Erik is an innovative force in the world of open source and is doing amazing things in the RepRap community. He visited MakerBot HQ earlier this year and it was great to hang out with him and get to know him IRL. Now he’s designed and 3D printed something very special! A wedding topper!
I’m getting married!!! Our guests get a piece of cake. But on every decent cake, there should be a cake topper! I wanted a personal cake topper. While looking on the Google 3D warehouse I found several, but none were satisfactory. I wanted a simpler model that was solid and which had a personal touch. The result is this (parametric) model with the following modules: bride, groom, arm, leg and hat.
No need to win it all to know how it feels to hold the World Cup trophy. drayde from Germany has made it easy for all football (soccer) fans by uploading designs for the World Cup trophy on Thingiverse.
For custom parts fabrication, we chose the MakerBot Industries CupCake CNC Deluxe 3-D printer ($950), which can print objects out of plastic. Five years ago, a machine that could quickly turn a CAD file into a physical object would have cost five times as much. Using simple tools like Google SketchUp, Gambina can spec out gear for his planes and tap into the large MakerBot community for ideas.
You can check it out online, on an iPad, or even on actual paper at your newstand!
MakerBot Operators are connoisseurs of low res and decimated objects. There is just something so beautiful in things that have been simplified and made into triangles. The geometry is sublime, the lines are profound! My eyebrows went up when I saw this lamborghini and decimated shoes!
The Lo Res Project by United Nude, is an innovative design method using computer software to automatically create design options to choose from. By lowering the resolution of 3D models of products, the object becomes more and more fragmented, changing its character in the process. They’ve used this technique on a Lamborghini Countach and the result is quite nice. The United Nude Lo Res Shoe is the first product available at the United Nude stores.
I love seeing things transformed from complex to simple geometric shapes! More more!
As if that isn’t enough, today I also ran into a decimated geometric dog on the internets! Check it!
Back in the day, I made a video about using Blender and Pepakura to make a decimated turkey.
You got any good tips for sweet looking decimated geometry or favorite triangle saturated models? Link em up in the comments!
To some it’s a curtain holder for your curtain rod. To others it’s freedom from the inefficiencies of the modern consumerism!
It’s a story that can happen to anyone. You move to a new town and leave your shower curtain behind. “No problem,” you think, “I’ll just pick up a new liner at the pharmacy down the street.” So, you trek to the local pharmacy and find the shower curtain liner you were looking for, only to discover that they are out of shower curtain rings, hooks, anything made for holding up a shower curtain! Facing down defeat and the very real possibility that you will have to take a dirty, inefficient bath, you come to a stunning realization: You’re a MakerBot owner. You live for these moments.
I was in the studio talking with Shelly Palmer Tuesday morning showing him the MakerBot in Action. He’s a guy who is obsessed with technology and he totally gets 3D printing and quickly extrapolated the possibilities of personal manufacturing!
One of the things he brought up is the cultural change that’s coming as digital designs become commonplace. Personal manufacturing is a real experience for the more than 1600 MakerBot Operators in the world who design and download and print 3D objects!
When we made MakerBot we made it so it would be hackable so that you could buy the pieces for a MakerBot and make different things with them, including different 3D printers. Chris Meyer has done just that. He’s put together a cool mill/reprap style design that utilizes the mostly assembled electronics to control it. AWESOME! Hackable MakerBot components for the win!
