This is Pet Monster aka Palmster fot Thingiverse character design competition

A printable belt tensioner, with a fitting for a M3 bolt and nut

This clip will allow you to use a Nike+ Sensor on any shoe, and make switching the sensor between shoes painless. Just pop then sensor in, and lace the clip up in your shoe and your good to go. Print multiple if you run with a few pairs of shoes. When you want to use a different shoe, just pop out the sensor and put it in the new shoe.

My attempt to make a copy of the substitute shinigami badge from the manga series BLEACH.

All the big 3D Printer suppliers always show off braingears printed as single items. This is to show that even our humble hobby printers are capable of printing a brain gear - all be it in seperate parts for assembly later.

My son is fond of his scotch tape. He wanted a dispenser since the refills didn't fit in his old one.

The openscad file is somewhat parametric but is untested it with any other settings.

It uses syvwlch's awesome thread library ( thingiverse.com/thing:8793 )
So, you'll need that if you want to use the scad file.

A derivation of the paper and pencil holder. I made a few of these as gifts for coworkers.

I tried making this part but the support material on SpoolMount.stl was hard to remove. I broke the piece trying.

So I eliminated the support in openSCAD.

My makerbot spanned the gap with just a touch of spagetti!

Introducing: The MakerBot Dynamo!

Ever wish you could convert some of that youthful energy into something a bit more useful? Well using the MakerBot Dynamo kit, store.makerbot.com/makerbot-dynamo.html now you can!

The MakerBot Dynamo is worlds first opens-source, human powered, energy creation device!

Just crank the handle to create real, honest, hardworking electricity.

How do you know its working? Well there's an LED that lights up or course! See your effort in action as it's converted from motion to electricity to light!

And if a LED not exciting enough for you, just think of all the other wonderful things you can power, one hand crank at a time.

See Video of the Dynamo in action: youtu.be/8Brkd5BL_gU

Order the Botmobile Kit from the MakerBot Store at store.makerbot.com/makerbot-botmobile.html and you'll have all the parts you need to get your printed Dune Buggy going in no time!

The wind in your hair... The sun on your face... The sand in your teeth... Everyone loves a day out cruising the dunes in their trusty Botmobile Dune Buggy!

The Botmobile Dune Buggy is an open source 3d printed remote control car that you can build at home. Using the Botmobile chassis the Dune Buggy was built from the ground up as a completely new type of remote control car

See video of the Botmobile Dune Buggy in action: youtu.be/tQIfChZZTog

More of Chris K Palmer's work derived from octagons, flowers, and his trademark origami Flower Tower.

youtube.com/watch?v=9n6Na1VSnQY

These are the first of a range of templates that Beehive will be making available as we develop our Design Your Own Custom Eyewear Interface - please support us at projectpowerup.com/projects/26 if you print these for yourself!

Print.

Seems Chalice's are popular today:
flickr.com/photos/lunchbreath/6345115607/in/photostream/

This is a model of Pac-man and a Ghost that a friend and I made in drafting. It is pretty good considering we didn't have the game with us.

For this project I made a 3D object using the makerbot. I decided to make a pet dinosaur, named mr dinosaur, for my mini-me so she wouldn't be lonely. I used Inventor to make the design of both the dinosaur body and the dinosaur's spikes. I then transfered the body to the makerbot to print in 3D while I sent the sopikes to the laser cutter to be vetered out of neon acrylic. After a couple issues with sizing and multiple printings (I had to play aaround so the spikes fit the body) Mr. Dinosaur is complete.

Whilst ruminating on Project Shellter, I was reminded of visiting seaside towns in Oregon as a kid and seeing necklaces and earrings made by running nautilus shells through a band saw... so, I fired up SketchUp and with the help of skimbal, created a set of earrings which will be a Christmas gift for a good friend of mine.

UPDATE: After talking to some female friends, they suggested the front should be closed, to avoid getting them caught in hair. I had planned on doing that anyway to make the part a little stronger, so now there's a closed version too.

This is a removable, levelable and ball bearing mounted X axis.

unfortunately thingiverse allows only one ancestor. but this thing has 3 ancestors:
- thingiverse.com/thing:9420
- thingiverse.com/thing:8158
- thingiverse.com/thing:9094

These are spurs.. for your sneakers!

You can use these to keep other pedestrians from passing you, accent your belt buckle, or to train your dog!

This bracelet has no clasp; instead you can stretch it over your hand and onto your wrist. It was inspired partially by the Springamathing: thingiverse.com/thing:12053. The design on the outside was inspired by MakeALot's link bracelet: thingiverse.com/thing:7354.

UPDATE: At the request of nycdesigner, a couple of alternate designs are now also available.

Some time ago, a friend of mine asked me to make her a pair of mind-controlled cat ears, and I said, "Oh sure! I can do that."

In my defense, I'd had a bit to drink that night, and didn't think she was serious.

She was.

(Oh, dear.)

On sober reflection, I became curious about whether I could do it. All the pieces seemed to be present:

* The Neurosky headset had just been featured in Make Magazine.

* The arduino microcontroller makes doing simple robotics like this relatively easy.

* The Makerbot and reprap printers make it possible to iteratively design custom hardware, which was going to be really important.

So instead of completely and utterly insane, the idea turned out to be merely odd. But doable.

Anyway, if you've ever woken up and said to yourself, "I'd like to strap a pair of robotic cat ears to my head, and interface them with my brainwaves," your wish has now come true.

Prototype 1

The first prototype is complete. It's imperfect, a bit fiddly, and bulky, but it held up long enough for us to put it on and walk around downtown Boston with it.

Here's a video of the first prototype in action. It showcases the ears drooping, standing upright, and wiggling at different levels of mental activity:

vimeo.com/32018607

Who should make this?

Let's be honest, this is a lot of work to do in order to make some kitty ears. The purpose of this thing was to learn how to do it and have fun. And I'm releasing it here because I'm curious what else people could make based on it.

Make Something Different

I'm very interested to see what can be made with this toolkit beyond cat ears.

The servo mounts can be used to attach motors to the MindWave headset, which was a bit of a tricky mechanical problem. Now that that's solved, what else could you do? Some suggestions for things you could make to mount on your head:

* other ears, like dog or rabbit ears
* antennae
* spikes
* fricking laser beams

It's hard to make derivatives of .STL files, so I'll be uploading the Solidworks files for people to tinker with, as soon as I have a chance to clean them up a bit.

Special Thanks

Many people helped me bring this project to completion. Some tried (vainly) to maintain my sanity. Others helped by listening to me rant like a madman (and didn't back away quickly enough). Some others contributed directly, and I'd like to thank them here.

Miriam Byroade designed and sewed the fabric for the ears and the holster holding the electronics.

Jeff Cutler contributed significantly to the arduino code, and is single-handedly responsible for the MoveToPosition(); function.

Amber Ying dared me to make the ears, modeled them, and has patiently tested three versions of them, all the while waiting for a working set.

Thanks again to all of you, and to the others I haven't mentioned. I promise to bother you more as I work on the next prototype.

This is a simple model of a very common clothespin that you can make on your 3D printer.

This is a beautiful cute stegosaurus that Hannah Chung made.

This was created from a generic coin bank I got as a gift from wait staff while on a business trip to China, presumably it is generic enough that there are no copyrights/trademarks etc associated.

Created using "Autodesk Catch" (was Photofly) to create the 3D model and using "Autodesk Meshmixer" (was just Meshmixer) to clean up the holes in the feet and smooth out a few anomalies.

A short write up on creating the model is here :-
madox.net/blog/2011/11/13/autodesk-catch-meshmixer-quick-test/
(with lots of pics)

This is an exactly proportional copy of the companion cube from portal, as traced from a screenshot.

There were a few cubes already on thingiverse which I've printed out dozens of, but they all had some issues with printability or proportionality. I think I've solved all the problems with this version.

This version is flat bottomed, and has no significant overhangs over 45 degrees.

It is carefully designed in Solidworks so any changes can be quickly and easily made. I also included step files since Solidworks is pretty unfriendly to a lot of other programs.

The default size is exactly 1in^3

The Cube in the thumbnail was printed by a Fablicator.
Fablicator.com

Print and beautify.

youtube.com/watch?v=fGRJYojT3dI

A simple crown form, which proves quite challenging to print. There is quite a bit of bridging and overhang.
Biggest problem at the moment is that PLA is smeared upwards causing the extruder head to run into the object. My first print also shows that at about 60% the positioning is affected because of it.

I will be doing more tests, lowering temperature to prevent stringing and decrease speed to hopefully prevent upwards smearing.

Would be very interested to see other peoples copies and of course learn from their experience.

A stand alone, paper stand-up for use by holding page(s) upright. This makes typing and productivity a bit more easy.

This was part of a "Day Project" at FreesideAtlanta.org

In all fairness, Sparr and I became challenged in a Speed-Modeling contest. Me on Lightwave 3D and he on OpenSCAD. Sparr was victorious, but agreed to let me upload my model anyways. Thanks bud.

I'm including this original as well as the Freeside Atlanta emboss. Visit FreesideAtlanta.org for more information on our Hackerspace!

the Thinker statue

This is possibly the first free & open-source long-sleeved collared shirt available online! Normally you'd have to buy a paper pattern, trace it, and cut it out... now you can download this file, cut it out on a laser cutter, and start stitching! Some people claim that a laser cutter is overengineering, but I say nay! Furthermore, the design can now be crowdsourced and improved.

TODO: Sizing, align collar notches, pocket, better photos.