Earlier this year, Prusa released their take on a 3D printer enclosure made from the famous IKEA Lack tables and printable parts.

There are a wealth of printable accessories for this enclosure.  I’ve found these ones really nice:

• External LCD mounting brackets by crowlord
• X-axis mount for Logitech C270 Camera by Kev31779
• Logitech C270 Faceplate and Focus Ring by elmerohueso
• Geared adjustable filament holder by rshartog

I’ve designed a few parts of my own that I’m pretty happy with.  I would not be surprised to learn there are equivalent or better alternatives to these.  I did try looking, but not too hard.  I was happy to have the design challenge.

Fan Mount

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Enclosures get hot enough to screw with PLA print quality.  I added a ventilation fan which is capable of keeping the temperature in safe ranges (~27 C).

This is a mount for a standard 120x120mm computer case fan.  I’m using this Corsair AF120 fan*.

The mount slides into a centered cutout approximately 129x129mm on one of the acrylic sheets (I’m using the rear one).  

I had intended for the cutout in my sheet to be closer to 122x122mm, but the company I bought the sheet from didn’t get the measurements exactly right.  It was nice to be able to easily resize the part in Fusion 360 and print it out to-size.

1″ Grommet

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I drilled a 1″ hole through the bottom table to feed these cables through:

• Two Logitech C270 * USB cables
• LCD ribbon cables
• 24v cables from the PSU

To make the hole look nicer I “designed” a grommet to fit the crappy hole my 1″ drill made.

Birdseye Mount for Logitech C270

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The Logitech C270* is a super cheap (~$20) 720p USB webcam that works really well with Octoprint.

I have two of them in my setup.  First, the aforementioned x-axis mounted camera.  Great for making sure the print is looking good where it’s at.  Example view:

And the one placed in this mount, which gives a birds-eye view of the whole print bed.  Example view:

Modified Door Handles

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I redesigned the included door handles from scratch, mostly in order to improve my Fusion 360 design skills.

There are a few aesthetic differences, but the functional difference is that there are recesses appropriately sized for some 20x10x2mm N50 magnets* I had laying around.

Control

I’ll share how I’m controlling the fan and lights in a future post.  Long story short, it’s an ESP8266 with some MOSFETs and ancillary circuitry.

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