We’re super excited to see people starting to use sugru as a desktop manufacturing material for prototyping rubber parts – and making them for final products too!
So we developed this project so that makers, engineers and designers could test the process and understand how to works.
Check out this video to see how to combine 3D printing and sugru to make the most awesome iphone protection ever
All the files are open source and free to download from Thingiverse. You can also order your mold directly from Shapeways.
The mold and process is not perfect, but was developed to demonstrate the potential for using sugru in desktop manufacturing and we’d love to hear your suggestions.
Free sugru for the very best 3D printing + sugru ideas.
If you think you can push this technique further, we’re giving free sugru to the very best ideas. What would you like to try? Email your ideas to james@sugru.com
A great video from our friends at sugru showcasing their awesome community of fixers.
sugru started with one person. Today it’s a movement of 155,000 people in 119 countries, all fuelled by… your pride in fixing, and helping your friends start fixing too!
If you’d like to get fixing, you can always pick up some sugru in the Adafruit shop, available in multicolor or monochrome varieties!
My friend Eric Rosenbaum and I are trying to find out. We’re inspired by Golan Levin and Shawn Sims’s Free Universal Construction Kit, which allows anyone with a 3D printer to connect previously-incompatible construction toys. We love that Golan and Shawn released his designs with a Creative Commons license, but 3D printers remain far too expensive for most people.
The Toy Interface Construction Kit Learning Environment (T.I.C.K.L.E.) is a universal construction kit for the rest of us. It doesn’t require 3D printers or CAD skills. Instead, we’re using Sugru, a self-setting rubber material invented by our friend Jane. When we told them about the idea, Jane and James sent us some extra Sugru to try it out.
Over several weeks, Eric and I collected a basic set of construction kits: TinkerToys, Gears Gears Gears, wooden blocks, Zoob, and K’Nex. Some of the kits were new to us, so we played with them in the evenings to learn what they can do. Then on Monday, Eric and I started building in earnest.
This robot was my first attempt to use Zoob, Tinkertoy, and blocks together. It matches my tendency to explore design through narrative, structure, and form:
And remember that we offer sugru should you want to bond, well, anything to anything!
Sugru – multicolor pack
Sugru! Soft-touch silicone rubber that molds and sets permanently. Sticks to aluminum, steel, ceramics, glass, wood and some fabrics + plastics! sugru is the incredible new air-curing rubber for hackers, makers, gadget lovers & anyone else who wants to make things or make their stuff work better. Self-adhesive to most other materials, and flexible when cured, sugru is a versatile tool for hackers and makers – Repair and strengthen damaged cables and housing, mount components where you want them, strengthen attachments and protect against vibration, and a hundred other uses we’re sure youʼll find for it. This is great for prototyping. Please read all of the following before purchasing…
Multi-colour 8 x 5g minipacks inside a lovely big pouch for $17.95. You get two red, two yellow, two blue and one black and one white packets. You can smoosh the colors together to make new colors! Sugru does have a ‘use by’ date – we guarantee that you will have at least 6 months (and often its 9 or 12 months) to use your Sugru!
Top 10 uses of sugru for hackers and makers:
Repair and strengthen damaged cables
Mount components semi-permanently e.g. webcam / microphones / wires / switches
Replace missing feet on speakers, laptops etc
Mount components, and add feet to PCBs
Repair casing / housing on computers and earphones
Insulate wires
Strengthen attachments, protect against vibration
Enclose prototype electronics, make them waterproof
Add feet under harddrives to allow air to circulate underneath
Make awesome custom housing on USB flash drives
Properties, self adhesive sugru bonds to:
Aluminum
Steel
Ceramics
Glass
Wood
Some fabrics
Some plastics
Features:
Form by hand – no tools needed
Colors can be mixed
Cures at room temperature to a tough flexible silicone overnight
Waterproof and dishwasher proof when cured
“Loves” a bit of heat or cold, sugru is resistant from -60 degrees C to 180 degrees C
There’s a lot of excitement amongst inventors like ourselves about amazing new technology that can help us fix and make things in entirely new and super advanced ways. What’s really the future of fixing though? We suspect it’s… you.
I was playing a video game on my PC and found that my poor little fingers were getting sore from pressing the WASD keys. Since I am playing this game a lot perhaps I could find a way to ease the pain by using a joystick or gamepad. I already have a couple of old gamepads lying around that won’t work due to compatibility issues so I was reluctant to buy a new one. So I made a little joystick that can be placed on the keyboard. It is light weight and portable, no cables to plug in and there is no need to download any drivers. Just set it on your keyboard and it is ready to go.
Sugru – multicolor pack. Sugru! Soft-touch silicone rubber that molds and sets permanently. Sticks to aluminum, steel, ceramics, glass, wood and some fabrics + plastics! sugru is the incredible new air-curing rubber for hackers, makers, gadget lovers & anyone else who wants to make things or make their stuff work better. Self-adhesive to most other materials, and flexible when cured, sugru is a versatile tool for hackers and makers – Repair and strengthen damaged cables and housing, mount components where you want them, strengthen attachments and protect against vibration, and a hundred other uses we’re sure youʼll find for it. This is great for prototyping. Please read all of the following before purchasing…
Multi-colour 8 x 5g minipacks inside a lovely big pouch for $17.95. You get two red, two yellow, two blue and one black and one white packets. You can smoosh the colors together to make new colors! Sugru does have a ‘use by’ date – we guarantee that you will have at least 6 months (and often its 9 or 12 months) to use your Sugru!
Top 10 uses of sugru for hackers and makers:
Repair and strengthen damaged cables
Mount components semi-permanently e.g. webcam / microphones / wires / switches
Replace missing feet on speakers, laptops etc
Mount components, and add feet to PCBs
Repair casing / housing on computers and earphones
Insulate wires
Strengthen attachments, protect against vibration
Enclose prototype electronics, make them waterproof
Add feet under harddrives to allow air to circulate underneath
Make awesome custom housing on USB flash drives
Properties, self adhesive sugru bonds to:
Aluminum
Steel
Ceramics
Glass
Wood
Some fabrics
Some plastics
Features:
Form by hand – no tools needed
Colors can be mixed
Cures at room temperature to a tough flexible silicone overnight
Waterproof and dishwasher proof when cured
“Loves” a bit of heat or cold, sugru is resistant from -60 degrees C to 180 degrees C
Sugru put together this great short film about maker dads for Father’s Day.
We make lots of films about awesome fixes, and we’ve been wanting to make more films about you, the awesome people behind the fixes, for ages. With Dad’s Day as the perfect excuse, we jumped on a plane to go meet some sugru Dads! There’s a spirit to how these guys think that we love – fixing and improving things can be much more than simply a practical solution – the film reveals a mindset, an attitude, an approach to life.
Our annual Adafruit’s Father’s day sale gets you 10% off all tools and iCufflinks and ties (in stock) through the end of today – Sunday 6/17/2012 (11:59pm ET). Give Dad the gift of electronics and pick up a soldering iron, accessories for building things or if you just want to get him a gift certificate, we have those as well. The 10% off applies to the tools section only (and iCufflinks and ties) and cannot be combined with other discounts. To get the discount use the code fathersday on check out in the discount code area on check out. Limit 1 use per customer. Here are some Adafruit goodies we think Dad will love!
sugru is giving away free product to educators — accepting project proposals thru December 16th! From the sugru blog:
The biggest challenge in any creative process is to embrace failure. Lots of you teachers, lecturers and group leaders want to foster a hands-on creative process in your students. You want them working fast, failing fast, and learning even faster. Improving a design or invention with constant real-life testing.
We know that sugru is a great material for prototyping ideas and testing stuff out so we thought we would set up sugru PROJECTS, it’s a simple idea where we give schools, colleges and universities free sugru to run great projects.
If you run a course just send us a project brief that uses sugru as a prototyping material and we will send you enough free sugru to run the project with your students. We’re not quite sure what’s going to happen but we know its going to be exciting.
They will select the best submissions and send out some free stuff! Entries can be from anywhere, worldwide! Go here for more info.
And don’t forget, you can pick up some sugru in the Adafruit shop too!
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