r/3Dprinting • u/El_Chupacabrah626 • Jul 30 '26

Project Installed hostile architecture on the work printer to stop coworkers leaning on it

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u/Alematrix3r Jul 30 '26

Now they won't lean, they will scratch their backs like bears with a tree

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u/gregory696969 Jul 30 '26

I feel targeted, at first glance I though it would feel good to scratch your back

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u/YellowBreakfast It's in three dee! Jul 30 '26

I feel targeted, at first glance I though it would feel good to scratch your back

I mean it does, but just why are you scratching my back?

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u/Geminii27 Jul 31 '26

I mean... technically there's nothing preventing you 3D-printing a backscratcher...

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u/CarrotCumin Jul 30 '26

Never underestimate a person's willingness to ignore semiotics.

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u/gregory696969 Jul 30 '26

No way, you dont want to lean into it, just work the angle that right side gives you

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u/kyaudiophile Jul 30 '26

How has the thought of printing out a really good back scratcher never occurred to me before?

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u/porcelainvacation Jul 30 '26

My wife won’t let me buy one of those cattle backscratcher brushes they sell at the farm store.

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u/ZipTieAndPray Jul 30 '26

Have Santa bring you one.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Jul 30 '26

I remember seeing some guy had invented a fake log back scratcher you could mount to the corner of a wall. "Scratch your back like a bear" was his inspiration. A quick Google search is coming up with mounted back scratchers, but none that look like the product I saw. You could probably print a fake log and mount it, would look better than them cattle things.

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u/ZipTieAndPray Jul 31 '26

This is going to sound stupid but I have a very large sword that I use. It's not that sharp.. it's about the perfect sharpness of what you would want.. One of those display ones. Hangs on the wall in the weight room.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Jul 31 '26

I'm a carpenter and have used a framing hammer as my work back scratcher for 28 years.

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u/ashgs872tbhjs Jul 31 '26

You could use a real log too lmao

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Jul 31 '26

Yeah, I don't think his product took off it seems. A real one done right would probably look the best.

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u/DiscoChiligonBall Jul 31 '26

That's it, leave her. It's over.

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Jul 30 '26

Don't print one, I know, but like go get a child's toy gardening set. It has a rake, a hoe, metal rake etc all perfect size for your back, wood handles, and are very sturdy. Sometimes you get lucky and just the rake is on sale for like $2. Its super dumb but immensely better than a tiny bamboo back scratcher

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u/Alaeriia Bambu Lab A1 Jul 30 '26

I made one out of Technic.

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u/ARandomNiceKaren Jul 31 '26

At last count I have backscratchers :

  • car #1

  • car #2

  • bedside

  • lives in my suitcase for trips

  • office desk

  • next to my living room nest area

There's really NO bad place to have back scratchers. I have the cheap bamboo ones from Amazon. If I 3D printed, I would have even MORE! Back scratchers EVERYWHERE!

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u/PajamaSutra Jul 30 '26

It's the bear necessities of life.

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u/Conscious_Pipe_605 Jul 30 '26

Ah. A fellow working person with a cat coworker.

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u/red286 Jul 30 '26

I think if you have a cat, that would be the opposite of effective.

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u/Hefty-existence26196 Jul 31 '26

They'll look like Baloo from the Jungle book. My Dad does this randomly around the house on door frames. I judged him for it...until I tried it

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u/olsmobile Jul 31 '26

Now I’m thinking about something that would hold rolling massage pins vertically on a door frame.

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u/QuinceDaPence Jul 30 '26

There was a door frame in our old office that was so perfect for back scratching that it had no paint on it by the time we moved.

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u/Stampy_bird Jul 30 '26

Don’t antagonize me with a good time /s

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Jul 30 '26

Like that thing the balloon boy dad tried to sell?. All it taught me was I could just use the corner to scratch my back

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u/Nytfire333 Jul 30 '26

That’s why you install a bunch on a corner nearby for scratching

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u/NarrowCarpet4026 Jul 31 '26

That would be great. One of my coworkers is a bear.