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Ever feel like your life is lacking both gothic splendour and solid geometry? I know I do! This stylish stellated dodecahedron is just the thing for addressing this, especially this time of year where star-o...
If there's one thing I've spent a lot of time on in the year since I published the Resolute Box, it's printability. These days, I have a bunch of cheap printers using default slicing profiles purely to test the resilience of designs in the f...
2020-11-06 11:53:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Second up in revised designs, we have the Skull Slide Top Box. The request here was to allow the box to be locked closed somehow, so I applied a mechanism that will be quite familiar now, but in a different way.2020-11-06 11:52:04 +0000 UTC
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I often get requests to tweak designs, and those requests are often really useful or interesting. Today we'll have three updates to existing designs, two for changes in functionality, and one for a change ...
That's right, wonderful people, another way to roll dice, this time with an even more gratuitously over-engineered, print-in-place, support-free mechanism!
Press the paddle at the back and the tray tilts forward, driven internally by a pair ...
2020-11-01 15:46:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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I do love dynamic things, whether it's moving gears, flowing water, or in this case, rolling dice. It's a dice tower! A modular one that comes apart, specifically. Let's look at the parts...
L...
2020-10-30 16:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Have you ever tried printing a blade? Wait, no incriminating answers, please! I mean, some thing for stationery purposes, since we're looking at another component for the Regulation Caddy System. Specifically: a tape caddy!
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It's the end of the month once more, and time for a few posts, some to tie up loose ends (like this one) and others with some entirely new stuff...
You probably saw this one coming! Yes, what caddy sy...
2020-10-30 15:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Are you spinning your single-axis rotating models and wishing there were more degrees of freedom? If so, this is the model for you! Here we have a spherical bowl that can rotate freely within a stand. &nb...
2020-10-22 12:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, by popular request I finally got a video done demonstrating how the screw thread connectors work in things like the Breezy Pi Case and the Fixer Jar. You'll find the video on youtube here:
You can never have too much SD card storage!
Hi there, ever-supportive, wonderful people! Yes, it's a modified version of the 1x1 caddy that has slots for SD cards! The fun part of this design was keeping it looking consistent wi...
2020-10-08 08:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hooray for gratuitous cogs and moving parts! :D
So, this is where that caddy with the hinged lid ended up! As expected, we have two cogs rather than three, and you'll notice they're big now, too! As...
2020-10-07 23:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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Making things complicated is great fun, but it isn't always easy...
It's that time again - let's look at things that didn't turn out quite as planned this month!
First up, that thing pictured above...
2020-09-30 15:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawers, drawers, drawers! But first, names!
Welcome back to caddy land, wonderful people. So, a few days back I posted up the first round of Regulation Caddy designs, which included two sizes: 1x1 and 1x2. Now, this was no...
2020-09-30 15:24:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'll often design in ways that distract from the fact that something is 3D printed, but not this time! This desk organiser is made to be noticed and questioned! Where did that come from? Why is ...
2020-09-25 15:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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I got half way through explaining why this wouldn't work, and then realised that I could indeed make it work! :D
This design may well look familiar! Yep, the Colossus Vault and the Vault Box are the a...
2020-09-17 15:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Remember the Branch Tube? Well, it was pointed out that it could be really useful to have segments with closed bases that could still screw together, allowing a series of individual chambers to form a tube. &nb...
2020-09-17 15:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was another concept that bounced around for ages before finally taking form - basically a rack-and-pinion style guide rail. The paired cogs on the lid mesh into rack gears that are inset into the box body....
2020-09-10 13:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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Custom clamshell case requests are open! :D
You'd think I would already have all the boxes I need, right? :P I have a vague list of things to create cases for, especially things like screwdriver bits and ...
2020-09-03 12:58:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, wonderful people! Another month has sprinted by already in a blur of extruded plastic! So, let's look at some stuff that didn't quite work out.
Fixer Jar - Secret Hinged Door!
First up, that hidd...
2020-09-02 08:35:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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Let's talk history....
Sometimes I end up making really practical designs. I love my ridiculous adventures in gears and articulated lids, but I can't deny that using 3D printers for actua...
2020-08-26 15:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've bundled a bunch of things into this single post, just for a change :) Hmm, maybe some contents are in order:
> New Fixer Jar parts - a hidden drawer, false bottom and an interior lid.
> H...
2020-08-19 14:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yep, it's another ridiculously convoluted one! This print-in-place cog-driven box features two big sort-of-herringbone sprockets, an oddly-curved lid and a design that makes me squint and turn my head sidew...
2020-08-14 14:17:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's no surprise to anyone that I like assemblies! This box is made up of an arbitrary number of segments attached to each other via guiding elements on the top and bottom of each segment, and via big knurled s...
2020-08-07 17:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I have to admit I'd forgotten there was even an A-footprint version of the Raspberry Pi series of boards! The B version is so incredibly common, after all. But the A is particularly useful for for 3D printing, since it's everything one...
2020-08-07 17:22:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's spam time again! Early on, I did try consolidating things into individual posts, but it made it too easy to miss releases, so spam it is! I often have a couple of things reaching completion at th...
2020-08-07 17:22:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Actually, it's a trucated icosidodecahedron, but I opted for a more poetic and rather loose choice of name instead. It's huge!
Hey there, wonderful people! One last one before the clock ticks over from the 31st to the 1st, and it...
2020-07-31 13:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Okay, so I'm being a bit melodramatic with the word disaster, but I did indeed have a design that fell by the wayside in favour of a more robust and practical solution. And that solution is the one you see here...
2020-07-31 05:25:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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Well, it's the end of the month already, and that means trying to get ongoing projects wrapped up wherever possible. There's still stuff on the Pi case to-do list, but here are a bunch of things that should hel...
2020-07-31 04:16:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I hadn't even heard of rhombic triacontahedra before a comment on the Cuboctahedron model sparked my interest! It's a polyhedron made up entirely of identical rhombus faces, and those faces are in fact golden rhombi! Nerd out ...
2020-07-26 16:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post