MakerBot Industries now sells filament on spools! Here is a spool holder you can mount on you Thing-O-Matic or Cupcake CNC in place of any rod cover.

You should also print the spool housing to keep you filament nice and tidy. thingiverse.com/thing:8762

If you want to stack two spools, checkout tbusers Spool Stacker thingiverse.com/thing:9198

Because thingiverse can never have enough bottle openers...

Here's an openscad wall mountable penny bottle opener.

The scad file is parametric though you'll have to play around to see what works. It's not commented at all and rather poorly written...

There is now a first attempt at a version with a tongue and eyes. I haven't printed it though. You can turn it off and on with a boolean in the scad file.

I couldn't come up with a better name for this box. But as the name suggests the lid hinge mechanism uses a 4-link design which I designed a few years ago....for a car's hood to be exact. I just needed to downscale the measurements by 10 and voila!

This is a holster for my Flip Video Camera I made. (Got it printed at Ponoko.com) I always hated carrying my flip camera around in my pocket so this was born... It has a belt clip on the back to clip it on your pocket or whatever. It also protects the buttons so you don't accidentally turn it on while carrying it. Too bad Cisco is discontinuing it... :(

I used my mock-up of the flip camera to make the holster. thingiverse.com/thing:7470 It turned out pretty good! :D

There are two STLs for printing: High Res and Low Res. Pretty self explanatory. Mind the Inventor file... It is kind of messy.. :P

We have a hand-wound impeller fan bellows for the log fire in the dining room and it makes a devil of a racket when you turn the handle. My wife hates it so I made a much quieter version that runs off a couple of AA batteries. Basically it is thingiverse.com/thing:7350 with a handle and battery holder stuck on, but I've improved the parametrics a bit.

If I run it off 12V it beats my 110mm forge blower!

I recently broke the central cross in my AR Drone. This patch both fixes and significantly strengthens the central cross.

I do not know if this will void your warranty. Use this at your own risk.

Hi,

this is a complete printable eggbot
it is also work in progress (for now) but submitting it next week seems a little bit silly to me.

for now, the egg mountings are still to be designed (maybe we can 'borrow' them from somewhere).

!! AND SOMEONE DID, see hbs's page thingiverse.com/thing:13960 for those things, Thanks.

new pen holder (PenHolder-7.stl)

Winner of the Pattywac Makerbot United Challenge for collaborative design: makerbot.com/blog/2011/05/16/pattywac-makerbot-united-challenge-winner/

Thank you team! :-)

Video of the first ticking powered escapement mechanism:
prototribe.net/vidplay/testjig2.html

___________WARNING_________

Several bugs have been fixed since this release, and the current tip-of-the-spear for development is a simplified 2-gear clock with only minutes and seconds.

Current development version to be found on git hub here:
github.com/syvwlch/Printable-Clock-Project

Current version of the 8-Gear Clock (revision D):
thingiverse.com/thing:8284

Current bleeding edge development version of the test jig:
thingiverse.com/thing:8275

Current repository for the latest version of the clockwork library:
thingiverse.com/thing:8155

Thanks to RustedRobot for his continued assistance debugging the clock!
___________WARNING_________

This is both a derivative of the printable clock PoC, and of my escapement library: thingiverse.com/thing:7822 . The involute gear profiles are from the MCAD library.

(EDIT: The clock got a mention by Cory Doctorow on boing boing!
boingboing.net/2011/04/23/model-files-for-a-wo.html )

I cleaned up the code so it would render faster, moved all the gear work into the library, and created a laidOutToPrint() module to facilitate creating the STLs of the individual parts. I included an optional print volume visualizer, so you can check every part doesn't exceed the printer's capabilities.

The assembled() module is still fully animate-able, and I've added colors to help see if everything meshes properly.

The clock itself now has clip-on hands, front & back frames, and most importantly, I switched to a different set of gear ratios (3.2, 3, 2.5 & 2.5) which allows for bigger shafts by keeping the ratios small.

Assuming an 80x80x80mm printing volume, you now have a bit more than 12mm (almost half an inch!) available for the overall diameter of the shaft, the two sleeves that slide over it and the necessary clearances.

I think this configuration is close to final, except for the escapement, which will need fine-tuning... but without re-printing the rest of the clock.

UPDATES:

* The original 0v0 zip did not have all the needed files in it.
The current MiZ_Rider_0v0_fixed.zip corrects this.

* There is now 0v1 uploaded. This corrects some fiddly stuff I
found when I assembled the thing. MiZ_Rider_0v1_No_STL.zip
has this latest OpenSCAD code but I have not had time to generate
the STL.

MiZ is a complete Z-Stage replacement for the MakerBot Cupcake. Almost all the parts can be printed on your MakerBot. It will work with many extruders: MK5, MK6, MiseryPusher ( thingiverse.com/thing:7129 shown) as well as any other extruder that is designed to attach to the standard MBI MK5 style extruder base plate (such as: thingiverse.com/thing:5684 thingiverse.com/thing:6713 thingiverse.com/thing:7113 thingiverse.com/thing:7037 ).

The goals were to have very few modifications to the MakerBot, and to have a rigid structure that would yield good quality prints (like:
thingiverse.com/derivative:8582 )

With my setup I can get 550mm/minute Z-travel rate:
youtube.com/watch?v=K-9MwgUz1v0

Here is a longer and more boring video:
youtube.com/watch?v=Fuudemoq2MQ

And yet another showing stability during a high-vibration fill:
youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8G90gfEYI

Excluding nuts & bolts, re-used parts, and shipping the non-printed cost is as low as $26:
* 2 of 12mm x 13 rods: $5 each
* 8 of 623 bearings : $10/10 (shielded) or $20/10 (sealed)
* ABS glue: $6
Links to the parts are in the instructions PDF.

I do have some tweaks and improvements in mind. Please watch for updates.

Heritage -- This design owes a lot of inspiration to these two things:

Z-Rider by twotimes thingiverse.com/thing:4740

Type A Z-Rider. v3.2 by TheRuttmeister thingiverse.com/thing:5586

Suggestions:

whosawhatsis recommended his "Minimalistic X-rod mount":
thingiverse.com/thing:6884
instead of the version in the file. His is a nice design and should work well, it is lower profile and easier to open/close.

Sometime probably in the 1400's it probably took some poor dudes a lifetime to learn how to mine the marble, transport it to Venice, and painstakingly chisel out this Lion statue.

Fast forward to 2011 and some guy with an iPhone can visit Venice on vacation, take a few pictures, upload it to the internet and within minutes it can be recreated in plastic miniature on my desktop on the other side of the planet!

I cleaned up this awesome scan, resized it, and made it into a solid. You'll need to turn on support!

Update: I uploaded a new version that properly sets his feet on the platform. If you tried printing it and it started too high, re-download the new stl.

My new 3D printer (from 3dprintingsystems.com) is going flat out and here is my latest job.
When I was a young guy...........yeah years ago I remember having an old piston and conrod sitting on my desk that I used as a desk tidy.......so I though lets print one.
I made it all up, sizes etc from google images of the parts and produced the files in Solidworks.
I even got carried away and made some rings..........the oil scrapping ring is very thin hence the few bits of support to be cleaned off that you can see in the photo.
I have laid the rings one on top of the other with a very small gap between..........this allows you to peel them off one another after printing.
Would be nice in a grey color with a bit of oil or grease stain to finish it off. Have fun!!

Maker Block asked if there was a way to have fewer, larger teeth on the escapement wheel, and thanks to the power of parametric design in OpenSCAD, the answer was a resounding yes!

With the larger teeth, this should be much easier to print.

(EDIT: added a beefier, thicker version, slightly smaller so the pendulum fits inside the build platform. Duncha love parametric designs?)

This is a test jig for, and a derivative of, the parametric escapement mechanism I posted yesterday: thingiverse.com/thing:7785

The intent is to power the escapement with a rubber band and see:
1. whether the pendulum regulates the unwinding of the elastic and
2. whether the escapement in turn keeps the pendulum moving despite friction

I suspect it will NOT work as is, but some parametric tweaks might get it going. May need to add some other weigh at the end of the pendulum, the plastic may not be enough. Also not sure if this would work printed... the escapement wheel's teeth are pretty fine at the tips.

Lastly, the code is less well commented that the parent thing's. I'll fix that later, promise. :-)

(EDIT: I have cleaned up the code and broken it into a library, and a test script. That is the code I will be maintaining and it can be found as its own thing: thingiverse.com/thing:7822 )

A collapsible traffic cone.

The sections should be captive (there are some strips on the bottom to hold them in)

It's configurable in the openscad file for the size of the cone, number of sections, wall thickness etc.
There is a variable that you can set to TRUE to render the cone extended so you can see how it looks.

I have printed a small one so far but my TOM is taken apart a bit right now so I haven't printed a large one.

Will this count for the tallest object record if I ever get around to printing a full size one?

Man am I happy with my new UP! 3D printer (from 3dprintingsystems.com)
I designed my propeller using SolidWorks in pieces so I could dismantle them and to make each part the right size for my printer.
You will see that the blades have a rim on the top and bottom of their mounting that slips into the corresponding channels/recesses in the nose cone and base. I have put a spline on the bottom of the nose cone shaft to provide alignment for everything and to give a positive drive when used. Unfortunately it makes the keyed hole for the drive shaft rather small.
The blades are able to slip in this housing if they hit something but unfortunately they might also slip if there is too much drive power. Next time I would run the spline down the whole shaft and put them on it too.

This is my take on a smaller reprapable version of the Ultimaker. I was going to wait until I had it 100% working but there have been a few gantry systems posted and I wanted to get it out there. Here's a list of the current inspirations, I'll add links later: Ultimaker, brutestruder, bowden cable, mendel bearing setup and Makerbot.

The printer's external dimensions are currently 8.5inx8.5inx10in and the build area is 100x100x175mm.

The main reason I started working on this is most printer designs that have been coming recently have been getting larger in footprint. I want something that'll easily and conveniently fit on my desk, I also have no problem with the 100mm square cupcake build envelope.

Where I'm at: I have had problems with friction in the gantry and am in the process of redesigning all of the moving components. I would upload files, but I just trashed them all as not good enough. So, you'll have to wait until they are good enough. That being said the printer in the photos can easily do around 30mm/s. I just want better.

Here's a couple answers to questions that I know I'm going to get:

Yes, all of the parts fit on a makerbot.

Yes, there are diagonal supports that are not in the photo.

No, it's not a fab at home derivative, I haven't seen the workings of that until yesterday. (Has anyone else actually read the Stratasys patent from 1992?)

I attached an edrawing if people want to look at it. I'll post an stl of the full assembly later.
edrawingsviewer.com/index.html

Yes, that's a Makergear compact plastruder head. It's just so small, it fits perfectly. The new version will have two heads whose nozzle tips will be 18mm apart.


About timeframe, looking back on the last 3 months, I've (spent way too much time screwing around with the Makerbot) wife's quote. Now I have to get some real work done since screwing around on the makerbot doesn't pay the bills. I would expect something in a couple weeks.

Update: Here's a link to a video showing the new center gantry unit for the MiniMaker.
flickr.com/photos/48982649@N07/5659332598/in/photostream

Update: Working on minimaker2 right now, here's a video of the X-Y gantry running a calibration cube at 400mm/s!: flickr.com/photos/48982649@N07/6550391991/in/photostream

It's a story that can happen to anyone. You move to a new town and leave your shower curtain behind. "No problem," you think, "I'll just pick up a new liner at the pharmacy down the street."

So, you trek to the local pharmacy and find the shower curtain liner you were looking for, only to discover that they are out of shower curtain rings, hooks, anything made for holding up a shower curtain!

Facing down defeat and the very real possibility that you will have to take a dirty, inefficient bath, you come to a stunning realization:

You're a MakerBot owner. You live for these moments.

Little vertical wind mill. Can be mounted e.g. on a motor axis and fixed using a screw. STL is for a 2mm axis and M4 screw + nut, but that can be changed in the OpenSCAD script.

In the course of my final paper about “FabLab – The use of an innovative Workshop concept for education in Media Technology studies” I developed a "wireless lens control system" for video cameras. It´s not running properly yet, but I´m working on it. Here is what I got so far...

ps, tips and suggestions are welcome

This is a very simple follow-focus using a roller-blade or skateboard -wheel instead of gears.
It's great to experiment with a follow focus on a shoulder-rig without investing a lot of time and effort into a more complex geared or even remote follow focus.

See thingiverse.com/thing:7256 for a much cooler but also more complex design requiring electronics and microcontroller-programming.

Update:
I added a (not yet tested) straight version of this follow focus because with my new matte box there was not enough space to mount this anymore.

Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=FHwVil_Lvcg&feature=player_embedded

blog post:
marcuswolschon.blogspot.com/2011/04/printing-gearless-follow-focus.html

photo album:
picasaweb.google.com/Marcus.Wolschon/20110325Bis201105ShulterRigBauen?feat=directlink

forum post:
forums.reprap.org/read.php?88,75536

project in my personal wiki:
sourceforge.net/userapps/mediawiki/marcuswolschon/index.php?title=Projects/Camera/ShoulderRig#status

IF YOU HAVE NO ACCESS TO A 3D-PRINTER AND CAN't FINE SOMEONE ELSE TO PRINT THESE FOR YOU, YOU CAN HAVE SHAPEWAYS PRINT THESE FOR YOU:
shapeways.com/shops/marcuswolschon?section=Camera+and+Filming

This is recreation of a Roman ballista. Its small (obviously), and isn't an exact replica (Romans didn't work in plastic). Its about the right size to fire a pencil.

It should be fairly obvious how it works, but I have some instructions below, and a short movie.

P.S. I am aware of the Thingiverse policy not to publish "weapons". I see this as a toy -- it can fire a pencil about two feet with considerably less force than I can throw it. However, please be careful as points can always put out eyes. Also I know someone could potentially beef this up until it fires knives at a 100 miles and hour. Please don't.

TODO: this is a work in progress because there's some things I want to add.
-- a mounting point so you can put it on a "table" (a stand on a pedestal).
-- a ratchet, winch and trigger mechanism, that are vaguely period

This type of joint is used in a gate of OOSAKA castle in Japan.
It seems to a puzzle. If you do not have 3D printers, please challenge to make a papercraft of this object which is uploaded by PDF file.

I derived this one from two different things:
Phonecone iPhone4 version by eagleapex
(http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6348) and;
Enhanced iPhone Dock by RobertHunt
(http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6931)
I loved the idea and the retro look of the Phonecone so I made one and since I don't own an iPhone I took it to the park where my dog walking friends get together. They only had iPhone 3s and the thing would not fit them but they loved it. Then one of them said that she would like to have it sit up on her desk.
That is when I found the Enhanced iPhone Dock and I built one. But the iPhones 3s would not stand up without the connector and in the process I also discovered that the iPhone is stereo.
So... I thought, what a great project to practice my Blender skills on.
I made the Enhanced iPhone Dock taller, with the holding space a bit narrower and added two holes that send the sound to the front where the cones from the Phonecone fit. The stand fits both the iPhone 3 and 4.
It sounds great! And my iPhone 3 friends are delighted.
OK, so I found out that the iPhone is not stereo so I've uploaded a version for the iPhone4 with only one horn. I have not made one but it should work.

3x3 ball maze inspired by thingiverse.com/thing:1542
Not exactly an intellectual challenge, but an interesting print!

I still find it amazing that it's possible to print these vertical columns.

A box where the lid arms clamp down to hold it in place when the knob is turned.

These are nicer versions of the pine tree experiment first tested in thing:7018.

Pine tree 2 has a more random look and has 5 mm vertical spacing between branches.

Pine tree 4 has fuller look and has 2.5 mm vertical spacing between branches.

We've decided to discontinue several bracelets from our Cell Cycle collection to make way for new designs. This is one of those designs. I've uploaded it in three sizes:

small - inner diameter: 2.3in, inner circumference: 7.2in
medium - inner diameter: 2.5in, inner circumference: 7.85in
large - inner diameter: 2.7in, inner circumference: 8.5in

Inspired by the complex forms of radiolarians, where intricate pattern is integral to structure, these shapes derive from a simulation of spring meshes which form mirrored catenoid surfaces. We created interactive software to morph, twist, and subdivide each design, transforming a simple mesh to a complex patterned structure.

This is a derivative work of Darth Vader by arhimed and bre.

cleaned up the inside of the original object thingiverse.com/thing:609 using netfabb professional

This package contains the "creative commons" release of these designs (STL's and the original solidworks CAD) for a full-size Staunton-style chess set.

Let's see some jazzy prints ffolkes!

ps: Added DXF CAD for those of you without Solidworks... enjoy!