For Mothers day I made my mom a set of earings that double as a working planetary gear.

...sorry for the pun in the name.

The small mind bending plastic object.

This is a basic six piece puzzle made from one type of part.

It would appear not to able to be assembled but you can.....

This puzzle came from this page.

johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorld/chap10d.htm

If you would like to bake your noodle further have a browse through the whole book:

johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorld/default.htm

It has a significant number of puzzles, many of which could be made on a 3d printer and or a laser cutter.

I dare all thingizens to transmogrify a puzzle or three into the thingiverse.

We at techshopdurham.com/ laser these in batches to place pamphlets in.

no fasteners! well nested! optimistic design!

designed for 1/8" materials- scale it to whatever you want, though.

These parts are a pan tilt mount for two 'mini' servos

flickr.com/photos/zignig/3681821576/in/pool-makerbot/

It printed first time and the servo's were a tight fit.


I used the 20 mm circular horn and made the screw holes with a hot pin. Then mounted with superglue

I will be making a webcam , torch , laser and blank mount so you can mount your widget on a turret.

I am currently redesigning it with a normal size servo on the pan , enjoy

:)

This is a clip mount for 35 mm DIN rail.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_rail

I had a relay for a radio that was already DIN rail and I needed to mount some plugs and cables.

flickr.com/photos/zignig/sets/72157621190394069/

So I fired up blender and Modeled a DIN clip.

TIP:

Getting the sizing just right on a reprap is a bit tricky , so I printed out thin ones ( ~= 5 layers ) to get the size just so.

I used this for a ham radio that I have mounted in my car.

:)

zignig

This is an accurate blender model of an arduino , it is actual size.

It was modeled with the eagle PCB output , photographs and a set of verniers.

Texture mapping was done in blender from the photos.

I was inspired by zignig's Printable Desk Clamp thingiverse.com/thing:683 . I used hex nuts instead of square nuts because hex nuts are more common. All the parts are easily available at hardware stores and hobby shops. The total cost is about $4.50 for this clamp compared to $50 ones. It is used for holding circuit boards at comfortable angles, hobby modeling, and holding stuff. Enjoy.


The picture of all parts does not show two nuts that I had already hammered in but I did not want to take them out. Also it does not show 20mm brass tubing as I already hammered some of them in.

My Second design of a small geometric sculpture that explores the battle between cake and pie

INTRO
It seems to be the month of construction sets on Thingiverse, so here is another entry in the category.

Contraptor is a DIY open source construction set for building Cartesian robots. It is basically 1" aluminum Erector set with linear motion extensions. While it's in development and sometimes things don't work as they should, functional robots have been assembled from it: contraptor.org/contraptions

The set is designed to be made with the simple tools of a basic workshop. A lot of materials for Contraptor like aluminum angle, threaded rods and fasteners can be found in a hardware store. In the spirit of modularity, it uses Makerbot/Reprap electronics and Arduino/Sanguino controller.

In addition to DIY plans, we're working on Shopbot-able kits that can be manufactured in small quantities by anyone willing, from open source drawings.

Contraptor components and assemblies are modeled in Sketchup and are hosted on Google 3D Warehouse, mostly for ease of accessing from within Sketchup. Thingiverse is the best place to host DXF/SVG sources and part lists for components, so there will be more Contraptor things coming (hopefully including printed ones from the community :).

Apologies for the long read, on to the thing:
/INTRO

Perforated angle comes in lengths from 1" to 24" and can be used as a structural component, as well as a linear motion rail for sliding elements. Attached DXF file and part list are for 1-ft long perforated angle.

Sketchup source:
sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=contraptor+angle

The human powered internet cafe looks at the issues of renewable power generation and aims to educate users to the energy requirements of surfing the internet.

Users are asked to peddle the exercise bikes in order to turn a dynamo which would in turn power the computers. If users fail to peddle hard enough the computer monitors will begin to flicker encouraging them to peddle harder.

The thing would ideally be placed in public areas where all forms of society could view it and try it out for them selves, thus educating as many people as possible.

Its a large scale cartesian robot
The primary idea was to build a big 3dprinter which would produce large objects with a 1 m3 max. dimension.

This apparatus provides you the cartesian mechanism for positioning the material of your desire in 3d-space.
It does not include any tool or extruder.

For example you could fix a PU-Foam spitting can, and try printing big pink foam objects like a pink pig or a foamy chair. Or you can try experimenting with milling or putting your favorite extruder on it and see what happens.

It is in some way scalable because by choosing the lenght of the aluminum-beams for the frame and the x-y-carrier you decide how big it is.
I will provide the dimensions for having a bot with a 1m x 1m x 1m work-space.

Some updated thoughts:
- Actually i would not recommend to scale it bigger without using stronger aluminum profiles or even a welded iron frame..
- as proposed in the comments it is probbably smarter to use something like a bike-chain driven drivetrain for the z-stage

A fix for the Stackable box to correct one of the edge connector lengths.

This has been fixed in the original ( thanks Martijn ).

Please Refer to original -> thingiverse.com/thing:3158

The table top is 580x420 and it stands 250mm tall.

It needs to be cut from 6mm stock, I used 6mm MDF.

--- this is output from the soon to be released boxomatic

This is an openscad program for making spider couplings.

This is an openscad program for making finger wheels

This is a dollhouse I made for my niese, Katrin. It is 47 cm tall and 42x49 cm wide, and made of wood (MDF). It can be the home of dolls with a height of about 8-10 cm.

More furniture will come as Katrin grows a bit older;-)

Turn a piece of unused shelving into a keyboard tray

This is a base for a bicycle light

My buddy and I had a design challenge to see which one of us could design a rocket that flew the highest. As you can see by the video. It was pretty clear who the winner was.

The first rocket in the video is one i designed a long time ago and drilled out and hammered in a rocket motor thingiverse.com/thing:1337 :P

the second rocket launched is designed by me aka rocket challenge.stl (or something like that)

and the final rocket (launched twice) was my buddy gideon's and its part X i believe.


youtube.com/watch?v=yoNc0DGa-xk

A phone holder to mount your GalaxyS (whilst in a case) in a car.
Designed to clip onto an airvent.

Currently completely untested, and the interface points have ZERO tolerance so expect them to be a very tight fit.

Well this is finally a lock box that works. It takes a couple prints to pull off but it works in the end. Skip the instructions and just use common sense if youre clever enough ;)
youtube.com/watch?v=kq4WPenqdDM

I needed a bit bigger wine rack so I designed this little 10 or 11 bottle wine rack which does the job nicely. I made it out of 3mm MDF, but it would look better in a nicer material.

I'll put up some better pics once I make a new one under the laser cutter group on sharemake.com .

If you make one please post a pic and a comment. I would love to see one in Perspex!

This is my second DIY 3 axis cnc machine. It is designed in solidworks 2008 (~50-60 hours) and built mostly out of MDF. Provided are all the source files and drawings in both solidworks and edrawing formats. This machine is possible to make with just some hand & power tools, but I used my first cnc machine to make most of the smaller parts.

The machine uses chinese linear rails and ballscrews from ebay seller linearmotionbearings2008. With the 1.8Nm stepper motors I use with geckodrive g540 it achieves 10m/min rapids and 5m/min feedrates. The working area is about 110cm x 60cm x 10cm.

Expected cost to build a machine like this from scratch is 1000-1300 euros. It also took me over 80 hours to build.

For my wedding in October 2011 I asked my fiance if I could build something, she only asked that it not be tacky. This is what I came up with. It's a modular folding photo booth. I designed the model in Sketchup, programmed it in Autoit, and gave it a nice Glados voice. I needed an input device and I decided to make a serial comm button. I took a 555 timer and made it generate a 4.8kHz square wave. At 9600 baud this translates to UUUUUUUU plus one garbage character when the button is released. for now it only uses a Webcam to take photos but hopefully I will be find a deal on a canon power shot sometime in the next months to upgrade it. Since the printouts are resized, the small webcam resolution isn't noticable, however it won't be suitable if i wanted to incorporate the singles frames into a album. I'm working on some upgrades using the twitter api so I can have the booth update me whenever it is taking photos. This way I can tell it's status and share photos easier.


Here is a video of it's assembly and the software.

youtube.com/watch?v=jNGg821bC7c

This Machine is an an experimental prototype created for the purpose making light weight hollow castings from rapid setting resins cast into rubber molds.
-Centrifugal force allows liquids to flow evenly to all interior surfaces of an mold and cures to an solid state while in motion within minutes.
- ideally the motion of rotation could be optimized toward the shape of an object and the speed of an curing material so that the casting would have even wall thickness no greater than necessary to support the structure of the shape.
_This process would also lend it self well to casting waxes into rubber molds to produce patterns in an lost wax process for metal casting in an foundry situation.

This is the result of my efforts to produce a reliable hot end for RepRap, using minimal components and tools. In it's most recent incarnations, you no longer need to tap threads for the MIG welder tip, make the nozzle clamp, or cut a slot for the power resistor.

The original instructions are on the RepRap Wiki (http://reprap.org/wiki/Wildseyed_Simple_Hot_End), but I'm not wiki savvy, so I think I'll be posting the progress here first from now on, and updating the Wiki with well tested results.

Hi Everyone

Run my own design and prototyping company; purchased a property and started doing renos. Made lots of custom stuff for myself and clients;

Will be uploading images and files in the weeks to come...

Enjoy!!

Adjustable spool to be able to load 1lb filament from the bag without having to wind on to a fixed spool.

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Is is now ABANDONWARE!
Naaaa... its not abandoned. I'm just not developing it any more!
SUPER cupcake Mk 3 is being designed instead.
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My second attempt at adding a floating gantry and bowden extruder to the cupcake design.

Once again, take a MBI Cupcake, add some extra bits, bake. Now its SUPER.

Hopefully.

I still need to work on the hot-end mount and the extruder end of the bowden cable. I need to integrate a fan into the hot-end mount (or some method of insulating the joint between the PLA and the metal). I also need to add nuts (and holders) to hold the ends of the bowden tube, the fiction with the PLA is not enough. Oh, and the belt clamps and the parts to hold the top of the Z-stage onto the X/Y stage. And the arm from the Z axis to the build platform. And probably some other bits.

The entire x/y stage is self supporting and simply sits on the cupcake body.

It works in the current form, just.

Source files added for the folks who work in Creo (formerly co-create).

This is a meta thing.

_you_ can hold an sqlite3 database with a whole bunch of thingis in it.

the code that built it and the yaml branch for skdb insertion is on the yaml_conversion branch.

github.com/zignig/Blender-3D-repository

I have returned to full time work and do not have much time to work on this so I'd thought I'd give it to everyone ( Well the _COOL_ people who know what a reprap is)

:)

zignig aka ( SImon KIrkby )