http://www.thingiverse.com/antifuchs/likes Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:52:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt (info@mypapit.net) en-us Copyright 2010, Thingiverse.com http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1635
21.01.2010 christmas present: laptop standthe variation is mostly in the engraving and some minor tweaks for the outline

also, the cable holes are different ]]> fin Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:45:46 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1635 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1603
A hexapod with servo joints. This design is quite big and needs strong servos but looks really cool ^^.

I used 20 HD-2213MG Servos (http://www.servodatabase.com/servo/power-hd/hd-2213mg) . If you use other servos you need to modify the embeddings for the servos and servo horns. You may make the upper and lower legs shorter to get shorter leverage.

Finally the parts get assembled with M2 thread rod and nuts.
]]> mind Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:42:33 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1603 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1530
I have several bookshelves at home that are about 8ft in the air with neat little storage boxes on them. Getting them down to dust is kind of a real pain and usually a lot of dust comes down with them. I thought (in Windows 7 terms) there's got to be a better way! I designed an attachment for our Dyson vacuum cleaner that fits between the box and sucks up all of the dust, much smarter.

I have included the native Pro/Engineer CAD file for those of you who are lucky enough to have Pro/E, everyone else can use the attached STEP file. ]]> labmat Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:50:31 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1530 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1378
key ring with makerbot trinketJust some parametric and printable key rings modeled in openSCAD.org

The trinket is my way of wishing makerbot happy holidays and it was printed before our extruder ran into some trouble a few days ago. I've also modeled icons for other projects I got to know and love (miniature reprap mendel, thingiverse's gear logo, openMaterials logo), and I'm just waiting to be able to print them before uploading those files.
]]> catarina Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:51:43 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1378 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1354
Inspiration from "Oval Gears" by Billion.
Wanted to expand model to 4 gears and discovered that the linkage had to flex - square to parallelogram during rotation.
All elliptical gears here are identical and work due to odd number of teeth. ]]> stickoutrock Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:22:00 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1354 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1351
This design is a derivative of the Paxtruder-0.2:
thingiverse.com/thing:1125

My idler wheel cracked about 2 weeks ago so I though it would be a good time to experiment with the Paxtruder design a bit. I planned on making it a weekend project because I had plenty of acrylic around and I had some 1/2" thick acetal scrap to make a pusher but, unfortunately, I had to put in an order to McMaster to finish this guy so it didn't get completed till now.

I wanted a drop in replacement for my extruder hardware for testing that could utilize as much of my current MakerBot components as possible, and this design seems to fit the bill. You can use your existing dino mounts (both MK3 and MK4 designs should work) and extruter head hardware to mount this extruder and you can attach the extuder controller as you did with the idler wheel based design. ]]> builttospec Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:09:31 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1351 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1243
An adjustable solution for the business card displayer that will fit onto the Makerbot build platform. Could be used to prop up things of many shapes and sizes.

]]> Starno Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:53:26 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1243 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1143
Claystruded.The Frostruder MK2 is a radically different approach to frosting extrusion. Instead of using a motorized plunger approach such as with the Frostruder MK1 and Fab@Home paste extruders, we've switched to air power. The result is a Frostruder with excellent characteristics: nearly instantaneous start/stop capability, vastly simplified design, a high pressure capacity, and an awesome steampunk aesthetic.

The way it works is pretty simple: The frostruder is basically a syringe connected to a pressure source, typically an air compressor. There are two solenoid valves to control the pressure: a 'Pressure' and a 'Relief' valve. When the Pressure valve is on, the syringe is connected to the main pressure source and that pressure forces out whatever paste material is in the syringe. When you wish to stop the extrusion, the Pressure valve is closed, and the Relief valve is opened. This part is critical because even after the Pressure valve is closed, the syringe is still pressurized. By opening the relief valve, the pressure is released and the Frostruder stops extruding almost immediately.

The frostruder is capable of extruding nearly anything with a paste-like consistency. There are many materials to possible, from food based items to awesome engineering resins. So far, we've had success extruding the following materials:

* Frosting
* Peanut butter (creamy)
* Jelly / Jam
* Nutella
* Clay
* Silicone
* Epoxy ]]> makerbot Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:14:04 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1143 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1230
Testing Various Snapping ConnectorsI found the warning sign in a blog post about future warning signs lifeboat.com/ex/warning.signs.for.tomorrow and immediately knew that I needed such a sign for my Makerbot.

Because the original pictures are very low-res the auto vectorizing did not work out too well so I redrew it as a dxf using a stencil font.
]]> wizard23 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:45:46 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1230 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1223
The idea is to put a power distributor in the box and jam it in between of two tables. The power conectors are now easily accesible and there is no tablespace wasted.
Come and take a look at the showcase in the metalab.at Hackerspace! :) ]]> Worm23 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:21:03 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1223 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1125
This thing is small! You can make this using a few laser cut parts and your MK4 extruder hardware. There are a few tweaks I need to make, but it's closer to the final design. For more information see my blog post charlespax.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/paxtruder-0-2 .

Derivatives
Paxtruder-0.4 thingiverse.com/thing:1332
Drop in paxtruder thingiverse.com/thing:1351
Paxtruder Mount thingiverse.com/thing:1341

Subversion svn.makerbot.com/users/charles/paxtruder/ ]]> charlespax Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:53:12 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1125 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1082
Reuleaux TriangleA curious shape with constant width. It rolls smoothly in a square but the centre of rotation is not constant.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle

More math about the Reuleaux Triangle (and the site where the cool animated gif that shows the path of the center of rotation is from):
mathworld.wolfram.com/ReuleauxTriangle.html ]]> wizard23 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:52:34 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1082 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1081
All of the idler and timing pulleys seen here were MakerBot printed. And, as soon as the motor pulley can be pried off it will also be replaced.

The flanges are currently being printed separately but will be combined once any kinks have been worked out.

MakerBot Made (using 0.4mm nozzle). ]]> MakerGear Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:37:44 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1081 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:981
Use this to guide your cables with.
]]> Martijn Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:03:45 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:981 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:973
DragChainRenderThis is a drag chain for the MakerBot extruder cable (or any other cable/wires).

It keeps your extruder cable out of the Z-stage belt and let your MakerBot look professional (kind of...)

The objects need very detailed printing in order to work. You definitely want a good tuned MakerBot and Skeinforge settings to print this (don't say I didn't warn you!).

The ZIP file contains GCode files for all objects, including 6 or 8 chain links on one raft. It might be the best to skeinforge the gcode with your own, tuned settings. The included GCode files worked for me (resp. my MakerBot), but (again): these are some really hairy objects to print.
]]> Zaggo Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:12:47 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:973 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:972
"Brass" Knuckles made with ABS plastic using a Makerbot and Blender. ]]> AshleyWintermute Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:16:42 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:972 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:958
IMG_4220After having some difficulties with the Plastruder MK3 which comes with the MakerBot, I decided to try to print a better (i.e. more reliable) extruder with and for my MakerBot.

The design was inspired by the "Thermoplast Extruder Version 2.0" from the RepRap project and by photos I saw of Nophead's "Fast extruder" .

(Update: There's now a 4th part to print: InsulatorRetainer.stl) ]]> Zaggo Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:47:20 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:958 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:938
Had some small pieces of fluorescent acrylic sitting around...decided to turn it into a sweet looking XY platform. Just need to rig up some lights now... ]]> MakerGear Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:05:48 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:938 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:892
Mom's new laptop stand 1My mom needed a laptop stand so I decided to make this for her Birthday tomorrow.

I really like how it came out and I love the interaction of the wave and the wood grain.

My process went something like this:
My mom's always liked Japanese prints (she grew up in Japan) and so I knew I wanted to do a Hokusai wave.

I found a creative commons image (http://nickpoint.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/the_great_wave_off_kanagawa.jpg) and imported it into Gimp. I adjusted the levels and threshold-ed it to make it just black and white. From there I played with it a bit in Inkscape using the trace bitmap tool. Eventually I ended up with what you see there. ]]> langfordw Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:09:17 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:892 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:888
Club Mate Name Tags!They are really useful to distinguish your mate in the Metalab Leiwandville.soup.io/ at HAR2009 ]]> wizard23 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:34:18 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:888 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:859
Back in July Switched.com challenged us to design and make a set of salt and pepper shakers, all in one day! We took care of the design end, and the shakers were made by awesome 3-D printing technology from MakerBot.

We've always wanted to design a set of salt and pepper shakers to match Egg Pants, one of our most successful products. This finally gave us the chance to do it. We bring you Salt and Pepper Hats! We're so happy with how they turned out that we will be taking them one step further and turning them into a product for our line, which should be available by winter 2009.

In the meantime, we're offering up the files for our prototypes - download away and make your very own! Want Egg Pants to go with them? Get a pair here: designglut.bigcartel.com/product/egg-pants ]]> DesignGlut Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:01:44 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:859 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:851
modularbubblebracelet6I decided to start Awesome August off with an awesome bracelet.

This thing has a lot going on. It may look like an ordinary bracelet but you see all those holes? Yep.... exactly the size to pop and LED in. Where does the power come from you ask? How about a coin cell battery embedded within one of the modular pieces (a captive print!). Memory wire connects everything together giving it a perfect springy feel.

This thing was a lot harder to get together than I thought it would be and turned out to be a whole weekend project. The trickiest part to figure out was what material to connect them with. I tried everything from string, stranded wire, magnets and even conductive thread. The memory wire works great. Although I'm still not perfectly happy with the on/off functionality or the joining of the two ends, I hear you can buy endcaps that seem like they would solve the problem.

Now that I've iterated through a bunch of materials and ideas though they're pretty easy to build and work well.

I want to start seeing some people rock out with Makerbot made accessories! ]]> langfordw Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:13:31 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:851 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:829
A small python script for generating DXF designs of involute gears.

Without an output file the generated gear is displayed in a (tkinter) window instead of generating a DXF file.

The script is licensed under the terms of GNU GPL. This however does not have any influence on the DXF files you generate with it..

Created during Hackathon 2.0 at Metalab, Vienna:
metalab.at/wiki/Hackathon

Link to subversion (check for latest version):
svn.clifford.at/handicraft/2009/gearsgen/
]]> clifford Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:03:07 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:829 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:818
Note: The CorelDraw file contains 2 pages. Each page is a seperate piece. I titled the pages by material thickness.

This is a build platform which i redesigned using the concepts provided by Zach Hoeken for the Cupcake CNC and other people through out the community. I do not have a working MakerBot as of yet, but im getting there. Since i have not tested this out, i cannot guarantee its operation. Please write me some comments if you try it out, letting me know if you successfully make a print using this design. ]]> CidVilas Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:12:49 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:818 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:793
makerbot glassesThe makerbot finally printed me some glasses!

I decided to start out with some nice thick frames inspired primarily by Cory Doctorow and Bre Pettis, though I have plans for a lot more styles and shapes.

As for practicality...
I honestly wasn't expecting these to be comfortable but they actually are. They're really light and after a while I forget I'm even wearing them. I can even wear them over my normal glasses.
PLUS major geek bonus points for wearing GLASSES YOU PRINTED YOURSELF.
]]> langfordw Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:59:56 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:793 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:756
DSC04096.JPGI tried to print this one, but I scaled it to big... and it was warping a lot.
Perhaps printing a mini version?

UPDATE: Today I printed a smaller one, and it works like a charm!

When I was a child I made slingshots out of wood... Living in a city nowadays (Ghent, Belgium) I can relive my youth by printing them. I hope one day my children will use tools like this to explore their creativity :-). ]]> Batist Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:10:07 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:756 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:741
Say goodbye to SMT component identification misery with this pair of active tweezers that plug right into your trusty multimeter!

As you pick up an SMT component to put it onto the solder paste on a PCB, these tell you what the component is automatically. ]]> adrian-bowyer Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:03:18 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:741 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:627
This build isn't finished yet. I still need the XY axis components, stepper motors, and a hardware burrito. I cannibalized the screws from my extruder to hold the thing together!

Modifications
. Electronics are mounted upside down in the bottom cavity with the power supply
. All four sides are open
. The bottom plate comes straight off after removing the screws
. Acrylic letters are where "MakerBot Industries" would normally be.

After a conversation with Adam I have been inspired to put the z axis drive system within the lower cavity.

I get the electrons inside I had to laser cut holes into the middle layer in which I put standoffs that normally hold motherboards away from computer cases. The entire bottom was redesigned, so the bottom cover can be removed without taking off the side.

While the SD card can be accessed, it does not currently do anything.

Subversion svn.makerbot.com/users/charles/muffin/

Blog: charlespax.wordpress.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/charlespax ]]> charlespax Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:26:46 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:627 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:635
Here is a box that I made with my reprstrap. It has an inside size of 50 mm by 50 mm by 25 mm (approx). ]]> fdavies Mon, 25 May 2009 02:01:55 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:635 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:668
Plastruder MK4 PrototypeThis is a derivative of the Plastruder MK3 design I've been working on. The goal is to make the plastruder into a printable design that can be made on a MakerBot. I also wanted to take on an ambitious project to put the new AOI plugin, MetaCAD through its paces. Learn about metacad at metacad.org

This extruder design uses 5 printed pieces: two halves that bolt together for the housing, 2 dinos to put it at the right height for printing, and a simple insulator retainer to keep the PTFE in the right spot. The rest of the design is mostly the motor, heater barrel assembly, electronics, and a 625 bearing to provide the pinching force. It has yet to be tested, but ideally it will be simpler to put together, as well as a sturdier design with no squeaks! I've printed all the parts on my travel bot, and as soon as I get home, I'll be assembling them and testing them out.

A few design notes:

* no more layered construction! that was a hack to make it laser-cuttable. new design is two halves bolted together. one half holds the motor + filament, the other half holds the idler wheel.
* idler wheel switched from acrylic + 608 bearing to a single 625 bearing. smaller, more compact, and nothing but a nearly indestructible bearing to break. should be quite a bit more consistant
* 4 adjustable screws with captive nuts for setting the pinch wheel tension. you'll be able to adjust it on the fly, without any sort of dis-assembly. hopefully the abs will act as a sort of spring as well

a few things i'd like to change yet:
* rotate the captive nut slot on the right-housing to be in-line with print direction for a better finish.
* switch the captive nut / bolt head holes between right and left housings to improve print quality for both (adjust on right side instead of left side) ]]> hoeken Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:32:09 +0100 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:668