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C's grandma gave us the game " Ticket to Ride " today, and it is great fun! The turns go by really quickly, making for a quick...

C recently finished saving up for his Nintendo DSi (see Day 18  and Day 19  from way back in September), and apparently it is necessary to h...

I always find the icosahedron the most difficult polyhedron to assemble with modular tiles. It is so close to spherical that the angles make...

Our fifth Poly-Snap example is the  Icosidodecahedron , a semi-regular polyhedron with twenty triangles and twelve pentagons. It's sort ...

A " snub polyhedron " is a model obtained by adding triangles between the faces of another polyhedron. For example the Snub Cube ...

Today we "truncate" yesterday's octahedron. Truncating basically means that we slice off the corners of the object. The resul...

Our second Poly-Snaps model is an Octahderon , with eight triangular faces. Compare with the Hinged Octahedron from Day 82 , which is beauti...

Over the next six days we'll be posting polyhedra that we assembled using our new Poly-Snaps  on Thingiverse. Our previous polyhedral mo...

I like the rounded and nicely-spaced design of 3DAndy's Pentominos on Thingiverse, but wanted to print some tetrominos instead, for ma...

This is a model of the building that houses the MakerBot Headquarters in Brooklyn, with a hole in it for a couple of pens or whatnot.  The b...

Today's print is a knot with a special property: No matter how the knot sits on the table, it never touches the table in more than two p...

This design was inspired by DesignMakeTeach 's excellent post Sharpie to 3D Print in 30 Minutes  on his blog designmaketeach.com . Such ...

Minecraft is " The Last Starfighter " of 3D modeling and printing - a game that gets kids ready for the next industrial revolution...

We love  Sonic 2 on the SEGA Genesis , and we've recently been enjoying the whole series all over again with our son. Our ancient cartri...

I keep my filament on an old curtain rod over a shelf, and the rolls that are far away from the printer don't unroll correctly. This she...

Tired. Need simple. Something that just works. How about muddtt's Christmas Gift Box on Thingiverse? Thingiverse link:  http://www...

One nice entry from the Makerbot Math Manipulative Challenge  on Thingiverse was GeorgeHart's Five Screw Puzzles . Here is the tetrahedr...

Today we used Tinkercad ,  Inkscape ,  Fontspace , and the technique from Day 27  to make four cheese labels for a party tray. STL file...

Today we made two copies of AmazingSpanoMan's Customizable Fidget Ring on Thingiverse. The center ring spins around very nicely. S...

Of all the nets from Day 80 through Day 86 , I think the dodecahedra works the best. Easy to put together, easy to take apart, at least as ...

I have a small gift I have to give someone secretly at a party, so I enclosed it in this tiny hollow icosahedron. Safe to show off at the pa...

Printed the rest of the ornaments! STL file: http://www.geekhaus.com/makerhome/day99_snowflakeornaments2.stl Tinkercad link:  https://...

For the Thingiverse/Studio 360 Ornament Challenge  we remixed the snowflakes from Day 70 and Day 71  into thicker, hangable snowflake ornam...

Today's print is one of the drop-down choices from the  Customized Coin Trap model that we posted about yesterday: a trap for a British...