In memory of those beautiful little kids from Newtown.

(textured) 3D models from the MIT CSAIL database

One of the most famous statues in the world.

The Thinker / Le Penseur by Auguste Rodin (1902)

Source: 3D models from the MIT CSAIL database

First test of using the Laywoo-3D 3d-printable wood material.

I designed a simple business-card holder that nicely matches my business cards. Simply slide the cards out. It fits cards 55x85 mm.

A solidworks model of the Ultimaker, based on the ProE model by GeneralRuleOfDumb.
Added some pretty colors and mates; Xy and Z stage moves with mates, everything else is fixed.

This makes it easy to adjust the z-axis height using a thumbscrew

This device couples to a standard plastic garden hose quick-connector. It should work with most brands (I've found that these things are actually pretty universal, US design is the same as in in Europe! Major surprise).

What does it do? It connects. That's all. You'll have to mod it to make something useful out of it.

I'm anxiously awaiting images of people watering their lawn with a Bre or Colbert nozzle.

And if you really want to print something that would totally warrant your ultimaker or makerbot investment, why not create a spray nozzle or sprinkler system that _exactly_ waters the shape of your lawn.

A fan shroud for the ultimaker. Together with a 5mm fan, this one delivers a nice cool breeze of air to the object being printed without cooling the extruder head too much.
The stock fan shroud (piece of laser cut plastic that needs to be folded) didn't work well for me, it touched the extruder head and started to melt..

This was a pair of glasses I designed very quickly to test my ultimaker. On this machine, you can print it out in one piece.

Requested by my son, the title says it all.. This is a derivative form two other projects: Darth vader and LEGO, inspired by the awesome Duplo brick-to-Brio-track.

It mates with a regular DUPLO brick. Now all we need is a bucket full of black duplo bricks and a light saber.

As printing something we "really, really" needed was the only way to convince my wife that a Makerbot is a good investment, I designed this towel hook. Simply slide the towel into the wedge and it will stay there. For larger towels, scale everything, which can be done within the latest rev of ReplicatorG.
As it turned out, it's pretty usefull for smaller towels. My wife is convinced.

This is an alternative extruder hot-end design for the makerbot, though it may work for other 3d printers as well.

The big advantage is that it does not require an insulator (usually PTFE or PEEK), which causes problems for some (or perhaps many). Instead, a stack of washers and nuts is used as a heatsink to reduce the temperature.

It worked really, really well for me, no more stalled extruders, stuck filaments, half-way prints. It heats up rapidly less than 1 minute from 25 to 220 degC), and I haven't had any problems with it (yet..).
I've only printed ABS so far, so I have no idea if it will work with other materials.

My original version used an aluminum heatsink (bottom image), but I thought that might be a bit hard for others to duplicate, so I built this one. Works just as well, just looks a little less fancy.

You'll need a small fan, stainless steel M6 bolt as well as a stack of M6 nuts and 25mm M6 fender washers in addition to asome components from a standard makerbot extruder.