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At this year's Gathering for Gardner Conference ( G4G11 ) I gave a short talk about 3D printing sliced Menger sponges. So that people co...

Today is our largest Catalan print so far, with a diameter of over 120 millimeters - about the size of a very large grapefruit. One cool thi...

Yes, we seem to have fallen behind again. We can talk more about that on some "Friday." For now we'll catch up with the rest o...

This Catalan solid is the  Rhombic Triacontahedron , the dual of the Icosidodecahedron  (which we've already printed twice before as a s...

New fact of the day: If you add a pyramid to each face of an octahedron, then you are taking its " Kleetope ." A cool new word for...

Today's post is contributed by Bill Owens, also known as owens on Thingiverse. He is the creator of the Customizable Menger Sponge and...

Every week there is more failure. But those who seek only to avoid failure will never succeed at anything new. If you want to succeed...

For the last week I've been printing whatever polyhedra appeal to me, and today I realized that everything I've printed is a Catalan...

Another day, another Catalan solid.  Today it is the  Deltoidal Icositetrahedron , dual of the Archimedian solid known as the Rhombicuboctah...

Today's print is yet another Catalan solid, the  Pentagonal Icositetrahedron - dual of the Snub Cube  which we printed with Poly-Snaps ...

Continuing our string of Catalan solids , today we printed a Deltoidal Hexecontahedron . Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com...

The Disdyakis Dodecahedron is a convex Catalan solid with a lot of cool properties, including: It's the dual of an Archimedian solid...

For the next week or two we will be modeling and printing wireframe models of various exotic polyhedra. On Day 192 we developed a method fo...

It's Friday! Also, this: I was trying to make a smaller version of owens' Sierpinski tetrahedron model from  Day 189 , but stup...

Inspired by the many sets of polyhedral models on Thingiverse (for example pmoews' Archimedean Solids ,  Johnson Polyhedra , and Catalan...

Today we made something very simple: a small, thin rounded tube for turning a scrap of filament into a simple bracelet. Despite how simple t...

In bulk printing mode again. Over the past few days we have printed 100 of the Hinged Triangle-Square models from Day 189 , for a giveaway ...

Today an amazing thing happened. It became possible to print a Sierpinski tetrahedron without internal supports on a desktop filament-based...

Today we printed the famous hinged dissection called the Haberdasher's Puzzle from  Henry Dudeney , who found a way to cut an equilater...

Thank you so much, Hercemer, for making a 41 Piece Spirograph  collection available on Thingiverse! Thingiverse link:  http://www.thing...

One thing I love about 3D printing is that it teaches you how to deal with failure. Lots and lots of failure. Every design I make ends with ...

Easy mashup time: Today we printed SimplusDesign's Wishbone Cookie Cutter Set  on Thingiverse and Eckerput's Rolling Pin Spacer  on ...