local-guru.net http://www.local-guru.net/blog 40 http://www.local-guru.net//blog/2010/6/27/custom-cookie-cutters-for-the-makerbot <h2>Update:</h2> <p><em>there is a new version of the <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/blog/pages/cookiecutter-editor">CookieCutter-Editor</a>!</em></p> <p>Recently some very awsome cookiecutter-designs started to show up on <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com">thingiverse</a> (like the <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3207">escher cookie cutter</a> or the <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3267">jigsaw cookie cutter</a>, and many more) (and one of the local radiostations has played "last cristmas", because it's only 6 months till x-mas O_o )</p> <p>So i thought about how the generation of such custom cookie cutters could be simplified and i developed a custom cookie cutter generator in processing.</p> <p><a href="http://www.local-guru.net/projects/cookiecutter/cookiecutter.zip">Click here</a> to download the processing sketch.</p> <p>Basically it's a very very simple vector graphic programm, where you can design the cookie form you want to have. to export the design as a stl file press the letter 'e'</p> <p>this is my day 26 project for <a href="http://www.30daysofcreativity.com">30daysofcreativity</a></p> <p>This is what the cookie-cutter-editor looks like</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/projects/cookiecutter/cookiecutter_sc1.png" alt="cookie-cutter-generator" /></p> <p>This is what the generated stl file looks like</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/projects/cookiecutter/cookiecutter_sc2.png" alt="cookie-cutter in blender" /></p> <p>And this is what the printed cookie-cutter looks like (still have to fiddle around with my skeinforge settings a bit)</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/projects/cookiecutter/cookiecutter_example.jpg" alt="cookie-cutter" /></p> 2010-06-27T19:34:00+02:00