printrbot GO – a latch, a replacement part, a handle and a calamity
It took a good long while, but I finally got tired of seeing the front door for the bot open all the time and decided to make a latch for it. There were some latch designs on Thingiverse, but nothing really close enough to what I had in mind to use as a starting place even, so I just started from scratch in OpenSCAD.
What I came up with was a low profile knob on the outside (I wanted it to be lower than the outside edges of the corner protectors) with a shaft going through the door and locking Read more [...]