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Today we look at two objects that I had trouble printing on a Replicator 2 without doing some fixes. Usually when a model won't slice wi...

Here's a secret: I might be a little bit obsessive. With the 3D printing. Of all the tiny furniture. I'm just saying, I think this m...

We are going to leave a lot of furniture behind in the upcoming downsizing move, but there are two pieces we absolutely cannot live without:...

Continuing our 1:50 scale miniature furniture collection, today we added dining room chairs and four-legged stools.  The picture below shows...

Today we printed a large copy of a Rhombic Tricontahedron ( Day 203 ) to give to a doctor friend who is leading the pack of those trying to ...

Continuing from yesterday, today we printed some IKEA Billy bookcases  with height extenders. The height extenders are sold separately and c...

Most of our furniture consists of bookcases, and our go-to bookcases are from  IKEA's Billy bookcase series . The Billys currently come ...

Sometimes things just don't work and I don't know why. For example, the new version of OpenSCAD  is great but I couldn't get it ...

On Day 230 we printed some tiny sofas to try to figure out what will fit in our Brooklyn apartment this summer. (The answer: not much!)  In...

Today we printed a modern 3D-printed version of the classic "taped glasses" fix. A little plastic piece fell off C's glasses a...

Today we were supposed to get a tooth pulled out (!) so we printed something very simple and relaxing: stevemedwin's Space Family Puzzle...

We liked yesterday's little Buckyball so much that today we printed pmoews' Large Buckyball from Thingiverse. Both models are icosa...

Today's print is the small Buckyball model from pmoews' Buckyball Easter Egg gift set on Thingiverse. Like owens' Menger Sponge...

Last week I used the shell model from Day 237 in class and it was so great to get to that point at the board where my picture is all crazy ...

Last Friday we talked about time and failing. Today we have a more positive thing to say about time, and we printed khakerry's Time Turn...

The other day we picked apart the OpenSCAD code for althepal's six-piece ball puzzle ( Day 239 ), so today we made a simple remix, remov...

Today we printed something useful: thomasforsyth's Clip peg - general purpose  model from Thingiverse. It's not springy and it doesn...

Today we printed althepal's Six-piece soccer ball puzzle from Thingiverse. I have a lot of puzzles like these in my office at work, and...

More shells! This time we printed a model to match  an example from the Khan Academy , so that you can go there and learn how to set up the ...