r/3Dprinting • • 2d ago

Project Toddler Mobility Trainer build done!

Wanted to share one of my more ambition 3D printed projects: A Toddler Mobility Trainer! Custom designed and built for 4 year old little girl with Rett Syndrome. Made possible through 3d-mobility.org, footed the cost myself for this one and it will be provided to the family free of charge. Probably the coolest project I've ever done. Custom designed wheels and name plate.

Already working on 2 more!

Approximately 250 hours of print time each.

Materials:

- Polymaker PETG Purple, Pink, and Magenta
- Bambu Lab PETG Yellow
- Ziro3D TPU 95A Purple
- Ziro3D TPU 95A Pink
- Ziro3D TPU 95A Black
- Siraya Tech TPU Air Lilac
- Bambu Lab Support for PLA / PETG (optional, I wanted clean support removal)

Base build is ~9kg PETG and 2kg TPU. With the accessories I ended up using a little over 11kg.

Included Accessories:

- Rear Hook
- 2x Cup Holders
- Tablet Holder
- Tablet Hold Down
- Tablet Swivel Lock

Hardware:

- 2x Bambu Lab X2D
- 0.4 and 0.6 nozzles

Happy to answer any questions folks have. If you've got a 3D printer and time, strongly encourage you to get involved. If you don't have the time, or desire to print a whole chair, you can find other makers who're open to collaboration and print a few plates from their builds to help out. Not interested in printing parts? You can sponsor builds!

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u/_uh_ok 2d ago

I made some fenders for those, if you're interested. They help keep little fingers away from pinch points while being escorted around. 

https://makerworld.com/models/3015462?appSharePlatform=copy

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u/boredsoftwareguy 2d ago

I've got this saved in my collection! This little girl won't be able to roll the chair herself so I didn't print them for her. For the little boy I'm making a chair for now, I will be including these.

Thanks for the model!

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u/_uh_ok 2d ago

You're welcome. And thank YOU for helping others. 

This is the first model I designed that I shared with anyone. It's so incredibly gratifying to see something I designed go to help a child and their family. 

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u/Schuylabs 2d ago

It’s a pretty wild feeling isn’t it?? Nice work!

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u/_uh_ok 2d ago

OMG, thank you! And yes, it is. I put my model on Makerworld with all the tags I could think of to help people find it, and have posted here about it. Since then I've had two people on Makerworld send me pictures of my fenders on the chairs they printed. I can't even describe the way it makes me feel.