Cool brain gear doodad
According to Thingiverse user mappum, who recently published an STL version of a similar gizmo these beautiful do-nothings are printed to test commercial rapid prototyping machines.
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Printable chess set
This fun chess set ostensibly can be printed by a 3D printer, though there seem to be a lot of overhangs to me. Nevertheless it’s a fun idea. Basically, creator laird designed each piece to display what moves it can make in order to “make Chess approachable for kids.” The king has the tallest ‘body’ […]
Chocolate guns and ammo
Your one-stop shop for chocolate guns, chocolate bullets, and chocolate grenades is ChocolateWeapons.com. I’m holding out for the chocolate suitcase nuke. [via Boing Boing]
Dremelfuge is a 3D printable centrifuge
Cathal Garvey in Cork, Ireland, developed this 3D printable centrifuge attachment for a rotary tool, dubbing it the “Dremelfuge.” What an awesome alternative to an expensive piece of lab equipment, congrats on paving the way for DIY science! If you don’t have access to a 3D printer to print your own, he’s made it available […]
Cool CNC-friendly desk lamp design
Pedro Mealha was inspired by those 3D plywood dinosaur kits when he designed this lamp, called rhizome, the armature of which is a great example of the emerging “router aesthetics” Bruce Sterling wrote about back in MAKE Volume 11. I also like the wooden race and exposed ball-bearings that let it pivot at the base. Now if we can just persuade him to post the DXF files on Thingiverse… [via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories]
Party popper “Claymore”
Clever design from Thingiverse user vik, which lets you mount and simultaneously fire a devastating barrage of nine party poppers at unsuspecting revelers. “I should’ve marked it with FRONT TOWARD FRIENDS,” he comments.
Cool maze-box on Thingiverse
Thingiverse user wizard23 designed this cool puzzle box (which he calls the “A-Mazing Box”) using a custom Python script and Clifford Wolf’s freeware OpenSCAD program, then printed it on a MakerBot. His script lets you import your own maze as a PNG so you can design one with a unique solution.
