3D Printed Headphone Stand – Ankur Gupta

3D Printed Headphone Stand [UPDATE]

Sorry for not posting a while. Between school and doing these projects, I really didn’t have the time to write up posts. Hopefully that will change as I move over all the work that I did and document it online.

Anyways, onto this update…

My mother for some reason wanted to paint my room, and as you may recall, the headphone stand that I designed was screwed onto my desk. This headphone stand is meant to hold a very sizable amount of weight assuming the force of the object is directed downwards.

Well, there happened to be a force directed upwards when the desk was being moved to paint the walls:

So lesson learned: either I support the headphone stand from the bottom of the desk as well, or make it completely independent of the desk.

Considering that I’m heading off to college in under a year, I think having a headphone stand independent of the desk might not be too bad of an idea.

Stay tuned for that.

3d Printed Headphone Stand [Conclusion]

After three hours, the stand is finally printed:

Came home, grabbed a couple of screws, and screwed it right into the desk:

Put a pair of headphones onto it, and I have to say, this is not too shabby:

3D Printed Headphone Stand [Design Update]

I was looking at a couple of videos form LinusTechTips, and I stumbled upon his headphone design contest. One of the designs has a nice angle forward that gave it a very streamlined look.

Obviously, I wanted that.

I added a 45 degree cut to the end, and I’m really satisfied with the product:

I was a bit concerned that the printer wouldn’t print the angle, but my teacher told me it should be fine.

I plan to print this today, pretty excited!

All of my code is available at my github.

3D Printed Headphone Stand [Design]

I recently moved in to a new home, I decided that it would be a good time to finally have a place to put my headphones. I wanted to have a pretty basic headphone stand, at least for the moment; so I designed it on the bus.

I wanted to have something that would accomplish the following goals:

Hold my headphones (duh)
Make sure that the padding in the headphones doesn’t get compromised
Look fairly decent

For the basic concept, I thought that a half-log like structure would do pretty well to achieve the tasks. However, I also wanted to have a stand that would be rigid.

I decided on a design that would be placed on top of my desk, and screwed in. The main benefits of this design are that, although a bottom mounted stand would look A LOT nicer, all of stress would be on the screws that are holding the stand to the desk. Instead, I’m going with a top-mounted stand, in which 25% of the stand will rest on the stand, and there will be a little plate that gets screwed into the desk. This will make the stress more distributed and result in less of a chance of the whole structure breaking.

I got cracking, and made a basic sketch (This was done in OpenScad, if you are wondering):

My friend then pointed out that over time, the structure will end up bending, or from some impact to the stand, and the headphones have a potential to fall off (shoutout to @JonathanJalajas). To account for this, I added a little nub at the end so the headphones won’t fall off:

The way I programmed this, all of the values are variables, so the design will change very easily. I simply plugged in the numbers that I wanted (in mm), and hit the render button:

The code for the model above can be found at my github:

https://github.com/agupta231/Static-Headphone-Stand