Universal Drying Rack
Prototypes · severalA clothes-drying rack that collapses into a tube the size of a phone tripod.
The product I chased longest. Wire hangers, snake-arm brackets, three rounds of 3D-printed connectors, carbon-fiber rods, and a photo-tripod base from Ulanzi as the platform. The drawing shows the goal: a hanging rack that folds down like a kaleidoscope tube. I got an injection-molding overview from Protolabs for the connector. Custom 3D-printed parts ran into the thousands just to design properly, and that was the end of the road.
What I asked for
- Collapses into a tube, like a portable phone stand
- Hangs from a door, a rail or a tripod base
- Holds a full load of hand-washed clothes
On file
- Protolabs injection-molding overview
- Pole layout drawing, v2.0
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