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Friday, October 25, 2013

Day 60 - Peano curve

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Today we have a space-filling Peano curve with a dish-like indentation just because it looks cooler that way. More dish-y and more space-fi...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Day 59 - Chainmail tests

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A sister-in-law of mine makes really intricate chainmail jewelry by actually bending tiny loops of metal. It's beautiful. For a present ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Day 58 - Cos Plate

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I need a small cookie plate for a reception.  And maybe PLA isn't FDA-approved but frankly I think most people would probably eat a cook...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Day 57 - H-Tree dish

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Here is a small dish whose pattern comes from a level 5 H-Tree , which is a fractal space-filling curve. It is designed so that a Replicator...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Day 56 - Hairdo hardware #1

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I have a lot of hair and almost nothing is strong enough hold it up reliably. So today we begin a quest to 3D print something that can do th...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Day 55 - Customized bowl

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Today we print a beautiful low-res bowl made from gelstudios' wonderful Customizable Bowl Factory  on Thingiverse. STL file: htt...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Day 54 - Monitor tags

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These little tags are to put on the top of your computer monitor as reminders.  You can also lightly clip a small paper to your computer wit...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Day 53 - Sine remake

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One of my calculus students earned a perfect score on this week's exam!  So I made a present to hand back with her test. I hope she lik...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Day 52 - Tiny frame #2

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Another tiny frame... this time for holding flatter things or maybe a very, very small picture. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/maker...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Day 51 - Tiny frame #1

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A friend of mine likes to glue together picture frame corners to make very tiny frames for very tiny pictures.  I have a couple for my bathr...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Day 50 - Escher trefoil

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Today we printed kenji1206's Escher's knot  from Thingiverse. Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com/make:50427 ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Day 49 - Dodecaloop

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P wanted something for his office and it is AWESOME. Forty rhombic dodecahedra of awesome. Printed from emmet's Dodeca Chain Loop on Th...
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Day 48 - Do it now!

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Here is a bar to put over important documents that you need to deal with as soon as possible, so that they don't vanish into the black h...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Day 47 - Hanging pencil cup

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Just a small pencil cup for hanging over the side of a box. Yes, this is another thing for the JMU 3-SPACE classroom , which opens on Monday...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Day 46 - Salt bowl remake

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I love the look of Kulitorum's beautifully simple  Salt Bowl on Thingiverse, but I couldn't get it to slice with MakerWare so I rem...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Day 45 - Tree frog sample model

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Various levels of MorenaP's nice  Treefrog  model on Thingiverse: Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com/make:49943 Settin...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Day 44 - Triangular polyhedra nets

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Today we used Tinkercad to design 2D nets that fold up to regular 3D polyhedra, specifically the tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron w...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Day 43 - CGR Catan trophy

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And for the winner of Catan, a trophy! The current winner in the house gets to display this tiny trophy on their shelf. This was made by our...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Day 42 - Catan numbers

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We play Catan a lot at the dinner table and everything gets a little rough around the edges. Our number disks in particular looked a little...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Day 41 - Catan card holder

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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...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Day 40 - Cheese doorstop

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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...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Day 39 - CGR boat

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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...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Day 38 - 3-SPACE Afinia fan cover

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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 ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Day 37 - Creeper desk ornament

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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. ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Day 36 - Photo background clips

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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...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Day 35 - Wormhole candle holder

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JamieLang's  Wormhole Candle Holder  is one of the most beautiful things I have seen on Thingiverse that is easily and reliably printabl...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Day 34 - Ice cream stacker

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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 ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Day 33 - Icosapillar

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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...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Day 32 - Icosahedron jawbreaker trap

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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...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Day 31 - Minecraft stamp blocks

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Creeper, zombie, and skeleton head blocks for your Minecraft stamping needs. STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day31_minecra...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Day 30 - Engage lightswitch

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