Felt a very urgent need to get this out there once I saw this xkcd:
xkcd.com/743/

As much fun as having a tiny violin might be, I'm really hoping we'll eventually have a real violin, or at the very least ample violin accessories here.

Strømg Lump Leaks is a ceiling lamp designed by Lamp Lumps (LL).

The used technique is self supporting interlocking of pieces (without gluing, screwing or nailing) of 547 different pieces of polypropylene routed with a three-axis CNC.

The conception and materialization is mixed by using digital and analogue means.

The first name Strømg is the junction of the English term strong with the Danish surname Strøm. Strong, because it is a robust three-dimensional puzzle witch form is the result of small variations in each of the pieces. Strøm, because this work is an homage to Holger Strøm and his IQ Lamp.

The Lump Leaks surnames suggest, for instance, the leaking drops of water or the leaking of information. The abstraction of the concept results, morphologically, in a piece that is the materialisation of the metaball modeling technique that was widely used by pioneers of digital media in architecture in the 90’s.

Just a fun piece of desktop artwork. :)

I've also included Double and Single-Mengered versions of this that can be printed in smaller sizes without going below necessary thresholds for different 3D printers.

An experimental piece for when I get a MakerBot or other 3D printer. Here I was going for a smoother, harmonic feeling and an almost symmetrical set of individuals with common characteristics yet nonuniform interdependence. (That was fun to write!) Given the mostly mechanical, minimalistic, functionally-oriented designs on Thingiverse (with exceptions, of course), this thing is a final product of solely aesthetic utility (OK, maybe it can find a job as a paperweight). I wanted a smooth mesh, but another subdivision and the file is more than 120 MB. Made in Blender.

makezine.com/go/makerbot

12 5-sided polygons that fit together to form a dodecahedron. This is probably the smallest buckyball that you could realistically make. There a solid version, and a "wired version", which is way way easier to put together. This is to mess with you geometry-lovers out there.

A simple sphere with 5 planes in 2 directions... Hand made in illustrator.

Can anyone recommend me a tool (commercial or free, but I prefer free :-) that will allow me to make planar cuts through organic shapes to be able to build them via laser cutter? For instance plug-ins for Blender or likewise. And pardon me if it already exists in Blender, I've only just started kicking around in it...

Just thinking, there has to be an easier way than keeping track of 3 planes in my head and hand drawing everything in Illustrator?