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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Day 73 - CGR Pontoon boat, full size

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Our son printed his LEGO team's pontoon boat in full size today. Enough room for five minifigs, and it floats! The minifigs sit on LEGO-...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Day 72 - Carabiner

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In the interest of attaching things to other things, today we printed briscoe28's s-caribiner from Thingiverse. It's interesting ho...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Day 71 - Snowflakes, part 2

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More snowflakes! STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day71_snowflakes2.stl Tinkercad link:  https://tinkercad.com/things/3tb6C...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Day 70 - Snowflakes, part 1

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Lots of tiny snowflakes for some kind of winter/holiday use.  The snowflake designs are from a vector-graphics snowflake patterns file on Z...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Day 69 - CGR Pontoon boat

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Today our 8-year-old son designed this boat in Tinkercad for an upcoming LEGO competition.  The picture shows the 50% scale model we printed...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Day 68 - Glow sphere #1

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I love the look of gavi's Spherical lattice on Thingiverse, but don't have a resin printer to get the beautiful print that they do....
Friday, November 1, 2013

Day 67 - The knot 8_19

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The real reason for printing the knot 8_18 yesterday was to compare it to a print of 8_19 , the first non-alternating knot in the standard...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Day 66 - The knot 8_18

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Our initial reason forgetting a 3D printer was to print mathematical models of knots, so today we go back to our roots and print a model of ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Day 65 - Condiment bowl with sharpie stripe!

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Same bowl as yesterday, but this time we colored an 8-inch length of the filament with a black Sharpie marker before it went through the mac...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Day 64 - Condiment bowl

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The Condiment Bowl designed by petergross3 in Thingiverse has such a beautiful shape, mixing squares and circles. We had been waiting to pr...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Day 63 - Tetrahinge

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Trying to find a better solution for making polyhedral nets than the folding models from Day 44 , today we have a hinged version of a tetrah...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Day 62 - Quick hex bowl

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Couldn't be simpler than this.  Needed a bowl, threw down Marissa 's "wedge" shape script in Tinkercad, printed it as a sh...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Day 61 - Hilbert steps

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Okay, so maybe  Day 60 's model was maybe based on a Hilbert curve , not a Peano curve . So, we may as well make another model out of it...
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...
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