Everyone prints a phone case when they first get a 3D printer, but it kind of sucks and they throw it away. We’ve had a lot of luck spraying pieces down with plastidip. So many electronics already have this kind of rubberized surface applied, it’s easy and cheap enough to add it to our own 3D prints. This is a phone case we’ll actually use for our lab Galaxy s6.

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