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Today’s post is contributed by Richard Gain (richgain on Thingiverse), designer of the nicely-constructed puzzles from Day 324 and Day 332 as well as the beautiful and terrible Szilassi polyhedron from Day…

It seems that the MakerBot Desktop software has an upper bound on the number of “self-intersecting faces” that can be in a model. When I had just a couple of…

One really cool thing about a fold-out cube is that you can print things on the faces without using supports and then fold up the cube to get an object…

This week we’re attempting to combine three of our previous designs into one: Print-in-Place Fidget Cube (for the hinges) Poly-Snaps: Tiles for Building Polyhedra (for the polygon code and homogeneous snaps) …

Here’s one use for yesterday’s hinge – some stand-up hinged initials for young C: Of course, if your initials aren’t CGR then this model doesn’t help you very much. So…

In preparation for a new hinge-related project, today we redesigned our conical hinge maker. Technical notes, clearance flavor: We made this hinge in OpenSCAD and tomorrow we’ll have a customizable…

Today we printed another scanned object from the Art Institute of Chicago, a Ganesha statue on MyMinFactory made by coskucan. According to the model description and trusty Wikipedia, Ganesha is known as…

Today we printed tomburtonwood’s very descriptively-titled Buddha Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra), Chola period, c. 12th century, Art Institute of Chicago. Power-designer Tom Burtonwood (@tburtonwood on Twitter) is the Artist-in-Residence at the Art…

Today we printed toddsplod67’s Minecraft spider from Thingiverse, for two reasons. First, Minecraft. Second, this 3D model is part of a tutorial for the 3D-modelling software Ringtail. There are so,…