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Day 248: Thursday refactor – Sofa redesign

Day 248: Thursday refactor – Sofa redesign 640 480 mathgrrl

On Day 230 we printed some tiny sofas to try to figure out what will fit in our Brooklyn apartment this summer. (The answer: not much!)  In the comments, kitwallace…

Day 247 – Geek glasses fix!

Day 247 – Geek glasses fix! 1024 767 mathgrrl

Today we printed a modern 3D-printed version of the classic “taped glasses” fix. A little plastic piece fell off C’s glasses and got lost, and without it the arm of…

Day 246 – An eye for an eye

Day 246 – An eye for an eye 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we were supposed to get a tooth pulled out (!) so we printed something very simple and relaxing: stevemedwin’s Space Family Puzzle on Thingiverse. By “we” I mean “I” and…

Day 245 – Large Buckyball

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We liked yesterday’s little Buckyball so much that today we printed pmoews’ Large Buckyball from Thingiverse. Both models are icosahedral; you can see the icosahedron shape if you look at…

Day 244 – Buckyball with stand

Day 244 – Buckyball with stand 640 480 mathgrrl

Today’s print is the small Buckyball model from pmoews’ Buckyball Easter Egg gift set on Thingiverse. Like owens’ Menger Sponge with External Support model (see Day 157), this Buckyball prints with…

Day 243 – Base for shell models

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Last week I used the shell model from Day 237 in class and it was so great to get to that point at the board where my picture is all…

Day 242 – Time Turner

Day 242 – Time Turner 640 480 mathgrrl

Last Friday we talked about time and failing. Today we have a more positive thing to say about time, and we printed khakerry’s Time Turner model from Thingiverse. (What I wouldn’t…

Day 241 – Six-piece bar puzzle

Day 241 – Six-piece bar puzzle 640 480 mathgrrl

The other day we picked apart the OpenSCAD code for althepal’s six-piece ball puzzle (Day 239), so today we made a simple remix, removing the line of code for the…

Day 240 – W clip

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Today we printed something useful: thomasforsyth’s Clip peg – general purpose model from Thingiverse. It’s not springy and it doesn’t open far, but it does clip very securely. It’s going to…

Day 239 – Six-piece ball puzzle

Day 239 – Six-piece ball puzzle 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we printed althepal’s Six-piece soccer ball puzzle from Thingiverse. I have a lot of puzzles like these in my office at work, and people often take them apart and…

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