{"id":897,"date":"2013-04-09T23:10:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T06:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wri3d.com\/main\/?p=897"},"modified":"2014-02-26T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:37:10","slug":"save-your-earbuds-get-a-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Save your earbuds, get a 3D printer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a really great superficial reason to get a 3D printer, but we just uploaded a new design for an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:72182\" target=\"_blank\">Earbud Saver<\/a>&#8221; on Thingiverse.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what we wrote there:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever pull your earbuds out of your pocket, see the tangled mess, and wonder how much more abuse they will put up with? Yeah! Me too! I happen to like the set of earbuds in the photo so much that I&#8217;ve cut back the wires and soldered them several times already.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started using my 3D design brain and said, &#8220;Brain! Make me something to save my earbuds!&#8221; So it did! It took a couple of revisions, but the result is this cute little thing that&#8217;s smaller than the average thumb drive so it doesn&#8217;t require gobs of pocket real estate. Good job 3D design brain!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:72182\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/renders\/84\/e1\/f5\/1a\/ea\/Earbud_Saver_WRI3D_preview_featured.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"518\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this is just one more reason to get your 3D printer:\u00a0 So you can make cool things like an Earbud Saver!<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a really great superficial reason to get a 3D printer, but we just uploaded a new design for an &#8220;Earbud Saver&#8221; on Thingiverse.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what we wrote there: &#8220;Ever pull your earbuds out of your pocket, see the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=897\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Save your earbuds, get a 3D printer!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[564,99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Earbud_Saver_WRI3D.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PzL0-et","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}