Yesterday we printed the Cute Octopus Says Hello model from Thingiverse as a first job for the MakerBot Replicator Mini. For that first print, we did everything the easy way; but…
This is the second in a series of posts about getting started with 3D printing, and the printer we’ll be using along this journey is the MakerBot Replicator Mini. If…
Today my 9-year-old assistant Calvin will be setting up a Replicator Mini. This is the start of a series of posts on how to get started with a 3D printer,…
This blog is officially on hiatus until after we finish moving to Brooklyn. Stay tuned for the end of next week when we’ll post the exciting news from this week…
We are at Day 300 in our year-long print-a-day project, thank goodness. In celebration, today’s print is a HUGE LEVEL 4 MENGER SPONGE, built out of 400 tiny Level 2…
Today we are finally at the end of the 15-knot series of knot conformations that we started on Day 266. This one is a tour-de-force, made by printing out separate…
Still trying to pack up 14 years of house and move it to a Brooklyn apartment, and that is taking pretty much all my time these days. Since I seem…
Today we reprinted a giant red model of the Borromean rings from our Borromean Rings Collection on Thingiverse that we made on Day 178, to replace the giant blue model…
The penultimate knot in our series is the knot 7_6, in both standard conformation and the spiral S(5,2,(1,1,-1,1)) conformation from Day 234. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:82547 Settings: Makerbot Replicator 2 on .3mm/low with…
Just three knots left in the conformation series that we started on Day 266! Today we have the knot 7_5 in a tangle conformation, where you can clearly see the…
