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Yesterday we printed the Cute Octopus Says Hello  model from Thingiverse as a first job for the MakerBot Replicator Mini . For that first p...

This is the second in a series of posts about getting started with 3D printing, and the printer we'll be using along this journey is the...

Today my 9-year-old assistant Calvin will be setting up a Replicator Mini. This is the start of a series of posts on how to get started with...

This blog is officially on hiatus until after we finish moving to Brooklyn. Stay tuned for the end of next week when we'll post the exci...

We are at Day 300 in our year-long print-a-day project, thank goodness. In celebration, today's print is a HUGE LEVEL 4 MENGER SPONGE, b...

Today we are finally at the end of the 15-knot series of knot conformations that we started on Day 266 . This one is a tour-de-force, made ...

Still trying to pack up 14 years of house and move it to a Brooklyn apartment, and that is taking pretty much all my time these days. Since ...

Today we reprinted a giant red model of the Borromean rings from our Borromean Rings Collection on Thingiverse that we made on Day 178 , to...

The penultimate knot in our series is the knot 7_6 , in both standard conformation and the spiral S(5,2,(1,1,-1,1)) conformation from  Day 2...

Just three knots left in the conformation series that we started on Day 266 ! Today we have the knot 7_5 in a tangle conformation, where yo...

One more push-pin print; this time we took another design by Tosh on Thingiverse, his Secret Shelf , and scaled it down for use on the corkb...

Today we printed a push-pin-less push-pin, for those times that you don't want to leave a hole in your object; the design is Tosh's ...

Today is Saturday and we are printing things for young C, who needs things for his corkboard. First, a push-pin holder that is held up by pu...

The most eagle-eyed of you may have noticed an error in one of the knots in the group photo of the knot conformations series on  Day 266 . W...

Today's knot conformation takes us back to the beginning of my 3D-printing journey in February 2013, when I got my first 3D printer - st...

Continuing with the knot conformations series we started on Day 266 , today we printed a braid representation of the knot 7_2 . Thingiv...

One of the things I had to give up to move from a house in the country to an apartment in Brooklyn was my drum set. Apparently you have neig...

In preparation for walking groceries home from the shop in the big city, today we printed three of ivanseidel's Bag Holder  model on Thi...

Today we have two torus knot conformations of 7_1. A torus knot is one that can be drawn on the surface of torus ("inner tube" sh...

Today we continue with the knot conformations collection that we started on Day 266 . (See also Day 267 , Day 268 , Day 269 , Day 272 , Day...