I like making videogame-themed plugs for my stretched earlobes, so after lunch today I made some Pac-Man ones.

Using screenshots from MAME as reference, I recreated the game sprites using 3DTin and two layers of cubes.

Eye and mouth areas are recessed for easy painting.

Use this OpenSCAD script to generate the earlobe portion of 3D printed plugs.

Combine with Pac-Man(s) thingiverse.com/thing:16132 and Space Invaders thingiverse.com/thing:5096 !

I was listening to CBC while playing with Dolf Veenvliet aka macouno's new ShapeWright service, so I generated a ship using "CBC Radio" as the DNA and printed it.

You can make your own ship at shapewright.com and read a bit more about the service at blog.ponoko.com/2011/09/28/shapewright-generates-3d-models-in-your-browser

Bioluminescence made a great candelabra based on the one in Adam Jenson's apartment in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Some of the wider parts meant to be printed raftless on a Thingomatic did not print well on my Cupcake, so I used Netfabb Studio Basic to slice them into these new versions.

** Update 2011-09-03 **
After printing a few different versions of the base (whole, halved, quartered), I found that the whole part from the original design turned out the best.

To print it on my Cupcake I had to use Skeinforge 35 and set the raft to print at the same size as the object's first layer. There was a bit of warping but sanding sorted it out.

The split arms were still necessary for me.

The minifigs I print are double-size versions of Stefan Dodge's 2X minifigs from thing:4004 -- making them 4X total size -- and they need hats!

I tried double-sizing the tophat by Nova1313 at from thing:8009, but it was too big so I just whipped up a new one in OpenSCAD.

You've printed Skimbal's giant Bathtub U-Boat, now it's time to display it!

This is a very simple two-piece stand, created by intersecting the original master file with a couple of boxes in Blender.

Generate a 3D model from an arbitrary source of data!

This is my first attempt at an OpenSCAD script that takes an MD5 hash of a file as input and creates a unique physical object from it.

OpenSCAD doesn't have a lot of string functions, so it's not quite as streamlined as that, but it's not too bad.

I've written more about it at the Ponoko blog. Check it out: blog.ponoko.com/2011/05/25/openscad-project-files-to-physicals

(The example model is created from my copy of Sea Within a Sea by The Horrors.)

My friend Alex lost one of the detachable analog sticks on his Logitech WingMan Rumble Pad. This is my attempt to recreate it, and my first OpenSCAD project.

I've written about the process of putting this together over at the Ponoko blog. Check it out:
blog.ponoko.com/2011/05/18/openscad-project-replacement-analog-sticks

I double-sized Stefan's already-2X LEGO minifigs to make 4X total size minifigs. But in doing so, I eliminated the use of 3mm filament as pins for the arms and legs... So I made some new ones in Google SketchUp.

These are Space Invaders plugs for people with stretched lobes. I modified sideburn's existing invaders to be thinner and smaller, then glued them to plugs that I made in Google SketchUp.

These are some Tetris (aka tetromino) cookie cutters drawn in Google Sketchup by a friend on IRC. We had some trouble converting them to STL, and the previews don't work in ReplicatorG but the objects do come out fine on the MakerBot.