SD Cards Organizer

thingiverse

There are many different types of SD cards stands and boxes available on Thingiverse. All of them make sense, some are quite fantastic. My personal favorite is the 'Two Part Threaded SD Card Storage Case' from fbutkovich, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5553428. But what I could not find was a solution that gives you an overview of which files are saved on the cards. I needed something like the inlay of a CD-ROM - the older ones of you might remember ;-) So i created my own SD cards organizer: It was made to use with standard sized (85 x 55 mm) business cards, blank ones or the blank back sides of some old ones, on which you can write down the contents of an SD card. These business cards are inserted in a tray, made from three printed pieces, that holds the SD card. And the SD card trays again are stored in a two-piece box. How to print: All parts can be printed without supports. Print all three parts of the SD cards tray at once. Even a small print bed like the one of my Anycubic Mega S can host all together. To reduce stringing I recommend to use "One at a Time" print sequence. The orientation of two of the models in the .stl files is the right one to print them, there's no need to flip the models. Only the upper part of the tray has to be turned upside down. I additionally rotated all parts on the x-y plane, because I feared a collision of the print head with the printed parts in the original orientation. But now I think that was not necassary (although I did not try it). I also printed the two parts of the box as they were designed, but each for itself. There are two versions of the lower part of the box. One has separators on the bottom, that can help you to tilt the trays forwards, to get a better view on the card behind it. The separators reduce the number of cards per box to six. The other version, named Model B, has no separators. It can hold up to ten cards at once. The upper part of the box is the same for both bottom parts. To assemble the two parts of a box, use a rod of filament to complete the hinge. The holes in the lower part are 2 mm wide, the hole in the upper part has a bore of 2.5 mm. If the filament slips out of the hinge, use a soldering iron to fix it to the hinge on the lower part. The assembled box should be able to be closed without any post-treatment. Just press with a finger onto the upper part of the box, near the fastener, to let the two parts slide on each other. All boxes that I printed were able to be opened or closed. Instead of one - here I used transparent filament that had a very low accuracy. But with a piece of sanding paper it also worked.