For quite a while I have been trying to find a way to answer that question, What makes me, Me? I came to the realization that this was the final answer. I am a geek, through and through, and this coin explains that. The Face of it is a decent melding of Star Trek, Star Wars and Stargate, the Back has the simple and elegant word GEEK emblazoned on it. It screams that I am a Sci-Fi Bi Geek. ;c) And to top it all off it's printed on a 3d printer. What could be geekier.

Phoenix Laser Engraving creates these Shoji Shadow Box kits for sale in our Etsy shop phoenixlaser.etsy.com .

In traditional Japanese architecture, a Shoji is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood which holds together a sort of grid of wood or bamboo. (Shoji, 2009)

Shoji doors are often designed to slide open, and thus conserve space that would be required by a swinging door. They are used in traditional houses as well as Western-style housing, especially in the washitsu (Japanese-style room). (Shoji, 2009)

Phoenix Laser Engraving creates these beautiful Shoji Shadow Boxs from Birch Plywood, and we hand glue the paper to the inside to provide an elegant item.

These special Shoji Shadow Boxes are made for Bedside Tables, Romantic Nights, Cubical Desks, and hanging. The subtle light sets the mood and catches attention. The candle inside is battery operated so no worries.



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In honor of the end of David Tennant's Doctor, I decided to model a small version of the Tardis. The Original model was much bigger, but in order to save space and plastic I scaled it down, so some of the detail has been lost. It is very rough right now, so I'd love it if anyone wants to enhance it let me know, or link to this so I can see your version! I used Autodesk inventor to do the modelling.

UPDATE: I added tardis_scaled.stl which is a little larger, giving it some better definition and I also hollowed it out so the print didnt use so much plastic.

UPDATE: Makerbot now sells blue plastic, if anyone prints this in blue, please post!

This is the Darth Vader head that everyone wants. It's modelled after the darth vader lego head piece.

Stormtrooper head.
Imported from Max->3ds->FBX Converter->FBX->Maya->STL->Art of Illusion->STL.

This was printed on a MakerBot with Skeinforge parameters tuned to 0.25 mm/layer.

Univers Revolved is an art project from Ji Lee, pleaseenjoy.com . It takes the roman alphabet and remakes it into a set of 3D, solid objects with axial symmetry.

Words can then become objects, letters stacked, attached, etc... Check out the possibilities at the universrevolved.com website.

When I saw this online a week ago, I knew I had to get it onto Thingiverse, so I reached out to Ji Lee, who was kind enough to grant permission, and express some interest in what we do here. We're hoping to print out a few of these and go see him with a MakerBot soon.

With permission from the artist... Thanks, Ji Lee!

Took some finicky fiddling but finally got a hand-drawn Klein bottle with all the normals going the right way, and was able to import it into TopMod and play with it.

The 'simplest' variant has not been subdivided in any way... it's a good starting point if you want to adjust the overall shape.

The 'skin' variant has been subdivided using the Doo Sabin remeshing option in TopMod, giving it a rounded, smooth look. It might make a very infuriating teapot, I suppose.

The 'bone' variant is the same as the 'skin', but with more visibility inside.

To get a good idea of what is going on inside, some of the pictures of the wireframe views of these Things are your best bet.

So this answers the question: Yes, we can make a Klein bottle.

EDIT: Added an anaglyph image, since this is a confusing shape. Getcher red'n'blue glasses, step right up!

Perhaps one of the funnest projects we have attempted around the .:oomlout:. offices. A five degrees of freedom robotic arm. While we have spent many hours twisting knobs to move pop cans from one point on our desk to another sadly it has not progressed much further.
The main reason for this is the sum total of math knowledge around the oomlout.com offices is about 4 (don't ask us to show our work on how we calculated this) so inverse kinematics is well beyond our reach.

We are releasing it in an imperfect form in the hope that the clever Thingiverse denizens will be able to make it better.

Why this isn't quite ready for sale:
-We lack any inverse kinematics program which makes moving the arm intelligently nearly impossible.
-Without software limits on the servos it is capable of stripping the low cost hobby servo motors (this is alright for testing as they are only five dollars) (we have stripped two in the life of our arm and both happened when we were asking it to do silly things) (this can be fixed by upgrading the servos)
-We haven't completed the 3d model or assembly instructions just yet, but by studying the photos it is possible to assemble. (think more jigsaw puzzle than lego set)
-The gripper, lets just say the gripper needs a little work.

That said it is an amazingly fun toy to play around with, and a good starting point if anyone has ever had a desire to make the perfect robotic arm (it is open source so you'd be free to make and sell your own)

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