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Day 328 – SUN Customizable Function Bracelet
Day 328 – SUN Customizable Function Bracelet 150 150 mathgrrl

Continuing the bracelet series from Day 320 and Day 322, today we printed a new customizable sun-shaped variation. The bracelet is a little bit stretchy but not as much as emmett’s classic…

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Day 327 – Saturday guest: AuntDaisy and the Electra
Day 327 – Saturday guest: AuntDaisy and the Electra 150 150 mathgrrl

Today’s post is contributed by Austin Day, aka AuntDaisy on Thingiverse, from Aunt Daisy Scientific Ltd., UK. AuntDaisy is the designer of the Trilobite articulatum model that we printed on Day…

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Day 326 – Friday Fail: Gyro edition
Day 326 – Friday Fail: Gyro edition 150 150 mathgrrl

Guess what, I started a Gyro project. As usual I’m starting with a big pile of fails. My goal is to make a reliable gyro model in Tinkercad to use…

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Day 325 – Szilassi polyhedron
Day 325 – Szilassi polyhedron 150 150 mathgrrl

Today we printed a rather upsetting shape called the Szilassi polyhedron, a model by richgain on Thingiverse. (Day two of our two-day richgain series!) The Szilassi polyhedron has seven hexagonal…

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Day 324 – Three piece box
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Today we printed richgain’s Interlocking Puzzle #1 from Thingiverse. Actually we printed it three times, in three different colors, so that we could make three multi-colored versions. The puzzle is…

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Day 323 – Printing huge with a Mini: Modular origami Electra
Day 323 – Printing huge with a Mini: Modular origami Electra 150 150 mathgrrl

Today we continue our series of posts investigating how we can get the most out of a MakerBot Replicator Mini. As its name implies, it’s not a large printer and…

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Day 322 – Updated “TRI” bracelet, now with wavy-control
Day 322 – Updated “TRI” bracelet, now with wavy-control 150 150 mathgrrl

It occurs to me that some people like things more wavy than others. So today we’re updating the Customizable TRI Function Bracelet design so that amplitude becomes a modifiable parameter.…

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Day 321 – Cylinder maze
Day 321 – Cylinder maze 150 150 mathgrrl

Today’s design is wizard23’s A-Mazing Box on Thingiverse. It needs some breaking in but it is fun to use and looks great: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:88128 Settings: We printed this one on…

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Day 320 – TRI Customizable Function Bracelet
Day 320 – TRI Customizable Function Bracelet 150 150 mathgrrl

Today we have the first of many posts in a customizable bracelet series, with a bracelet design called TRI. It has a nice wavy shape that is based on a…

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Day 319 – Science Friday!
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This afternoon I had the pleasure of being a guest on NPR’s Science Friday with Ira Flatow, live in the NYC studio. Even cooler, the other guest was Bre Pettis, CEO…

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