The design files can be downloaded and the gun can be printed and assembled at home for anyone with a 3D printer. Several of these need to be printed 6 times each, though (the barrel, ratchet wheel, and ratchet catch).
In all, there are 13 separate STL files for the different pieces. It was then off to 3D printing the pieces of the gun.
Blender was then used for some minor mesh editing and for checking to make sure the parts fit together correctly. In order to create the bevel gear for the gun, Wee used Greg Frost’s script for OpenSCAD. He tells us that the biggest challenge was to minimize the overhangs so that it would 3D print correctly. However, the majority of the parts that he created for the gun each only required one iteration. It involved quite a bit of trial and error, especially when it came to designing the gun’s ratchet catch. Wee started designing the gun from scratch, using FreeCAD for Linux. “I thought that a 3D printed version would be an ideal challenge to work on.” “When I saw a number of rubber band gun designs on Thingiverse, it reminded me of a gatling rubber band gun featured online many years back. If you want it, there is probably already a 3D design available for it somewhere on the internet.įor one man, named Cort Wee, the 3D printable toy guns that were readily available for printing just didn’t cut it. There are toy cars, figurines, board games, and even intricately designed toy guns. Every day, I come across interesting, fun ideas for 3D printed toys which I usually save in a folder on my computer for the day when my 15-month-old son is old enough to play with them. The possibilities that this technology provides are endless, and when it comes to toys, that might just be a huge understatement. Boy do I wish 3D printing was around when I was a little boy.
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