We printed ZortraX’s Zortrax Buckle from Thingiverse for the sole purpose of hearing that satisfying *snap* that these types of buckles make. Can the snap be 3D-printed? Yes it can!…
Today we printed ATDT8675309’s Cube Puzzle on Thingiverse, which consists of eighteen rods that assemble into a nice regular structure. Except that we failed at the assembly part! Maybe we’re all thumbs,…
A few days ago we printed richgain’s Printable Interlocking Puzzle #1, and today our print is his Printable Interlocking Puzzle #2. For me this was actually a pretty difficult puzzle…
Trading sine and cosine turns yesterday’s POW bracelet into this POP: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:426255 Settings: MakerBot Replicator 2 on .3mm/low. Technical notes, math flavor: Yesterday’s POW bracelet was based on this…
Today we kick the math up a notch and use a combination of two trigonometric functions to define a bracelet curve. POW! Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:426034 Settings: MakerBot Replicator 2 with .3mm/low…
This time we’ve fixed the frequency at 72, the amplitude at 2mm, and left the diameter, height, and slant variable to make a RIB bracelet. This bracelet is not stretchy…
Continuing the bracelet series from Day 320 and Day 322, today we printed a new customizable sun-shaped variation. The bracelet is a little bit stretchy but not as much as emmett’s classic…
Today’s post is contributed by Austin Day, aka AuntDaisy on Thingiverse, from Aunt Daisy Scientific Ltd., UK. AuntDaisy is the designer of the Trilobite articulatum model that we printed on Day…
Guess what, I started a Gyro project. As usual I’m starting with a big pile of fails. My goal is to make a reliable gyro model in Tinkercad to use…
Today we printed a rather upsetting shape called the Szilassi polyhedron, a model by richgain on Thingiverse. (Day two of our two-day richgain series!) The Szilassi polyhedron has seven hexagonal…
