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With a name like Thorn Vase it's not a surprise that this model is a spiky, pointy thing full of curves and cusps and sweeping lines, all formed from a single perimeter that winds its way from base to top.
As with most of the things I explore, though, there's an interesting technical goal in this design: to create horizontal elements along the way that still...
2022-05-01 10:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A few recent updates!...
Taller Workshop Trays
Until now, all the workshop trays were the low type except for the completely open, undivided one, which had two heights. Well, now all seven trays have taller versions! They're just like the existing one...
2022-04-15 18:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, my favourite people!
By popular demand, here we have a first take on a pill organiser! Well, two takes, really, since we have two different sizes. Now, pill organisers come in many different styles, but this is the classic one-compartment-per-day-for-a-week approach.
The main consideration here was to be able to easily isolate just one compartment and...
2022-04-15 18:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm back into multimaterial printing at the moment, and finding any excuse to add a little colour to designs! That said, this little treasure chest is intended to print just fine in a single material, too!
This diminutive treasure-oriented storage unit is a print-in-place design that requires no supports and prints with the lid open. The insides ...
2022-04-15 18:02:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Funfair Vase
The Funfair Vase is purely an excuse to print in eight different filaments, and I haven't yet printed it myself! A few people asked for a test model for eight filaments, however, so here we are!
When my suitable multimaterial hardware makes its way through the perils of international shipping and local flooding I'll be able to give it a try. ...
2022-03-31 14:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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Do you need a ridiculously overly-complicated headphone stand? Of course you do! This vaguely-skeletal articulated print is a big one!
The Vertebranium Headphone Stand prints on its side, curled up backwards (see picture down in the Printing Tips section), but then bends out and around so that all the hinges suspend the headphone bracket, a...
2022-03-31 14:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Names are a funny thing, and I fully intended to give this one a more interesting one, but Sixpin Box it was during development and Sixpin Box it stayed. So named because the lid has, well, six pins on a twisty angle that slot into the box!
Twist boxes are wonderful things, and I've made many of those in years past, but I wondered if I could use that twist idea in a different way, t...
2022-03-31 14:37:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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I set out to make a vase mode assembly that carried a similar style to the Reciprocal Vase and the Inversion Vase with their wavy lines and counter-swirls, with the plan that those inset bits could be different colours for enhanced snazziness! And here we have it, the Correlation Vase!
There were some learnings along the way on this one, mostly around ...
2022-03-31 14:36:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Those multicoloured coextrusion filaments have got me all inspired lately, and I set out to make something specifically to work with those toothpaste-style wonder filaments. You can of course print it in anything you like, but the coextrusion filaments really are great fun!
So, what are the specific design features we're talking about? First a...
2022-03-14 14:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for some updates! 🥳
Neutron Tube Variations
The bottom layer on the Neutron Tube needs to be quite neat and tidy to avoid things binding together, as a few people discovered! So, there are new versions in a subfolder that are listed as "easier print versions". However, as with all things there is a compromise involved. These alternati...
2022-03-14 14:48:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Many a design has crossed my path and been adorned with hexagons, but usually they're very neat. Precise. Orderly.
The distorted honeycomb here is an intentional departure from that, but remains just as printable as ever, despite those shallow outline angles, and despite the fact that the hexagon mesh is not at all flat, and is instead con...
2022-03-14 14:47:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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Ah, the Catalyst Capsule! Probably my favourite magnetic closure to date because of its satisfying snap and the way that the magnets keep it from opening, but without actually taking the force of holding it closed. I decided there needed to be a cube version!
Now, initially I set out to make a rotating cube lid that worked in exactly the same way...
2022-03-14 14:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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I like big dodecahedra and I cannot lie! Okay, these aren't that big, but there are lots of them, and they scale, stretch and stack into a long, thin vase that makes me think of low-poly pyrotechnics, hence the name!
As always with vase mode, the trick is in managing the angles and making sure things aren't inclined too steeply either going...
2022-02-28 03:44:28 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a gift box! Well, probably. Maybe you just like cakes and want to store things in cakes. Hmm, pies, doughnuts, and cakes. Do I get hungry when designing, or something? :P
This particular cake has a hinged lid with optional magnet closure to keep its contents secure, which would be particularly important if you were using it to store cake.
2022-02-28 03:44:23 +0000 UTC
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Styled after the Workshop Trays these tubs are taller and set up for mounting on vertical surfaces! Thanks to the keyhole-style mounting holes on the back, the tubs can be hung on mounting brackets. However, the tubs have no protruding parts, so they'll still sit together nicely on a bench, and they're all the same height as three stacked Workshop Tray...
2022-02-28 03:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome back to the world of print-in-place assemblies! This sci-fi-styled geometric cylinder features a hinged circular lid that is locked down by a big, threaded ring. The whole thing prints assembled and in a closed position, with no supports required. And, in fact, it all prints upside-down.
You'll notice there are four different sizes ...
2022-02-28 03:44:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A bunch of updates and random things - I'm just going to pile all these into one post!
Magnetic Slide Top Box
An oldie but a goodie! The Slide Top Box is an older model, a square-ish box with, as the name suggests, a sliding lid that runs on a groove inside...
2022-02-11 12:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's a box with a big, slotted front opening!
It's fun to take advantage of printing things on odd angles, to do things that are otherwise just not possible. Here we have a box with six sides and a wide, slotted front that gets printed at 45 degrees so that all six of those sides are at nice, easy angles for printing.
You'll also notice that smoo...
2022-02-11 12:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a woven-topped tiny pie box! Just right for storing important things like M3 bolts, M3 nuts, and, well, probably other things as well, as long as they're small.
This tiny pie is better with magnets to hold it closed, but there's also a version that is magnet-free, since the magnets do occupy a bit of space in what is a fairly diminutive pie.
2022-02-11 12:59:37 +0000 UTC
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I love organising things! Maybe it's some kind of innate human desire for order, or maybe it's just an appreciation for being able to find things in amongst all the other similar things, but either way, organising is good. That probably explains all the boxes and caddies, past and future, now that I think of it...
Anyway! Here we have...
2022-02-11 12:59:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, it's a Raspberry Pi doughnut case with sprinkles!
This one took a while to come together. You'll no doubt remember mid-last year we had some delicious printed doughnuts. Well, at the same time as putting those together I started on a Pi case based on the same form.
However, there were plenty of questions to be answered, like how to expose ports, how to...
2022-01-24 14:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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Have you been wondering when dodecahedra and swirly vase patterns would finally merge into one glorious form?! Wonder no more!
Having worked on a bunch of designs recently that involved inset curves and swirls, I'd developed some approaches that were quite different from my usual way of building those kinds of shapes. And, I realised, ...
2022-01-24 14:42:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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This ominous ball of geometry explores the visual interaction between a swirl of fine lines on the inside and a coarse net of struts on the outside, linked to each other only at the very top and bottom of the bowl. The physical separation allows for some nice shadow casting and just gives an interesting depth that I quite liked! It's a big bowl! ...
2022-01-24 14:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Ever since I released a quick-and-dirty cable manager I've had requests for a more elaborate version, ideally one that can stack! So, here we are, in overengineering land, with a big, chunky cable keeper that's ready to store your cables in a stylish, 3D-printed manner!
Of course, we could just use a velcro tie to keep cables tidy, but that's jus...
2022-01-24 14:39:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, this is the last post for today! But it has a couple of things in it that follow a theme: gigantic nozzles!
I've worked with 1.0mm nozzles in the past, but my mind was blown when I saw that there was a 1.8mm nozzle available that worked with regular 1.75mm filament! Specifically one by Bondtech, and since there was a sale on I bought a set of varying sizes. Have I ...
2022-01-07 14:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Some days you just get inspired by filament. Right?! I'm sure it's not just me! Anyway, I had ordered two shades of matte brown filament a while back, and they really did have a rustic, homely feel when they sat next to each other, so I figured I had to do something to combine them.
Hence the Rustic Bowl! It's a two-colour model printed in two pieces that slot toge...
2022-01-07 14:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post
More fractals!
That's right, my wonderful friends, more math nerdery, and once again produced programmatically. If you already recognised this famous and beloved shape, then you already knew all that!
If that spiky black shape is new to you, it's the Mandelbrot Set:
2022-01-07 14:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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Conical flasks are just such a cool shape. This one exaggerates that shape a little just to be a bit cuter, and features embossed hexagons, and who can say no to embossed hexagons?!
You'll notice there are no angles beyond 45 degrees in this model either upwards or downwards, because this was originally a vase mode design, and I like vase mode desi...
2022-01-07 14:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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I have a sordid past as a math nerd and software person - shocking revelations, I know - and those interests have combined in this ferny-looking vase! The organic patterns that sprout from the base and make their way up the sides are mathematical in nature, and the whole vase itself is the result of many, many hours of calculations. Fortunately, co...
2022-01-07 14:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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More gears! Potentially noisy ones, too, if you so desire. This cog-laden box (with cog-style eyelashes, if you choose to interpret them that way) has a big surrounding gear at the bottom that rotates against a smaller gear at 90 degrees to it that drives a lid open and closed. Levers attached to the big cog mean you can readily open and close th...
2021-12-21 14:21:45 +0000 UTC View Post