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Day 98 – Snowflake Ornaments, Part 1

Day 98 – Snowflake Ornaments, Part 1 640 480 mathgrrl

For the Thingiverse/Studio 360 Ornament Challenge we remixed the snowflakes from Day 70 and Day 71 into thicker, hangable snowflake ornaments. Here is the first half: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day98_snowflakeornaments1.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/aZjXsjxhaZS-day-98-snowflake-ornaments-part-1 Thingiverse…

Day 97 – British Pound Trap

Day 97 – British Pound Trap 640 480 mathgrrl

Today’s print is one of the drop-down choices from the Customized Coin Trap model that we posted about yesterday: a trap for a British pound coin. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day97_poundtrap.stl Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:55310…

Day 96 – Customizable Coin Traps

Day 96 – Customizable Coin Traps 640 480 mathgrrl

Finally I have gotten around to learning how to use OpenSCAD, and thus also the Thingiverse Customizer. Our first customizable design: traps for coins of any size, from any country!…

Day 95 – Kinematics bracelet #2

Day 95 – Kinematics bracelet #2 640 480 mathgrrl

Yesterday’s bracelet was so great that we decided to print another one today, again from Nervous System’s Kinematics@home site. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day95_kinematicsbracelet2.stl (but go make your own instead of using…

Day 94 – Kinematics bracelet

Day 94 – Kinematics bracelet 640 480 mathgrrl

The design studio Nervous System has put up a great free morphing/algorithmic/supercool bracelet-making site at Kinematics@home where you can modify bracelet designs within certain parameters and then either download an .stl file…

Day 93 – Pig and Veg toothpicks

Day 93 – Pig and Veg toothpicks 640 480 mathgrrl

For the holidays, here are some toothpicks that you can use to label foods according to if they contain meat (bacon!), are suitable for vegetarians, or have some potential allergen…

Day 92 – Weeping Angel from Dr. Who

Day 92 – Weeping Angel from Dr. Who 640 480 mathgrrl

Great, now we’re too terrified to take this out of the printer. This beautiful and horrifying model is fantasygraph’s Dr. Who Weeping Angel on Thingiverse. We printed it in honor…

Day 91 – Truncated Icosahedron

Day 91 – Truncated Icosahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

We didn’t have time to make this one earlier, so here it is now. A truncated icosahedron (Buckyball/soccerball/football depending on who you are). I made the snaps really tight so…

Day 90 – Stellated Octahedron

Day 90 – Stellated Octahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

And finally, the last of the set of models from my entry to the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge on Thingiverse. This model shows that we can use the individual snap tiles to…

Day 89 – Icosidodecahedron

Day 89 – Icosidodecahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

Today, the simplest Archimedian solid using triangles and pentagons, the icosidodecahedron: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day89_icosidodecahedron.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/9rjPDpql1vO-tiles-for-icosidodecahedron Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:185859 Settings: The tiles are optimized to work with the low/.3mm MakerWare setting…

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