I was really sad to see that no one had printed Sean Michael Ragan's gömböc (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10190)! So I sliced it to make it printable without supports on a ToM, RepRap or similar machine.

Does it work? That is, is it mono-monostatic? Well, mine sure isn't. I printed a pretty small one, 4 cm long and 3 cm tall, and it's fairly content to sit on the flat faces near the top center. I think a bigger one will work better. Let me know if you have better results!

Future changes: Having the seam where it is might be a problem, because the gömböc frequently has to roll over it. Ideally, the seam would be along the ridge, but then I would have to worry about warping.

P.S. How do YOU pronounce "gömböc"? I learned it the Hungarian way, which sounds a little like "GUM-butts". But "GOM-bock" seems to be winning out. But I digress.

Okay, backstory. A long time ago, I learned about a cake called torta tre monti, a cake from the Most Serene Republic of San Marino. From the Wikipedia article on the cake: "It is similar to other layered desserts common to San Marino, this one being representative of The Three Towers of San Marino."

I misinterpreted this sentence. You see, I thought it meant the torta tre monti actually resembled a geographical formation, like a topo map. That is an exciting prospect, because San Marino is a jagged, mountainous land, and a jagged, mountainous cake would be really cool.

Tragically, that is not the case! The cake is actually a hockey-puck-shaped stack of wafers. There is nothing topographical about it at all! Clearly I needed to do something about it.

The result is my nuovo torta tre monti, the result of four days of labor. It covers all of San Marino and a chunk of Italy that surrounds it. Each gradation is 20 meters higher than the one before it, with the highest one being 700 meters. I didn't get the lines from a geological survey or anything; I stitched together screenshots from Google Maps (terrain mode) and traced them by hand using my trackpoint mouse.

(That's a point of pride. I did all this with a trackpoint. Go me!)

Cake.