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For the next four days we'll be posting various mathematically interesting models of the  trefoil knot . Mathematicians consider two kno...

Today we rest. And print a balloon dog : Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com/make:63096 Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low scaled...

Now that the hinges on the Fidget Cube are smaller (see yesterday's post), we can make the cube itself smaller. Let's start by goin...

After more testing we figured out how small we can make the hinges on the Fidget Cube and still have it print reliably in one piece. (The an...

Today we finished our customizable print-in-place fidget cube model. By changing just a few parameters in OpenSCAD code, we can decide wheth...

On Day 142 we printed a copy of emmett's Folding Cube  model from Thingiverse. That model works wonderfully but assembly was a little d...

The semester has begun and we are back to teaching calculus. Later this semester we will cover Volumes of Solids of Revolution with the ...

Does it count as a print-a-day print if something I designed and sent to Shapeways was delivered today?  I think it does, at least the first...

Still underwater with the first week of school, so today we're printing emmett's great  Folding Cube  model from Thingiverse. The ei...

So the spring semester started yesterday, and I'm already fully underwater with one calculus classes, three 3D-printing classes, and a l...

My son loves pi. The number. He and a friend at school have actual arguments about who has memorized and/or written down the most digits of ...

Henry Segerman is well-known for the intricate mathematical modeling that he designs and prints at his Shapeways shop .  So to put our Repl...

This semester a MakerBot Replicator 2 and MakerBot Digitizer are joining the Afinias we have in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom , so we will ne...

More  TopMod ! Today we made a knot: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day137_cloverknot.stl Thingiverse link:  http://www.t...

Today we took yesterday's  TopMod  model and created crusts along certain face loops to get a more open, fancy, swirly design: STL ...

Today's model is a sculpture made with the excellent and innovative mesh-wrangling software TopMod . Since my way-back math roots are in...

Today's print is a low-poly version of BorisBelocon's Gollum on Thingiverse.  We printed this for Tim Chartier of Davidson College,...

Today the holiday visits are over and we are back to designing. Something simple to start, and to get ahead for the next holiday: customizab...

To finish out the Thanxmas presents, today we printed some of walter's  Customizable Stretchy Bands model from Thingiverse. STL fi...

The past week of cleaning and family visits has meant a lot of reprints and Thingiverse designs, and today is no exception: we printed a bun...

Today is Thanxmas for our family! For the festivities we have a celebratory Trilobite articulatum from AuntDaisy on Thingiverse in our faux...

Today's print is a Customized Coin Trap  to hold an Estonian Kroon in the blue, black and white colors of the Estonian flag , for my fa...

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