Pedometer Button Cover

I keep finding my pedometer in some strange mode caused by random button presses while carrying it in my pocket. It often seems to take hours to get it out of whatever mode it is in, and once I even had to do a complete reset to get it back to just counting steps.

Even more annoying, the marketing blurb for it on amazon said "two button design set to the side to virtually eliminate accidental resets".

To prevent the dadgum buttons from being pressed I decided to try and 3D print a cover for them, but the thing is annoyingly shaped and it took a while to build a model of it that I could use.

It took even longer to try and decide how to design a cover that might work.

I eventually settled on a hard PETG cover for the buttons themselves and a TPU band to hold it on. I don't know if it will work long term, but so far it has lasted a day without falling apart in my pocket.

The pedometer and printed parts:

Everything assembled:

I see it is still on daylight time, and will probably stay that way :-). If I start finding the pieces separated in my pocket, I guess I'll have to try again.

I actually used both printers for this. I have the old solidoodle setup to print TPU and Jiggit printing PETG.