After my printable Rubik’s cubes, I’d been planning to design and print a snake cube – a puzzle which is basically a string of cubes that when solved form a bigger cube. Before I could design it though, epideath uploaded his own design to Thngiver…
I finally found a way to make 3D printable puzzles which I’m satisfied with, so I decided to share the procedure in case someone is interested. It’s my first “tutorial”, and I’m a newbie in most of the tools I used, so there’s probably a lot of ro…
I’ve wanted a map puzzle for as long as I can remember. But all I could find were jigsaw puzzles with maps drawn on them, instead of the map-shaped pieces I wanted. Now that I have a 3D printer I can design my own puzzle of the artificial borders …
I’ve had to use this excuse so many times already – oh sorry I can’t print that, I need a heated build platform first… I’ve had to explain this to friends more times than I could’ve thought would be necessary. Whenever they ask me to print somet…
One of the first things I printed out with my 3D printer was an earring. Back then my printer had some wrong settings and the printing dimensions came out wrong. That didn’t stop me from wearing the ring that night though, I was proud of my first …
I’ve been making some personalized stuff for people here at home using tbuser’s awesome bitmap module for OpenSCAD (an open source 3D modeling software) to write names and random words on the things I print out. (I’ll put them all together in one …
I first heard about the RepRap project a bit more than a year ago, and I got so excited that I blogged about it (RepRap: Wealth Without Money) and spread the word to those around me. Since then I had been trying to put my hands on a DIY 3D printer…
Check out the video of the whole process! Since before I got myself a DIY 3D printer I knew I wanted to print out a Rubik’s cube mod with it. My previous mods had taken a lot of cutting, sanding and sweating – so the prospect of designing my own c…
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