April 2025 - Air Hockey

April 11, 2025

Bryan Vines supplied us with this incredible project. You can build your own little air hockey table. It is admittedly pretty simple, but the end result is so much fun to play with.

You should go follow Bryan on youtube.

For a bit of behind-the-scenes information, we actually had a different project planned for this month. However, we weren't satisfied with how well it worked, it needed a little more cooking. We feel it is extremely important that we don't ship you a project that doesn't work well, so we decided to postpone it. That same day, Bryan's air hockey project popped up in the discord and it was a perfect fit.

Our goal is to provide an assembly video for each project. Since we were working on a last-minute kind of situation here, we're letting Bryan's video do the work (skip to 06:17 for the instructions). You'll notice that some parts are slightly different than yours because Bryan made some nice updates for us, for example, the battery pack clips into place now, so no need for tape. He also made a version that fits on a prusa mini/ bambu a1 mini!

Download the 3d printable files for the Air Hockey table below. We suggest printing on a smooth plate using PLA for best results.

https://www.printables.com/model/1247872-mini-air-hockey-table

Parts included for this project:

2x blower fans
battery pack
4x AA batteries
4x m3x8 screws and nuts
4x m4x8 screws
4x m4x20 screws and nuts

Accessory: Silicone Mat

Having a little silicone work mat is so nice. Nothing really sticks to them, so you can do all kinds of gluing and other nasty stuff without worry. They're big enough to give you a decent work surface, but small enough to shake off over the trash. When they arrived they felt a little thinner than we were imagining, but we suspect they'll be put to good use regardless.