For the next week or two we will be modeling and printing wireframe models of various exotic polyhedra. On Day 192 we developed a method for doing this using Mathematica,…
It’s Friday! Also, this: I was trying to make a smaller version of owens’ Sierpinski tetrahedron model from Day 189, but stupidity got in the way. Specifically, I started the print…
Inspired by the many sets of polyhedral models on Thingiverse (for example pmoews’ Archimedean Solids, Johnson Polyhedra, and Catalan Solids, and pdragy’s Customizable Convex Polyhedra), today we experimented with ways to…
Today we made something very simple: a small, thin rounded tube for turning a scrap of filament into a simple bracelet. Despite how simple this is, it took over a…
In bulk printing mode again. Over the past few days we have printed 100 of the Hinged Triangle-Square models from Day 189, for a giveaway at an upcoming conference. Many…
Today an amazing thing happened. It became possible to print a Sierpinski tetrahedron without internal supports on a desktop filament-based 3D printer. Not a fancy laser sintering powder printer that…
Today we printed the famous hinged dissection called the Haberdasher’s Puzzle from Henry Dudeney, who found a way to cut an equilateral triangle into four pieces that reassemble into a square.…
Thank you so much, Hercemer, for making a 41 Piece Spirograph collection available on Thingiverse! Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:68162 Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low on a Replicator 2, but my build platform is still a…
One thing I love about 3D printing is that it teaches you how to deal with failure. Lots and lots of failure. Every design I make ends with a pretty…
Easy mashup time: Today we printed SimplusDesign’s Wishbone Cookie Cutter Set on Thingiverse and Eckerput’s Rolling Pin Spacer on Thingiverse so we can make some cookies! Also, a bonus: The rolling pin…