3d printing to solve problems

I recently acquired a Bambu Labs a1 Mini to get back into 3d printing. I used to be obsessed with printing when I had access to my high school printer back in 2016. Sadly I wasn’t able to touch one again for 9 years until I stumbled upon a Linus Tech Tips AMD Ultimate Upgrade video that involved a Bambu Labs printer. I was instantly interested, than I saw how cheap you could get one… A few hundred dollars later and next thing you know I’m setting up an A1 mini in my small apartment living room.

After printing off a few miniatures and fidgets, I started messing around with Tinkercad and designing my own 3d models. That’s when I designed my first product. I work in a Hemp dispensary as my day job, and talk to a lot of seniors that like to indulge. One of them started talking to me about how it’s getting harder to roll and wished they had an easier rolling tray. I started thinking and designed the Pocket Tray!

Featuring a stand in the middle of the tray to hold your paper steady and small enough to fit in your pocket, people loved it! I went ahead and threw it on Etsy as well to reach more people and got a few orders.

Next product was brought up to me when a regular was talking about how they wish they had a scoop for their prerolls but couldn’t find one they liked. I got to work. I soon realized that Tinkercad wasn’t cutting it anymore and signed up for Fusion360. After a few training montages, I understood the software enough to get to work. Below is the end product:

It’s basically a small dustpan with a hollow handle that perfectly fits 1.25 sized cones. This took about 7 renditions to dial in tolerances and bevels, and it works better than I could have imagined.

Owning a 3d printer and learning the software to create actual products is probably one of the coolest things I’ve done so far. These are the only 2 products I have for sale right now, but I’m excited to see what other objects I can design and print for people!