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For the Thingiverse/Studio 360 Ornament Challenge  we remixed the snowflakes from Day 70 and Day 71  into thicker, hangable snowflake ornam...

Today's print is one of the drop-down choices from the  Customized Coin Trap model that we posted about yesterday: a trap for a British...

Finally I have gotten around to learning how to use OpenSCAD, and thus also the Thingiverse Customizer. Our first customizable design: traps...

Yesterday's bracelet was so great that we decided to print another one today, again from Nervous System's Kinematics@home site. ...

The design studio  Nervous System has put up a great free morphing/algorithmic/supercool bracelet-making site at Kinematics@home  where you...

For the holidays, here are some toothpicks that you can use to label foods according to if they contain meat (bacon!), are suitable for vege...

Great, now we're too terrified to take this out of the printer. This beautiful and horrifying model is fantasygraph's Dr. Who Weepin...

We didn't have time to make this one earlier, so here it is now. A truncated icosahedron (Buckyball/soccerball/football depending on who...

And finally, the last of the set of models from my entry to the  Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge  on Thingiverse. This model sh...

Today, the simplest Archimedian solid using triangles and pentagons, the icosidodecahedron: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhom...

Yesterday's model was the simplest Archimedian solid  with square and triangle faces. Today we have the simplest semi-regular polyhedron...

To get more flexibility constructing polyhedra we can use individual snap tiles instead of pre-arranged hinged nets. This also allows us to ...

The last of the polyhedral nets so far is for a rectangular rhombohedron: STL file:  http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day86_rhombohed...

Of course there are many polyhedra that aren't one of the five Platonic solids that we just posted about. For example, prisms. Here is a...

The final Platonic solid in the set of models we entered into the MakerBot Academy Math Manipulatives Challenge was the icosahedron. ...

Of all the hinged polyhedral nets we made for the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge , the dodecahedron came out the best. It just...

Working our way through the five Platonic solids that were included in my entry for the  Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge , toda...

So I guess my reward for working night and day on the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge for a week is that I can now post each m...

Over the next several posts here I'll put up pictures and files of the objects in the set of polyhedral models I made for the Makerbot A...

For our cats to bat around and get treats out of, a D20 Cat treat toy by hroncok on Thingiverse. Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiv...

The rest of the Minecraft party favors... Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com/make:53522 Settings: Same as yesterday except...

In need of some party favors for an upcoming Minecraft birthday party for C, today we tried out Conseils' Minecraft Creeper with Movable...

It's getting cold and I think it was supposed to snow this weekend. It didn't, so we made some more snowflakes to follow up on Day 7...

Our son recently saved up his allowance to buy a small remote-control helicopter , so today we made some rings for him to try to knock over ...

Today we printed and assembled the two types of decasphericon models from chriskpalmer's Sphericons on Thingiverse.  We used Gorilla Gl...

Our son printed his LEGO team's pontoon boat in full size today. Enough room for five minifigs, and it floats! The minifigs sit on LEGO-...

In the interest of attaching things to other things, today we printed briscoe28's s-caribiner from Thingiverse. It's interesting ho...

More snowflakes! STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day71_snowflakes2.stl Tinkercad link:  https://tinkercad.com/things/3tb6C...

Lots of tiny snowflakes for some kind of winter/holiday use.  The snowflake designs are from a vector-graphics snowflake patterns file on Z...

Today our 8-year-old son designed this boat in Tinkercad for an upcoming LEGO competition.  The picture shows the 50% scale model we printed...

I love the look of gavi's Spherical lattice on Thingiverse, but don't have a resin printer to get the beautiful print that they do....