To get in the spirit of the season, here's an egg holder for you.

Buzzing, i.e. playing the trumpet mouthpiece without it being attached to the trumpet, is an important part of the practice routine of many trumpet players. So important in fact that a device was invented which enabled you to attach a mouthpiece to a trumpet in a way that it enables the player to buzz while holding the trumpet in an accustomed fashion. The original device is called the "Berp". This is my attempt to recreate it for all the 3d-printing brass players out there.

Links:
Buzzing: bit.ly/cpx8eg
The original "Berp": berp.com/about.html
The "Berp" in action: bit.ly/9213dY

I got some complaints about my previous version of the Escher cookie cutter what with having hollow walls and all. Although cookies can still be made using a hollow-walled cutter, indeed it is better to have a solid one. The wall thickness of this version is slightly thinner so skeinforge will make two layers which are close enough to fuse together, making it thin but sturdy.

This is a slight improvement on my own Escher Cookie Cutter design. The top is now open so it's easier to get the dough out. I've made a bunch of cookies to prove it works. Good stuff to test the Frostruder on if you ask me....

A product of my quest to find the most efficient way to cut cookies and minimizing the amount of remaining cookie dough. My attempts have failed thus far because cookies expand in the oven. (Expansion = good for cookies but bad for Escher-like designs)

This ornamental piece is modeled after a character in a very old (1920) Dutch childrens book which was actually a commercial for a coffee and tobacco brand.

I used this butterfly model to test raftless printing of complex outlines using my heated build platform: flickr.com/photos/28172221@N08/sets/72157623375295929/

The bottom of the original was at z=-2.2mm so it tried to print lower than the build surface. That's fixed now and it prints beautifully.

I have always found the shape of this glass to be very interesting so I decided to model it in order to print it. While it was printing, I turned to Google to find more information on the glass. It seems that it was designed in 1927 and described as "...the ultimate drinking vessel created by man, and of its type cannot be improved." ( patricktaylor.com/duralex-picardie )

I also found out that the Duralex factory almost closed a few years ago. Modelling and printing objects like this can save shapes from extinction in the future.