🐜 Colony Clacker

A satisfyingly clicky door upgrade for your Printers for Ants colony—because even tiny printers deserve a proper "clack"!

Table of Contents

• 🚪 What is Colony Clacker?
• 📦 Bill of Materials
• 📐 Door Parts
• 🌍 Vendors
• 🖨️ Print Recommendations
• 🔧 Latch & Bottom Hinge Variants
• 🎨 Handle_C Logo Variants
• 🛠️ Assembly Instructions
• 🎨 Optional Skirts
• 💬 Feedback & Discussion
• 🐞 Raising Issues
• 📜 Version History

🚪 What is Colony Clacker?

Inspired by the popular Clicky-Clack Fridge Door mod by tanaes, Colony Clacker is specially designed for Printers for Ants (PFA), and other 1515 based printers.

Completely remodeled from scratch (not just scaled), it boasts enhanced stealthy aesthetics, improved tolerances, and optimized STLs for top quality printing using standard Voron settings.

🎥 Watch the satisfying Clack in action!

📦 Bill of Materials

If you intend to use the optional extended skirts, additional hardware for these is listed further down the page, in the corresponding skirt sections.

🛠️ Hardware

Note - LDO Rev1 kits will be shipped with M3x12 BHCS for the blind joints, these may need swapping out for M3x8 BHCS if the threads seem tight part way through.

📐 Door Parts

Micron+

StealthFork 180

StealthFork 160

Voron V0 (80mm Top Hat)

Voron V0 (100mm Top Hat)

🌍 Vendors

🖨️ Print Recommendations

All STLs are pre-oriented for printing.

• Material: ABS or ASA
• Layer height: 0.20 mm (including first layer)
• Wall count: 4
• Extrusion width: 0.40 mm (forced)
• Top/bottom solid layers: 5
• Infill: 40% (Grid, Gyroid, Honeycomb, Triangle, or Cubic)
• Supports: Not required

🔧 Latch & Bottom Hinge Variants

Available in multiple offsets to suit different panel/foam thicknesses. The required frame‑to‑door distance is embossed on the back of each STL (e.g., 6 = 6 mm).

Thicknesses range from 2.8 mm to 6.0 mm in 0.2 mm increments.

Bottom hinge variants with varying pin offsets for different panel/foam thicknesses.

🎨 Handle_C Logo Variants

Handle_C versions are available with logos from various brands and printers, allowing you to customise your build.

🛠️ Assembly Instructions

Assembly is intuitive. Use the provided images for visual guidance if you encounter difficulties.

To aid with aligning the door when installing it, a sacrificial layer has been modelled into the lower hinge.
Apply a little extra force when inserting one of the pins. This will make that pin shorter, allowing you to align one hinge at a time.

Important:

• Secure magnets with superglue into the latch and corresponding handle piece
• Hardware locations can be seen in the assembly images below.
• On initial build, you may experience less clacking, this is usually due to the foam needing to settle, or the 2x screws in the latch being too tight.

🎨 Optional Skirts

There are currently some extended skirts for the following PFA Printers. They improve overall aesthetics and screen access. (Others will be added as they are created)

Micron+ (G2Z)

Micron+ (Stock Z)

StealthFork

💬 Feedback & Discussion

If you're building a Colony Clacker, we'd love to hear your thoughts!

Join the discussion, suggest improvements, or share feedback in the 'KyleGB' channel on the Doomcube Discord.

🐞 Raising Issues

If you encounter any issues, please report them via the Issues section on the Git repository.

Be as detailed as possible, include steps to reproduce, and relevant images or screenshots.

Your feedback helps improve Colony Clacker for everyone!

📜 Version History

Enjoy your clicky-clacking Colony Clacker! 🐜✨