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My colleague Sean Ragan recently discovered that rather than pay for Shapeways’ colorized outputs, it was easier, cheaper, and more durable to buy the basic white and colorize it with a marker. The cheapest and, reportedly, strongest material in which Shapeways models are available is called “White, strong and flexible.” I herein report that this […]
Thingiverse user mrule created this polygon with two kinds of 3D-printable vertices that snap together. For instance, ten each of the two parts can form an icosahedron.
Dirk Vander Kooij is taking 3d printing to a whole new scale with his series of chairs made from recycled fridge plastic.
Save the date: Botacon, a new conference for robots and the people who are creative near them, is happening next weekend at the Brooklyn Lyceum. If you’re at all interested in robots and the robot art world, it should be a great time: A new day is dawning for robotics. The tools of manufacturing have […]
In the concluding fourth part of the car keys series on the MakerBot blog, a sturdy replacement housing for a cracked plastic keyfob is reproduced: One half has a 2mm lip and the other has a 2mm groove รขโฌโ the result is a case that required channel lock pliers to shutรขโฌยฆ but isnรขโฌโขt coming apart […]
Madox designed this excellent 3d printed pump, which converts a cheap electric motor into a functional water pump.
Shown above is a small sample of Justin Michell’s meticulously-documented dice collection over at Kevin Cook’s DiceCollector.com. Justin’s is one of six collections, besides Kevin’s own, hosted at the site, which makes for fascinating browsing. Most folks’ experience of dice is limited to the simple Platonic-solid dice, but of the first 20 integers, only 1-, 17- and 19-sided dice are not represented in Justin’s collection.
Disclosure: I got wind of Justin’s collection when he contacted me about putting my old design for an alphabet die up on Shapeways, which I did. His print in stainless steel is shown uppermost. I make two bucks for each one they print.
