I was given an Ender 3 Pro last week and after a few bumps managed to successfully CAD, slice and print a booster seat for my phone. The caddy as it was would grab the volume down button on my phone, this little wedge solves the issue!

  • papalonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    Is that a stick I see in the background? 👀

    Great job on your first designed part! That fitment looks pretty spot on. It’s such a great feeling to be able to take something from “hmm I wish I had something that did this” all the way to “here’s the thing!” It’s an addictive process that causes me to invent far more issues to solve than is really necessary.

    • Nik282000@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Yup, 2010 B2500.

      I plan on cranking out replacement and upgraded parts for it now that I got the stringing under control.

    • wazEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Is that really not common? I’m in the U.K., and <30% of cars might be auto, when I look at used car sales these days.

      • riodoro1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        In the US around 1% of sold cars have a manual transmission. I think it’s as rare to see a manual in the US as it is to see their dumbass huge fucking pickup trucks in Europe.

        • wazEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Wow. I think the big changeover here will be the electric vehicle. By default they’re auto and will determine the future of transmission type as they become more common. We also have a culture of passing the driving test in a manual, so that you can drive both. An automatic driving license does not allow us to drive manual vehicles.

          • riodoro1@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Same here in poland. Automatics are and have been getting much more popular though over the years. I have ditched a manual for my daily a long while ago. Many people I know now never learned to drive a manual, or did learn but then drove automatics and are afraid they don’t remember how to stir the oil manually.

          • neclimdul@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            When we visited Europe a number of years ago I had to learn stick and we all practiced quite a bit because renting an automatic wasn’t reasonable. It’s actually pretty hard to find a manual to learn on and not all learner agencies even have one.