3D Printing
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Day 244 – Buckyball with stand
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Today’s print is the small Buckyball model from pmoews’ Buckyball Easter Egg gift set on Thingiverse. Like owens’ Menger Sponge with External Support model (see Day 157), this Buckyball prints with…
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Day 243 – Base for shell models
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Last week I used the shell model from Day 237 in class and it was so great to get to that point at the board where my picture is all…
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Day 242 – Time Turner
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Last Friday we talked about time and failing. Today we have a more positive thing to say about time, and we printed khakerry’s Time Turner model from Thingiverse. (What I wouldn’t…
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Day 241 – Six-piece bar puzzle
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The other day we picked apart the OpenSCAD code for althepal’s six-piece ball puzzle (Day 239), so today we made a simple remix, removing the line of code for the…
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Day 240 – W clip
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Today we printed something useful: thomasforsyth’s Clip peg – general purpose model from Thingiverse. It’s not springy and it doesn’t open far, but it does clip very securely. It’s going to…
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Day 239 – Six-piece ball puzzle
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Today we printed althepal’s Six-piece soccer ball puzzle from Thingiverse. I have a lot of puzzles like these in my office at work, and people often take them apart and…
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Day 238 – Shellmaker 2
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More shells! This time we printed a model to match an example from the Khan Academy, so that you can go there and learn how to set up the definite integral…
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Day 237 – Shellmaker
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Tomorrow in calculus we’ll be discussing how to approximate volumes of solids of revolution using “shells”. This is traditionally a very difficult concept for students to visualize, so having a…
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Day 236 – Conference swag x 8
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Today, eight models we’ve seen before, optimized for printing small and fast. We’ll be printing one of these tiny models for each person that comes to the Fall Meeting of…
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Day 235 – Friday Fail: Time Edition
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There is never enough time. Over the past few weeks I have failed miserably at time, specifically at keeping up with this blog on a daily basis. I’ve been “a…

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