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Day 228 – Friday Fail: Terminal edition
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Seriously? An overnight print of eighteen Fidget Cubes (see Day 158) failed just before the LAST LAYER. Sigh. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:230139 Technical note: We now use .48 clearance instead of .5 for…
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Day 227 – Penrose Snap Tiles
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Today we printed emmett’s Penrose Snap Tiles on Thingiverse, which are a genius-level modification of the already awesome Penrose P3 Tiles by pleppik. The genius is the excellent snap-together design that at…
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Day 226 – Tetris box puzzle
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RarelyEvil’s 3D Tetris Pieces Puzzle with Box on Thingiverse is one of the nicest working models I have seen on Thingiverse. It’s a simple thing – just 3D Tetris-like pieces that…
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Day 225 – Hilbert cubes
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Today’s print is sushiyaki’s Hilbert block model on Thingiverse. This model is great because it prints without any supports at all, and some of the gaps between the paths even…
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Day 224 – Rattlebacks
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Today we printed VeryWetPaint’s Rattleback Twins model from Thingiverse. If you spin one of these “rattleback tops” in the proper direction, it will actually shake and reverse itself, ultimately spinning in…
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Day 223 – CGR 3-Doodler squiggle tower
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Today we finally broke out the 3-Doodler 3D-printing “pen”. Calvin loves making tall towers of squiggles. This one broke the record! Technical notes, Yaya-comparison flavor: We also have the Yaya 3D…
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Day 222 – Cube screw-puzzle
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Today we printed the four-piece cube puzzle from GeorgeHart’s Five Screw-Puzzles model on Thingiverse. This one is very easy in comparison to the tricky tetrahedron puzzle from that set of models,…
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Day 221 – Friday Fail: CubeX Trio edition
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Let’s start on a positive note. This week the CubeX Trio in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom printed something! Specifically, the giant hand model that comes as a demo with the…
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Day 220 – Dragon Curve
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Today we were very excited to print Henry Segerman‘s stunning Developing Dragon Curve model. Henry sent us the file for the model so we could print a small test run of it before…
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Day 219 – Chmutov-Schwartz minimal surface
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Today we printed elgolem’s Chmutov-Schwarz minimal surface model on Thingiverse, in honor of George Hart‘s wonderful bouncy circle sculpture from G4G11. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:72978 Settings: To print this object we had to convert…

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