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Today we printed a lot of colorful Poly-Snaps  to give to Henry Segerman : Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low on a Replicator 2. Technical ...

Today this print-a-day project was featured on the MakerBot blog in the MakerBot Stories post Mathgrrl Makes a 3D print a Day , by Blake Esk...

I really hope my family isn't reading this blog, or they are finding out what all their Thanxmas presents are. To continue yesterday...

My family is celebrating the holidays late with Thanxmas after the new year, and more presents are in order. Today, one large Tardis and two...

What do you print for a person with minimalist tastes? I'm hoping a low-poly bear, like christophecaren's beautiful Bear model on T...

A couple of days ago on Day 120 , we printed some train trays for the excellent game Ticket to Ride . That was all well and good until the c...

Continuing from yesterday, here are the other four interesting slices of a Level 3 Menger Sponge: STL files:  http://www.geekhaus.com...

Following up on  Day 23 's Menger-sponge-slice coaster, today we print four different slices of a Level 3 Menger Sponge .  There are fou...

C's grandma gave us the game " Ticket to Ride " today, and it is great fun! The turns go by really quickly, making for a quick...

C recently finished saving up for his Nintendo DSi (see Day 18  and Day 19  from way back in September), and apparently it is necessary to h...

I always find the icosahedron the most difficult polyhedron to assemble with modular tiles. It is so close to spherical that the angles make...

Our fifth Poly-Snap example is the  Icosidodecahedron , a semi-regular polyhedron with twenty triangles and twelve pentagons. It's sort ...

A " snub polyhedron " is a model obtained by adding triangles between the faces of another polyhedron. For example the Snub Cube ...

Today we "truncate" yesterday's octahedron. Truncating basically means that we slice off the corners of the object. The resul...

Our second Poly-Snaps model is an Octahderon , with eight triangular faces. Compare with the Hinged Octahedron from Day 82 , which is beauti...

Over the next six days we'll be posting polyhedra that we assembled using our new Poly-Snaps  on Thingiverse. Our previous polyhedral mo...

I like the rounded and nicely-spaced design of 3DAndy's Pentominos on Thingiverse, but wanted to print some tetrominos instead, for ma...

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...