Iterating on the previous 'plain' hairclip (see comparison image), this new SLIM version disposes of the need of a 3rd spring, and trims down the size significantly without reducing strength or function.

I personally find this version to be even more secure to wear, but feedback on how it fits on other people's hair would be very welcome indeed!

This particular rainbow version, I printed using a welded-together string of several colo(u)rs of ABS - coming to a total of 79cm (31") of 3mm filament.

The Nyan-Cat add-on, can be printed separately, painted, and glued on with hot glue.

Nyancat YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4

(This thing got featured in the thingiverse blog: blog.thingiverse.com/2011/05/30/this/ )

When my daughter saw this thing ( thingiverse.com/thing:8859 ) she wanted to take the pieces off to have the "X" and "O" to play with for Tic-Tac-Toe. Since I had been messing with a case ( thingiverse.com/thing:8860 ), I decided to try to mash them together into a little travel Tic-Tac-Toe game.

There is a little video of it building here:
youtube.com/watch?v=nRKHwylv1Ms

This is an original work, but is similar to:
thingiverse.com/thing:7614
thingiverse.com/thing:8881
thingiverse.com/thing:8364

Traditional (Staunton-style) chess set. The knight is a draft piece that I hope to revisit -- getting a recognizable horse-bust without exceeding the maximum overhang angles is hard.

Please note: my printer isn't here yet, so while I have sliced these models and inspected the tool paths that result, I haven't verified that they print properly on actual hardware. I would love feedback from any chess fans with printers! :-)

mashed up the lego guy and the monolith

lego han solo encased in carbonite

!! New version penrose5.stl with a couple of wayward vertices fixed !!

This is a 3D-printable version of the Penrose Triangle illusion, based solely on the 1934 design painted by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd. The design also appeared on Swedish postage stamps in the early 1980s.

I created this 3D design entirely from scratch using the process outlined in the "Instructions" section below. This work is based solely on Oscar Reutersvärd's design, although some elements are inspired by the Hollow-Face illusion discovered many decades (if not centuries) ago.

This model contains a number of notable improvements over previous 3D representations:

1) It is parallax-corrected for a viewing distance of 40cm, i.e. it will look exactly like Oscar Reutersvärd's design, with cubes lining up on all 3 sides simultaneously. This is a great visual improvement over previous versions, which only lined up on 2 sides simultaneously.

2) It has been resized (to 99.43 x 99.65mm) to make maximum use of the Makerbot build envelope.

3) The top edges are now tapered so as to make the most of your printer's capabilities. The better your printer, the sharper the edges will be.

4) I own the copyright to this 3D design, and hereby distribute it under the "Attribution/Non-Commercial/Share-Alike" licence for all non-profit parties to print, improve and share.

Another mashup. If anyone has supports working well enough, I would love to see this printed.

Edit: whistle version added. Blame tbuser.

Edit: Added pics of a print WITHOUT SUPPORTS! And no cleanup. When it tried to print the bottom of the tentacles, it just kinda made a mess, but that mess built up enough to become a support structure in mid-air. This structure was initially flexible, and was dragged around by the head for a few layers, which is why the tentacles are pointy even though the bottoms were cut off by this. Even the stringing looks appropriate. I am ecstatic about how this came out.

This Thing is a mashup of:
•Octopus by MaskedRetriever - thingiverse.com/thing:5963
•The Pink Panther Woman!!!! by januario - thingiverse.com/thing:1216
•Thin Profile Whistle Blank by TeamTeamUSA - thingiverse.com/thing:5416

This year instead of sending Christmas Cards I decided to use my Makerbot to make something unique for my friends. And naturally the project took on a life of its own.

The final result was 20 Lego Men at 4x the normal size. Each inscribed with a holiday greeting.

Before dispatching them off to the world, I decided it would be nice to take all 20 brothers on a photographic tour of Kansas City.

picasaweb.google.com/skimbal/LegoMenOfKansasCity?feat=directlink

Happy Holidays to all of the Thingiverse Community.

-Michael Curry

Here are some miscellaneous toolholders that can be scaled to fit practically any tool.

I was in the market for something like this myself, and was looking around searching for toolholders. The problem however is that there ar alot more different sized tools than there are toolholders that match, so then you end up with something that just looks awful and doesnt fit 100% to anything.

So regarding this project the goal was to make many different shaped toolholders that could easily be customized to fit any tool.

And again a big thanks to the makerbot crew for the plastic that made this:)


(Just an FYI - Everyone of my toolholders are printed on my full size makerbottable makerbot thingiverse.com/thing:3285)

Various printable designs of the logo of Ace Monster Toys, a public hackerspace located in Oakland, California. See acemonstertoys.org/ for info about it.

update : a revised script and set which includes 4,5 and 6-fold vertices ( slash facets, not sure which to call these ) can be found at thingiverse.com/thing:4934 and thingiverse.com/thing:5028.

These two triangular pieces can be assembled into any polyhedron based on equilateral triangles. This includes tetrahedra, octahedra, icosahedra, and many others.

The structure of the pieces is such that they resemble both faces and vertices, so the octahedron is also cube-like, and the icosahedron also looks like a dodecahedron. ( a tetrahedron is self-dual, so that doesn't count ).

Printed succesfully with ABS, Silicone and ceramics

A kinetic sculpture made using my parametric bevel gear script inspired by this: brainblog.to/item/2008/11/herz-aus-zahnraedern
I modeled the entire thing from scratch in OpenSCAD, starting with the Parametric Involute Bevel and Spur Gear script I posted some time ago. I have added an additional complexity to the movement because not only do the gears spin, but the axes of the gears rotate too.

Being a kinetic sculpture, you really need to see it in motion:
youtube.com/watch?v=Zx28cHA4_KI

Be warned that before you attempt to print this, an improved technique for attaching the gears to the central mount is really needed.

I have the openscad files for everything, although there are so many parts that it is a bit of a process generating the STLs from them.

If someone wants to collaborate on a better way to mount the gears, let me know.

the variation is mostly in the engraving and some minor tweaks for the outline

also, the cable holes are different

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.

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.

Just 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I 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.

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! :)

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/

UPDATE: You might want to use the new screwless version of this design I made: thingiverse.com/thing:12644

A 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

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).

Use this to guide your cables with.

This 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.

"Brass" Knuckles made with ABS plastic using a Makerbot and Blender.

After 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)

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...