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Day 82 – Hinged Octahedron
Day 82 – Hinged Octahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

Working our way through the five Platonic solids that were included in my entry for the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge, today’s blog item is a hinged octahedron. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day82_octahedron.stl…
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Day 81 – Hinged Cube
Day 81 – Hinged Cube 640 480 mathgrrl

So I guess my reward for working night and day on the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge for a week is that I can now post each model separately on…
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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.…
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Day 79 – Cat treat D20
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.…

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