Actually, it’s 105, counting the ones that are printing in the background. We’ve been making these all week; they print fairly reliably in batches of a dozen. We need to…
The Holy Grail! Owens’ model Menger sponge with external support prints a beautiful Level 2 Menger sponge with no internal supports. The difficulty with printing a Menger sponge on a filament-deposition printer…
Today we printed some custom bracelets for my niece, who mailed us a very nice letter that included some awesome designs to start from. Her designs were so good that…
Today we printed owens’ Diagonal Cut Menger Sponge design from Thingiverse. If you sliced a Level 2 Menger sponge in half along a diagonal plane as shown in the picture,…
To break in the new MakerBot Digitizer in the JMU 3-SPACE Classroom, my student Patrick scanned and printed a beautiful African woman statue that another student gave me as a…
To finish our collection of trefoil conformations, we have a stick knot and a cubic lattice knot: STL file for stick: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day153_trefoil_stick_40_25.stl STL file for lattice: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day153_trefoil_lattice_40_25.stl Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:234107 Technical…
Two more trefoil conformations – as a petal knot (all crossings line up along one center stem) and a tight knot (with the smallest amount of rope length possible given…
Continuing our collection of trefoil knots, today we printed a trefoil in a Fourier-(1,1,2) knot conformation and a trefoil knot in a tritangentless conformation. In other words, the first trefoil…
For the next four days we’ll be posting various mathematically interesting models of the trefoil knot. Mathematicians consider two knotted forms to be equivalent if one can be transformed into the other…
Today we rest. And print a balloon dog: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:63096 Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low scaled to 57mm across, in 29 minutes with raft and support on a MakerBot Replicator 2. Technical…
