A filament spool! That you can print. The spool is 20cm in diameter. It should work fine with both 3mm and 1.75mm filament.

Lowered the resolution a bit, closed holes, added a flat back, etc. Should be printable now.

"Oh man, I wish there was an easy way to mount this sensor bar on top of my LCD screen, without like tape or something."

And then I drafted up a quick bracket, printed out two of them, and proceeded to play video games well into the early hours of the morning.

One of the ends of my backpack's zipper broke, allowing the zipper to zip all the way off! This little trinket clips on to the zipper tracks, preventing the zipper from unzipping too far!

I made both a version that clips on, and one that has some little slots to allow stitching it in place.

Really, though, the clip is good enough in my case.

A fancy lamp with room to add your own wiring to.

Improvements since the prototype:
1) Split up into four parts to allow for larger printing. Assumes a max build height of 8.5-9ish cm.
2) Base parts have threading so they just screw together. Top part is now printed upside-down to give it a nicer exterior surface.
3) Holes for wiring and adding switches.

A prototype for a Consumermas gift which I am making for a relative.
The final version will be a bit bigger; and the base will feature a usb port which will power some LEDs.

I plan on printing the base in black PLA, and the vase in clear PLA.

Also, there is a hole on the bottom of the vase, which sockets it to the base, and also is present to facilitate wiring.

Based on a model made by my bud Chris Webber, which can be found here: mediagoblin.com/u/cwebber/m/fear-of-flight/

Psycho is a character from "The Misadventures of Okk", by Brian Raddatz.
okk.comicgenesis.com/d/20060414.html

Note that the original blend is rigged, so you can re-pose the model to your heart's content.

It is a puzzle. Impress your friends!
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Well, impress the ones that don't know too much about 3d printing =)

The model in the .blend file is rigged, so you can pose the arms, head, and torso before printing. Also, in a hidden layer, there's a copy of the mesh before applying the mirror modifier and assigning vertex groups, if you want to play around with the model's shape.

I'm pretty pleased with how this experiment turned out. Pleased, because I made a model, rigged it, posed it, and then printed it - and it mostly worked!

A bit of background on this piece: the model itself is my first ever attempt at 3d printing. The assembly of the original was done by hand, but that is the only step that resembled traditional not-printing. I wrote a rudementry model slicing tool in college one afternoon; and then realized that I could put that to work in a sculpture class I was taking at the time. The assignment was basically "here's two big sheets of polystyrene; go nuts." I finished the project in a few days, where two weeks were alloted for the assignment.

For your enjoyment, I've included a picture of my two original prints.

I'm going to decline to release my code right now, as "rudementry" is an overstatement on the quality of the code and my poor understanding of best practice at the time.

Yeah, I know, everyone uses "but my code is ugly" as an excuse, but believe me, using a shell script to generate a c++ header from an .obj file (for obscure performance reasons, and didn't know of a good library to use for what I wanted, and didn't want to spend the rest of the afternoon researching one) and re-adapting a program you wrote to demonstrate shader programs (for an independant study) to facilitate the slicing stuff... oh and don't forget, the gui for operating the slicer (adapted from the demo program) is a python program. More embarassing than the run-on sentance I just wrote. Trust me, the code is fugly. Time constraints and using what I knew at the time won over researching best practice.

I do have plans to remake the slicing tool now that I'm older and wiser, since it enabled something that resembles 3d printing to persons with no budget. It also enables working in pretty much any scale you like without concern for overhangs. Such a remake I would opensource or make public domain for sure.



Oh, almost forgot; this piece is an abstraction of an aligator vertebra.

Set with the Akzidenz Grotesk font, which Adobe claims a copyright upon - and probably some design patents - so I'll likely make another version with a free font later. I just picked something that looks nice for now.

If you're interested as to how I made it, I pretty much used some basic shapes and Blender's boolean modifier: wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.5/Manual/Modifiers/Mesh/Booleans

11/28/11
Updated the source files so that the six isn't backwards.

Parametric, and surprisingly ergonomic.

Serves three purposes for me:
1. Learn OpenSCAD
2. Refamiliarize myself with basic modeling in blender.
3. Lock nuts.