Display stand

I have a growing collection of old gadgets that I wanted to be able to display (instead of throwing them all away). So i created a universal display stand. Customize it to show your gadgets name and year of production. To do that, please install OpenSCAD on your own computer and follow the customizing instructions on this thing page.

If you could take a picture of an actual print, please "comment" and attach the picture. - I am curious to see your uses in the wild!

You can customize:

• The size of the gadget/object to display. The stand will automatically adjust to support the object well. Inside the OpenSCAD file you will find the sizes of quite some gadgets.
• The text on the front. I put the year when the gadget went to the market in there as well
• The font. Nice is e.g.: "Pathway Gothic One", "Voltaire" or "Oswald".
• The rotation angle of the display stand
• An extra factor to make the display wider or less wide than the item to display. By default, the stand in 75% of the width of the object shown.
• You can shift your font up/down on the front
• Wether to put in holes to save material
  Included are .stl files for displays for older electronic gadgets: NTT DoCoMo eggy, Game Park GP32, Cowon A2, Sharp Power Zaurus MI-610DC, Sharp Zaurus SL-C700, Palm Zire 71, Palm Treo 650, Palm Treo 680, Canon Ixus II, Nintendo Game Boy Advance,Nintendo DS lite, Chumby, HP-42S, Garmin Dakota 20, HTC Desire Z, Dingoo Digital A320, Panasonic GH2, Retrogame RS97, Texas Instruments TI-74 and MobiBLU MP3 player.
  You can find the settings for these gadgets also inside the .scad file as a comment.

Other models

If you like it, please have a look at all my customizable creations. There are configurable-text-based creations, multi-line label, gadget display stand, sweeping name plate, bunting banner, customizable text box III, pyramid text, name plate, Customizable text box with lid and round text. Have also a look at my configurable pack of dogs, rabbits, reindeers and santas. There are also useful coat hangers and finger toys.
Or just check out all my creations.

Sources:

This design is based on Mahjong Game tile holder, copyright 2011 by choffee. Thanks for sharing!

Print instructions

You can print it without any support.

https://www.printables.com/social/275951-shaun-brandt

In case you have issues with stringing, you can also remove the holes in the backside.

For filling in the letters, use acrylic paint, color the letters and then immediately wipe the surface off. It's not 100% perfect, but works well enough. (Shauns tipp)

Using OpenSCAD on your computer

If you want to use OpenSCAD on your own computer to customize (good idea!), make sure you know the fonts on your system or install the fonts you want to use. All fonts which are available here in Thingiverse are available for free from google, e.g. for "Pathway Gothic One" here: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Pathway+Gothic+One

Then set the fontname (either an installed one or one preinstalled on your system):

• fontname="Pathway Gothic One";
  in the .scad file.

Hint: If fonts dont show up, install the fonts for all users, not just yourself. 

Hint: If the model is missing parts, Shaun recommended to use “Pathway Gothic One” as font, minfontheight of 5 and text shift of 1.8mm. (Thanks Shaun for your tipps!)

Have fun!