3D Printing

Day 265 – Cairo and prismatic pentagons

Day 265 – Cairo and prismatic pentagons 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we fix our fail from Friday (Day 263), and print Cairo pentagons and prismatic pentagons from data kindly provided by Frank Morgan’s student Maggie Miller at Williams College. I have…

Day 264: Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film

Day 264: Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Film 640 480 mathgrrl

To finish the furniture series we have one final print: some of the pieces that we couldn’t fit into our apartment and that will be traveling to North Carolina to…

Day 263: Friday Fail: Off-by-one edition

Day 263: Friday Fail: Off-by-one edition 640 480 mathgrrl

Being off by one is probably the simplest, most common coding mistake you can make, but it got me this week while I was trying to make tessellating Cairo pentagon…

Day 262 – Customizable Furniture Minis

Day 262 – Customizable Furniture Minis 640 480 mathgrrl

Today our Customizable Furniture Minis set is finally done and posted to Thingiverse! I guess it’s time to actually start packing now… Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:332507 Settings: All models printed on a…

Day 261 – Clearance stars

Day 261 – Clearance stars 640 480 mathgrrl

Sometimes with scaled floor plans it is difficult to tell if your setup is crowded or not. To test out the openness of our layout we printed two “clearance stars”…

Day 260 – Bed frame and floor plan

Day 260 – Bed frame and floor plan 640 480 mathgrrl

Today’s print is very simple: just a snap-around bed frame to model the wooden frame around our king-size bed. As you can see in the picture, we’ve chosen the smallest…

Day 259 – Workshop desk and kid-size bureau

Day 259 – Workshop desk and kid-size bureau 640 480 mathgrrl

This will be our last week of printing tiny furniture; after a few more days we’ll have a full set and will post everything to the Thingiverse Customizer so that…

Day 258 – Sunday gift: Knots for Mom

Day 258 – Sunday gift: Knots for Mom 640 480 mathgrrl

It’s Mother’s Day so today I am printing something for my Mom. When I asked her what she would like me to print for her, she suggested something that she…

Day 257 – Saturday Guest: Scott Sherman’s Isohedra

Day 257 – Saturday Guest: Scott Sherman’s Isohedra 594 516 mathgrrl

Today’s post is contributed by Scott Sherman, otherwise known as loki3 on Shapeways, where he has a wide variety of exotic dice models, including a new kind of d4 and even…

Day 256 – Friday Fail: Fixed-by-Tinkercad edition

Day 256 – Friday Fail: Fixed-by-Tinkercad edition 1024 616 mathgrrl

Today we look at two objects that I had trouble printing on a Replicator 2 without doing some fixes. Usually when a model won’t slice with MakerWare, I use MeshLab…

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