Generate it in any size.

Has an experimental feature to include an extra set of inner walls to protect the hinges from the contents. By drawing the hinge lines in a zig zag pattern, plotting time is reduced significantly.

The guys at Moving Brands challenged us to help them print their own Chocolate Advent Calendar in a month.

We already knew about the Frostruder, and had most of the parts to build a RepRap Prusa, so the solution seemed obvious. They ordered a Frostruder, and we got busy building their Prusa.

Things got exciting when we tried to mount the Frostruder to the Prusa carriage - it was just too big and bulky!

Luckily, inspiration struck. We stripped down the Frostruder to the bare bones, and used the Prusa to print its own adaptor.

Lo and behold, chocolate printing goodness!

Moving Brands Advent Promotional Video: vimeo.com/33775105
Moving Brands Advent Calendar: movingbrands.com/advent

This is a tribute for our teacher Obijuan ( thingiverse.com/obijuan ) that is among the ones that introduced me to the world of 3d printing.

It is a custom Wade extruder gear that has some Rebel Alliance symbol as holes on it.

I've found that the x idler pulley tends to ride up against the top y carriage wood. This creates noise and other problems.

There are bearing and belt holders and all manner of x axis improvements but I've yet to see one to fix this. The idler rides up due to the belt being pulled up to mesh with the x carriage belt teeth.

My solution is to customise the teethes position to match the belts natural path.

This is based off of Joakim's x follower openSCAD file so it can match its customization for a perfect x axis sliding action, print his and mine as they replace 2 separate parts.

All comments and suggestions welcomed, heck just comment

Examples for the ImplicitCAD 0.0.1 Release. Look at the *.escad source files to see the exciting features of ImplcitCAd's Extended OpenSCAD format.

See the README:
github.com/colah/ImplicitCAD

See the Release Notes:
christopherolah.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/implicitcad-0-0-1-release/

This is an implementation of Nikola Tesla's "Valvular Conduit" that acts as a one-way-valve without any moving parts.

blog.makezine.com/2012/01/05/the-tesla-valve-one-way-flow-with-no-moving-parts/

This implementation follows Tesla's patent diagrams, perhaps too closely. It works, but the cap is a bit leaky so I plan to re-design it in the future.

Replacement cap (and tail) to turn your favorite Sharpie marker into a stunt plane.

After print the original balloon, I was very excited to watch it race along the floor. My balloon racer had a few problems that prevented me from moving. My balloon racer was very heavy and was not air tight. After adding rubber cement, the craft moved 3 inches

This is a modified v1.1 Thingomatic Heater Board which has a tab with through-hole pads for soldering and securing the Molex KK 0.156" harness connector as well as the motor connector. This provides a much sturdier mounting point for the wiring connectors, making it much harder to break the connectors off along with their pads. Additionally, this layout has no vias and uses wider traces to the motor connector and to the SMD components. (The heater traces are the same widths and left unchanged other than the removal of the vias.)

In the v1.1 r0 version, the connectors are soldered to SMD pads and accidentally bending the Molex connector up or down can leverage its pads right off of the board.

While this PCB addresses the mechanical problem with the attachment of the connectors, it does not address the problem associated with overheating of the plastics in the connector shrouds or their mating plugs -- particularly the HEATER- and +12V wires on the wiring harness. To address that problem, instead solder some teflon jacketed wires to the pads (v1.1 r0) or the through holes (v1.1 r2) and then make a pigtail connector or similar. Teflon jacketed wire can take the heat and if you run several inches of it, it should be enough to dissipate the heat before mating with the wiring harness. You can get a small spool of the stuff at a good price in the US from bulkwire.com; the through holes for the Molex connector will easily accommodate 14 gauge wire.

Note that the tab is 10.81 mm (0.43") deep and as such will add that much additional length to that side of your heater board. [The tab seen in the pictures is 2.54 mm (0.1") longer than the one in the attached Eagle and Gerber files.]

BTW, there is no "r1" that I'm aware of. For whatever reason, I accidentally produced my board with "r2" on it. Cest la vie.

A BatchPCB design is available at
batchpcb.com/product_info.php?products_id=78232&check=38563f546fc5198d95b69e6810006a8e

**NOTE: if you are looking for Gerber files for the original Thingomatic Heater Board 1.1, see Thing 16459,

thingiverse.com/thing:16450

I started out simply wanting to print a giant bread tag for a friend. Little did I know that an entire taxonomy exists for the parasitoids known as Occlupanid (Occlu = to close, pan = bread).

The most thorough research into these organisms has been conducted by the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group - horg.com/horg. Their work was even used in the report "Plastic bag clip discovered in partial colectomy accompanying proposal for phylogenic plastic bag clip classification" published in the BMJ Case Reports journal: casereports.bmj.com/content/2011/bcr.02.2011.3869.abstract.

While the SCAD file is parametric so far I have only designed (bred?) one example of the Toxodenta (curved teeth) order, based on an example I found in the wild which appears to conform to the classification of Palpatophora utiliformis - horg.com/horg/Palpatophora_utiliformis.htm.

I intend to extend the SCAD file to include examples of species from each order. I also encourage people to create their own variations and mutations. Let's see if we can get these creatures to evolve into something new! ;-)

After I added the tapered mouthpiece to the whistles, and with the hotdog-red ABS, these things remind me of a toy wienermobile I used to have. Thus the name.

This panflute is slightly more practical than the one it's derived from. The curved shape is easier to use than the circle, and I added a bit of taper to the mouthpiece to make it easier to blow on a single whistle. Still not a practical musical instrument, though!

This one has a diatonic scale (CDEFGABC) instead of chromatic like the other one. I had to learn the OpenSCAD lookup() function for that!

Procedurally-generated panpipes for 3D printing. They really whistle, but they aren't particularly accurately tuned. OpenSCAD file included.

It'll theoretically play a chromatic scale (12 notes to the octave) but it's too squeaky to know for sure!

v of vendetta mask

Rock-a-bye Cthulhu, In R'lyeh deep.
Dead you may be, or only in sleep.
When you awake, the madness will fall,
Then the Old Ones will teach man new ways to shout and kill and revel, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.

This is the first of a new set of pieces designed to be a desktop figures or re-sized to be a suitable replacement for simple pawns in your favorite board games. Print off a whole set to add a touch of madness to any game.

I don't have a 3D printer so I'll need your support and feedback if you have one.

With this Thing installed, you can easily access the bottom mechanical and electronic elements of your unit by removing only four screws and tilting the entire top of the enclosure onto its back without disconnecting any cables.

Just a quick solution to my wobbling print bed.
Please notice I also use a linear guide (the clear printed piece).

Request: If you use this firmware, please take the time to click on "I Made One" with a picture of your bot or lcd.

This firmware took 1 month to write and is time I've donated to make the Gen 4 LCD Interface what it should have been.

Because this isn't something printable, the best appreciation you can show for this work is to encourage others to use it by keeping it on the Thingiverse front page. Thanks to those who have done this already.

This is a major Motherboard firmware upgrade for the Gen 4 LCD Interface, to enable true standalone operation.

Supports: ThingOMatic, Cupcake, Reprap and Others.

An older video showing some of the features in V1.0: youtube.com/watch?v=ONPvZaEAoBQ

** NEW ** Firmware Manual: wiki.makerbot.com/jetty-firmware

This firmware contains many new features, some of which are: extruder control, preheat, profiles, calibration, multicolored printing, mood light, buzzer and build time estimation.

Feature list: wiki.makerbot.com/jetty-firmware#toc3

Requirements: wiki.makerbot.com/jetty-firmware#toc1

Latest Changes: (Version 2.5 - 01/25/12): wiki.makerbot.com/jetty-firmware#toc33

Any updates will be placed here, so check back often.

Note: This is not an official Makerbot firmware release.

This is a simple one layer print to help in levelling your bed and nozzle start height. Print to see if there are any high points or squished parts in the printed line.

This is a derivative of the original MakerBot MK7 Extruder Drive Block. My friend Peter Schmehl and I designed a modded drive block that supports filament completely - all the way to the barrel / thermal barrier.

Just modified the bottom gear of the screwless heart gears to fit my old kysan DC extruder motor (which turns very slowly on 5V USB XD)

youtube.com/watch?v=YefD_BvxgzY

Deliver up to 6 Spices onto your Meals like a Boss!

Saw a pic from a asian desinerpage with a similar approach.. and designed my own rightaway.


Wont Fit a ToM but try scaled down.

all need some outer support.

These are yet another implementation of easy open / quick access end cap covers for the Thing-o-Matic y and z-axis linear rods. This implementation uses a cover which rides in a sliding dovetail joint.

For other implementations, see thingiverse.com/thing:12279 (cover is sandwiched between the wood and a plate) and thingiverse.com/thing:16415 (cover slips onto the screws which need to be loosened a little to again remove the cover).

Not sure how to announce this other than by uploading a 'thing'. So here is one.

Enthousiastic about OpenSCAD but somewhat frustrated by the limitations of its language, I've worked on an alternative using Javascript. It's free, completely open source, still seriously under construction, based on Evan Wallace's CSG.js library and can be used from within the Chrome browser.

Launch your Chrome browser and go to: joostn.github.com/OpenJsCad/

The benefits over openSCAD are mainly in the language itself: you can use dynamic arrays for example, and solids can be stored in variables.

UPDATE: I've added a parser for local files as well. Create your own .jscad files, go to
joostn.github.com/OpenJsCad/processfile.html to parse them into an STL file.

UPDATE 2: Here's my first real thing designed with OpenJsCad:
thingiverse.com/thing:16329

A while back, a friend of mine asked if I could make her a version of a Fox 40 whistle.

Originally, I tried to make one in Google Sketchup but the result was unprintable. Then I made a close replica in OpenSCAD, but that didn't print well and didn't make any sounds.

So, I decided to go after a design that accomplished the same thing (2-tones & pealess) but had a more printable form. It took me 8 iterations, but I finally got it :)

I needed to layout full strings for a project so I extended donb's wonderful DraFont library. This version will dump all ascii characters from a font by default, and provide a method for laying out strings.

New in version 1.1: String spacing settings!

For the brave, there is a git repo at github.com/pipakin/OpenSCAD-Font-Importer (This is not for the faint of heart, my python skills are substandard at best)

NOTE: Complicated glyphs can take a long time to render, and I've managed to crash OpenSCAD a LOT by using long strings. For example, "FONTZ!" takes 1 minute 30 seconds to render, while "This is a test string." takes significantly longer (on the order of 13 minutes). So if you are going to use this for something, I recommend generating your string, rendering it, and then outputting an STL to use in your design with import_stl.

A mini digger executive toy. 4 moveable joints, rotating base, 2 arm joints and bucket control from the 2 levers at the back.

These are available as kits through my website.
msraynsford.blogspot.com/2012/01/mini-digger.html

This lamp has a system that we can graduate the intensity of light depending on the degree of stretch of the same.

Replace one of you MK7 spacers with this part and you can pen plot with a fine point Sharpie.

I redesigned this in scad with a 15mm spacer instead of the 1/2 used on the original. My MK7 came with 5/8" mm spacers. Fits a Sharpie Fine Point just like to original thing.

I may add a "tab" to it that sits on the side of the heatsink to keep it in a more stable position.

Storage system for storing various things. Developed from the simpler parametric compartment box by adding two new cool features: (optional) rounding of all compartment corners to prevent the pesky nuts and bolts from hiding in the corners to avoid being used, and handles plus some new OpenSCAD modules for creating a cabinet of drawers.