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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Today is my favorite from the 3D-Printed Conformations of Knots through 7 Crossings series that my Math 297 students developed last semester in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom. It’s a petal knot…

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…