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Friday, April 18, 2014

Day 235 - Friday Fail: Time Edition

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There is never enough time. Over the past few weeks I have failed miserably at time, specifically at keeping up with this blog on a daily ba...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Day 234 - S(5,2,(1,1,-1,1))

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This semester five students and I have been 3D-printing the knots through 7 crossings in both standard and special configurations, as part ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Day 233 - Bedmaker

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We don't have one bed of every size in our house but it seemed like a good idea to print all of the sizes; here we have Twin, Full, Quee...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Day 232 - Bookcasemaker

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Continuing our moving series, today we made an OpenSCAD module for making the most important type of furniture at all: bookcases! Here we ha...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Day 231 - Tablemaker

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Continuing with our (procrastination of) planning for this summer's move, we printed our dining room table and two coffee tables. T...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Day 230 - Sofamaker

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It's official; we are moving to NYC this summer! This means downsizing from a house to an apartment, and some interesting furniture deci...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Day 229 - Saturday Guest: kitwallace and Programming Polyhedra

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Today's post is contributed by Chris Wallace, also known as kitwallace on Thingiverse, and author of The Wallace Line . He is the creat...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Day 228 - Friday Fail: Terminal edition

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Seriously? An overnight print of eighteen  Fidget Cubes (see Day 158 ) failed just before the LAST LAYER. Sigh. Thingiverse link:  htt...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Day 227 - Penrose Snap Tiles

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Today we printed emmett's Penrose Snap Tiles  on Thingiverse, which are a genius-level modification of the already awesome Penrose P3 Ti...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Day 226 - Tetris box puzzle

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RarelyEvil's 3D Tetris Pieces Puzzle with Box  on Thingiverse is one of the nicest working models I have seen on Thingiverse. It's a...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Day 225 - Hilbert cubes

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Today's print is sushiyaki's Hilbert block model on Thingiverse. This model is great because it prints without any supports at all,...
Monday, April 7, 2014

Day 224 - Rattlebacks

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Today we printed VeryWetPaint's Rattleback Twins  model from Thingiverse. If you spin one of these " rattleback tops " in the ...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Day 223 - CGR 3-Doodler squiggle tower

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Today we finally broke out the 3-Doodler  3D-printing "pen". Calvin loves making tall towers of squiggles. This one broke the reco...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Day 222 - Cube screw-puzzle

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Today we printed the four-piece cube puzzle from GeorgeHart's Five Screw-Puzzles  model on Thingiverse. This one is very easy in compari...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Day 221 - Friday Fail: CubeX Trio edition

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Let's start on a positive note. This week the CubeX Trio in the JMU 3-SPACE classroom printed something! Specifically, the giant hand ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Day 220 - Dragon Curve

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Today we were very excited to print  Henry Segerman 's stunning  Developing Dragon Curve  model. Henry sent us the file for the model so...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Day 219 - Chmutov-Schwartz minimal surface

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Today we printed elgolem's Chmutov-Schwarz   minimal surface model on Thingiverse, in honor of George Hart 's wonderful bouncy circ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Day 218 - Poly/giraffe bracelet

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Today we designed a bracelet by using TopMod to extract a ring of irregular pentagons from the center of a Pentagonal Hexacontahedron wire...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Day 217 - Customizable Tree

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Today we printed the Customizable Tree from Thingiverse. A lot of my students at JMU 3-SPACE  try to print trees from Marissa's Tinkerc...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Day 216 - Tiling space with a weird squiggle

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I've been having fun watching the math that Mike Lawler ( @mikeandallie on Twitter) and his kids discuss on video at their blog mikesma...
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