Drawer tiles

The idea of this collection is to provide storage that would work in a drawer. Instead of using the traditional dividers, this uses tiles that connects in the drawer and have special purpose storage. See the tiles section below for the current version of things to store.

The basic tile is based on the Interocking Boxes by JordanGrant (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3104430). Instead of just doing boxes this is the basis for "tiles" that are customized for special purpose storage.

The tiles are all create with OpenScad, that allows easy expansion. Many tiles are based on a "base tile" and then allow you to create a larger tiles without the interconnections.

I stayed with the base tile of 40x40mm. As this is all Openscad and parametric it should be possibe to use other dimensions.

The idea is simple, just make something fit into one (or several) tiles. Please make make sure you add your remix, I may want to pick it up for my drawer :).

The tiles

This section is a description of the differnt tiles that (so far) I have created. The headlines refer to scad files, just add .scad to the name.

9v

For 9 volt batteries. Each 40mmx40mm tile can hold 2 batteries.

AA

This tile is for AA batteries. The layout algoritm is done to pack as many batteries as possible into a tile. Thus a 3x3 tiles (120x120mm) may have more batteries than 9 1x1 tiles.

AAA

Same as AA but, you guessed it, for AAA batteries.

applepower

Apple provides a slide in power plug for their power supply and it if you travel you can get a collection of these for different counties. This tile allow you to save the plugs on a tile.

bigcableholders

A 40x40mm tile that has a big hole to hold a fairly large USB (or other) cable. The holder is 120mm high, that worked for me and my drawer but is customizable.

buttonBattery

This is a small tile to hold 357 style of button batteries.

cabeHolders

Intended to hold 2 USB or other smaller cables. 120mm tall. Similar to bigcableholders

coinbattery

Creates a tile for many popular coinbatteries. As the name tells the dimensions of the battery, it is use to defined the slots for the batteries.This requires TOUL.scad, to extract the parameters, it is included, and sourced from: Author: Nathanaël Jourdane Email: nathanael@jourdane.net thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1237203

interlockingmodule

This is from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3104430. It is modulerized to make it easy to use in the other tiles. Also created a "negative space" that can be used with difference to remove anything that is interfering with the frame and the dovetails.

nozzle

A tile to save your Ender3 (or any other MK8) nozzles. This is a M6 threaded hole. For me this required using 0.12mm layers. You may want to try out a small tile of this to see what works with your printer. Uses threads module: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1938150

phones.scad

This provides slots for something like an iphone or an ipad, based on the with of the tile you create.

plugconverter

This is for my collection of international converter plugs. The tile is a US standard plug, that all my converter plugs has as a "socket". I can put my converters nicely upside down into this tile.

spacer

Most likely you will not be able to tile things out perfectly in your drawer. Thus the spacers. They allow you to create an inexpensive (5mm tall) tile that will fill up the space, and thus hold in place, your other tiles.

spring

Your drawer is probably not a perfect multiplier of 40mm. The spring is a flexilble tile that you can put at the edge to push the tiles in place.

TOUL

Helper code. See thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1237203

usbchargers

These are basic US style power sockets, with the intention that you can plug in your USB chargers to save them in a tidy way.