This video of Thingiverse user dougc314′s motorized cube gears caught my attention, this morning, on one of my co-workers’ blogs. It’s a modification of user emmett’s much-copied screwless cube gears which replaces one of the corner gears with a motorized pedestal that constantly drives the geartrain, endlessly folding and unfolding the shape.
It’s from Thingiverse user DieselG. You can click through to learn what it’s for. DieselG, if you read this, I very much hope you’ll let us see how it works out.
The printable ball-and-socket unit that makes up this tentacle is really just a prototype in the early development of Thingiverse user Misguided’s not-so-misguided (if we may offer a bit of encouragement) project to develop a printable tentacle actuator. Everything about his description makes me happy, so I’ll just quote it entirely…
From Thingiverse user PrintTo3D, who calls them BicChucks, and was inspired by a set of pen-cap cutlery attachments from lusofer.
Thingiverse user EverydayInventors provides this worthy addition to the amusing warning label genre, for those “when you know it’s not a good idea, but you’ve gotta do it anyway” situations.
Executed by vrogy, from Thingiverse user dino-girl’s “spiderasaur” plans. We have featured vrogy’s work many times beofre; check the links below for some of my personal faves.
Cool mechanical toy made by Thingiverse user Zach Redding for his little brother, who requested “a ninja star where the blades pop out.” I want one water-jet-cut from stainless steel.
