This is a model of Earth made of a sphere with two displacement maps. A specular map displaces the land & ice masses above the oceans. A topography map adds texture to the land. This exaggerates the texture more than a topography map alone. It was inspired by thingiverse.com/thing:14070 and thingiverse.com/thing:11660

I found a build your own mechanical kit in my Dad's wood shop over the weekend and decided I'd try my hand at mechanical pencil design with some ABS rather than wood.

The barrel is designed to be used with the "Executive Pencil Kit" from Penn State Industries.
pennstateind.com/store/PKEXEC-PCL.htm

I tried to make a geometic pattern that would be difficult (at least for me) to duplicate using traditional wood working methods.

They sell quite a few customizable wood working kits that I could see being repurposed for 3D printing (plastic working?).

Overall the pen looks cool and is a great conversation starter. More details and photos from my build are available in my blog post here: thenewhobbyist.com/2012/02/wood-working-on-the-makerbot-thing-o-matic/

Build something your child will treasure for a lifetime, a treasure chest! Our son absolutely loves all things treasure, so I decided to create a small treasure chest for him. He absolutely loves the result, keeping his most valuable treasure safe inside. Then of course our other son wanted one desperately too, so I improved the cut and made another. And then the wife wanted one for her desk at work, and then one as a present for her sister… So I thought I might share the design.

For 3mm MDF.

File optimised to share all cut lines and minimise material needed.

Genuine curved wood slat lid.

Working lock.

2 unique keys provided.

Guaranteed to attract treasure of all kinds.

I'm working on a few iterations of spiral staircases in scale, and I created a simple version to test before venturing on to more complicated projects.

This version is in 1:24 scale. Sixteen treads are required to complete a 360 degree revolution. The rise is 9".

I have some landing options I plan to upload in the near future.

This is just a simple design that can be used for a number of things. Most commonly the commercial equivalent of this is used to blow air or liquid over tools on CNC machines, drill presses, etc. I am thinking of using it as an articulated arm to hold camera flashes off-camera and run wires through the center. Anything is possible.

Feel free to post up modifications, as this is tweaked to the fraction of a millimeter for my specific machine to be exactly as tight as I wanted them to be.

Note: I break a few here and there when putting them together. This is to be expected, and possibly thickening up the "neck" would fix this. I print 3 x 2 using multiply so this isn't a huge deal to break one every now and then.

EDIT: I uploaded all three resolutions. The highest is what made the links in the picture, but you may have similar luck with the other two resolutions. Thanks!

This is a half-size version of Stefan's double-size minifig, with added attachment posts – you may have to shave the posts to get them to fit.

Rotated and given a flat bottom as well as decimated in blender to reduce file size.

This is a sculpture from my recent solo show, "Tomorrow Land"! You can read all about the meaning of the work here: rhgallery.com/site/exhibitions/tomorrowland/tomorrowland_pressrelease.pdf

This sculpture commemorates the end of the shuttle program. The shuttle silhouette is cut out of a cemetery. Pour one out for this retired work-horse!

It's art so it's not "for" anything other than to impress your friends with your well-developed cultural palette.

Few ages ago I was using a piece of paper "quite a 2D thing" to get 3 dimensional models, so this is a tribute to a couple of my first ever "made things".

It's a quick OpenSCAD that don't take in account some important aspects to make the models easyly printable. Take a look to the instructions and the scad script itself for more info.

Some more pictures: flickr.com/photos/aubenc/sets/72157628926382411/

The Chinese New Year is almost here, and we are entering the Year of the Dragon. Celebrate the New Year with these fun chinese dragon coins and medallions. Give them out as party favors, play games with them, or just have the coolest medallion at the party.

Have you been envious of ever-dimensionally-increasing build platforms? Well now you can claim to be able to print ONE FOOT* OF PLASTIC!

* Warning: Claim may be pun.

But seriously though, this was a test print while I continually try to get my printer to meet my unrealistically high quality expectations.

Hope you get a kick out of this!

UPDATE:
I added an approximately "full-size" model of just the top half of the foot.

I'm satisfied with the quality.

Barrel

Dining tables to match your favorite miniature chairs. Check out the rest of the 1:24 scale furniture pieces in my Queen Anne collection.

The tables are scale reproductions of dining tables with the following footprints:
60"x36" - seats 6
48"x36" - seats 4
36"x36" - seats 4
30"x30" - seats 2

Medieval sort of dresser. Suitable for Kings and Queens.

This is a design armchair I created with the software solidThinking. This is the first model I designed with it, following a tutorial.

Greetings Bold Adventurers!

I know you must be pretty excited right now, but please try to contain yourselves while we get thought this final pre-flight briefing....

Your rocket is just coming out of the Replicator now. And let me be the first to say, she’s a beauty. This new model you’ll be flying has that stunning red-and-white color scheme, and a much lower risk of sudden occupant liquefaction.

We’ll be sending you on a daring voyage of exploration and discovery. You're going out into the furthest reaches of the known Thingiverse, with only your wits and those little helmets for protection. We have no idea whats out there... or if it's friendly. But here at MakerBot Space Exploration our engineers have decided its best to just say positive.

Remember, it's the dream of every spool of filament to one day be printed into an astronaut, and you are the lucky few who get to live that dream. Go forth my brave astronauts and see all there is to be seen! Discover all that can be discovered! Meet new prints and learn their ways! Yours is the greatest adventure of our time!

And be sure to take lots of pictures, you know we love a good slide show.

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.

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.

Forward Brave Astronauts!

Journey into the farthest reaches of the Cosmos and be among the first humans to see the wonders of our Thingiverse.

Your daring MakerBot crew risks all for science, adventure, and our distributed-manufacturing future!

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

I set out tryign to make a pin hole camera on the laser with craft wood becuase I loved the feel and aperance of it rather than some plastic. It gave it a much more "analog" and natural feel.
I soon incoutered many problems with fitment that would allow light to leak through the body of the camera so i decided to change mediums and will be design another camera to be printed on a MakerBot. This is what i came up with so far.

The Chronulator is a kit from SharedBrain. It displays the time on two analog current meters. I wanted to build the Chronulator to look like an old fashioned lab instrument. To do this I replaced the original clear plastic meters covers with covers I made on my ToM. The case was made from Red Oak.
The scale was modified to show hour and minute.

A Hidden Marble Maze. Very difficult to solve.

The pins in this version are a little stronger and their slightly different shape makes them easier to insert and less likely to break. It also lets you make pegs which are printed horizontally so they are much stronger. Pegs can be used to join two parts that have holes in them. The pinholes also now have a small bevel in them to help make it easier to insert.

The syntax is totally different as well. It was kind of dumb to use global variables in the last version, now you pass the variables to each method so it's easier to have pins of various sizes in one project.

This is a complete two-leg walking mechanism of Theo Jansen.

To build a complete walking Robot, you'll need this Thing 4 Times and some Construction for the two Motors and Control of them.

This is a Speed Handle for a PanaVise(tm) Jr. vise. With it, you can open and close the jaws much faster and more easily than using the stock handle which comes with the vise. For some period of time, PanaVise provided these along with these vises.

The knob fits securely over the vise's existing knob.

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.

Juan Miguel García Haro
Pablo Marín Plaza

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Departamento de sistemas y automática
Máster de Robótica Industrial

In order to improve the tool OOML (http://iearobotics.com/oomlwiki/doku.php), we built this motorboat from libraries OOML whose they are written in C++. The MOTORBOAT is developed from zero and it is not based on any model previously developed by other programmers. We only use the code .SCAD of a propeller, to build our propeller (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8688 ).

Here is a video of the MOTORBOAT (in spanish):
Pulleys:
youtu.be/dUqTDfMHCe8
Gears:
youtu.be/C185LOEoUI0

Test in water:
youtu.be/0xFm2y-97Ts

All code is written by QtCreator program, this program can work in parallel with OpenScan program order to view the process of developing of the different parts.

The MOTORBOAT was divided into three parts. The first part is the physical structure of the MOTORBOAT and is intended to float on water. The second part is based on mechanical system pulleys and belt and is intended to transmit power to the propeller. The third part is based on other mechanical system gears and also aims to transmit power to the propeller.

The gear code has been parameterized to function as a new library OOML.

To supply power to the mechanical system we used a motor DC that is activated or deactivated through a switch.

Finally, the attached codes are. "STL" files. It also includes a ".RAR" file which includes all the generated files (."CPP", ."SCAD", ."STL").

Additional things.
To assemble the physical structure of the motorboat, we need:
Waterproof adhesive.
2 flange to hold the motor.
To assemble the mechanical system based on pulleys and belts, we need:
2 M3x10mm screws.
10 M3 washer.
2 M3 nuts.
1 square section belt 80Øx2.2mm.
To assemble the mechanical system based on gears, we need:
2 M3x10mm screws.
2 M3x20mm screws.
2 M3 nuts.
14 M3 washer.

A comfy place to rest your head after a hard day in space. 1:18 scale.

I have made some small design adjustments since printing the prototype shown on this page, reducing height by about 8mm and improving stack-ability.

This is a fun project I started during the christmas holidays.

I combined thingiverse thing no 10650 with a yoda figure from the 3D galery.
The details have been reduced to make the HQ yoda printable.

Read more details on: ifeelbeta.de/index.php/art-objects/printable-yoda-figure

May the force be with you
BonsaiBrain

Yet Another Cartoon Rocket. The name says it all.