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Generating Random Mastery Quizzes with Nothing But LaTeX
3D Design Tour with Penny Traps: Tinkercad, Fusion 360, OpenSCAD, and Customizer
Back It Up: A Guide to Protecting Your Online Content
Perko Knot Reprint: Dissolvable vs. Breakaway Supports
Just in Time: Clocks!
The Snowflake Machine
Knots in OpenSCAD with Sweeper
Hinged Triangle-Square
Generating Random Constructivist Art
Designing Knitting Machine Punch Cards with StitchFiddle
3D Printing Strong and Sturdy Models
Filament Samples and Customizability
Schönhardt Polyhedron
Is your 3D model a mess? Make it printable!
3D Printed Spacer for Using Sharpies in the Silhouette
Pairs of Packable Scutoids
SONY Paper for Reading Technical Mathematics
Saddle Surface with Mathematica and Tinkercad
3D Printing in South Africa
Knitting Machine Punch Card Trials
College-level math exploration in 3D at JMU 3SPACE
Rainbow Triple Wrap Bracelet
Hex Bowls for Settlers of Catan
Getting Started on the Brother KH-881 Punchcard Knitting Machine
Dissolvable Support Interface is Everything You Need
Creating Celtic Knots with Fusion 360
Unreasonably large bounds on Reidemeister move sequences
Targeted Thickening with Meshmixer
Multicolor 3D Printing, from Tinkercad to XYZ
Three-Sided Cylinder Coins
Making Meaning
Family Design Roundup
Triple Check Knit
Design Exploration with Vectary
Vases in Fusion 360 Two Ways: Lofting and Sculpting
Organic Snowflake Ornaments
Make One Billion Snowflakes With the Snowflake Machine
Text Wrapping with Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Tools
Turning One Snowflake Into Billions with OpenSCAD
Leveraging Math and Materials to Make Bangles That Fit
3D printed fractals at JMU 3SPACE
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About X, But Were Afraid to Ask (Part 2)
Full Color Un-Manufacturable Part
Here Come the Holidays
Full Color Desktop 3D Printing?!
Designing for 3D Printed Porcelain
Candy Mold Presses With Fusion 360
Lightning-Fast Lithophanes With Cura
Quick Design With 3D Slash
Custom D&D Characters With Hero Forge
Add Custom Heraldry to Tabletop Minis With Meshmixer
FDM=ASAP but SLS=OMG
Thickening 3D Models With Blender
CAD in the Cloud With Onshape
Learn to Fly With Wings3D
3D Design Electronics in Tinkercad
Repair and Prep Structure Synth Models
Rescue 3D Models With MakePrintable
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About X, But Were Afraid to Ask
Design for Complexity With Structure Synth
Oops, Now Your Photos Are TOO Good!
Easy Pendant Creator Walkthrough
Learn to Code in 3D With BlocksCAD
Porcelain Topographic Models with Terrain2STL
Full-Color Prints from Trnio Photogrammetry
3D Design Made Simple With Morphi
Taking Better Photographs of Your 3D Prints
Wrapping a Thing Around Another Thing
Parametric Modeling With Grasshopper
SketchUp for 3D Printed Buildings and Beyond
Giant Spiky Perko Knot
Creating a Community of 3D Educators at the Construct3D Conference
Mathematica Brings the Mathematical Bling
First Steps with 3D Design Software Fusion 360
Print Cheaper By Scaling… Up?
Painting Multicolor Models in Meshmixer
Get Some Variety With Variants
Topological Mesh Modeling with TopMod
Modeling for 3D Printing with Cinema 4D
Printing the Impossible: Evolution of a Fidget Cube
Help!
Using Sculptris to 3D Model With Digital Clay
What 3D Design Software Should I Use?
No Snow? Here’s How to Make Your Own
Making Your Designs Customizable with CustomMaker
Quick Fixes With MeshLab
Using OpenSCAD to Design with Code
Beginner 3D Design With Tinkercad
Full-Color Printing and Character Models
Shapeways Tutorial Tuesday Kickoff!
Speed Racer Testbots
JMU 3SPACE: Building a 3D printing classroom
Customizable Snowflake Cookie Cutters
3D Printing Knots at the Unknot Conference
MyMiniFactory + mathgrrl
Cube Puzzle Quartet
Girih Tiles for Interactive Islamic Designs
From Prototype to Product: Snowflakes
Guest post from cgreyninja: First print on the Ultimaker 2 Go
Star Wars Trash Compactor Scene in Minecraft with 3D-printed Remote Control Pants
The Snowflake Machine
Beefy Trophy – Baking meshes into OpenSCAD from Blender
Low-Voxel Stanford Bunny + Voxelization/Minecraft Tutorial
3D-Printable Pentagon Tessellations
PolyBowls – From zero to OpenSCAD in 6 minutes
Battle: Five-Cent Hammer vs Customizable Diorama
Battle: Fidget Star vs Flexible Train Tracks
Pi Day + OpenSCAD Celebration!
Of Math and Meshes
Learning Maya
Tackling three.js
Polyhedral LEDs, Step 2: Tinkercad
Polyhedral LEDs, Step 1: Mathematica
Holiday Belt-Tightening
Snowflake Cutter
Trigonometry Style
Menger Menagerie
Mega Menger!
The T-word
Level Two
Julia set
Level One
Level Zero

MakerHome Archive

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All mathgrrl designs and associated pictures and files on Hacktastic are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. If you want to use a design outside of the terms of this license, email request@mathgrrl.com.

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