What is this? A circular saw for ants?!
There isn’t much information we could find on this one (sorry, no source files that we know of), but this little hack is so playful and fun, we just had to share it with you. [Lance Abernethy] has built both a working cordless drill, and circular saw using nothing more than a 3D printer, what seems to be a pager-type vibration motor, a tactile switch and a coin cell battery – you can see them both working in the video after the break.
[Lance] used an Ultimaker 2, running a 0.25mm nozzle, and printing at a 0.04mm layer height in PLA. As you would expect, the 0.25mm nozzle is needed for such small parts – it’s also close to the limit of what extruder can still squeeze plastic through. it greatly increases the chance of blocked or clogged nozzles.
[Lance] admits that the saw can’t quite cut anything just yet, but he does say that he has plans to make more miniature cordless tools. We can’t wait to see how he might manage the mechanism for a jig-saw.
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Holy crap that’s adorable!
Fully working power tools for Ken. Now Barbie can push Ken to do those house work that had been putting off house repairs since 1961 ;)
Or… He can cut up her corpse with that circular saw.
Larry, I like the way you think
We were all thinking it.
About Ken adding ‘extra’ holes to Barbie?
Then she can fit in the trunk of her dream car.
There are two kinds of people.
The Ken and Barbie home divorce kit.
Ah man! Best reply ever.
Thanks. I’m here all week.
Ya the new `Divorce Barbie” now in stores! She comes with all of Ken`s stuff!
Get Ken’s whole tool lineup now, batteries not included.
Next, tools for GI Joe!
Very cool
What, no 3d printer?
Yes- to make even smaller cordless power tools.
It’s turtles, all the way down!
Judging from their color, are they Hitachi or Bosch?
Hitachi does make some very nice tools, I have a 3/8″ drill that is geared like a 1/2″. Incredible power.
The good Bosch tools would be dark blue.
Reminded me of festool green really.
If Kawasaki made power tools that would be the brand.
They do make power tools , and they are that color.
It looks like Ryobi green to me.
What are these? Tools for ants?
I scrolled down waiting to see a zoolander joke.
Reminds me of a very small platform consisting of a lathe, drill press, table saw, grinder, air compressor and possibly a band saw. IIRC the entire thing was operated via a common drive shaft attached to each tool via belts.
If I recall, they’re intended to make custom inks pens. I considered acquiring such a setup during my scale modeling days to fabricate custom pieces out of styrene plastic. This all predates 3D printing which is probably a boon to the industry. I can just imagine how intricate those scale models are now compared to the ones 30 or more years ago.
I’m actually more interested in the platform that these tools are placed on?
It looks quite intricate.
These tools have been floating around the web for at least a year I think.
I was not aware that you can print that fine and small though :)
With a .025 nozzle you can. And surprise, the UM2+ comes with one of these nozzles. Default is 0.4, but it comes with swappable nozzles for 0.25 0.6 and 0.8.
Well I don’t know of any guy who would intentionally boast about having the world’s smallest tool but this guy should.
Isn’t this from a year ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTb9FtcpVoI
Yep, and Hackaday reported on it then too.
We’ve been click baited.
Yep, and Hackaday reported on it then too.[citation needed]
Repost? Got a link there my friend?
Tried to find with search “3D drill”. To be honest I cannot find the article. The article even had the same banner image.
Nope. I created that banner in photoshop myself. I know ’cause I did it – I combined two images, and if you look carefully one of the tools (of the saw) is flipped as to fit the frame and make it look better(it’s backwards left to right). The handle of the saw is backwards, and the area above the saw is filled in with a stretched few pixels of the that image, and quickly blended with the smudge tool. Sorry man. Nice troll though.
Was just thinking that..
Or reading the above, guess i/we’ve seen it elsewhere, it was on engadget march 2015 for instance
If fire ants get their claws on these, lookout!
Wouldn’t carpenter ants be more interested?
Yes, I believe they wood.
Well this guy shouldn’t use any fingerprint authenticated security systems no longer as he published a picture of his fingerprint :D.
The runout on that drill chuck is horrible…
Wouldn’t the “saw” at least be able to cut paper? Even slowly?
Nothing beats Will Ferrell’s tiny phone…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOCfbYDvezU&w=560&h=315%5D
That’s amazing, fully functional too, can’t argue with that! Being able to create this sort of thing is really going to open up the doors for model making hobbiests to take the level of detail they can produce to the next level I’d have thought.