3D Printing

Day 255 – Sofabed and office chairs

Day 255 – Sofabed and office chairs 640 480 mathgrrl

Here’s a secret: I might be a little bit obsessive. With the 3D printing. Of all the tiny furniture. I’m just saying, I think this might not be normal. But…

Day 253 – Dining chairs and kitchen stool

Day 253 – Dining chairs and kitchen stool 640 480 mathgrrl

Continuing our 1:50 scale miniature furniture collection, today we added dining room chairs and four-legged stools.  The picture below shows what the dining area will look like in our new…

Day 252 – Large Rhombic Tricontahedron

Day 252 – Large Rhombic Tricontahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we printed a large copy of a Rhombic Tricontahedron (Day 203) to give to a doctor friend who is leading the pack of those trying to figure out a…

Day 251: Extended Billy bookcases

Day 251: Extended Billy bookcases 640 480 mathgrrl

Continuing from yesterday, today we printed some IKEA Billy bookcases with height extenders. The height extenders are sold separately and come in both wide and thin versions. I know you can…

Day 250: Billy bookcases

Day 250: Billy bookcases 640 480 mathgrrl

Most of our furniture consists of bookcases, and our go-to bookcases are from IKEA’s Billy bookcase series. The Billys currently come in short and tall flavors, both of which can be…

Day 249: Friday Fail – From OpenSCAD crashes to Beefy win!

Day 249: Friday Fail – From OpenSCAD crashes to Beefy win! 640 480 mathgrrl

Sometimes things just don’t work and I don’t know why. For example, the new version of OpenSCAD is great but I couldn’t get it to run on my old Mac laptop;…

Day 248: Thursday refactor – Sofa redesign

Day 248: Thursday refactor – Sofa redesign 640 480 mathgrrl

On Day 230 we printed some tiny sofas to try to figure out what will fit in our Brooklyn apartment this summer. (The answer: not much!)  In the comments, kitwallace…

Day 247 – Geek glasses fix!

Day 247 – Geek glasses fix! 1024 767 mathgrrl

Today we printed a modern 3D-printed version of the classic “taped glasses” fix. A little plastic piece fell off C’s glasses and got lost, and without it the arm of…

Day 246 – An eye for an eye

Day 246 – An eye for an eye 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we were supposed to get a tooth pulled out (!) so we printed something very simple and relaxing: stevemedwin’s Space Family Puzzle on Thingiverse. By “we” I mean “I” and…

Day 245 – Large Buckyball

Day 245 – Large Buckyball 640 480 mathgrrl

We liked yesterday’s little Buckyball so much that today we printed pmoews’ Large Buckyball from Thingiverse. Both models are icosahedral; you can see the icosahedron shape if you look at…

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