I’ve seen a few interesting text prints floating around, and have especially liked a few that play with angles and offsets that make the text pop out in unexpected ways – there somehow reminiscent of a late 1980’s, early 1990’s design aesthetic as desktop publishing became a Thing. As I’ve been posting print photos to Instagram under…
Category: 3d printing
Expanded Poke-set
Pulling from the same Pokemon chess set I used for Pikachu, I print you!, I wanted to expand the set of Pokemon we have to play with. Pikachu has been popular around the house for all sorts of pretend play and games, so I went with a batch of six: Dratini, Eevee, Arcanine, Bulbasaur, Jigglypuff, and Charmander:…
Modeling Rule v1.0
The day before a long weekend trip to the midwest, I realized I didn’t have a good travel sized drafting ruler. I wasn’t bringing a laptop, and haven’t found good drafting quality stand alone apps on the iPad, but still wanted to get a few designs down on paper, with enough detail and strict enough measurements to…
That’s one big pile of ABS
<ian malcom voice>That’s one big pile of ABS</ian malcom voice> The first print of All the Filaments failed spectacularly, leaving a big ball of ABS wrapped around the hot end. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Not the best way to find the printer. I set the hot-end to…
Moon in the Palm of Your Hand
Space is a popular topic around the house. We build Lego spaceships, we create video games about space travel, the whole family crowds onto the couch to watch SpaceX launches (provided they happen before bed time), and inumerable conversations come back to the expanse, scale, and content of space. I’ve been scouring Thingiverse, Shapeways, and 3D modeling sites…
Daft Trio
I think the house needed more statuary, like busts of famous musicians. Lacking a good Bach or Mozart model, and knowing the musical leanings of our household, it seemed like a trio of Daft Punk helmets fit the bill. I combined the three stand alone models into a single gcode file to print everything in a single print…
Tilting at iPhones
Cell phone stands seem to be a dime-a-dozen on Thingiverse. I decided to try this one out because it looked like it would maintain good balance, fit my iPhone with it’s case, and provided a slot to plug in a charging cable while on the stand. So far I have no complaints. This was one of my…
All The Clips
One of the first things I printed on my Prusa i3 was a small set of filament clips to keep spools of filament from unwinding while they’re stored in air-tight bins. Rather than print one at a time, at first I put four copies of a single clip into a gcode file, which worked out well. As I’ve…