Loud and compact Whistle for your Keychain

Update 2023-02-15:

I have also designed a gift and storage box for these 3 whistles, which you can find here.

Summary

I needed a load and compact whistle to fit my keychain and couldn't find any design which fits my requirements. What I found was either too bulky, too fragile, or too quiet.

So I made my own design, and this are the key advantages:

• extremely loud for it's size,
• very compact, only 5 mm thick, 14.3 mm wide and 48.9 mm long,
• double tone, sounds similar to a referee's whistle,
• easy to blow,
• sturdy and hard to destroy,
• lean design,
• easy to print,
• fast printing (< 20 min), little filament required (approx. 2.5 grams).

And I added 2 more variants of this whistle:

• an even slimmer version with 4 mm thickness that fits in your wallet,
• a variant with a lower pitch.

How to print:

Use a line width of 0.4 mm and a layer height of 0.2 mm, 4 top layers and 4 bottom layers.

The whistle requires correct positioning of the Z-seam - it shouldn't be placed in the narrow air passages inside the whistle. The Z-seam should be positioned as shown in the image above (the white dots represent the Z-seam). Use the “Z Seam Alignment: User specified” option in Cura or the "Seam Painting" option in PrusaSlicer to achieve this.
If you are using Cura I recommend V4.13.1 for this design as Cura 5.x still has problems placing the Z-seam.

Print slowly to achieve sharp edges.

If you want a multicolor print as in the picture above,  change filament at the desired height.

Do you like it?

If you have printed this design and you like it, I would be happy if your make is uploaded.

Please also check out my Steam Train Whistle and my Valentine Whistle: