Circular Pill Container

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I found the classic rectangular pill containers to be difficult and inefficient; lids would come off and let pills fall out, or they weren’t big enough for larger pills. So I made my own design. I kept the daily labels and threw out everything else. This round pill container makes taking daily pills easy- the circular design means users can simply use the thumb tab to rotate to the next day’s pills, allowing one to simply pour them out without risking more coming out, as I had experienced with too loose plastic containers. The ring is designed to be just the right thickness; it’s thin enough that rotating it is easy, but not so thin that it’s loose. To replace the week’s pills, simply rotate the ring past Sunday to the 'blank'. Then the ring’s opening is closed by the solid blank. Now the lid is taken off, users put their medicine in, and the lid is pressed back on.Best of all, all three part measure about three inches in diameter, so it’s easy to print at home with standard PLA.