This semester a MakerBot Replicator 2 and MakerBot Digitizer are joining the Afinias we have in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom, so we will need a recycle/fail bin for PLA as…
More TopMod! Today we made a knot: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day137_cloverknot.stl Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:224032 Settings: MakerWare .15mm/high with raft and supports, in 6 hours and 23 minutes. I didn’t use the custom knot…
Today we took yesterday’s TopMod model and created crusts along certain face loops to get a more open, fancy, swirly design: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day136_sixhandlesfancy.stl Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:223250 Settings: We used the same custom…
Today’s model is a sculpture made with the excellent and innovative mesh-wrangling software TopMod. Since my way-back math roots are in topology, TopMod is like coming home; everything about it…
Today’s print is a low-poly version of BorisBelocon’s Gollum on Thingiverse. We printed this for Tim Chartier of Davidson College, who created the low-poly version of BorisBelocon’s model by using…
Today the holiday visits are over and we are back to designing. Something simple to start, and to get ahead for the next holiday: customizable easy-to-print broken hearts that you…
To finish out the Thanxmas presents, today we printed some of walter’s Customizable Stretchy Bands model from Thingiverse. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day132_stretchybands.stl (but customize your own!) Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:61047 Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low on…
The past week of cleaning and family visits has meant a lot of reprints and Thingiverse designs, and today is no exception: we printed a bunch of bowls from the…
Today is Thanxmas for our family! For the festivities we have a celebratory Trilobite articulatum from AuntDaisy on Thingiverse in our faux fireplace. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:60760 Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low in about…
Today’s print is a Customized Coin Trap to hold an Estonian Kroon in the blue, black and white colors of the Estonian flag, for my father, who was born in Estonia.…