3D Printing

MakerHome Day 47 – Hanging pencil cup

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Just a small pencil cup for hanging over the side of a box. Yes, this is another thing for the JMU 3-SPACE classroom, which opens on Monday! After that I…

MakerHome Day 46 – Salt bowl remake

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I love the look of Kulitorum’s beautifully simple Salt Bowl on Thingiverse, but I couldn’t get it to slice with MakerWare so I remade it in Tinkercad from a truncated sphere…

MakerHome Day 45 – Tree frog sample model

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Various levels of MorenaP’s nice Treefrog model on Thingiverse: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:49943 Settings: Afinia 1.5mm “Fine”.  This models is particularly nice because it is built to not need any supports at all other…

MakerHome Day 44 – Triangular polyhedra nets

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Today we used Tinkercad to design 2D nets that fold up to regular 3D polyhedra, specifically the tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron which all have triangular faces. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day44_triangularnets.stl Tinkercad…

MakerHome Day 43 – CGR Catan trophy

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And for the winner of Catan, a trophy! The current winner in the house gets to display this tiny trophy on their shelf. This was made by our 8-year-old son…

MakerHome Day 42 – Catan numbers

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We play Catan a lot at the dinner table and everything gets a little rough around the edges. Our number disks in particular looked a little shabby so we made…

MakerHome Day 41 – Catan card holder

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Today, something long-awaited in our house: A card holder for Settlers of Catan! The design is an extension of Zarquon’s Game Card Holder, which is itself a derivation of condac’s Game Card Holder on…

MakerHome Day 40 – Cheese doorstop

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Yet another thing for the JMU 3-SPACE classroom: some cheese to keep the door open. Design from terenceang’s Cheeze Door-Stop remix of mpv4gb’s Swiss Cheese Doorstop on Thingiverse. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:49512 Settings:…

MakerHome Day 39 – CGR boat

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Our son designed today’s print in Tinkercad.  It is a test design for a 3D-printed boat for use in flooding emergencies.  This was his third design, optimized for rough waters…

MakerHome Day 38 – 3-SPACE Afinia fan cover

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With the start of classes in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom just a week or so away, today’s print is an upgrade of Day 24‘s Afinia fan grate: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day38_3spacefan.stl…

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