I think the first thing that needs saying here is that a year is a very long time. There are a lot of days in a year. After about 60…
TWO DAYS LEFT. Just today and tomorrow, and we’re done with our print-and-blog-about-one-thing-every-day-for-an-entire-freakin-year project! As our final big project this year, we’ve put together one model for making hinged nets…
THREE DAYS LEFT. Our final hinge/snap net is for the remaining Platonic solid, the lovely Icosahedron: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:440950 Settings: Printed on a MakerBot Replicator 2 with no raft and no…
FOUR DAYS LEFT. Today we printed our fourth Platonic solid hinge/snap model, of a dodecahedron. This is the same shape we printed back on Day 83 as part of our old…
FIVE DAYS LEFT. Today we printed a redesign of AuntDaisy’s Geo Hart 72 Pencil Holder from Thingiverse. Instead of scaling that model we made two simple new models in Tinkercad. Each…
SIX DAYS LEFT. The TRI bracelet (Day 320) is back from Shapeways! It’s delicate but very beautiful and came out perfectly. You can bend it easily in your hand and it…
Today we modified the code of the hinge/snap Tetrahedron net from Day 353 to make an Octahedral net. Here are two copies, one unfolded and one folded: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:440141 Settings: Printed on…
I can’t believe it took me this long to get around to printing an iPhone stand. Phone cases and stands are the first thing that most of my students think…
Today we had a visit from Rebecca Field, JMU mathematics professor, co-author, long-time friend, and fellow member of the Female mathematicians who have been known to have teal hair list. She is…
Today we continue Fred Hohman‘s guest post from Day 355, in which he will print the knot fibrations he constructed yesterday… Now that I have code that can generate trefoil…