Monday, January 27, 2014

Day 154 - First Digitizer Print!

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To break in the new MakerBot Digitizer in the JMU 3-SPACE Classroom , my student Patrick scanned and printed a beautiful African woman stat...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Day 153 - Stick and lattice trefoil knots

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To finish our collection of trefoil conformations, we have a stick knot and a cubic lattice knot: STL file for stick: http://www.geekha...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Day 152 - Petal and tight trefoil knots

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Two more trefoil conformations - as a petal knot (all crossings line up along one center stem) and a tight knot (with the smallest amount of...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Day 151 - Fourier and tritangentless trefoil knots

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Continuing our collection of trefoil knots, today we printed a trefoil in a Fourier-(1,1,2) knot conformation and a trefoil knot in a trita...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Day 150 - Trefoil torus knots

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For the next four days we'll be posting various mathematically interesting models of the  trefoil knot . Mathematicians consider two kno...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Day 149 - Balloon dog

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Today we rest. And print a balloon dog : Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com/make:63096 Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low scaled...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Day 148 - Shrinking and Remeshing the Fidget Cube

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Now that the hinges on the Fidget Cube are smaller (see yesterday's post), we can make the cube itself smaller. Let's start by goin...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Day 147 - Fidget Cube with Smaller Hinges

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After more testing we figured out how small we can make the hinges on the Fidget Cube and still have it print reliably in one piece. (The an...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Day 146 - Customizable Print-In-Place Fidget Cube

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Today we finished our customizable print-in-place fidget cube model. By changing just a few parameters in OpenSCAD code, we can decide wheth...