I recently started getting into 3D printing, but so far I've spent most of my time getting setup and learning the ropes. I've now completed my first little project with the 3D printers and I'm really happy with the result.As a biker of many years I have a number of helmets lying around. This is because you're supposed to replace a helmet every 5 years, because the protective foam inside degrades over time. So I have a small collection of lids and nothing to really do with them.So, I decided to print myself some helmet stands and mount them in my office.The standsThere were 3 helmets I wanted to display. A reasonably well rated helmet stand on Amazon costs around £11. So for the 3 lids, I'd be looking at £33 (~$45).Instead of handing over 33 of my finest pounds to Jeff Bezos, I decided to have a nose on Maker World and found this helmet stand that was very well rated. So I downloaded the files and set my printers to work, and a day or so later I had these little beauties:They feel really solid and have no problem holding a helmet on the wall. Better yet, they only cost me around £2.50 ($3.30) each in filament (~750g of filament in total), so way cheaper than the Amazon option.Today I finally had time to mount the lids to the wall, and I think they look great!Sure, I could have pissed about making toy dragons or whatever, but I think these are a far better use of my 3D printers, and really why I bought them. I'm so glad that the printed results are good enough to be useable.I already have some ideas of things I want to create next, but I'm going to have to start familiarising myself with FreeCAD for that project. We'll see how that goes... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.