Just in time for the holidays, here's a spider to print on your MakerBot! Print out a few for decorations or print out one and a ring in your size and glue together for some totally stereotypical Halloween jewelry!

This is my first designed+printed object (woot!), and I really wanted to make this truly 3D but I don't think I'll have the time between now and the 31st to do so. I think I'll try to make a version that prints out spider and ring in one go in the future as well.

Make a little art with you business cards

See our video at adafruit.com/blog/2009/05/25/adafruit-business-cards-laser-cut-spirograph-cards/

A modified version of the calling card. I don't have a laser cutter, or delicate hands, but I do have a 48" x 48" CNC router! I scaled the pattern up to about 7.5" tall, modified the shape to be a square instead of a business card, and made a few small tweaks to the gears so they would cut nicely with a 1/8" endmill out of MDF.

No finish or fasteners besides glue. Just a little composite chunk of geary goodness.

This has been a relatively useful project for me. This wire rack holds two rows of up to 7" wire spools or 12" spools if you decide to cut out an additional base piece. It's primarily constructed from 1/4" ABS sheet with 1/2" electrical conduit to hold the spools. ABS sheet generally comes with one textured side (which you might be able to see in the photos) and one flat side, and it's pretty resilient stuff. You should also be able to stack these racks and bolt them together, but I haven't built a second one yet to see how well this works.

A simple Headphone Wrap made for SkullCandy Ink'd Headphones. I got the idea for this from Eagleapex. I loved the idea of having a 3d-printed headphone wrap, since I'm always shoving my headphones into my backpack in an untidy bunch.

This is the final version of the I-Hacked.com badge (art by surbo). This badge is modified slightly from the original design to house a bicolor LED (hevnsnt's awesome idea, not mine!) and to allow the battery tray to stay in place without any additional hardware (so it can be attached to other badges, etc.).

The battery tray also features a nice lip so the CR2025 won’t just fall out when you pull out the tray. This was done primarily to convince badge recipients that the battery only went in one way, as the bicolor LED was to remain an "undocumented feature". All badges had red/blue LEDs and started off red, but if you flipped the entire tray over and re-inserted it you’d have a blue badge. As many of you probably know, blues and reds don’t generally get along very well…

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.