hiding some screws on my Chair
I got a new chair from ikea which came with armrests. I didn't want to screw them on the chair, because I generally don't like arm-rests on my chairs and they don't fit under my desk. Not mounting the arm-rests left some blank nuts which didn't look very pretty.
3D-printer to the rescue - I printed some caps to hide the nuts
You can download the scad file or the stl file If you need an example or happen to have the same chair


a happy cardboard flower
I just printed some more feet for cardboard figures, because I needed one for a happy flower I made for my wife

personalizing an Ikea pen holder with an 3D-Printer
I own a Ikea-pen holder on my desk which I like very much, but It has one very large compartment in the front, where I wanted to put my markers. Since I don't have enough markers to fill the whole compartment, I designed a small box in openscad and printed it on my makerbot - et voila! a smaller compartment for my pens.
The box is for sure not the biggest innovation in 3D desgin and I could have used cardboard boxes too, but I really like the idea using a 3D printer to personalize off the shelf furniture :-)
If you like to print your own you can download the openscad-source or download the stl-file

3D-Printed Unicorn (with Rainbow)
I designed a unicorn for my 3D-Printer using blender. This is my Day6 project for 30daysOfCreativity

you can download the blender file or the stl file
read more ...3D-Printed Wizzard

While browsing through thingiverse I noticed a huge number of draggons but a serious lack of wizzards. So I started the new blender 2.5 and moddled one.
The blender 2.5 GUI is a really huge improvement over the 2.4-Versions - absolutely thumbs up for this :-)
you can download the blend file or you can download the stl file if you want to print it yourself.
Then I tried to print something using the support material option of skeinforge for the first time. The support-material can be activated in the "Raft" Section of the skeinforge settings. Make sure you set "Support Inset over Perimeter Extrusion With (ratio)" to some negative value - I used -3 - or else your support material will stick to your model.
read more ...3D-Printed Brush-Holder
Bathroom-real-estate is a very limited resource in our flat, so I designed a brush-holder that can be glued to the wall and printed it on my makerbot.
I really like how a 3D-printer helps from getting "would be nice if .." into "cool - lets try it"
you can download the brushholder openscad source or the exported brushholder stl


Printable Lighning
I made a lightning bolt to test the openscad polygon and linear_extrude functions.
To define a polygon you have to define a set of 2D-coordinates and some sets that define the paths. In this example only one
path is defined that connects all the points. Then I extruded the polygon to make it 3D and centered it using translate, to
make it printable.
translate(v=[0,-45,1]) {
linear_extrude( height=2, center=true)
polygon( points = [[-5,0], [15,40], [5, 55], [20, 75], [0, 90], [-15, 55 ], [2, 36]],
paths=[[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]]
);
}
you can download the openscad source or the stl file

Printable Weaving Shuttle
This is a small weaving shuttle I desinged for my mom. It's printed on my makerbot using black ABS.
Download the openscad source or the stl file if you want to print your own.


How To Make A CookieCutter
This is a small how-to video that explains how to design and print a cookiecutter using my Cookie-Cutter-Editor and a makerbot
How To Make a CookieCutter from Nikolaus Gradwohl on Vimeo.
the soundtrack is Awel by stefsax
read more ...Generative Battery Compartment
I need Battery compartments for many of my electronics projects and buy them usually in various sizes, but since i have a makerbot I am thinking about how to print them myself. So I just wrote a openscad-script that generates battery compartments. It handles various battery types from AAA to D and can generate compartments for even and odd battery numbers.
Download the OpenSCAD file enter the type and number of batteries you need and generate a stl file. Then either add it to your model or use it as a standalone compartment. The only thing you need to add (besides batteries) are litte metall stripes for the contacts.


