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This week we’re attempting to combine three of our previous designs into one: Print-in-Place Fidget Cube (for the hinges) Poly-Snaps: Tiles for Building Polyhedra (for the polygon code and homogeneous snaps) …

Here’s one use for yesterday’s hinge – some stand-up hinged initials for young C: Of course, if your initials aren’t CGR then this model doesn’t help you very much. So…

In preparation for a new hinge-related project, today we redesigned our conical hinge maker. Technical notes, clearance flavor: We made this hinge in OpenSCAD and tomorrow we’ll have a customizable…

Today we printed another scanned object from the Art Institute of Chicago, a Ganesha statue on MyMinFactory made by coskucan. According to the model description and trusty Wikipedia, Ganesha is known as…

Today we printed tomburtonwood’s very descriptively-titled Buddha Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra), Chola period, c. 12th century, Art Institute of Chicago. Power-designer Tom Burtonwood (@tburtonwood on Twitter) is the Artist-in-Residence at the Art…

Today we printed toddsplod67’s Minecraft spider from Thingiverse, for two reasons. First, Minecraft. Second, this 3D model is part of a tutorial for the 3D-modelling software Ringtail. There are so,…

Today we gave a 3D-printing workshop at MoMath Summer Camp. Everyone got to make and print their own math gyro in Tinkercad. Here’s what the students made: Tinkercad link: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/1RUJSJvRboQ-math-gyro-maker Thingiverse…

We recently got a scan of Calvin’s head at the 3D Photo Booth in the MakerBot Retail Store on Mulberry Street in NYC. About 18 months ago we got a…

Here’s why you work so hard (see yesterday’s post) to get a reliable print at 50% size: Because you need a lot of them! Young C has been spending a…

Today’s print is FLOWALISTIK’s nicely stylized Low-Poly Pikachu model from Thingiverse. The design of this model is great, and just like the ones we printed on Day 282, FLOWALISTIC made very nice choices…