extra stability I also added a “spike” on the arm to keep it steady horizontally and so that it wiggles around less and added another hole on the main part to acccomodate for this.
And then finally I made this thing attached in the picture I don’t know what to call it but its purpose is to keep the arms in place so I guess its function is sort of like a screw. This part alone doesn’t do anything by itself, I’m gonna make another part that you put inside of this part and then twist to create that joint which hopefully won’t come apart easily. And yeah thats pretty much it.

So instead of deciding between the boxy shelf and the triangle shelf, I decided on making it convertible. I did this by separating the “arms” from the main shelf as shown below. It took a while to get all the measurements right but I finally perfected the rotating part. Now I need to add holes in the arms for the plates to slide into, I’m gonna try to add something to keep the arm more steady when it’s in the triangle shape, and then split it into pieces so it fits on a printer bed!

made prototypes for how I want the shelf to look and gonna decide if I want it more like a box or triangular