3D Printed Juniors: Replacing School Items

 

Its the changing of season in New Zealand, moving towards winter and in our rural area we have the start of some issues with small pest animals (such as mice) starting to move into school areas and we need to combat them.

One practical way that we can do so is to use bait stations to act as a deterrent.   While these can take different forms and are commercially available we have the option of printing them.

We recently needed a significant rat box which cost us $50.00 from a local hardware store.   There were also some online options which started at $10.00 including shipping.   Out solution was to locate a sample file on a popular design sharing site, Thingiverse, and download a freely available example.

We want to share this with the students in class and ask them how they can adapt, modify or create their own versions of this.   We have previously (2017) built housing for mouse traps including a tunnel, lid and information - you can view this post by clicking here.  We have also constructed outdoor bait stations for a variety of projects which you can see examples of by clicking here.