Chopsticks Shelf "Unforeseen Consequences"

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Edit 6/19/2017: I swapped out the cover photo for a super cool arrangement I made because nobody really cares if this thing can actually dry pasta. They just want eye candy. So here's the eye candy! Edit 6/16/2017: I uploaded a new cover photo to prove that you can indeed use this as a food-safe pasta dryer, especially if you use clean chopsticks. To quote Cave Johnson from Portal 2: "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" I made a mistake. In Fusion 360, for some reason, threads aren't "modeled" by default. So you put them there, they look pretty, but when you export the STL, there are no threads. It's like Schrödinger's cat - the cat is alive, the cat is dead. You just can't tell until you get it into the slicer, and by then it's too late. Nobody really checks those things, do they? So I printed it, and instead of screw holes, I had holes. Or rather, lemons. Lemon holes. But instead of throwing the brackets in the non-recycling bin of sadness, failure, and depression, I realized I'd been collecting a stash of high-quality chopsticks from my local Korean restaurant chain BIBIBOP (think Chipotle but with Korean food). Do you ever go to an Asian restaurant and feel like maybe this is the time you're going to use chopsticks? So you grab a set or two, but then you hedge your bets because you don't want to upset your friends and family who are expecting forks, spoons, and knives? You get both. And although there's inevitably one person - that one guy or gal - who uses chopsticks, they eventually switch over to forks and spoons because you can't really get the good stuff on the bottom of the plate/container with chopsticks without looking silly. What ends up happening is you're a bastard who doesn't care about the environment, so you just throw that pile of 10 chopsticks in the garbage every time, and they go straight to the landfill where some landfill woodchuck will use it as a toothpick. Or perhaps you're slightly more conscious about the environment, so you ask yourself "is wood recyclable? What about the paper wrapping?" And the answer is "how the heck do I know!?" So you Google it and find out that the answers differ based on where you live - which continent, state, city, and municipality, plus which recycling company you use or are forced to use. The cycle of the moon doesn't seem to matter. More confused than ever, you decide to Google chopsticks and find out there's this chopstick-hoarder on Thingiverse who accidentally designed a shelf (perhaps for drying pasta?) that uses 3D printed brackets that you then hammer three chopsticks into, and you're good to go. Wow! So yeah, I made a weird pasta-drying shelf out of a mistake, and now I'm sharing it with the world. If you like this shelf, you'll love the real shelves over here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2368917 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2365549 These actually have screws, screw holes that are properly modeled, and a platform which will hold things way better than triple-chopsticks. If you absolutely love this idea but your chopsticks suck (i.e., are different from my awesome chopsticks from BIBIBOP), please let me know what shape they are (square, circular, triangular, pentagram) and what their dimensions are. I'll totally make a special version just for you (you beautiful, unique snowflake) and post it here for all to see! My guess is there are probably two or three different types of chopsticks that are more commonly found in restaurants, so I'm happy to oblige, to help the greater good. Lastly, please feel free to leave me comments because I do read, reply, and try to tweak my designs so they're more awesome. I'm a beginner but I enjoy learning new things! "Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news." Ahh, Cave...