Just before holiday break, I challenged my students to design their own custom toys which became their final projects for the semester. My students worked for nearly 3 weeks and created some amazing things (some of which are posted on Thingiverse) and their hard work inspired me to use some of my break time to design and create my very own toy design.
I introduce to you the "Toy Road Grader" which is 100% 3D printed. I was inspired to create this toy by the old Tonka toys that I played with as a child as well as a wooden road grader that I also had as a child. My version of the road grader has a fully movable blade so you can decide what angle to grade those pesky dirt piles at.
Here is a demonstration video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLMPi3nYc0 I used some loose change to represent a pile of dirt (would of went outside, but it's 0 degrees out).
Some may ask "Why 3D print a toy?" Well here's why:
| AxelHalf.stl | 13.5KB | |
| CabPeg.stl | 27.3KB | |
| GraderBlade.stl | 13.9KB | |
| GraderBody.stl | 47.2KB | |
| GraderCab.stl | 17.5KB | |
| GraderControlKnob.stl | 31.7KB | |
| GraderWheels.stl | 41.9KB |
