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 daring MakerBot Damsels are in no manner of distress -- they deftly define their own world of wondrous wizardry. Making, Creating, and Crafting, they dexterously develop designs for castles, creatures, and contraptions.

Deploying Cupcakes, Thing-O-Matics, and Replicators, dozens of Damsels distribute production precisely for punctual perfection.

Dastardly deed doers and nefarious ninja gnomes beware, the Damsels don’t take kindly to klepto capers and would-be kidnappers.

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

Build plates for the full sized turret chess set suitable for printing the whole set, with both colors, all at once with a MakerBot Replicator with dualstrusion. If you're feeling extra ambitious, I've also included a version with the entire chess board (split in half) as well as all the pieces!

This hasn't been tested yet...

For the first time we were demoing our new ToM to a friend, using carefully tested objects, when his son asked us to make us some accessories for his lego viking. Never a great fan of programming as a spectator sport, but I (and my friend's son) were still quite pleased with the results.

This coffin's been tidied up and improved since the demo but still could do with some work it probably could be a bit smaller and it'd be nice to add studs/suckets on the top and bottom (or base and lid), and it could do with holes for attaching things to it, but it's ok as is (and my first upload)

Nuts and bolts and various other things kept falling down the routing holes in the acrylic platform down to the electronics on my thingomatic. It was very frustrating have to use tweezers to pick these things out. So I made these covers that go right into the holes, and leave a bit of room for any wires going through.

This is a 3-digit, base-10 register for an electromechanical computer I'm working on. It is stepper-driven, and works like a 3-digit counter, counting from 000-999 before rolling over. When all three digit wheels read '0-0-0', 3 reed switches will close and a circuit will be completed to detect the condition.

All-purpose Treasure Chest. Suitable for a Medieval castle or a pirate ship. filled with massive treasure.

This ornament makes use of one of the fonts introduced with the openSCAD release of December 29, 2011 -

see More Fontz by polymaker at thingiverse - thing:13677

The ornament is labeled on the outside with HAPPY HAPPY and on the inside with JOY JOY - the openings are designed to make JOY JOY visible - HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY are the lyrics to a Ren and Stimpy song of the same name. The ornament is purely decorative and meant to illustrate the use of the newly available fonts. However it could be used to hold paper clips if printed in a larger size.

It's constructed from a polyhedron with 16 faces. While not a regular polyhedron it is an attractive one. It consists of two regular heptagons joined by 14 trapezoids and is simple enough so that the rotations and translations required to joint the text to the figure can easily be calculated. I've included some explanatory comments with the openSCAD code.

Small (and dirty ;) ) script to convert grayscale heightmaps to stl models. Usable for landscapes or terrain prints.

Supported Image Formats: GIF, PNG (preferred), JPEG, BMP

Not really from the Middle ages but still good for an "up to date" Medieval castle. Nothing feels better than soaking in a hot tub after a good jousting match.

Use these connectors to connect dowels and make kites of your own design. Can also be used for anything that uses dowels as well.

Lowered 1951 Chevrolet pickup - LOWRIDER.
Large 25 MB file

Base on European 1 into 4 mail and inspired by building the WPFChainmailV4 by Will_NC.

I rebuild the whole file from scratch (it is about 50% the size of the WPF mail).

The SW file is arrayed so one can increase/decrease the ring count as one wants. Though you;ll have to make sure the STL resolution is low else SW locks up if there are too many ring (or mine does anyway).

We got my daughters their own whiteboards to color on for Christmas, and I thought it would be fun to print out name plate magnets to stick on them.

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.

Suit of Armor. Suitable for knights in castles

An ornament for your christmas tree! I was inspired by the tear-drop shaped ornaments and a whisk (May be the perfect gift for the chef in the family!) and experimented with the negative space created inside.

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This thing is part of a final project for CPSC 183 Technology and the Law with Prof. Brad Rosen at Yale University. The idea of this project is to ask friends for ideas for physical objects that they would like to have that could be printed on the Makerbot TOM. I have designed them, printed them out and given them to the people who requested them. I also have uploaded them here to Thingiverse to add to the library of physical objects that people find cool, useful, or just plain fun!
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I made a Toy of Japanese anime(gdgd-Fairies) charactor.
(ref: gdgdfairy.com/ )

Making video: youtu.be/WI30F4TRq7E

A printable version of the coil holder called for in a Make Project (http://makeprojects.com/Project/Treasure-Finder/1113/1)

It is 6 inches wide. I guesstimated most of the other dimensions.

Feel free to edit and improve.

The default hipster that you always have to delete when you open a new document in Sketchup 7.

Ok, if you have a Ford truck you are prolly miss'n one or more of these silly caps. I run a 2005 F250 Superduty but these should fit F150 as well as other models around that time frame. I designed them so they actually pop in instead of gingerly sit on the lip surround and just wait for that next pot-hole impact to fly out.

SketchUp file included along with the stl file for 2 caps.

Little windup animal walkers!
Created as gifts for my little cousins.

Current animals:
Cat
Penguin
Bird
Bunny - Added 12/18/2011
Lion - Added 12/20/2011

Check back as I add more animals!

I wanted a nice looking, enclosed and reliable 3D printer with great build quality and large envelope. The result: Part-Y!

The frame consists of L-shaped aluminium profiles, covered in clear plexiglass with vinyldecals designed by my sister. The printer is completely enclosed with charcoal filters on the air outlet to get rid of fumes.

All axes are constructed with high quality professional linear guides. The z axis was originally designed with rods and linear bearings, but I bought the cheapest bearings on ebay and the quality was really bad.

The extruder is a Makerbot mk7 for 1.75mm filament, choosen for it's compact size, high reliability and great precision.

Current build envelope is limited by the area of the heated bed to 210x210x200 mm, the x and y axes are however capable of 240mm movement.

Print-Y is controlled by a Sanguinololu and powered by an internal 400W PSU.

I'll add more details with BOM aso later if someone is interested.

Bad quality video: youtube.com/watch?v=qF7fGArkb1c

MORE PRINT VOLUME:

- Increased the lateral separation of 234 mm to 250 mm.

- It has moved 10 mm heated platform down.

- The resulting print volume depends on the platform and the extruder that we place but you can easily get a size bigger than 190 x 190 x 100 mm.

MORE ROBUST:

- The thickness of the acrylic has risen to 6 mm.

- The introduction of a crosspiece to give more rigidity.

- In the attachment points of the rods can be placed brimmed washers (DIN9021).

DESING MADE CONSIDERING THE WIRING:

- The electronics is on the left side of the printer, it is placed horizontally to get the cable up coming from above.

- Parts acrylic have holes or slots provided for wiring.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Like last time, the magnificent infographics have been made with Cinema 4D + VRay by PIKELO.

SPANISH VERSION AT:

reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_Aire#PRUSA_AIR_2.2C_Redise.C3.B1o

I always wished they would make this one.

Update: I cleaned up the merged area of the trilego so that a 2x2 block can attach to the bottom. Also added flat (1/3) block STL files.

A traffic light which has it lights turn on using snaps

"I used to be a reprapper like you, then I took an arrow in the knee".

Now you can fake a knee related arrow injury with this exclusive prosthesis! (Will also work for most other body parts).

It comes with everything you need to make your own arrow as well. The .scad file is somewhat parametric so you can tweak it to fit your needs. The holes are 9-10mm, and you can change out the arrow itself with a twig or a dowel if you prefer.

Before anyone complains about the color of my print, let's just say my printed arrow is supposed to be a glass arrow.

I'd love to see someone print this and put in a proper arrow, though. :)

If you are clueless about this whole thing, take a look here: knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee

This is a sculptur made with Blender for to see how I could do finishing in 3D. I went through a lot of steps for to try to clean the mesh, but there is still a lot of work I think. But I don't have enough time and courage to go on. Feel free to give it a go!!
I have added the different elements in STL, if it can help someone.

Also by the way, I'm printing since a few days ABS on an unclad sheet of FR4 epoxy glass with a heated bed built under a piece Vitroceram glass at only 100 degrees celsius and it's a wonder. I had no warp, and Abs sticks surprisingly just like on Kapton tape. After the print is finished, I can just remove the epoxy sheet and it cools down (it can go fast with a little blow) and the part just pops off by itself!
This print is 160mm large and quiet massive, but it just goes fine even though my raft is really small.(see pictures)

Celeritas is Purdue Solar Racing's newest solar vehicle, and competes in the Shell Eco-Marathon Urban Concept division. It competed in 2011 with an equivalent efficiency of 2,175 MPG.

Now you can have your own model of Celeritas for your desk!

For more information on Celeritas and Purdue Solar Racing, visit purduesolar.org

My grandson and I were up early this morning and he wanted to make a storage box for some of his things. A Thingiverse search didn't turn up anything that interested him, but then he noticed the burn hazard warning sticker on the TOM and decided on a pyramid shaped box. The OpenSCAD script just took a couple of minutes and after a quick look through the filament bin for color ideas it was time to hit the print button.