A Gazebo-like structure, with a bowl depression inside, suitable for placing seeds, gems, or other findings, as an offering or toys for the faerie folk near you.

Addition to the license: Please feel free to resize this as the need arises.

Yazzo is a generalized system of interconnected pieces. You might consider them to be like Legos, or Klikko, or similar builder sets. What this thing does is help you integrate your electronics projects into the Yazzo build system. Basically, take your board, whether it has mounting holes or not, and slide it into one of these harnesses. Once in the harness, you can mount the harness to other parts of the Yazzo system using connectors such as these thingiverse.com/thing:4834 What's particularly fun might be the Toy Panel thingiverse.com/thing:4828

Update: 22 Nov 2010
Update design to include rounded edges, so it's printable without support material. Also is more grippy on the board.
Added a few new harnesses, increased width on a few of them.

Multiple Toy Panels, with harnessed electronics attached can be assembled into really neat things.

I've been testing a bit with thin shelled frame vertexes lately.
But most small ribs added alof of time for printing.
So there was no print time reduction, only in mass a bit.
For this version2, i made a pretty good compromise between weight/printtime/strength (I think)
At least for PLA that is, i just printed one at 2500mm/min (the green one in pictures).
And im amazed about the strenght.. i think it was only a little bit quicker then normal, but i did use more dense settings.

But the weight reduction is 40%...
And off course alot less warping :)
Btw, Im not finished yet, so v2 is not final.

PS: There is a large and small (sm) STL, because i had trouble with repsnapper v333 and the large STL. With small i mean less triangles/facets, not smaller dimensions
But maybe in other programs the large STL works fine also.

This is a wheel kit to allow the CupCake MakerBot to build a wheel larger than the standard 100mm x 100mm MakerBot platform allows.

As you can see in the more assembled image that it is easy to make paper/card wheel hubs with different "faces" on them to alter the look of the wheels ... Christmas, Halloween etc... but the faces can also be cut into thirds/fourths to MakerBot them as part of the wheel building too.

This is another of many entries to the makezine.com/go/makerbot contest ...

blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/makerbot_giveaway.html



I really need a job ... but I can design a custom part if you like on contract.

This is a miniature of a house that we saw in Schiedam.

I have now printed 2 complete sets of Mendel. I switched to these files after the 1st print. This breaks a Mendel down into 24 prints, averaging 2-3 hours a print. It also uses the smaller RP parts to hold down the raft for the larger prints. It works pretty good (but not as good as a heated plate). The good thing is that this design works just as good with no raft on a hot plate.


To use just export each "plate" as a separate stl, skeinforge and print. I have them separated on my computer but that's a lot of files to upload.

Also I included the non joined plates, so if you can find a way to turn it into a 23 or 22 plate print please improve on my work.

This is the easiest way to print Mendel I have found, and the beautiful part is if you are using something with a larger build plate than a Makerbot, just join four of these and you can print Mendel in 6 prints!

Much Props to Ryan P, and Cyrozap for fixing my broken files. I don't know how those got messed up, but they fixed it, and dealt with my VERY slow responce.

Honestly I was print 1 of these and not noticing it was build in the air, the other I fixed in my person sel, and never uploaded the fix. Their fixes where better than mine.

So now ALL these should work 100%. If they don't email me the fix and flame me in the comments!

Have fun!

Using a file without a handle on is a potentially dangerous concept, what with this spike being moved around rapidly in front of you and with great force, often in the squishy part of your palm. Much safer and more comfortable to use a handle on it. Also you can hang them up with the loop provided in the handle, or use the handle to stop them dropping through your tool rack.

Two sizes are provided as STL's below in the traditional manner; too big, and too small. Fortunately they scale well.

Have you ever wanted a Gothic Cathedral of your very own?

Are you intimidated by the centuries long construction schedule, and the punishing job requirements of being a European Bishop during the Dark Ages?

Then We Have a Thing For YOU!

The Gothic Cathedral Play Set!

Notice: This is a project in development, and I intend to improve it over time. This draft will work, but it's hardly ideal. Caveat Emptor!

Update Jan 31st: I've uploaded Version 2, which is pretty much the same as 1.5 (which I've removed as a result) but comes with the "Hex Key Holder", which can be fitted with a standard screwdriver bit from a powertool to act as a crude "center". My experiments with using two such centers to drive the lathe weren't great, as one invariably ends up spinning and the piece stops. So it looks like the required parts at present are: Two Bearing-End-Body Sections, two Bearing-And-Tool-Fittings, A Boltplate and a Hex tool holder. You'll also want a Dremel Rest and a length of MDF/wood to bolt it all down to. And you'll need googles, and perhaps gloves, and a lot of sense.
For now, it is left to the user to figure out spacing of the body sections and how to align them. I'm working on improving that. :)

More Update: Really bad video of me demoing Microlathe: youtube.com/watch?v=6XXN6UkrnIw and a shot of the finished piece of dowel on my Twitpic: twitpic.com/y8jnl
Also, Microlathe was featured on Makezine! blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/tiny_printable_dremel-powered_lathe.html

Microlathe is a little dremel-powered woodturning/watchmaker's lathe that can be printed and bolted together with all those leftover M3 nuts and bolts that came with your Makerbot. In addition to the M3 nuts/bolts, you only require a 608 bearing (I got an extra one with my Makerbot) and an 8mm diameter spring to fit the bearing-end. You probably don't even need that spring.

So, if you have a Dremel handy, you can consider this "The Lathe That Came Free With The Makerbot"!

Microlathe is Parametric, and makes use of a "Global Parameters" script from which the others derive shared traits such as the radius of the bolt plates, etc.. you could try printing a larger one, but bear in mind the limited space you have to print the body portions, which are already quite large for a Makerbot.

MicroLathe makes use of shapes.scad, which was kindly released to the community under the GNU General Public License by Catarina Mota. Permission was explicitly granted for shapes.scad to be considered released under an Attribution, Sharealike license additionally in this case, to facilitate licensing crossover. Thanks a million Catarina!
Microlathe also makes use of teardrop.scad, which was provided kindly by Erik De Bruijn. Teardrop.scad is released under the GPL2 license, with the inheritance clause generously waivered in this case to permit release under a non-GNU license. I'm very grateful Erik, thanks!

I'd appreciate a small donation via Paypal if you find yourself using this to generate a profit (selling turned items, etc.), or if you just love it and want to show your appreciation. Otherwise, it's all yours to print for yourself or others! Just don't charge for it without asking me and informing the buyer that it's available freely here.