Toothpick Gun (Compliant mechanism)

Compliant mechanism toothpick gun that can shoot out a toothpick.
6,407
37 k
313
132 k
updated April 25, 2025

Makes

Comments

Stronger than I expected but you need to keep the toothpick in the sweet spot.

Image preview

I love the design

Image preview

does it work with normal silk PLA?

Printed with wet PETG... but still turned out pretty well. Only at the tip a little bit warping. Unfortunately, the toothpick doesn't fly in a perfect line, but that's not the model's fault. Perhaps a lighter toothpick with small wings could be designed to make it fly more stably?

Image preview

very cool

Image preview

it worked extremely well on our creality ender 3 v3 se with unknown filament dont ask.

Simple, fast to print and strong but mine broke after a couple days

Works well shoots strong.

Image preview

my print ended up being not as good and it doesn't shoot well but this is not a model problem the springs printed to thin so i will reprint with that fixed

Image preview

Perfect

Image preview

very weak but still pretty cool

Image preview