Mr. Potato Head Audiometer

The Story:

My sister is a speech therapist in a school for deaf children. The school's in house audiologist was retiring and my sister wanted to give her a personalized gift. The audiologist also happened to be a huge Mr. Potato Head collector. The idea that my sister came up with was to create a 3D model of her machine (an audiometer) and headphones, and pair it with a custom Mr. Potato Head. We sat down to a brainstorming session where my sister told me her ideas and I began to draw out her vision in various CAD software.

While I designed the CAD audiometer from scratch (based on pictures of the audiologist's machine), I used a Mr. Potato Head that I found on Thingiverse. In order to make it feel a little more custom, I engraved the school name on the back of the Potato Head. I used most of the body parts from the Thingiverse post, but instead of the ears, I fit the custom modeled headphones to his ear holes. The only non-printed component is the "wire" going from the headphones to the audiometer. I bought a cheap pair of headphones, removed the earpieces from the wire and inserted the wires into the earpieces of my printed headphones, The other end of the headphone wire went into a mock "jack" that I modeled into the audiometer that I drew and printed.

Last notes:

We also engraved a short message on top of the audiometer, and it printed looking great (not pictured for privacy purposes).

My printer only prints one color at a time, so I printed the parts individually, and snapped everything together afterwards.