Vertical Modular Desk Organizer by lek7ha

Last crawled date: 3 years, 3 months ago

When I started working from home, I found that my desk was far more cluttered than before. Working from home increased the need for more things on my desk - monitors, computer mice and keyboards, laptop stands, cables, chargers, etc. So, when designing a new desk organizer, I decided to create a vertical organizer to minimize the amount of space taken up on my desk. The biggest cup of the organizer has a slightly raised bottom to allow for it to sit flush against your desk, around the hexagonal base. The cylindrical middle of the biggest cup does not have a rod, because this is meant to be the bottom piece and therefore does not need the rod to support it mid-air. The two other cups have rods through their middle cylinders, so that the rods can slide into the slots on the stand and be able to support weight mid-air. This allows users to control the heights of the cups and which cups they would like to use.
Some issues I came across were with the slots. I would have liked to create a design that would have also allowed for 360° rotation, but could not figure out how to feasibly do that with the slot method I had implemented. Also, the slots were drawn on a planar surface and extruded onto a cylinder, which made the slots bigger than I had anticipated.
If I could redesign my organizer, I would like to be able to rotate the cups 360°, as mentioned before. I would also like to make the biggest cup also have a rod through the middle, in case users would like the ability to place it in the slots at some vertical height. This removes the constraint of the biggest cup only being able to be used at the bottom.
A big potential failure point in my design would be in the rods. If the rods cannot support the weight of the cups and what the cups contain, it could fail and render the cup useless. 3D printing this design would help with the strength because strong plastic filament, like ABS and PLA, would create very study and not easily-breakable cups. My previous experience with 3D printing using PLA and ABS has taught me that it is extremely strong and durable, and I would think that 3D printing my organizer would create parts that could withstand substantially more than the weight of common office supplies, like pens, pencils, staplers, and scissors.