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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Day 180 - Diamond Borromean

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Same as Day 179 but with diamonds instead of ellipses! This version of the Borromean rings has more limited mobility but that restricted mo...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Day 179 - Tricolor Borromean rings

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Yesterday  we mentioned that you could print a three-color model of the Borromean rings by printing the rings separately and placing the fir...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Day 178 - Borromean rings

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When I give talks about 3D printing and knot theory, I often tell the story of my student Olivia who created and printed a 3D model of the B...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Day 177 - Valentine tags

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C's classroom Valentine's celebration was cancelled last week due to snow, and rescheduled for today. Stranded at home for a couple ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Day 176 - Geologhedra samples

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Today we printed a small handful of polyhedra that represent crystal mineral models for geologist Amy Thompson at Bridgewater College . We u...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Day 175 - Metro wallet

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I don't have a NYC Metro Card, but I hope to in the future. When I do, dadhoc's Slim Wallet with Metro Card Sliding Compartment  on ...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Day 174 - MAA icosahedron

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In a couple of days I'll be speaking at the Carriage House , the headquarters of the Mathematical Association of America . Since the MAA...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Day 173 - LEGO ring

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Thank you, tart2000, for making this lovely LEGO Ring on Thingiverse. My son had a great time adding the bling! Thingiverse link:  htt...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Day 172 - Mobius Heart

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Happy Valentine's Day!  In celebration, today we made a Möbius strip in the shape of a heart. The OpenSCAD code was kindly provided by k...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Day 171 - Sliced Menger 3: Triangles

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The Menger slices from Day 169 and Day 170 each divided the cube into two identical pieces. Today we make a a slice parallel to the Starma...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Day 170 - Sliced Menger 2: Rhomboidal

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Lots of people know what the inside of a sliced Menger cube looks like, at least the way we sliced it yesterday . But there are infinitely m...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Day 169 - Sliced Menger 1: Starmaker

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Today we made a white stand and slice illustrator to accompany the diagonally sliced Level 2 Menger sponge we printed on  Day 155 .  Don...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Day 168 - Mobius Trefoil

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Using the same OpenSCAD code of kitwallace's from yesterday , today we made a Mobius-like solid whose cross-sections are triangles and w...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Day 167 - Umbilic torus

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Today we did not print an umbilic torus .  But we did print a triangular-cross-section mobius strip, which is very close. In yesterday's...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Day 166 - Mobius

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Today I spoke with jamesford007 , a student at SUNY Geneseo who is spearheading efforts there to bring 3D printing into the study of mathema...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Day 165 - One-piece catapult

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A student in my GSCI 104: 3D Printing class built a catapult that prints in one piece! Inspired by zheng's multi-piece  Seej Catapult  ...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Day 164 - Two-color gyroscope

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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...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Day 163 - Working gyroscope!

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I don't know why, but I haven't had much luck 3D-printing gyroscopes - either from Thingiverse or that I designed myself. It really ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Day 162 - Sliced level 3 Menger cube

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We are going to be printing a lot of Menger-type objects, I think. Today's is a level 3, sliced to reveal the stars. Model again by owen...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Day 161 - Level 3 Menger cube on a filament printer!

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Thank you, owens  at Thingiverse!  You have made the impossible possible.  It was great fun walking this print around the math department to...
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Day 160 - Stella prints!

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This is what happens on the first day that an 11-year-old girl and an 8-year-old girl learn how to design 3D models. The first day! I look f...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Day 159 - Catan expander

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At our house we have enough extra hex tiles to play a five-person Catan game, but not a fifth set of pieces. Today we printed a new full set...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Day 158 - One hundred fidget cubes

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Actually, it's 105, counting the ones that are printing in the background. We've been making these all week; they print fairly relia...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Day 157 - One-piece Menger cube without internal supports

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The Holy Grail!  Owens' model  Menger sponge with external support  prints a beautiful Level 2 Menger sponge with no internal supports. ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Day 156 - Olee's designs

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Today we printed some custom bracelets for my niece, who mailed us a very nice letter that included some awesome designs to start from.  Her...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Day 155 - Menger slice

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Today we printed owens' Diagonal Cut Menger Sponge design from Thingiverse. If you sliced a Level 2 Menger sponge in half along a diago...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

Day 154 - First Digitizer Print!

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To break in the new MakerBot Digitizer in the JMU 3-SPACE Classroom , my student Patrick scanned and printed a beautiful African woman stat...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Day 153 - Stick and lattice trefoil knots

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To finish our collection of trefoil conformations, we have a stick knot and a cubic lattice knot: STL file for stick: http://www.geekha...
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