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Today, something long-awaited in our house: A card holder for Settlers of Catan ! The design is an extension of Zarquon's Game Card Hol...

Yet another thing for the JMU 3-SPACE classroom: some cheese to keep the door open. Design from terenceang's Cheeze Door-Stop remix of...

Our son designed today's print in Tinkercad.  It is a test design for a 3D-printed boat for use in flooding emergencies.  This was his t...

With the start of classes in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom just a week or so away, today's print is an upgrade of Day 24 's Afinia fan ...

Okay, I've been traveling and I am very tired.  One more day of something simple.  A creeper face to keep you company on your desk. ...

Today, something very simple but which I think will be very useful for future pictures on this blog: slepcat's Paper Clip to set up simp...

JamieLang's  Wormhole Candle Holder  is one of the most beautiful things I have seen on Thingiverse that is easily and reliably printabl...

Counting allowance points to 100 is fine but it takes forever. For a more short-term reward we now have this three-step path to a trip for ...

Of course every icosahedron jawbreaker trap needs a respectable stand.  Here is a very simple one I made in Tinkercad.  Its top is exactly t...

The problem with Day 29's Icosahedron Failure Bowl wasn't with the model, it was with the machine. Turned out that the Replicator 2...

Creeper, zombie, and skeleton head blocks for your Minecraft stamping needs. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day31_minecra...

I miss ST:TNG .  So today we made a little Picard bling for our downstairs bathroom lightswitch based on zthralls' Rounded Lightswitch C...

This year's prize at the SUMS Conference  is a lot of jawbreakers trapped inside a 3D-printed icosahedron (symbol for the Mathematical A...

Tonight I'm tired.  I'm making a box.  The box is JinxTheRabbit's Box and Lid from Thingiverse and I cut a hole in the top with...

With the 3-SPACE class looming closer and closer, my "at home" and "at work" are pretty mixed up. So again I'm prin...

The Afinia H-Series 3D printer comes with a very nice set of tools, some of which are very sharp and difficult to store safely. Today we us...

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...