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Phantom Cavalcade Vase

This ghostly vase mode print ends up surprisingly rigid and robust as far as these things go! Presumably, that's because all that detail ends up adding plenty of extra material, and because all those indentations and protrusions effectively brace ...

The Little Mummy

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This little mummy can conveniently store any number of things in its capacious noggin, and also has a choice of stylish hats with which to accessorise!

What really inspired me to follow this path was partly to ...

Mechano-Bat Box

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Bats usually hang upside-down, rather than standing up, but maybe they would stand more if they had big, chunky boots like this bat does!

Another significant difference between this bat and regular ones is the ...

Pocket Radio Box

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While multimaterial printers are getting more accessible all the time it's still very satisfying to work out how to achieve a multi-colour print with just a regular normal printer. And for that there are two primar...

Magnetic Frame Pods

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Sometimes when ideas spring to mind they aren't so much visual as tactile. And this one is an excellent example of that! What I had pictured (figuratively speaking) was a series of components held in place by ma...

Flexionoid Articulated Lamp

Ah, hinges! This model may be a lamp, but it's secretly an excuse to explore elaborate hinges with in-built locking and adjustment mechanisms!

Yep, those vertically-printing hinges include a lever to unlock the hinge and allow it to move ...

Cinnamon Secrets

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Yes, it's time for more questionable food choices in printed form! Depending on where you are in the world, these might be cinnamon rolls or cinnamon scrolls, but either way these Cinnamon Secrets are designed to cl...

Ribbon Basket

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Is it still papercraft if it's made of printed plastic? Probably not :P But I do love taking those papercraft ideas and bringing them into the printing space.

Originally, this design was all about using...

Surface Orb (vase and regular modes!)

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I'm a sucker for making colourful prints with basic techniques like filament swaps! But this model uses a somewhat different approach to taking advantage of that - the bottom layer has flexible extensions that are...

Counterfold Case

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Why have one hinge on a lid when you can have six, right?!

Some years ago I played around with different approaches to a geometric mechanical model known broadly as a kaleidocycle, where a set of rigid elemen...

The Scanline Classic (for EL wire!)

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Yes, it's an old-timey TV that incorporates EL wire to give that classic cathode ray scan line feel! And it's another print made up of a multitude of parts :D

You'll notice that the EL wire is wrapped arou...

Echoform Vase

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Some concepts just refuse to let go until they turn into some kind of reality, and this is one of those. I was contemplating some kind of classic vase design, but with things arranged around it that seemingly con...

Quilted Case

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Yes, it's a padded, fabric-covered, 3D printed box! I had modelled hard plastic versions of upholstered things before, so it's a logical progression to actually add padding and fabric, right?!

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Resistor Boxes

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As you well know, I love closure and latching mechanisms! I've been exploring what are effectively printed springs lately, and it occurred to me that I could use a sprung stopper as a means of keeping something f...

Blacksmith's Pail (no multimaterial required!)

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Multimaterial printing is great, but it really does have some downsides. Excessive extra print time and unreasonable material waste are realities that make us question whether the benefits are worth it. But contrast ...

Hex Tile Tub for Ikea Pegboards

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Pegboards are such useful things, but I noticed a distinct lack of hexagonal tubs that could be tiled across them and had to set out to fix that!

As you probably noticed from the title and the photos, we're sp...

Videotape Vault (and fancy slip cases!)

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Some might say that VHS tapes are distant enough in the past now to be cool again, but I say they never stopped being cool to begin with! While those magnetic tapes may have faded from relevance for media distributio...

Scrollform Cylinder

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Well, where do I start on this one?! As you've no doubt already noticed, it's a busy, detailed looking thing, and that was ultimately the point of it. I wanted a design that could use filament swapping to create grap...

Spiral Sovereign Crown

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Crown yourself monarch of wherever you happen to be with this convenient vase mode print! Yep, this was another challenge to myself to see if I could strictly abide by the rules of vase mode design but still design s...

Secret Spray Stash

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I've mentioned many times how much I love finding the little things that give something its identity, and make it immediately recognisable as itself. And this time that has been applied to aerosol cans! It turns out ...

Extraplanetary Geared Stand

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Planetary gears are just the best! As a fan of making things overly complicated, it's hard to find a mechanism that looks more cool and mechanical than that. And the Planetary Phone Stand was always a favourite d...

Springlatch Box

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I do love a nice latching mechanism! I could never get tired of exploring different ways to keep lids closed! But a big part of the appeal isn't so much the effectiveness of the latch (they're all generally pretty go...

Disengagement Canister

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There's something so satisfying about twist-locking containers, whether it's a fancy magnetic latch setup or a traditional screw thread. However, there's also something quite nice about containers where the lid remai...

Pennant Column Vase

The elements of a design that give something it's something-ness... it's identity that makes it recognisable as the thing that it is... is something that is a constant point of interest when putting together designs that are supposed to give the i...

Articulated Bucket Loader

Chunky print-in-place wheels are fun! But that's not what drove (har har) this model - it was, as you probably guessed, the bucket. The wheel part is trivial in the scheme of things, but keeping the bucket viably printable without it being high ri...

Scaffold Tub

Ah, I do love a nice industrial motif, and what is more industrial than big, exposed threads? This oversized tub rests on three hinged tripodian struts, and the aforementioned screw threads serve to extend those struts for extra coolness points. Y...

Triple Axis Augmented Crate

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Yay, complicated motion! Why have one hinge point for a lid when you can have three, right?! But seriously, this ridiculously complicated motion structure does achieve something significant - it allow the lid to pivot o...

Skull Tessellation Box

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I do love a good tessellation! Here we have a set of expressive skull boxes that neatly fit into each other to efficiently tile two-dimensional space!

It won't surprise you to know that the vast majority of the ti...

Hidey-Hole Doorstop (for TPU or similar)

Sometimes 3D printing can actually be quite practical! I needed a couple of door stops, the rubbery sort that you often find on doors that open into a tiled wall. I could perhaps have gone to a local hardware store, but I did have some TPU lying a...

Torus Weave Tub (vase mode!)

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I was, of course, trying to design something entirely different when I got the inspiration for this one. That is often how it goes, but it's invariably a good idea to run with it and see where it might lead!

I...