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Day 8 – LEGO marble run (chapter 2)

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Following up from Day 4 we have some new-and-improved LEGO marble run pieces: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day8_legomarble.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/31fZLaKI5PM-day-8-lego-marble-run-chapter-2 Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:145842 Settings: MakerWare “low” with no raft and custom supports as…

Day 7 – Holey coin-op bottle opener

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Today something very simple:  a minor remix of hoeken’s lovely minimalist Coin-op Bottle Opener on Thingiverse, with holes added for style and so you can see the penny better. STL file:…

Day 6 – Hinged butterfly

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Inspired by the hinge in someandy’s Embossing Stamp, today we make a hinged butterfly. The image came from a screenshot of butterfly on wugange.com and was converted to .svg format by online-convert.com and…

Day 5 – Fractal LED

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Most of today’s design time was spent tweaking the LEGO marble run piece from yesterday, but that’s not done yet so here we will do an easy mashup of two…

Day 4 – LEGO marble run (chapter 1)

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Today our 8-year-old jumped into the print-a-day game with a sample piece for a marble run to be built on top of LEGO pieces. Using Tinkercad he combined a short piece of…

Day 3 – Pickaxe hangers

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Today we printed hangers for our Minecraft foam pickaxe and sword. Each of these nails into the wall in two places and has a small post that sticks out. By…

Day 2 – Voronoi box

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One of the new Community Shape Scripts on Tinkercad is a very nice Voronoi diagram maker by Brandon Cole (including the code!). As a sort of random test of what…

Day 1 – Coin traps

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For the first day, a simple coin trap for nickels or quarters which we designed in Tinkercad. STL file: http://geekhaus.com/makerhome/day1_cointrap.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/bJOfGp1qKt7-day-1-coin-trap Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:142078 Settings: We printed these on the MakerWare…

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