Sometimes I think I got into this 3D printing thing just so I would have the opportunity to say things like “customizable sock bones”. Here they are: These dogbone-like objects…
It’s Saturday and we are resting. Kids keep asking me for stretchy bracelets so today I made some from owens’ Smooth and ridged stretchlets model on Thingiverse. They came out…
We are going to leave a lot of furniture behind in the upcoming downsizing move, but there are two pieces we absolutely cannot live without: our full-size Galaga/Ms.PacMan arcade cabinet…
Gyroscope time is going to go on for a while! Today we used the Custimizer version of althepal’s Another parmeterized gimbal to make a 6-hoop version and switched filament partway through to get…
Today we printed a lot of colorful Poly-Snaps to give to Henry Segerman: Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low on a Replicator 2. Technical notes: These were printed in two configurations, some with the…
Today we “truncate” yesterday’s octahedron. Truncating basically means that we slice off the corners of the object. The result here is semi-regular, meaning that each face is one of two…
Today we printed and assembled the two types of decasphericon models from chriskpalmer’s Sphericons on Thingiverse. We used Gorilla Glue to install 3mm Neodymium Rare Earth Super Magnets in the…
