Does it count as a print-a-day print if something I designed and sent to Shapeways was delivered today? I think it does, at least the first time it happens! Our…
Still underwater with the first week of school, so today we’re printing emmett’s great Folding Cube model from Thingiverse. The eight pieces print separately and then snap together with conical hinges to…
So the spring semester started yesterday, and I’m already fully underwater with one calculus classes, three 3D-printing classes, and a lot of trips to plan. So today we print something…
My son loves pi. The number. He and a friend at school have actual arguments about who has memorized and/or written down the most digits of pi. The other day…
Henry Segerman is well-known for the intricate mathematical modeling that he designs and prints at his Shapeways shop. So to put our Replicator 2 to the test, today we printed…
This semester a MakerBot Replicator 2 and MakerBot Digitizer are joining the Afinias we have in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom, so we will need a recycle/fail bin for PLA as…
More TopMod! Today we made a knot: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day137_cloverknot.stl Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:224032 Settings: MakerWare .15mm/high with raft and supports, in 6 hours and 23 minutes. I didn’t use the custom knot…
Today we took yesterday’s TopMod model and created crusts along certain face loops to get a more open, fancy, swirly design: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day136_sixhandlesfancy.stl Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:223250 Settings: We used the same custom…
Today’s model is a sculpture made with the excellent and innovative mesh-wrangling software TopMod. Since my way-back math roots are in topology, TopMod is like coming home; everything about it…
Today’s print is a low-poly version of BorisBelocon’s Gollum on Thingiverse. We printed this for Tim Chartier of Davidson College, who created the low-poly version of BorisBelocon’s model by using…
