Always-level chopstick holder

Always-level chopstick holder

PROBLEM TO SOLVE

You are eating sushi on the bed, watching your favorite show, but every time you move a centimeter the whole bed shifts and everything ends up falling and spilling on the sheets?

This chopstick rest is a pendulum, that due to its counterweight should balance your chopsticks and keep them level.

ASSEMBLY

The ring has a hole and a slot. Take the pendulum and put one of its shafts into the hole, and then slot the other one into the slot from the top. Check if the pendulum is moving smoothly. If not, you may need a knife or sandpaper to clean up the shafts.

Repeat for the joint between the ring and the base.

The indent at the top of the pendulum is purely for decoration but can be used for a felt insert (or really anything you want to increase the friction). Mine works flawlessly with just the empty indent.

PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS

• Supports required (prints beautifully with the new experimental tree supports). 
• Print each part at a reasonable layer height (0.2mm might work well but I've only tried 0.15mm).
• Base and ring infill is fine at 15%.
• Print the pendulum at 10% lightning infill but modify the counterweight ball to be at 100% infill.
• The pendulum is designed to have 3x 2PLN coins put inside for counterweight. The precompiled gcode is intended to stop at the right layer height for you to slot them in.

Three US Nickels should fit, as should three 10 euro cent coins.

Feel free to remix and modify, especially for your own coins or different type of counterweights (Polish 2PLN is 21,5mm in diameter and 2mm thick, and weighs 5,21g).

My chopstick rest is printed in black ASA - the housing and the ring (for the beautiful matte finish) and white PLA for the pendulum.