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Day 287 – Grocery bag holders

Day 287 – Grocery bag holders 150 150 mathgrrl

In preparation for walking groceries home from the shop in the big city, today we printed three of ivanseidel’s Bag Holder model on Thingiverse (one for each of us in the…

Day 284 – Friday Fail: Using failure as a design element, or Psychoalphadicsobetabioaquadoloop

Day 284 – Friday Fail: Using failure as a design element, or Psychoalphadicsobetabioaquadoloop 150 150 mathgrrl

Today we printed peetersm’s Customizable DrooLoop Flowers on Thingiverse. The one on the left has the “windswept” look that he describes in his fan control video, caused by the printer fan blowing…

Day 283 – Everything will be forever centered around Pokemon

Day 283 – Everything will be forever centered around Pokemon 150 150 mathgrrl

One last print for C’s Pokemon addiction: jessed’s Pokemon Deck Box on Thingiverse. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:81427 Settings: MakerBot Replicator 2 with .3mm/low and a raft, on blue painter’s tape on a…

Day 282 – Must print all the Pokemon

Day 282 – Must print all the Pokemon 150 150 mathgrrl

Can you print just two Pokemon models for a 9-year-old? No. Two is not enough. You must print many, many Pokemon and then also print a full set for a…

Day 281 – Low-Poly Charmander and Bulbasaur

Day 281 – Low-Poly Charmander and Bulbasaur 150 150 mathgrrl

Pokemon fever has recently gripped my son’s group of friends and now everything is about Pokemon cards more cards gotta get the best cards. As a surprise I printed FLOWALISTIK’s…

Day 280 – USAMO champion prints

Day 280 – USAMO champion prints 150 150 mathgrrl

Today I had the pleasure of meeting the 2014 USA Mathematical Olympiad champions at their awards celebration at the headquarters of the Mathematical Association of America in DC. We kicked off the…

Day 279 – Pre-USAMO prints

Day 279 – Pre-USAMO prints 150 150 mathgrrl

Today we are firing up our travel Afinia H-Series to get ready for tomorrow’s 3D-printing workshop at the USA Math Olympiad award ceremony at the MAA Headquarters in Washington DC. The twelve student…

Day 278 – Silver pentagonal hexacontahedron bracelet

Day 278 – Silver pentagonal hexacontahedron bracelet 150 150 mathgrrl

Back on Day 218 we printed a bracelet built by extracting the center rings of a Pentagonal Hexacontahedron in TopMod. This week we finally received the stainless steel version we ordered…

Day 277 – Friday Fail: Diameter-is-not-radius edition, with Customizable Power Hair Clips!

Day 277 – Friday Fail: Diameter-is-not-radius edition, with Customizable Power Hair Clips! 150 150 mathgrrl

Say it with me now: If you measure across a cylinder with calipers, you get the diameter. The DI-AM-E-TER. Not the radius. Just saying, giant-model-on-the-right: As you can see, today…

Day 275 – Mosaic conformation of 6_1

Day 275 – Mosaic conformation of 6_1 640 480 mathgrrl

Today’s knot print is a mosaic projection of 6_1: Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/make:80243 Settings: Printed on a Replicator 2 with .3mm/low and normal support settings. Technical notes, math flavor: This knot was…

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