3D Printing

MakerHome Day 77 – Posable creeper

MakerHome Day 77 – Posable creeper 640 480 mathgrrl

In need of some party favors for an upcoming Minecraft birthday party for C, today we tried out Conseils’ Minecraft Creeper with Movable Head on Thingiverse. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:53338 Settings: Makerware low/.3mm…

MakerHome Day 76 – Koch snowflakes

MakerHome Day 76 – Koch snowflakes 640 480 mathgrrl

It’s getting cold and I think it was supposed to snow this weekend. It didn’t, so we made some more snowflakes to follow up on Day 70 and Day 71.…

MakerHome Day 75 – Helicopter challenge rings

MakerHome Day 75 – Helicopter challenge rings 640 480 mathgrrl

Our son recently saved up his allowance to buy a small remote-control helicopter, so today we made some rings for him to try to knock over and pick up with…

MakerHome Day 74 – Decasphericons

MakerHome Day 74 – Decasphericons 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we printed and assembled the two types of decasphericon models from chriskpalmer’s Sphericons on Thingiverse.  We used Gorilla Glue to install 3mm Neodymium Rare Earth Super Magnets in the…

MakerHome Day 73 – CGR Pontoon boat, full size

MakerHome Day 73 – CGR Pontoon boat, full size 640 480 mathgrrl

Our son printed his LEGO team’s pontoon boat in full size today. Enough room for five minifigs, and it floats! The minifigs sit on LEGO-style bumps to stay in place.…

MakerHome Day 72 – Carabiner

MakerHome Day 72 – Carabiner 640 480 mathgrrl

In the interest of attaching things to other things, today we printed briscoe28’s s-caribiner from Thingiverse. It’s interesting how the flexible bit works; this is a very nice design, which I guess…

MakerHome Day 71 – Snowflakes, part 2

MakerHome Day 71 – Snowflakes, part 2 640 480 mathgrrl

More snowflakes! STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day71_snowflakes2.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/3tb6CmIKKhg-day-71-snowflakes-part-2 Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:178379 Settings: MakerWare low/.3mm to get these in one layer.   —————— As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, so…

MakerHome Day 70 – Snowflakes, part 1

MakerHome Day 70 – Snowflakes, part 1 640 480 mathgrrl

Lots of tiny snowflakes for some kind of winter/holiday use.  The snowflake designs are from a vector-graphics snowflake patterns file on Zezu. In future days we will make these larger…

MakerHome Day 69 – CGR Pontoon boat

MakerHome Day 69 – CGR Pontoon boat 640 480 mathgrrl

Today our 8-year-old son designed this boat in Tinkercad for an upcoming LEGO competition.  The picture shows the 50% scale model we printed today so full-size minifigs don’t fit, but…

MakerHome Day 68 – Glow sphere #1

MakerHome Day 68 – Glow sphere #1 640 480 mathgrrl

I love the look of gavi’s Spherical lattice on Thingiverse, but don’t have a resin printer to get the beautiful print that they do.  However, their low-res “visualization only” file…

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