Everyday products, 3D printed

Seven small products FDM printed in our studio, from coffee stencils and a pop-up card holder to a glowing ring lamp and our own succulent pots.

Service: Product Development & Prototyping
What it is: Seven small everyday products, shown together
How they were made: FDM 3D printing on our own printers
What moves or lights: A card lever, a sliding ring and an LED lamp
Everyday products on this page: 7

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What we brought

What we can do
Working parts, not just shapes
A lever pushes cards up out of their case, a loose ring slides along a twisted column, and LED strip lights a lamp from inside its rings.
How we look after you
Made to fit what goes inside
The mouse shell lines up with its board, scroll wheel and sensor; the medallion rim fits a coin-sized piece; the card holder is sized to bank cards.
What you get
Colour and texture in the print
Glittery black, a studded face and open hexagon frames all come off the printer as they are, with nothing added.

Gallery

The whole project at a glance. Drag or swipe to browse; tap a picture to enlarge it.

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The finished piece
The ring sliding along the column.
The logo stencil on its stand.
The Welcome Home stencil.
The finished mouse, from above.
The coin seated in the rim.
The card holder, cards up.
The rings stacked, light off.
Three pots in a pyramid.
Through the frame, up close.
The finished display, front on.
The ring at rest on the bottom cup.
PrintingThe mouse shell's hexagon side walls.
The desk display's frame, cups and column.
Fitting and testingThe mouse base, pads and sensor window.
The empty medallion holder beside a coin.
Lever raised, cards pushed out.
One succulent pot, freshly planted.
The desk display's three-armed top.

The build

How we built it

4 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 4

Coffee stencils: Discs that lay a logo or a message in powder on a coffee
Honeycomb mouse shell: A hexagon shell around a mouse's board, wheel and buttons
Medallion holder: A rim that carries a coin-sized medallion on a keyring
Pop-up card holder: A pocket case with a lever that pushes bank cards up
Retractable table lamp: White rings rising in a spiral, lit by LED strip
Succulent pots: Our own planters, sold on Carousell
Twisted ring desk display: A ring that slides along a twisted column

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we 3D print small products people use every day. This page brings seven of them together, from 2021 and 2022, each made to its own design.

Printing

Step 2 of 4

Every piece was FDM printed on our own printers, with the colour in the plastic itself. The stencils were printed flat in white with the lettering left open right through the disc. The card holder's stud texture and the mouse shell's hexagons are part of the printed walls. The lamp rings each print as one continuous loop, and each succulent pot as one open frame over a solid floor.

The mouse seen from its side on a dark surface: glittery black walls with hexagon cut-outs and the two side buttons — The mouse shell's hexagon side walls.

The desk display at an angle: the black frame and cups, the red and yellow column twisting between them and the ring resting at the bottom cup — The desk display's frame, cups and column.

Fitting and testing

Step 3 of 4

Then each piece met what it was made for. The mouse's circuit board went into its shell, a one-dollar coin into the medallion holder and a stack of bank cards into the card holder, with the lever worked to push them up. LED strip went along the inside of the lamp's upper rings. We planted the pots, and stood the twisted column between the desk display's cups with its ring loose on it.

The underside of the mouse: white glide pads, the sensor window in the middle and the circuit board visible through the hexagon holes — The mouse base, pads and sensor window.

The empty black printed holder lying beside a Singapore one-dollar coin, showing its round rim, inner lip and looped tab — The empty medallion holder beside a coin.

The black card holder standing on its long edge, the lever raised at one end and bank cards pushed out of the other — Lever raised, cards pushed out.

A single white hexagon-frame pot on a green table, planted with a round cactus, a pink-edged succulent, bark and pebbles, a small yellow figure inside — One succulent pot, freshly planted.

The display seen slightly from above: the three-armed black top, the posts with their thicker upper sleeves, and the twisted column between the cups — The desk display's three-armed top.

The final build

Step 4 of 4

Seven finished products, each shown below on its own. Switched on, the lamp glows purple on the desk, and in the desk display's test clip a hand slides the ring up the twisted column and back down.

The ring sliding along the column.

Coffee stencils

Two white stencils, finished on 23/09/2022: one cut with the TikTok logo and name, one with "Welcome Home". Each is a round disc with two small tabs to hold it by, and every letter is an open cut-out, down to the small notes in the logo. The logo stencil stands upright in a black printed stand for display between uses.

The logo stencil on its stand.

A hand holding a round white coffee stencil by its tabs, the words Welcome Home cut through it in capital letters — The Welcome Home stencil.

Honeycomb mouse shell

A computer mouse in a glittery black shell cut through with hexagons across the top, sides and base. The circuit board shows through the holes, the scroll wheel sits between the two buttons, and white glide pads sit on the base around the sensor window.

The finished mouse from above on a dark surface: a glittery black shell cut through with hexagons, the scroll wheel between the two buttons — The finished mouse, from above.

Medallion holder

A small black holder, printed in one piece on 11/08/2022: a round rim with a lip that keeps a coin-sized medallion in, and a tapered tab with a hole for a keyring. Seated, the coin sits flat in the rim.

A black 3D printed holder with a gold and silver Singapore one-dollar coin seated in its round rim and a looped tab at the top — The coin seated in the rim.

Pop-up card holder

A slim black case for a small stack of bank cards, finished on 10/08/2022. A lever at one end pushes the whole stack up and out, and the grid of raised studs on the face grips in the hand.

A black 3D printed card holder held in one hand, its face covered in a grid of raised studs, with bank cards standing up out of the top — The card holder, cards up.

Retractable table lamp

A lamp body of three white rings, finished on 18/08/2022: a round base ring with two tilted rings above it, the top one tilting back over the middle. Unlit, it reads as a white sculpture; the LED strip along the inner edge of the upper rings lights it from inside.

The white ring lamp switched off on a desk: a flat base ring with two tilted rings above it, the LED strip visible along their inner edges — The rings stacked, light off.

Succulent pots

Our own product, sold on Carousell and photographed on 16/05/2021: open white hexagon-frame pots that show a small succulent garden from every side. We planted them with succulents, cacti, grey lava stones and bark, with a ladybird figure or two for fun. Three rest together in a pyramid on a window ledge.

Three white 3D printed hexagon-frame pots resting together in a pyramid on a window ledge, each planted with succulents, cacti and grey lava stones — Three pots in a pyramid.

Looking through the open hexagon frame of one pot at a striped succulent, a green rosette, a grey lava stone and a small toy figure, with flats behind — Through the frame, up close.

Twisted ring desk display

A desk piece in black, red and yellow. Three black posts rise from a round base to a three-armed top, and a twisted red and yellow column stands between two black cups inside them. A loose black ring rides the column from cup to cup when pushed by hand.

The finished desk display from the front: a twisted red and yellow column standing between two black cups, inside a black frame of posts on a round base — The finished display, front on.

The display from a slight angle, the ring resting on the bottom cup below the red and yellow twist — The ring at rest on the bottom cup.

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Everyday products, 3D printed

What we brought

Working parts, not just shapes

Made to fit what goes inside

Colour and texture in the print

Gallery