Date: 9/5/2016

Not long after moving into our new home, I discovered the cap to the handle to our push broom was broken and quickly disintegrating.  The old cap wasn't anything special - it was a thin and flimsy yellow plastic cap.

I measured the broom handle's diameter with my calipers, added an extra 0.2mm around the edges for good measure, and whipped up a new handle end cap.  Not wanting to have to bother with this problem ever again, I decided to make the cap very thick (2mm), added a sphere at the top to make it less "scrape-y" than the old handle cap, and included a large hole for hanging the broom. (Even though I don't have anyplace to hang it yet...)  Again, OpenSCAD was the big winner here.

I added copious hot glue to the perimeter of the handle and forced the cap down onto it.  It's not going anywhere any time soon.

Since this contest entry is really a collection of entries, I've uploaded the STL and OpenSCAD files to Thingiverse here.