Project Ducky Rims: The Ultimate Stroller Mod

Project Ducky Rims: The Ultimate Stroller Mod!

Tired of boring stroller wheels? Ready to inject some serious fun, personality, and head-turning style into your daily commute? Then look no further than the Ducky Rim—a hilarious and neatly designed 3D-printed spoke attachment that puts a cheerful yellow rubber ducky right in the middle of the action!
 

Inspired from the early start of our mellenia with MTV's Pimp my ride this design transforms a mundane piece of mobility equipment (in this case, an Emmaljunga stroller wheel) into a statement piece. It’s the perfect blend of practical 3D design and whimsical street art. Just imagine rolling this down to the beach or baby swim lesson!

Why You Need the Ducky Rim (You don't unless you wanna look awesome):

• Insta-Famous Potential: This is guaranteed to generate smiles, photos, and head turns on every walk. Get ready for those viral moments!
• Simple Install: The design is engineered to snap on a 608ZZ ball bearing on the custom hub (STEP file included to easier modify for your stoller). No tools, no glue—just pure, quacky convenience.
• The Quack Factor: The robust, 3D-printed duck is a vibrant, durable, and highly visible accessory that rocks back and forward on its own while the wheel spins.

• Beach swag: Me and my girlfriend already have matching caps with rubber ducks on them saying “Duck it!”. We'll pair that with this stroller strolling down to the beach next summer with epic swag I imagine!

Technical Details & Printing Notes:

This model is designed to be mod-able. If you don't have an old Emmaljunga super viking like me chances are you might need to customize or make your own ball bearing attachment. I have included my step-file to help you get a flying start. My attachment is quite universal, it uses 3 self tapping 2*10 Philips screws that I screw right into the wheel hub. You could probably also glue it on or use stripes.
The ball bearing attachment uses a snap-lock and therefore I highly recommend printing that piece in PETG.


Here is my wheel hub and the philips screw I just screw in.

The duck has a tight fit hole for the 22mm bearing (hole is 22.1mm in diameter). And it fits inside the duck, then the duck snaps on the bearing attachment.

Printing the duck is fine in PLA or any other material for that matter (maybe not TPU… 🤔). It has three pieces. The body, the beak and the eye. You need to glue the eye and the beak. I could easily have made a AMS version but I just dread all the waste of material.
 

Yes, I ran out of black PLA for the eye so I printed it in grey PETG and tried to paint it black. I do not recommend that 😅

Get ready to roll with a whole new level of style. It’s time to quack up your ride!

P.S I would absolutely love if someone carried on this whimsical idea and made remixes of this! If you do, please oh please let me know! 🙏