Modular Hinge by tomburtonwood

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

I stripped away some of the architecture of the previous hinge so this prints faster and still in one piece. I decided that rather than print my final project in one piece i needed to make it modular so that if a single print fails the whole thing isn't kaput.
The project i am working on would have been a 3-4 day print easy - and with the threat of weather related power outages, filament chokes, mechanical failure etc i can't take that chance. So after some back and forth i settled on tbusers pins - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10541 - made some connecting points and did a quick test print to verify it would work before printing this one.
also included is an image of one of the connecting parts, it's a surface with http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25189 by PrettySmallThings on it. My goal is to connect multiple surfaces to multiple hinges over the next week for a deadline in 7 days time and enter it in an art exhibition / call for works here in Chicago.
The exhibition asks for new takes on print on demand books / photography books. Thus i am making the first iteration of my design for a 3d printed accordion book - using 3d scans created using 123d catch - which is after all a photographic technique. Hopefully the judges do not dismiss this proposition. ^_^
This thing was made with Tinkercad. Edit it online https://tinkercad.com/things/kNSTBuXhHpT