‘Trading Card Dispenser’ utility arm inside panel 1.2

So whilst designing the rear screen for the TCD, ‘Trading Card Dispenser’, utility socket area. One thing came to me & that was the shape of the ‘hand/grip’ of the arm. I made a recess that matched it in the screen. The idea being that when opened anyone viewing inside would see it and think it was like this for a reason. This was part of the second design lol.

The third and final design, I had an idea. Rather than just have a recess there, make it into an actual ‘thing’. Thinking about events etc and when the droids are just parked up, how about making a power charging/data transfer plug. So I measured up depth, plus other dimensions and got designing.

I remembered I had some magnets that would help hold the plug in place. These magnets are fitted with wire for upto 8amps, not that I’ll be going there lol (Heat shrink was added to the fly leads). But it meant that I could wire up an LED to illuminate when the magnets made contact with them the plug.

I printed the plug in two halves to ensure good surface finish all over. I designed and printed an end cap that I would connect up to a fake power/data tube.

*** UPDATE ***

As per usual, I did some more re-designing as I wasn’t 100% happy with what I had done. I’m not a perfectionist, but if I’m not happy with what I’ve designed, I keep tinkering until I am. I was happy with the update, but not so once printed, due to the slicing I had done. So there’ll be some more work on it.