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Not exactly a follow but I find the Voron design team interesting. And the community around it such as the Klicky Probe, then the magnetic based unklicky and things like Voron tap.
All that is to say unique ways of figuring out the mechanics of a component and how they iterate it, find out what works, what’s reliable and so on.
I like some of Slant 3D’s stuff on different ways to account for FDM based prints in design even if he can oversimplify how elegant things are.
Kicky is a rabbit hole in iterative designs on the same idea. There's also NGKlicky (no glue). Not to mention all the variations on door hinges, bed fans, filters...
The stock Voron designs also have tons of little quirks in them, like built in bridges for things with circular holes in them, to trick slicers into not printing in mid-air, that I've adopted into my own designs.
It’s fascinating isn’t it?
And you’ve got Tap. And then this…. Which is a work in progress but uses the actual flexture of the printed tool head mount and is adjustable via screws.
So many clever mechanical design concepts
FlexTap by AndrewMcGr
I have been using a Precusion Piezo Orion probe for over 5 years now and it’s great. Also relies on parts flexing.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
FlexTap by AndrewMcGr
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Also funny, the klicky itself is based on the work done leading into the quickdraw probes from Annex Engineering, the rabbit hole just gets deeper.