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Here's my favorite fail from this week: a botched print of three  Fidget Cubes . It's partially my favorite because I happened to h...

Today I rest, and print atartanian's  Han Solo Lithopane  design from Thingiverse, based on MakerBot's  Customizable Lithopane  desi...

Our Catalan Wireframe Polyhedra series is finally complete! Here is the whole happy family of thirteen: Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low w...

Or the Professor and Mary Ann , as they prefer to be called. Our last two Catalan solids are the Triakis Tetrahedron (dual of the Truncated...

We're almost at the end of the Catalan series! Today we printed our eleventh, the  Rhombic Dodecahedron , dual of the Cuboctahedron  (wh...

Most of our prints for this blog are made on a MakerBot Replicator 2 , since that's what we usually have at the house. But the other day...

I love to root for the underdog: David vs Goliath, Buffy vs the entire Hellmouth, the Baudelaire twins against Count Olaf and his evil theat...

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

At this year's Gathering for Gardner Conference ( G4G11 ) I gave a short talk about 3D printing sliced Menger sponges. So that people co...

Today is our largest Catalan print so far, with a diameter of over 120 millimeters - about the size of a very large grapefruit. One cool thi...

Yes, we seem to have fallen behind again. We can talk more about that on some "Friday." For now we'll catch up with the rest o...

This Catalan solid is the  Rhombic Triacontahedron , the dual of the Icosidodecahedron  (which we've already printed twice before as a s...

New fact of the day: If you add a pyramid to each face of an octahedron, then you are taking its " Kleetope ." A cool new word for...

Today's post is contributed by Bill Owens, also known as owens on Thingiverse. He is the creator of the Customizable Menger Sponge and...

Every week there is more failure. But those who seek only to avoid failure will never succeed at anything new. If you want to succeed...

For the last week I've been printing whatever polyhedra appeal to me, and today I realized that everything I've printed is a Catalan...

Another day, another Catalan solid.  Today it is the  Deltoidal Icositetrahedron , dual of the Archimedian solid known as the Rhombicuboctah...

Today's print is yet another Catalan solid, the  Pentagonal Icositetrahedron - dual of the Snub Cube  which we printed with Poly-Snaps ...

Continuing our string of Catalan solids , today we printed a Deltoidal Hexecontahedron . Thingiverse link:  http://www.thingiverse.com...

The Disdyakis Dodecahedron is a convex Catalan solid with a lot of cool properties, including: It's the dual of an Archimedian solid...

For the next week or two we will be modeling and printing wireframe models of various exotic polyhedra. On Day 192 we developed a method fo...