Casio PQ-11 Digital Alarm Clock Stand
Tue 11 Nov 2025 06:35:00 PM EST
Recently I picked up this Casio PQ-11 alarm clock from the thrift store because I didn't want to have to rely on my phone's alarm. Having your technology decentralized aligns more with the Unix philosophy so I tend to do so whenever I can. Anyway, This alarm clock came with a stand but I realized upon inspecting it further that it didn't actually work -- there were sets of little protrusions on each side that had been broken off, and the whole piece seemed beyond repair. I thought recreating this part in FreeCAD would be a fun challenge, and it would also give me an excuse to use my new Creality Ender-3 V3 KE 3D printer. After a long and arduous process of learning the new software, a model of something resembling the original stand started to take form.
I definitely didn't get it on my first print, or second, or third... It actually took me about ten iterations before I landed on something that I was happy with, and since the printer's End User License Agreement was quite concerning from a security and privacy standpoint, I decided to not connect it to the internet, which meant I had to carry a thumb drive back and forth from my room to the printer each time. After about the seventh iteration, I realized that my ruler had 11 millimeters in a centimeter which definitely explained why my dimensions were off in the resulting prints.
After a little over a day of learning FreeCAD, and printing/testing each successive iteration, I'm proud to say that I finally have a working alarm clock stand! This was a pretty fun project and I learned a lot about 3D modeling using CAD software. I've just created a Thingiverse account and it's making me wait a day before I can post my files, but I'll link them here once I do so.
Edit (Mon 24 Nov 2025 06:14:05 PM EST):
Link to clock stand
