Simple plastic components that serve some sort of function. Either helpful trinkets or awesome products. 3D Printable or production worthy.
Been a couple days, but I’ve been flying around. The larger batteries (4S – 4000 mAh) came in and they’ve increased flight time to make it much more enjoyable.
The biggest annoyance so far is the visual range. The yard is about the range and behind buildings is a goner! How do we get this to “satellite transmissions”? A second camera would be nice too.
Anyway, I’m a goofball and thought it was cool that I could blow out leaves in the gutters and I crashed and broke one of the arms.
Side hustles, investments, money pits, what’s the difference? A couple years back, my wife and I were racking our brains on some projects that we could do to bring in some more income. A rental property was out of the reach and any other “investment” was a slow moving and boring boat to invest in.
Considering my day job consists of designing and manufacturing injection molded products, we decided to start a small business, S&K Modern Designs, to develop little plastic products.
Our first major product is called the Hexi Hold which is a twist close and latch locking ring or small item holder.
My wife decided to make a small business out of it: https://skmoderndesigns.com/
This is a small product that I designed and we 3D printed to test and get proof of market. After some great results, I leveraged some of my work contacts to get the injection mold tool designed and made. It’s a bit tricky of a plastic component to make due to the internal undercuts but we went with this lifter core action.
It’s a general copolymer polypropylene with sub-gates to mold quickly and efficiently. A great little proof of concept project that we are hoping continues to go well and get some tractions of sales.
