While I’m still waiting for some Chinese parts to arrive in order to finish my Wifi controlled curtains, I took some time to pick up a totally different project …
While I love the stroller we bought when we were expecting our son Enzo, it isn’t the most practical thing during grocery shopping. Driving both a stroller and a shopping cart is undoable, so I tried building a hybrid solution.
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Because we usually have the seating in the reversed position, there is a lot of space for a crate above the front wheels: the perfect place to maintain the stability (and thus the safety) of the stroller.
To make sure I can easily add and remove the crate, I wanted to print some mounting brackets that I can snap on to the stroller’s frame. To get the right contour of the frame, I used the stroller’s snap on hooks as a template.
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By putting the hook under my scanner and using Illustrator to (manually) trace the countours, I was able to create a 2d representation of the contour of the stroller’s frame.
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But since the bracked will be snapped on to the angled part of the frame, I need to keep this angle into consideration when designing the bracket. By using my iPhone’s spirit level, I could easily figure out the right angle to use in my design.
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And with both the contour as well as the angle figured out, It was time to fire up my favourite 3d modeling tool: Fusion 360
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The end results of a 15 minutes of modeling looked like this.
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After swapping it upside down (to get better print results), I fired up my Lulzbot Mini printer using ColorFabb’s XT Co-Polyester.
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I snapped on to the strollers frame perfectly!
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Now, with a few pieces of scrap plywood and a little bit of carpentry (of which I should have taken way more pictures …), i’ve managed to make a nice crate holder.
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It could sure use some black paint, but that’s something I’ll do in the very distant future …
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Because of the angled frame, I needed to print two spacers to put between the front brackets and the crate holder. And to make sure those are on the right lenght, I used some magic mathematics. The result? 4.25 cm.
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And with the spacers in place, It was time to go for a spin!
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The end result? A crate full of groceries, a son with a pimped stroller and a happy girlfriend (because for once, I did the groceries without grumbling).
And me? I’m just very happy my parts for my curtains just arrived!
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Want to pimp your own Joolz ride? Download the STL files here.