Customizable 3DS Cart Holder

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This is a customizable cartridge holder designed to hold Nintendo DS / 3DS cartridges. I made it because just about every 3DS cartridge holder is either the usual "carry case" style (where you slot them into a thing that holds 6 carts on each side), or they're part of a piece that also displays the console next to the games, or they're just designed to hold a handful of games. I've got about 100 loose Nintendo DS / 3DS games and they're just sitting in a bag, so I made something I could put them in, vertically, and sit in a drawer with my other cartridges. This is flexible enough to be used for other stuff too. If you tweak the parameters, you can make a holder for PS5 games, or you can make a box to hold screws for projects, or a pen holder, whatever you want really, as long as it's in a grid formation. It also has the option to make a lid that just sits over the top. It doesn't lock in place or anything like that, it's just a piece that is slightly larger than the holder and should have enough clearance to sit over the items without resting on them. # Model Options I recommend downloading and using OpenSCAD to render and export this file as an STL because Thingiverse's Customizer doesn't present all the options for you to change. Also there's an echo statement that runs when you render it in OpenSCAD so you can tell before you export how big the print is going to be so you can ensure it fits on your printer ## `columns` How many columns this box will have. Defaults to 4 columns ## `rows` How many rows this box will have. The total items you can store in it will be `columns * rows`. Defaults to 16, so you'll be able to store `4 * 16 = 64` games in it ## `base` How thick the base is. Defaults to 10mm ## `border` How thick the border around the edges are. This applies to the lid too. Default is 10mm ## `cartridge` The dimensions of the cartridge expressed as a vector. Defaults to 35mm x 4mm x 33mm ## `cartSlotDepth` How far the cartridge sits inside the holder. Defaults to 15mm, so if a Nintendo DS cartridge is 33mm tall, then 18mm of the cartridge will be visible above the holder. ## `cartGap` How far apart each slot is. Defaults to 4mm, ## `printLid` If true, then a lid will be created. The lid is the size of the holder, plus 1 border unit on each side. So if your box is 200mm x 200mm and your border is 10mm, then your lid will be 220mm x 220mm