1:100 scale model of the International Space Station. 3D models were created using AutoDesk Inventor using sizes in Inches and exported to .stl files. Models came from the NASA website at
nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/scalemodel/index.html

I have created these files in anticipation of making them with my recently ordered MakerBot Replicator. This will be my first attempt at 3D printing and would appreciate if anyone does attempt them, to post some feedback. I will update once my bot arrives and I have a chance to test it out.

This is a cup for playing liar's dice:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_dice

Small part to test the overhang capability of your 3D printer.
from 30° to 5°

Made with sketchup

The one on the picture is made of ABS and sliced at 0.2mm.

Now you can play with the only manned vessels to have left Earth orbit. Reenact all your favorite docking maneuvers and Moon landings.

These models are as close to 1:67 scale as I can manage, working from various drawings and dimensions. The Lunar Ascent Module is courtesy of NASA: nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/models.html, which has a lot of free 3D models of spacecraft. I simplified it and made it manifold using Meshlab and Netfabb's cloud service.

This delicious sushi has been digitized for your enjoyment. Included are: California Roll, Eel Roll, Shrimp, and Ginger. I figured you could handle modeling the wasabi yourself. All files are in VRML format, and zipped with their PNG textures. Ready for color printing.

Introducing: The MakerBot Dynamo!

Ever wish you could convert some of that youthful energy into something a bit more useful? Well using the MakerBot Dynamo kit, store.makerbot.com/makerbot-dynamo.html now you can!

The MakerBot Dynamo is worlds first opens-source, human powered, energy creation device!

Just crank the handle to create real, honest, hardworking electricity.

How do you know its working? Well there's an LED that lights up or course! See your effort in action as it's converted from motion to electricity to light!

And if a LED not exciting enough for you, just think of all the other wonderful things you can power, one hand crank at a time.

See Video of the Dynamo in action: youtu.be/8Brkd5BL_gU

Here by popular request, is the venerable Gothic Cathedral Playset as a single object. Sized suitably for printing on a Replicator build platform.

Its smaller than the original. But with that same crunchy medieval flavour. For extra fun, try printing in PLA.

Long Long ago in a land far away, there was a little castle surrounded by an industrious town. The townspeople loved their little castle and wanted it to be perfect. But the little castle was empty. Its owner had left long ago, taking all the fine things with him and locking them away.

The Townspeople resolved to re-furnish there castle. They learned to craft and create. Making chest and chairs, tables and beds, gadgets and gizmo's, they filled the castle with things that reflected themselves and their experiences. They created so many things that at the end of each day it looked like little castle couldn't hold any more.

But the castle had a secret. Every night, it grew. Sprouting new towers, chambers, and cellars. The town's people would awaken and rejoice, ready for another day of crafting and creating. The town was proud of its magical castle, and everyone wanted to fill it with the best that they could offer.

But wasn't a magical castle, it was a MakerBot Castle.

Each night the daring Damsels deftly deployed their wondrous Replicator, creating new rooms to extend the structure. Floor by floor they built up into the sky. Until one day the little castle had become the tallest and grandest in all the Thingiverse.

And the small town around the castle had grown into a great city, filled with the incredible things and spectacular ideas. The Makers, Crafters, and Hackers had learned from furnishing the castle. They had perfected their crafts and honed their skills. When they looked out on the world from the tallest tower, and saw that it too was a place they could rebuild. And they spread across the land, sharing their knowledge and teaching others how to improve the world around them.

Created by Thingiverse user Skimbal, designer of the Turtle Shell Racers, MakerBot Botmobile and the Gothic Cathedral Playset.

The Internet is a fascinating place, providing the creative, industrious and entrepreneurial with an equal and open platform from which to be heard.

Our elected Representatives have been misled to believe that the needs of a few increasingly irrelevant corporate entities outweigh all the great things a free and open Internet has brought to the world.

Join us in reminding our congressional delegations that by altering the rules to protect the few, they will close the door on so many infinite possibilities the future may have held.

The rule of thumb is that a letter is 100X the value of a phone call. If a 2D action gets a 100X multiplier, then a 3D action could get 1000X the multiplier.

Please print this coin, and mail it to your Senator and Congressman contactingthecongress.org/

This bracelet has no clasp; instead you can stretch it over your hand and onto your wrist. It was inspired partially by the Springamathing: thingiverse.com/thing:12053. The design on the outside was inspired by MakeALot's link bracelet: thingiverse.com/thing:7354.

UPDATE: At the request of nycdesigner, a couple of alternate designs are now also available.

A device for holding open the pages in big books with your thumb while you read them.

A coworker saw something similar in one of those 'crazy product designs from Japan' articles. She asked if I could print her one based solely on the low res photo she showed me.

It's a fairly simple design so I quickly drew the 2D outline in Illustrator then proceeded to use a very convoluted process to ultimately get it into OpenSCAD using a number of techniques I'm still learning.

I'm sure there is a much easier method to build the model so please feel free to share any tips.

UPDATE: Of course after I post this, I discover that it's not the first...not having any terminology to go by, I was looking for the wrong thing. Looks like this was here first: thingiverse.com/thing:1120 and this is newer and closer to my design: thingiverse.com/thing:1747

My girlfriend designed the heat shielding for the new NASA mars rover (the one that just launched). "Curiosity" started its journey on top of an Atlas V launch system, so I picked that as the theme for this week's earring.

Rockets, being volumes of revolution, are easy to model. I altered the scale lines just a bit to help it print better.

Sachel thought a version of the space shuttle would be a perfect addition to the GE Air Show. We agree.

Idea submitted by Sachel D. to the GE Air Show at Facebook.com/GE

This is a Space Shuttle model created from a 3D model downloaded from Google's 3D warehouse. The 3D model was split into separate parts, holes were added for pinning together with 3mm filament, and mounts were made for attaching the booster to the fuel tank, and the Orbiter to the fuel tank.

For a higher quality model see the larger Space Shuttle on Launch Pad thing.
thingiverse.com/thing:10228

This is a derivative of my 2 Liter bottle to 1/4 NPT adapter with reasonably sturdy little fins. The adapter is designed to let you quickly turn an ordinary house hold pop (soda) bottle into a projectile by adding water and air pressure. the 1/4 NPT quick disconnect gives you a simple and easy way to add air pressure and also works as a launch mechanism when you release the collar.

A few people in our Makerbot users group wanted a set of covers for their bots a while back, so I designed a set of laser cut PETG panels that covered the holes on the original Cupcake. I recently revisited the design after someone else wanted a ToM set so I decided to post the designs.

I solved the problem of closing up the front of the bot by creating a fold down door that secured with a couple magnets and utilized some drawer pulls I had on hand. Once the door and panels were installed on my bot, the entire thing looked kinda like an oven, hence the name. Appropriate for a Cupcake, right?

Rather than just preventing drafts from affecting your builds, these panels can also be used in conjunction with a specialized fume hood I designed (which will be posted soon along with ToM oven files) to manage the ABS fumes produced by a bot.

More pics here:
flickr.com/photos/builttospec/6103855648/in/photostream

I've taken Renosis' awesome Gangsta chess set and put all pieces on one build plate (hexagonal packing). There are 8 pawns, 2 bishops, 2 rooks, 2 knights, and a king. I've also added in 2 queens (the second one is for when your first pawn makes it to the other side!) and 3 extra gangstas, just for, you know, more awesome.

There are two STLs... decide which you want to print:
the 1" feet file has 1" diameter feet on each piece
the 1.6" feet file is the original sized pieces and the larger ones are 1.6" diameter on their feet.

Choose the appropriate size for your chess board, or scale it as desired.

I've also included the Blender .blend file I used to make the rendering using the new Cycles rendering engine in case you would like to do your own renderings or learn more about Blender. Highly recommended.

Why printing an acorn? Because my kid wants one ... and it was fun to make.

To those who have emailed me about the lack of files.. I'm updating the files please be patient no one is paying me to do this so progress is slow. My printer is also under repair and it will take some time to test my mods. The reason for the mods are to corrects some problems and to back out changes made for the museum challenge as the entry was unsuccessful.

My redesign (derivative) upgrade of a classic toy from my childhood, the original one still can be purchased in shops but they do NOT fly horizontally. This one does, in fact it can even fly over houses and get lost! Lucky we can print another! It improves our world because when you pull the cord and it flies off horizontally the gyroscopic effect tracks it straight and level and gives you a big grin. Smiling people are happy and happy people make the world a better place. It takes advantage of the accuracy with which a 3D printer creates parts to produce a very precise aerodynamic and balanced flying toy that only works well due to the precision of a 3D printer. I'm designing different Prop Rockets for it say tuned :-) bigger faster further!

Updated to identify the aspects for the new museum challenge

Thank you, all of you who've made cube gears and posted pictures. Since tbuser made these lovely pin connectors, thingiverse.com/thing:10288, I figured it was high time to make a fully printable cube gear set. Now you needn't bother buying any more screws: this one snaps together.

UPDATE: For anyone without access to a 3D printer, you can now buy these from caesia on her Etsy store: etsy.com/shop/PlasticFusion

UPDATE: New version uses tbuser's new pin connectors V2: thingiverse.com/thing:10541, is much stronger, and prints right-side-up. This is practice for making a heart-gear version.

This design also incorporates a couple of tricks that others may find useful. The center block has two very narrow slices through it, which cause interior walls to form, which help keep the tops of the holes from sagging during printing. Likewise, a cylinder is cut out of the interior of the gears, which serves two purposes. First, it makes a strong internal support for the pin. Second, it makes for less stringing between parts when you print four gears at once, because Skeinforge makes the head go from the center of one to the center of the other, so that the perimeters wipe off the nozzle.

UPDATE: By popular demand, a new version of the center block has been uploaded (BcenterFlat.stl), which doesn't have any internal slits and is oriented to print on a large face. This one is significantly easier to print, though the top and bottom holes do end up a touch tighter than the rest.

The first version is a floating widget catapult (those patented plastic balls that you find in some black cans of beer).

Watch it in action :
vimeo.com/29575935

The second is an OpenSCAD catapult with one single parameter.
Just enter the diameter of your projectile and let it build arm and base accordingly.
Short animation showing variation of projectile_diameter from 10 to 35 millimeters :
vimeo.com/29589013

MakerBot friendly by nature, if you want a longer arm catapult also adjust the catapult_length parameter.

Reference :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Widget

Plain Goblet - full hight of ToM build platform.
Then a slightly bent one
Followed by a seriously wonky one.

The famous expanding and contracting ball toy that also makes excellent structural support for whatever sparse scaffolding you need. Basically, if you can design it as a geometric solid, you can probably make a collapsible version with this. In a pinch, also doubles as a jack or a reacher-grabber claw.

I was looking to build a NautilusX model en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus-X and realized that Thingiverse didn't even have a Hoberman sphere library. It uses one-way snaps might be useful for other projects too.

I'm not nearly clever enough to invent the Hoberman sphere. Thanks to Charles Hoberman for the original concept and helpfully detailed drawings.

This is a simplified miniature Taj Mahal.

I recommend using the latest version of the .stl file: taj_mahal_110903e_ctr.stl.

I modified the design to reduce thermal warping and use about 15% less plastic. I could not get the original file to print properly on my older cupcake due to thermal warping.

The picture shows the ...110903e file printed at 80% size. It printed in 2 hours and 2 min.

This is not the most efficient way to make a rigid heddle loom, but it works. There are definitely some parts that need some editing, the heddle needs to be stronger, as do the front and back round beams. Also, the openSCAD files should be parameterized to accomodate any sized loom and heddle.

The loom took a lot of time/plastic to print and I don't expect anyone else to print it, but it was a great way to learn some openSCAD and to combine two of my hobbies.

Easily convert any household lemon into an Aperture Sciences combustible lemon, courtesy of Cave Johnson's Engineers.


If you have no idea what is going on, watch this:
youtube.com/watch?v=NyLUU3O4zW8

Printed on an early Fablicator.
fablicator.com

Like my single cylinder motor? Well here is a four cylinder demonstration model. I like to make mechanical things and this was something I wanted to model in 3d. The printable v8 is on the way!

It was brought to my attention that the STL files weren't all they could be so I have fixed them, no more Skieinforge errors!

I have added a larger set of pistons but it requires really good settings.

I've been wanting to create some nerf traps and thought I would start with a claymore. I'm hoping to make it spring loaded, firing 12 darts, and at least initially trip cord activated. It is very much a work in progress as I've coded one piece so far.

This is a derivative work of Coin-op Bottle Opener by Hoeken.


Makerbot branded bottle opener for giveaways.

UPDATE: I found a problem with the makerbot_bottle_opener2.stl causing the letters to be at different heights. Now its fixed and uploaded 5/18/10

Makerbot bottle opener.stl is an embossed logo, opener 2.stl is a bigger embossed logo, and cut.stl is a debossed logo.

Update: I am now a winner! :) After decades of being a loser, a short post on thingiverse with a cute 2 year old model to add some sweetness and the cutbag contest is mine. You might be thinking, how does this cheap little thingiverse post merit a $150 prize? Answer: You didn't enter your awesome cardboard+bag uber world changing thing. For which I thank you. Now that I am officially and perpetually a winner you are welcome to enter the next contest and receive similar praise and adulation. (not to mention $$$) Contest money will be used to pimp my makerbot cupcake and to help finish my next project. thingiverse.com/thing:9117

After hurricane Katrina many Americans woke up to the need to have some emergency supplies on hand. The Japan earthquake has reminded us all again. Here is a cheap easy backpack for kids that can hold a bottle of water some food and other essentials. Here's a link to the FEMA suggestions for what to put in the pack. fema.gov/areyouready/assemble_disaster_supplies_kit.shtm If there is too much to fit in the little pack, put it in your own darn pack daddy.:)