I don’t know why, but I haven’t had much luck 3D-printing gyroscopes – either from Thingiverse or that I designed myself. It really shouldn’t be that hard, but somehow the…
We are going to be printing a lot of Menger-type objects, I think. Today’s is a level 3, sliced to reveal the stars. Model again by owens on Thingiverse. Here’s…
Thank you, owens at Thingiverse! You have made the impossible possible. It was great fun walking this print around the math department today, since everyone there knows just how difficult it…
This is what happens on the first day that an 11-year-old girl and an 8-year-old girl learn how to design 3D models. The first day! I look forward to the…
At our house we have enough extra hex tiles to play a five-person Catan game, but not a fifth set of pieces. Today we printed a new full set of…
Actually, it’s 105, counting the ones that are printing in the background. We’ve been making these all week; they print fairly reliably in batches of a dozen. We need to…
The Holy Grail! Owens’ model Menger sponge with external support prints a beautiful Level 2 Menger sponge with no internal supports. The difficulty with printing a Menger sponge on a filament-deposition printer…
Today we printed some custom bracelets for my niece, who mailed us a very nice letter that included some awesome designs to start from. Her designs were so good that…
Today we printed owens’ Diagonal Cut Menger Sponge design from Thingiverse. If you sliced a Level 2 Menger sponge in half along a diagonal plane as shown in the picture,…
To break in the new MakerBot Digitizer in the JMU 3-SPACE Classroom, my student Patrick scanned and printed a beautiful African woman statue that another student gave me as a…
