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This is a model of the building that houses the MakerBot Headquarters in Brooklyn, with a hole in it for a couple of pens or whatnot.  The b...

Today's print is a knot with a special property: No matter how the knot sits on the table, it never touches the table in more than two p...

This design was inspired by DesignMakeTeach 's excellent post Sharpie to 3D Print in 30 Minutes  on his blog designmaketeach.com . Such ...

Minecraft is " The Last Starfighter " of 3D modeling and printing - a game that gets kids ready for the next industrial revolution...

We love  Sonic 2 on the SEGA Genesis , and we've recently been enjoying the whole series all over again with our son. Our ancient cartri...

I keep my filament on an old curtain rod over a shelf, and the rolls that are far away from the printer don't unroll correctly. This she...

Tired. Need simple. Something that just works. How about muddtt's Christmas Gift Box on Thingiverse? Thingiverse link:  http://www...

One nice entry from the Makerbot Math Manipulative Challenge  on Thingiverse was GeorgeHart's Five Screw Puzzles . Here is the tetrahedr...

Today we used Tinkercad ,  Inkscape ,  Fontspace , and the technique from Day 27  to make four cheese labels for a party tray. STL file...

Today we made two copies of AmazingSpanoMan's Customizable Fidget Ring on Thingiverse. The center ring spins around very nicely. S...

Of all the nets from Day 80 through Day 86 , I think the dodecahedra works the best. Easy to put together, easy to take apart, at least as ...

I have a small gift I have to give someone secretly at a party, so I enclosed it in this tiny hollow icosahedron. Safe to show off at the pa...

Printed the rest of the ornaments! STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day99_snowflakeornaments2.stl Tinkercad link:  https://...

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...