Many school makerspaces include 3D printers. They are great tools for exploring new ideas. Our Engineering Education group has a publicly shared collection of interesting 3D-printable accessories, some designed by us and some by classroom teachers, on our Thingiverse webpage.

Thingiverse is a online repository to collect and share 3D-printable designs. Among the collections on our page, you’ll find a variety of designs you can print to use with your Vernier sensors and equipment. For instance, you’ll find an extra mass tray for our DTS carts (Standard Cart (DTS-CART-S)), a widget that centers a burette above a Drop Counter (Drop Counter (VDC-BTD)), and the wind turbine nose cones used in the Spring 2016 Caliper article “Can Adding a Nose Cone Improve Turbine Efficiency?”

The links below will take you to each collection; we have also listed a few example accessories from each collection.

Physics Collection

• Sensor Cart ring stand adapter
• Radiation spectrometer
• Force sensor bracket for dynamics track

Chemistry Collection

• pH Sensor storage bottle lids
• pH Sensor rack
• Burette-centering widget

KidWind/Energy Science Collection

• Turbine hub for KidWind Generator
• KidWind gears
• Nose dome for KidWind Generator

Engineering Education Collection

• Corner brackets for VSMT trusses
• Cylindrical test fixture for VSMT
• Plastic film fixture for VSMT

If you have an accessory for your lab or classroom, we’d love to see it. Send a link, design file, or idea to engineering@vernier.com.