Stupid Little Cups

I collect stupid little cups. These are sometimes called ‘toothpick holders’ or ‘shot glasses’ but I call them stupid little cups. The primary reason I collect stupid little cups is the following.

  1. They are cheap, so I can buy several on a trip and not feel bad about it
  2. They are smaller than coffee cups
  3. They are generally uniform in scale, which means they are easy to display

However, there are not a lot of great options for stupid little cup display settings, because not many people apparently recognize the values I outlined above.

so I took this as a learning opportunity within fusion to design my own modular and stackable stupid little cup holder. The benefit of this design is it’s simple to print, each cubby takes about 1 hour to print. I have LED strips coming from Aliexpress to light the individual cubby, which is why there is a hole at the top.

I had considered building this out of wood, however I discovered the cost of the wood at Home Depot for the dimensions I need (without a table saw) would be $120 for the wood alone and I decided that was much too much for stupid little cups as they serve no practical purpose whatsoever.

Eventually, I would like to swap out the controller from Aliexpress with an arduino and custom code to light up specific glasses at a time, selectable from a menu. For example you might want to illuminate only the shot glasses from the states, for example.