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Working our way through the five Platonic solids that were included in my entry for the  Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge , toda...

So I guess my reward for working night and day on the Makerbot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge for a week is that I can now post each m...

Over the next several posts here I'll put up pictures and files of the objects in the set of polyhedral models I made for the Makerbot A...

For our cats to bat around and get treats out of, a D20 Cat treat toy by hroncok on Thingiverse. Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiv...

The rest of the Minecraft party favors... Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com/make:53522 Settings: Same as yesterday except...

In need of some party favors for an upcoming Minecraft birthday party for C, today we tried out Conseils' Minecraft Creeper with Movable...

It's getting cold and I think it was supposed to snow this weekend. It didn't, so we made some more snowflakes to follow up on Day 7...

Our son recently saved up his allowance to buy a small remote-control helicopter , so today we made some rings for him to try to knock over ...

Today we printed and assembled the two types of decasphericon models from chriskpalmer's Sphericons on Thingiverse.  We used Gorilla Gl...

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-...

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

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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