3D Printing

Day 80 – Hinged Tetrahedron

Day 80 – Hinged Tetrahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

Over the next several posts here I’ll put up pictures and files of the objects in the set of polyhedral models I made for the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge.…

Day 79 – Cat treat D20

Day 79 – Cat treat D20 640 480 mathgrrl

For our cats to bat around and get treats out of, a D20 Cat treat toy by hroncok on Thingiverse. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:53523 Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low.   —————— As an Amazon…

Day 78 – Creeper party

Day 78 – Creeper party 640 480 mathgrrl

The rest of the Minecraft party favors… Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:53522 Settings: Same as yesterday except that some of these were printed on the Afinia. The Afinia ones had support that was…

Day 77 – Posable creeper

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…

Day 76 – Koch snowflakes

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.…

Day 75 – Helicopter challenge rings

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…

Day 74 – Decasphericons

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…

Day 73 – CGR Pontoon boat, full size

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.…

Day 72 – Carabiner

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…

Day 71 – Snowflakes, part 2

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…

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