It’s the Little Things.

(Junk drawer by gesteves)

Thingiverse has been doing an increasingly brisk job of accumulating models lately, and some of it is really wild stuff.  There’s sanity-defying mathematically contorted teapots, a 3D scanner turntable, and an eerie computer-evolved walker, all here in the thingiverse.

But what really excites me is the bundle of everyday things.

Lately things like stylus replacements for the Nintendo DS, project cases, flashlights (just add ninevolt, switch, resistors and LEDs), and trolley tokens are showing up.  The basket of Everyday Goods a Makerbot can make at more or less negligible cost is growing.  How long will it be before there’s more than $750 worth of stuff here?

If you count multiples, we’re already there, really.  It’d take 375 Nintendo DS styluses, or 100 or so project cases or gear boxes.  The breakeven sales numbers for a hobby shop owning one of these have to be getting pretty low by now…