A piece of doll-house scale furniture broke as the kids were cavorting around the living room – the project for the morning became designing a replacement, as well as a chair to go with the table. The table is modeled after our dining room table: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The…
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Final Fantasy XV – Chocobo
At full scale and fine resolution, this would take a little over 4 days just to print the body of the chocobo. I want more along the lines of action figure / 38mm scale, so I initially printed at 25% of original model scale. At that scale it’s a bit to small – clean up is difficult,…
Squishy Owl
The test print of the NinjaFlex went smoothly, so onto the squishy owl. This is a Christmas present for the 5 year old. A few false starts, and some fiddling with live z-tuning, and things were printing well. The first print is nearly perfect, except for the top of the head, where there are too few layers,…
HexBugs Nano – Curved Track
Both of the kids got (more) HexBugs as presents this Christmas, and it seemed like a good time to try and print up some extra track. This was a first attempt at using an existing model of a standard curved track: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) While the dimensions of…
Full Scale Totem
I really enjoyed the look and quality of the Monument Valley Totem model I printed at half scale, and decided shortly after that print that a full scale print of the model was in order. I quickly printed the first pieces, and it was clear that at full scale, this was going to be a large Totem:…
BearBook Air
The 10 year old and I have strange conversations as I’m turning out his light and closing his door at bed time. Half stall-tactics, half clearing his brain from the day, these sometimes short (sometimes not) conversations range far and wide, from dissecting the day, to gaming, to story telling and general goofiness. One Friday night the…
Monument Valley – Totem
Everyone in the house has played, and often continues to play, Monument Valley. It felt like the house needed a Totem friend of its own. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) This Totem is at half scale from the original model, primarily to speed up printing time. View this…
LEGO Compatible Pentagonal Angle
While it’s possible to hack together LEGO solutions for strange angles and shapes, wouldn’t it be nice to have pre-built blocks to help build the regular polygons? I’ve had my eye on the various LEGO compatible SCAD files and customizers, and decided to try one of them out. Using a simple 2×2 plate block as the foundation, I built…