Here’s my favorite fail from this week: a botched print of three Fidget Cubes. It’s partially my favorite because I happened to have been sitting right next to the machine when…
Today I rest, and print atartanian’s Han Solo Lithopane design from Thingiverse, based on MakerBot’s Customizable Lithopane design from last year. Thank you for making this possible, internet! Now this is pretty cool, but…
Our Catalan Wireframe Polyhedra series is finally complete! Here is the whole happy family of thirteen: Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low with support-reducing custom slicing profile, on a Replicator 2. We printed…
Or the Professor and Mary Ann, as they prefer to be called. Our last two Catalan solids are the Triakis Tetrahedron (dual of the Truncated Tetrahedron and Kleetope of the…
We’re almost at the end of the Catalan series! Today we printed our eleventh, the Rhombic Dodecahedron, dual of the Cuboctahedron (which we also constructed with printed snap-tiles on Day 87). Thingiverse…
Most of our prints for this blog are made on a MakerBot Replicator 2, since that’s what we usually have at the house. But the other day one of the…
I love to root for the underdog: David vs Goliath, Buffy vs the entire Hellmouth, the Baudelaire twins against Count Olaf and his evil theatre troupe. Today the role of the underdog…
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
At this year’s Gathering for Gardner Conference (G4G11) I gave a short talk about 3D printing sliced Menger sponges. So that people could look at the sliced models and guess…
Today is our largest Catalan print so far, with a diameter of over 120 millimeters – about the size of a very large grapefruit. One cool thing about this model is…
