This week’s selection is the Overengineered Doorstopper by Thingiverse contributor Darth Biomech.
A doorstopper is perhaps the simplest device one can make. It’s literally just a wedge of material, usually wood, used to prop open doors. We’ve all used them.
This doorstopper isn’t like that at all. It is wildly over-engineered, and that makes it sufficiently fun to be our Design of the Week.
How over-engineered is it? Quite a bit. The design involves having the door slide overtop of the doorstopper, whereupon a flap pulls up to lock the door in place. Darth Biomech describes how it works:
“A doorstopper I made to lock my doors in place so that the wind wouldn’t shut them with excessive force. It snaps to lock the door with a satisfying sound, and the door can be released if you step on the doorstopper.”
As you might imagine, this project requires some hardware beyond the 3D printed parts. You’ll need a spring, some metal rods, and double-sided tape to hold it in position on the floor.
The beauty of this project is that it is so ridiculously over-engineered. You don’t need anything so complicated, but yet, we build it because we can.
Via Thingiverse
