Artec Dragen

* Reduced quality (~100k)
* Turned up and bottom
* Some manual added support for faster printing
(no support function needed !
* 65mm tall

This thing turns a Nespresso Cupsule box into a bench top dispenser.

It's the same as Gadgeteer GHI Fez Spider Base, but with holes to fix the pcb on the base, and holes on the base to fix the base on what you want.

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.

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 all the skp files that Brook Drumm uploaded. I have simply put them all in one file and arranged them how I think they go. Can't be exactly right till I get mine. I'm a backer of his Kickstarter project.

Thanks Brook!

One part is still not a skp file. It's easy to pick out. It's an stl and it's the front part in the image. Lots of lines show up.

Since I didn't happen to have any toy wheels just laying around, I designed some to be printed.

Changes from original:
-Added sweet rimzzz
-Exhaust port changed to round hole, increased size to 7mm diameter.
-Wheel mount holes changed to fit small finishing nails
-Added lip to balloon stem

A handfull of collets for things 16682 and/or 16890 !

The ZIP file contains 48 STL to accomodate the drill bits I use the most.

As you can see, there's also collets for hex bits, size 6.25mm face to face.

They work fairly well, check out the pic with the piece of wood, it's a 15mm thick piece of oak and I have been able to go through it with the 1mm bit ! yes, it took me a while ;-)

This is the real deal, no derivatives here. These are the real Printrbot in it's current version. I have a bunch of these printing all day, every day.... it works. It is expandable to larger widths and heights easier than any other reprap out there. Period. Its the most inexpensive bot out there being mass produced. And, its now yours to print, build, improve, change.... whatever you like. I can't wait to see what you do with it. I will post pics of all the various forms it takes, news, etc at printrbot.com
-enjoy
Brook

Pretty simple kids toy. Attach a balloon and watch it scoot across the floor! (Sorry, some extra parts required)

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.

To get in the spirit of the season, here's an egg holder for you.

I teach Linear Algebra to a small class of High School students. We took a few days to learn openSCAD and use the multmatrix function to explore some "real world applications".

The kids in the class had no prior programming experience and I think openSCAD was a great way for them to learn some of the basics of programming.

Their homework assignment was to design two objects, a building and a tree, by writing their own transformation modules using the multmatrix function (i.e. no using the built in rotate, translate, etc. functions, although union, difference, intersection were ok). Here are their buildings.

polygonal cup like thing, works great as a tea light candle holder, or a pot for a plant, or just a plain ole cup..

My girlfriend challenged me to make a hand soap dispenser that is cooler than anything we could buy at Crate & Barrel (or similar stores). The result, after a number of design iterations, is this bottle which now inhabits our bathroom.

This dispenser is designed to reduce waste in a number of ways. First, it is easily refillable, and so can be used for many years. Second, as the pump is turned, liquid soap spills from the spout back into a hole in the bottle, thus recycling any drips. Third, this design makes it easy to get as much or as little soap as you want, while commercial soap pumps often dispense more soap than necessary with a single squeeze.

This is a tool to bend the leads on a component, such as a resistor, to a specific width to allow easy placment onto a PCB (Printed Circuit Board).

This came about when I recently saw Erik's lead bending tool ( thingiverse.com/thing:6699 ), saw that he didn't have a version with different widths, and remembered a post on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories ( evilmadscientist.com/article.php/obscuretools ) about a resistor lead bender. When I first saw the post, I thought it was a neat tool, but I couldn't do much with it the idea. Now that 3D printing has come along, here it is, the DIY Lead Bender. (Dramatic Music playing in the background... Ok, maybe it's not that dramatic)

A few things to note are: The OpenSCAD file is available and is somewhat commented (If you have questions feel free to ask). Also this has not been printed yet (2/25/11), so it may work, but it might not.

I'll post some pictures of the printed tool once my Thing-O-Matic comes. (Only a few days left! :-D)

In the mean time, here are the statistics for the default STL.
Print Stats: (All stats are approximate)
- Time: 14 min.
- Plastic used: 3cc
- Cost (@ $0.024 USD per CC): $0.07 USD
(Note: These values will change depending on your 3D printer and settings.)

This is a 3 by 3 array of circle knots. The base unit comes from this website: cs.duke.edu/~edels/Tubes/knots/circ/index.html

More pictures:

flickr.com/photos/lanthan/sets/72157629185958843/with/6823716121/

Inspired by the amazing Kritzler tinkerlog.com/2011/09/02/der-kritzler/ and Polargraph polargraph.co.uk/ plus some itch to make my own.
Also see AS220s:
as220.org/labs/drawbot/

I liked the polargraph rotating axial mount, but since I do not have the suitable bearings, I printed sliding rings from pla. The fit is quite close, and with some Teflon spray they appear to work great!
This has still to be mounted and tested. Notice the tidy desk ;-)

Other available sources are Makerblock's build thingiverse.com/thing:16384

JohnA's gondola:
thingiverse.com/thing:12557

Test model made for my MakerBot artist-in-residence project. Generated using Processing.

Very much a work in progress! This is an odometer for filament! It should measure filament by the centimeter so you can have a real measurement for filament used! The base it attaches to slides on to the counter assembly, so you can chose different mounts for it, but the first mount is for a ToM endcap.

I'm currently printing the first set of parts to validate the design, after some tweaks, I'll upload the first working design to share and build from!

The next version will have a second resettable counter. I will also provide just the counter mechanism as a separate "thing" once I make sure everything works okay.

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.

Inspired to build an army of Yodas (/Yodii), but fretting over a high polygon count? We put bmoshe's fantastic model on a diet, and slimmed the mesh down from 147 MB to a svelte ~2 MB.

* Yoda-Lite : Good detail in all areas.
* Yoda-SuperLite: Extra crunching of robe/ shoulder details, while mantaining face quality.

NEW VIDEO! youtube.com/watch?v=gCGmpHHC0Ag

It's a 3D printed clock! WOOT!

It consists of 12 number plates, 2 gears, and 1 mount.

All units are inches.

In the zip folder are two versions of the main drive gear and clock base (10" gear). The gear I sectioned into four pieces (print two of each) and a version of the drive gear that does not need supports.

This should main clock base should fit on most hobby printers. I made everything so that it requires no support and fits within a 4x4" box.

Created from a Decorative Garden Mushroom using an Artec 3D Scanner. The model has been checked for holes and given a flat base for printing. This STL was pulled from their gallery of models located at artec3d.com/gallery/3d-models/

This is a terrific print and looks great in Glow-in-the Dark ABS.

My first thing! It's a mount to attach an iPhone 4 to your MakerBot so you can shoot timelapses or stream video to remotely monitor builds.

* iPhone 4 or 4S compatible.
* Thing-O-Matic compatible (and probably Replicator and others)
* Snug enough to mount horizontally
* Slot for an iPhone cable

Make sure it doesn't obstruct the build platform!

The Penrose tiles by pleppik got me thinking and I decided they would be cooler if they held together on their own. The snap shapes enforce the matching rules (as long as all the pieces are right-side up), which means any pattern you make out of them will be aperiodic.

thinner twisty bracelet

This derivative work exists to provide an SVG file for beauturner's "Bot Window for Cold Environment Printing" (Thing 15375). Beauturner's thing only provides a DWG file (which includes the rest of the ToM wood pieces as well). For cutting my panels, I needed an SVG description and I figured that other folks might as well. Thus, what is offered here is merely the result of converting beauturner's work from DWG to SVG by way of DXF. And then removing all the ToM pieces leaving only one of the panels beauturner designed.

Grandpa is no longer as strong as he once was, and it hurts his wrists and hands to try to cut vegetables. Give him the Knife Assistant to provide a flat surface on almost any knife to push against comfortably. It also will keep the knife more controllably vertically aligned for nice straight slices.

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.