Wi-Fi Booster "satellite style"

thingiverse

I'm experimenting with a more intricate take on the original Wi-Fi reflector design found at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1731014. Additionally, I'd like to bring up another mini design that can be placed atop each individual antenna located at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1731886. To print the "satellite" dish in PLA and maintain its lightweight nature, I used a 5% infill rate. However, this made the connector piece rather fragile. A better approach would be to adjust your slicer's settings so that it uses a different process when reaching that area, or increase the infill rate to around 20%. Alternatively, you could also opt for a uniform 10-15% infill rate across the entire print and exercise caution when wrapping it in aluminum foil afterwards. I explored using silver filaments as an alternative, but the ones I tried were more dull grey rather than shiny silver like aluminum foil. For the support beam and base, I used ABS with a 20% infill rate. The screw and bolt were printed in PLA at a 50% infill rate. A .3 layer height was used for everything except the screw and bolt, which had a .2 layer height. The dish measures 5.5 inches in diameter and is 3.5 inches deep. The support beam measures 6.787 inches long, and combined with the base, it will be around 7 inches high. You can see the pictures before I made some modifications.