Mechanical Chopsticks

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I've always had problems eating with chopsticks: from ramen to sushi, it was always hard to hold those wooden sticks. So I decided to help myself and build this useful and great-looking gadget, that is easy to assemble and is gorgeous to an engineer's eye! I recommend printing this with a high-resolution profile, this way the gears will run better (or you can just upscale it). I don't recommend lubricating it if used with food. It also prints fine without supports or rafts. I recommend printing both of them as they are slightly different one another (the gears' rotation is a bit different otherwise they wouldn't fit) For the spring I used a dental band I bought on Amazon: https://www.amazon.it/dp/B07CG9PVFL/ The assembly is very easy: print the two parts (left and right) and make sure they fit one into the other. Then take the elastic and wrap it around the top part of the chopsticks, where the indent is (the indent is deep enough that it shouldn't slip) I'm giving you the Fusion 360 files too so feel free to remix it however you like!