Gothic Star Ball
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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 addressi...
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Resolute Box Reworked
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...
2020-11-06 11:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostSkull Slide-Top Box with Screw Closure
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...
2020-11-06 11:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostSpin Receptacles with Lids!
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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 f...
Dice Dozer!
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 th...
2020-11-01 15:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostHex Dice Tower
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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, spec...
2020-10-30 16:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostRegulation Tape Caddy
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 Cad...
2020-10-30 15:29:47 +0000 UTC View PostRegulation Post-it 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 prob...
2020-10-30 15:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostSpin Receptacle!
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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 spheric...
2020-10-22 12:20:32 +0000 UTC View PostVideo tutorial! Creating support-free screw connectors
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 yo...
2020-10-15 16:38:44 +0000 UTC View PostSD Card Caddy
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 o...
2020-10-08 08:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostCog Caddy!
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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...
2020-10-07 23:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostOvercomplications! :)
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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...
2020-09-30 15:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostRegulation Caddy Drawers!
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 inclu...
2020-09-30 15:24:30 +0000 UTC View PostRegulation Caddy System
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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 questio...
2020-09-25 15:26:21 +0000 UTC View PostUnified Vault! (or, Vault Box Re-Hinged)
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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! Y...
2020-09-17 15:41:32 +0000 UTC View PostClosed Branch Tube Segments!
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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...
2020-09-17 15:41:25 +0000 UTC View PostPinion Box!
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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...
2020-09-10 13:56:39 +0000 UTC View PostClamshell Case Requests!
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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...
2020-09-03 12:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostWell, that didn't quite work :P
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 - Secr...
2020-09-02 08:35:11 +0000 UTC View PostClamshell Custom Cases!
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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,...
2020-08-26 15:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostFixer Jar Drawer, Archimedean Ball Hatch, Wacom Pen Case, Arduino Cases!
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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 draw...
2020-08-19 14:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostSprocket Box!
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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 ...
2020-08-14 14:17:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fixer Jar
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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...
2020-08-07 17:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostHinged Pi3A Case! And some thoughts on Arduino cases
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 use...
2020-08-07 17:22:20 +0000 UTC View PostAA-AAA Battery Crate
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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...
2020-08-07 17:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostArchimedean Ball
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...
2020-07-31 13:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostBattery Boxes and This Month's Disaster!
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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 solutio...
2020-07-31 05:25:18 +0000 UTC View PostCamera Connectors Aplenty!
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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 li...
2020-07-31 04:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostGolden Rhombus is Easier to spell than Rhombic Triacontahedron
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 a...
2020-07-26 16:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post