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My son has been watching a lot of domino - toppling videos . Turns out dominos are kind of expensive - but pretty much the easiest thing ev...

The Afinia H-Series is wonderful but I wish there was a cover for its exposed fan.  It doesn't hurt to touch it but when small kids are...

It's hard to 3D-print a Level 3  Menger sponge .  But it isn't hard to print a slice of one, and it makes for a decent coaster. ...

Although this blog is for stuff I make at home, if you are a teacher then you know that home and work are essentially the same thing, especi...

Today I wanted to test out the "shell" setting on the Afinia, so we printed the bottom half of the "trikoch" file from h...

Okay, because of yesterday we now have a hundred thin rings to keep track of, so today we built BozarthPrime's  Dice Box , with the top...

My son wants to save up for something with his allowance and chore money, which we do on a point system.  When he saves up 100 points he wil...

Today we made a copy of landru's Modular Model Rocket  from Thingiverse. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day18_tricolor...

To make a base for cold hibiscus tea, boil water and add to a handful of dried hibiscus flowers in a Mason jar. Once it has cooled to room ...

On Thingiverse, peterpur's round Letter Opener is just one step away from being Pac-Man.  Or Ms. PacMan, maybe? STL file: htt...

Sometimes you work all night to make a letter opener and then the files won't download.  And then you make some Toast Pliers , designed ...

Inspired by JMP's Bubble Frames on Thingiverse, today we have a dodecahedron frame for dipping into bubble solution to make a minimal s...

Picking up from where we left off on Day 8 , we made some curved LEGO marble run pieces (the translucent blue pieces in the picture). S...

Today we made a videogame die, with the number on each face represented by some classic game.  In the picture you see 6 Minecraft creepers ,...

Two days ago we printed some mini knots ; today we go to the opposite extreme and print a GIANT knot!  It was really fun seeing the looks on...

Up until now I tried to design a completely new object or at least modify/remix an existing design each day, but today my design time was sp...

Even at home, eight days is a lot of time to pass without printing something mathematical.  So today, miniature knots!  We can use them aro...

Following up from Day 4 we have some new-and-improved LEGO marble run pieces: STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day8_legomarbl...

Today something very simple:  a minor remix of hoeken's lovely minimalist Coin-op Bottle Opener  on Thingiverse, with holes added for st...

Inspired by the hinge in someandy's Embossing Stamp , today we make a hinged butterfly. The image came from a screenshot of butterfly on...

Most of today's design time was spent tweaking the LEGO marble run piece from yesterday, but that's not done yet so here we will do ...

Today our 8-year-old jumped into the print-a-day game with a sample piece for a marble run to be built on top of LEGO pieces. Using  Tinkerc...

Today we printed hangers for our Minecraft foam pickaxe and sword . Each of these nails into the wall in two places and has a small post th...

One of the new Community Shape Scripts on Tinkercad is a very nice Voronoi diagram maker by Brandon Cole (including the code!). As a sort ...

For the first day, a simple coin trap for nickels or quarters which we designed in Tinkercad . STL file:  http://geekhaus.com/makerhome/...