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MakerHome Day 343 – Customizable Cone Hinge
MakerHome Day 343 – Customizable Cone Hinge 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we made a cone hinge module that can be used inside other projects: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:436737 Settings: Optimized for a MakerBot Replicator 2 with default .3mm/low settings, with raft but…
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Day 313 – Designing a Penny Trap with Tinkercad
Day 313 – Designing a Penny Trap with Tinkercad 640 480 mathgrrl

On Day 307 we printed a Penny Trap. Printing the model is easy, but how do you make it in the first place? That is, how do you make a 3D design file…
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Day 269 – Minimal stick conformation of 4_1
Day 269 – Minimal stick conformation of 4_1 640 480 mathgrrl

The figure-eight knot 4_1 is the only four-crossing knot, and it is usually drawn like the white knot on the left in the figure below. It is also the only…
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Day 267 – Crazy conformation of 0_1
Day 267 – Crazy conformation of 0_1 640 480 mathgrrl

Today we’ll start going through the knot conformations in the series we introduced yesterday. Before we begin, let’s go over some of the basic notation and ideas of knot theory.…
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Day 257 – Saturday Guest: Scott Sherman’s Isohedra
Day 257 – Saturday Guest: Scott Sherman’s Isohedra 594 516 mathgrrl

Today’s post is contributed by Scott Sherman, otherwise known as loki3 on Shapeways, where he has a wide variety of exotic dice models, including a new kind of d4 and even…
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Day 234 – Sprial Knot S(5,2,(1,1,-1,1))
Day 234 – Sprial Knot S(5,2,(1,1,-1,1)) 640 480 mathgrrl

This semester five students and I have been 3D-printing the knots through 7 crossings in both standard and special configurations, as part of our MATH 297 – Knot Theory Research and…
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Day 229 – Saturday Guest: kitwallace and Programming Polyhedra
Day 229 – Saturday Guest: kitwallace and Programming Polyhedra 500 347 mathgrrl

Today’s post is contributed by Chris Wallace, also known as kitwallace on Thingiverse, and author of The Wallace Line. He is the creator of the Rolling Knot, Mobius Strip, and…
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Day 212 – Stylized Catalan Wireframes and full how-to-do-it
Day 212 – Stylized Catalan Wireframes and full how-to-do-it 640 480 mathgrrl

Our Catalan Wireframe Polyhedra series is finally complete! Here is the whole happy family of thirteen: Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low with support-reducing custom slicing profile, on a Replicator 2. We printed…
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Day 150 – Trefoil torus knots
Day 150 – Trefoil torus knots 640 480 mathgrrl

For the next four days we’ll be posting various mathematically interesting models of the trefoil knot. Mathematicians consider two knotted forms to be equivalent if one can be transformed into the other…

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