Improvised Paint Mixer for Miniature Paints using Servo

I recently picked up miniature painting again and got bored shaking all the paint bottles by hand after standing around for a while.

Since I didn't want to wait for the vortex mixer I ordered (which performs better..) I very quickly drew up a simple mixer using a few components I had already,

Hints:

• the bottle holder has a small channel that you can use to put a zip tie or some rubber ring through, to hold the bottle in place better
• put an agitator like a ball from a ball bearing or a small glass bead into the bottle, results will be so much better.
• if you have a servo tester laying around, just connect the servo to that, that way you don't need an additional microcontroller with the code to drive the servo.

Materials needed besides the print
Screws: 

m2 for mounting servo horn, 

there is also a knob in the back to which you can screw (directly into the plastic) a small pcb, such as an m5stamp-c3 that controls the servo (really,a tester is less work ;) 

m3 for screwing the servo to the servo mount.

the screw that connects the mount and stand is a 1/4-20 UNC screw, which is the same that's used on consumer cameras and their tripods, as the one I ended up using (got it from Ali-e) is quite long I also printed a spacer for the screw. for the servo-mount bottom, you will need a 1/4 -20 insert.

Support needed:
I was able to print everything except the bottle holder without supports, for the bottle holder: print bed only tree supports.


What's next?

If I continue to use this i'll probably look into 

• making a holder for the larger bottles
• another stand (maybe a clamp to the table)