Accessible Braille Coronary heart Bracelet for Valentine’s Day. 3D Printed Love Bracelet with Braille + Textual content (Studying Instrument)

I designed this heart-link bracelet as a fast Valentine’s reward for my girlfriend, and I made a decision to share it as a result of it’s each significant and genuinely helpful. Every coronary heart is a small hyperlink that carries Braille dots and raised commonplace textual content, so the bracelet will be learn by contact and likewise learn visually. That makes it a candy piece of jewellery, but additionally a easy Braille studying device, you’ll be able to observe letters or brief messages whereas carrying it.

What makes it authentic is the mix of romantic design and accessibility in a modular format: the hearts are particular person segments you’ll be able to print, reorder, and customise into totally different phrases or names. It’s simple to scale for various wrist sizes, and you may create many variations by altering the message, variety of hyperlinks, or the person letters.

Context of use: that is meant to be worn as a light-weight bracelet and assembled with wire or elastic. Relying in your printer and filament, very small Braille particulars can develop into much less crisp, so for finest tactile readability it might require cautious settings (good layer consistency, sluggish outer partitions) and a filament that holds element nicely. In the event you resize the mannequin, needless to say Braille dot dimension and spacing ought to keep readable.

Inspiration: I wished a easy, heart-based Valentine bracelet, however designed it in an inclusive approach so blind and visually impaired and sighted folks can take pleasure in the identical piece collectively. That is my authentic design (not a remix).

Machine / course of
FDM (FFF) 3D printing

Printer
Bambu Lab X1 Carbon, CoreXY
Nozzle: 0.4 mm

Construct plate
Cool Plate

Materials used (as assigned to the mannequin)
Bambu Lab PLA Silk (slot 4),
Layer peak / decision
Layer peak: 0.20 mm
Line width: 0.42 mm

Shells
Wall loops: 2
High layers: 5
Backside layers: 3

Infill
Sparse infill density: 15%
Sparse infill sample: grid

Helps
Helps: disabled (no helps)

Brim / raft
Brim: no brim
Raft: 0 layers (none)

Mannequin dimension (from the 3MF geometry bounding field)
Roughly 217.4 mm (X) × 41.7 mm (Y) × 5.0 mm (Z)

Manufacturing time and materials utilization