Posts tagged thingiverse
Twitter just notified me that someone posted a Fetus with Text Tag to Thingiverse.
Adds the ability to add text to your fetus. Personalize it with a name, or scale it to make it the real life size with the date underneath!
Just what I’ve always wanted.
What you’re looking at is actually the crystalline configuration of diamond, which is also the exact same configuration of the atoms in silicon semiconductors. In semiconductors, different atoms are pushed into the lattice, replacing silicon atoms, to alter the local average number of electrons, which in turn makes it possible to build diodes and transistors in high densities through a combination of technologies related to photography and, well, clay firing, which enables complex but inexpensive circuits like microcontrollers, which in turn enables low-cost 3D printers, which is where we get models like this one…
(via Thingiverse)
As promised, the ears are now printable. Still working on the video, code, and instructions.
Magnet Toy by DrWeidinger - Thingiverse
This magnet toy is great for exploring geometric shapes and the awesome power of MAGNETS. It is inspired by natural geometry and buckyballs, which are way too much fun. Unless you eat them. DO NOT EAT THE MAGNETS.
What to make my nephew for his 10th birthday: sorted.
A scalable, folding shelf system: download the files, adjust them to your intended material and design, and have them laser cut. Elegant.
Volumetric Tentacle Key Hook by schmarty « MakerBot Industries
On the one hand, this is excellent and funny. I’m going to print one for myself, as well as the octopuses1.
On the other hand, I find myself a bit bemused by the fact that I often use my Makerbot as a means for the consumption of trivial toys, rather than a creative tool for expression. Even if all I buy is a cheap spool of plastic. The “hey, let’s print a TARDIS now” impulse is eerily similar to a child’s thoughtless lust for novelty and toys.
On the third pseudopod, though, I’ve already used the Makerbot to experiment and learn to build things that were difficult or impossible before. So it’s a mixed bag, in all.
Anyway. Tentacles? Yes, please.
the plural of “octopus” is problematic: it’s not a Latin word, as it comes from the Greek, so “octopi” is wrong. But the accurate plural, “octopedes,” is awkward and ugly. So: octopuses. You wanted to know that. I could tell. ↩
Thingitag by whosawhatsis - Thingiverse
I was showing off some of my designs at a recent Makerbot user group meeting, and I wished I had tags for them with QR codes and some other relevant data. This bookmarklet will generate such tags.
Tube Squeezer by Starno - Thingiverse
This is a printable device to squeeze paint or toothpaste out of a tube.
When printed out of red plastic, the design seems to suggest something, but I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Dodecahedral Protoboard by mrule — Thingiverse
A printable connector that allows you to assemble these pentagonal boards from Sparkfun into a dodecahedron.
(I haven’t managed to successfully print this on my makerbot yet, as it needs a heated build platform to keep the print from warping.)
Via Make Magazine.
Z Axis Extender Kit for Makerbot Cupcake by Zydac - Thingiverse
Here we have a hardware upgrade that significantly modifies the capabilities of an open-source robotic 3D printer. Which is designed to be printed on that printer. And is uploaded to a social-software site for sharing fabricatable designs, forking them, and resubmitting improvements.
Let’s say that again: this is a downloadable hardware upgrade for an affordable robot that can fabricate its own components. Which I am linking to, because it’s been shared on a kind of Flickr for fabricatable objects.
If that isn’t mind-blowing, I don’t think I can unpack it in a way that catalogs why it’s amazing.
![Thingiverse really needs to fix their mobile stylesheet.
When it renders images, they push the text to the side. Combined with the fixed viewport, this means all text is truncated.
This screenshot is what you get when you scan the QRCode that’s embedded in the parametric printable box.
[Edit]
Zach “Hoeken” from Thingiverse kindly responded to my bug report; he’s promised to try and fix the issue.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_layra2IouX1qa1eqmo1_400.jpg)
Thingiverse really needs to fix their mobile stylesheet.
When it renders images, they push the text to the side. Combined with the fixed viewport, this means all text is truncated.
This screenshot is what you get when you scan the QRCode that’s embedded in the parametric printable box.
[Edit]
Zach “Hoeken” from Thingiverse kindly responded to my bug report; he’s promised to try and fix the issue.
3D Printer Alchemy - MakerBot Industries
A little over a month ago I had pondered how cool it would be to have things on Thingiverse embedded with QR codes – so you could show the bottom of the object to a friend, they could grab the digital file, and print off a duplicate. Well, l0b0 has done just that with his parametric box!
