Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:35:31 GMT
I have some spools with cables lying around on my working desk. so i printed 2 spool holders on my makerbot to
tidy things up a bit.
downlaod the
openscad file or the
stl file
to print them.

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:24:28 GMT
My boss asked me to clone myself several times, so i started by making a little 3d figure in blender and printed it
on my Makerbot. Not quite a clone of me, but every journey begins with a first step :-)
click here to download the stl file

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:34:00 GMT
Recently some very awsome cookiecutter-designs started to show up on thingiverse (like the escher cookie cutter or the jigsaw cookie cutter, and many more)
(and one of the local radiostations has played "last cristmas", because it's only 6 months till x-mas O_o )
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.
Click here to download the processing sketch.
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'
this is my day 26 project for 30daysofcreativity
This is what the cookie-cutter-editor looks like

This is what the generated stl file looks like

And this is what the printed cookie-cutter looks like (still have to fiddle around with my skeinforge settings a bit)

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:22:00 GMT
I transformed my gekko from a pencildrawing
to a real physical object. I converted the drawing into a 3D object using blender and then printed
it on my makerbot. This is my Day 20 project for 30daysofcreativity
click here to download the stl file

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:39:00 GMT
I made another pair of earrings for my wife, printed on a makerbot
click here to get the openscad file or here for the stl file

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Tue, 25 May 2010 17:56:00 GMT
Today i printed some interlocked rings on my makerbot. I used openscad to generate the stl file.
The two rings are standing in an angle of 60 degrees and don't touch each other
click here to download the stl file or
here for the openscad source file.


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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Thu, 20 May 2010 08:35:00 GMT
A friend of mine is currently renovating his VW-Oldtimer. For one of the windows two little plastic parts are
needed, but he could only get one :-/
so i designed a replacement part in openscad and printed it on the makerbot
there is the stl and the openscad file

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:05:00 GMT
Last Friday I got 20 little cacti, but I had no matching pot saucers.
So i started my 3d Printer and made some.
click here to download the stl file or click here to download the openscad file.

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:43:00 GMT
I just printed a little dragonfly on my makerbot. the body is ca 4cm long
click here to download the stl file

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Posted by Nikolaus Gradwohl
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:39:00 GMT
Back in the old days, when I was a basic hacking teenager, the state of the art technique for
getting awsome 3D Graphics on the atari-screen was rendering triangles based on a grayscale bitmap - aka heightfield.
I reanimated this knowledge to generate a 3D object from such a heightfield.
so in fact this blog article shows how to take something like this

and turn it into something like this.

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