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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.

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

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.

I just printed a little dragonfly on my makerbot. the body is ca 4cm long

click here to download the stl file

Since everything has to be 3D these days, i made a 3D version of the sketch i wrote yesterday

click here to see it in action

I just wrote a little processing sketch that takes a height field like this

calculates a pdf containing something like this

which can be cut out and sticked together to a 3d model like this

I just printed the first stl file that i generated using a processing sketch.

I used the unlekkerlib to export a stl file from a sketch that generates simple 3d spiral, used blender to add a socket and printed it on my makerbot. Skeinforge complained about some invalid triangles, but beside that it worked surprisingly well.

This is what it looks like in blender

and this is what the makerbot made of it

and this is the processing-sketch i used to generated the spiral

import unlekker.data.*;

void setup() {
  size(300,300,P3D);
  noLoop();
}

void draw() {
  translate(width/2,height/2);
  background(0);
  fill(255);
  lights();
  noStroke();
  //stroke(255);
  beginRaw("unlekker.data.STL","guru.stl");
  beginShape(QUAD_STRIP);
  for( int i =0; i < 100; i++ ) {
    for(int a=0; a < 36; a++) {
      float r = 10 - map(i,0,100,0,10);
      vertex( r * sin( radians( a * 10 )) + sin(radians(i*10)) * 10, 
              -i*1, 
              r * cos(radians(a*10)) + cos(radians(i*10)) * 10);

      int j = i+1;
      vertex( r * sin( radians( a * 10 )) + sin(radians(j*10)) * 10, 
              -j*1, 
              r * cos(radians(a*10)) + cos(radians(j*10)) * 10);
    }
  }
  endShape();
  endRaw();
}

I designed a simple stand for my phone unsing openscad. click here to download the stl file or click here for the openscad script

I designed a simple cableclip that fits on my desk unsing blender. click here to download the stl file

Today i managed to make a scan using my conmark L2000 3D-Scanner that looks at least similar to the object i tried to scan :-)

it's not quite what i hoped it to be yet, but at least it's a start.

original:

scan: