We didn’t have time to make this one earlier, so here it is now. A truncated icosahedron (Buckyball/soccerball/football depending on who you are). I made the snaps really tight so…
And finally, the last of the set of models from my entry to the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge on Thingiverse. This model shows that we can use the individual snap tiles to…
Today, the simplest Archimedian solid using triangles and pentagons, the icosidodecahedron: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day89_icosidodecahedron.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/9rjPDpql1vO-tiles-for-icosidodecahedron Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:185859 Settings: The tiles are optimized to work with the low/.3mm MakerWare setting…
Yesterday’s model was the simplest Archimedian solid with square and triangle faces. Today we have the simplest semi-regular polyhedron with square and hexagon faces, the truncated octahedron: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day88_truncatedoctahedron.stl Tinkercad…
To get more flexibility constructing polyhedra we can use individual snap tiles instead of pre-arranged hinged nets. This also allows us to make nice two-color semi-regular polyhedra, such as this…
The last of the polyhedral nets so far is for a rectangular rhombohedron: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day86_rhombohedron.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/4QmyBzqKqlL-hinged-rhombohedron Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:185859 Settings: Low/.3mm MakerWare settings on a Replicator 2 in one hour…
Of course there are many polyhedra that aren’t one of the five Platonic solids that we just posted about. For example, prisms. Here is a hexagonal prism made out of…
The final Platonic solid in the set of models we entered into the MakerBot Academy Math Manipulatives Challenge was the icosahedron. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day84_icosahedron.stl Tinkercad link: https://tinkercad.com/things/iBwf0NJMgfY-hinged-icosahedron Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:185859 Settings: MakerWare…
Of all the hinged polyhedral nets we made for the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge, the dodecahedron came out the best. It just hit the sweet spot of angle and…
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…
