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This design looked pretty straightforward until I started it, managed eventually, after many attempts!
How I did it...
created a sphere
squared it off on 4 sides
applied 4 45 degree chamfers
hollowed it out
added the hex holes
made a copy
created the bar
connected the bar to each of the ends.
"Stibnite"
Fun with 3D printing! Here's a stick puzzle made up of 30 identical sticks - each piece represents an edge of a dodecahedron which have been rotated by a constant angle. George Hart wrote a great paper about how to design these models: archive.bridgesmathart.org/2011/bridges2011-357.pdf
Finally finished this guy, now for cutting into pieces for printing and then onto molding and casting!
Hey, it's been a bit. Don't worry, I haven't stopped MOCing, I've just been having trouble finishing things lately. But what better way to get back into the game than with the MOC I thought I would never make. But after posting her mask, I started getting... ideas.
As much of the original Kalikiki art was lost when KaibaGal deleted her old account, I based much of this design on other sources, mainly Scorpion-Strike and Llortor.
An HO scale model of the early locomotive "Thomas James". This locomotive was built in the 1830s by the Locks and Canals co. and was still in use in the 1850s hauling construction trains. It is modeled here in its later condition, details taken from a well-known daguerreotype.
My latest design..
The name comes from the device's earliest application in mechanical watches made in Geneva, which began in the 17th century.
3D printing offers engineers various ways to construct hardware that simply could not be built in any other manner – such as this single-piece casing to house an optical instrument for Earth observations.
In this case, the desired shape was initially 3D printed in wax. The wax model was then dipped into a ceramic slurry to create a hard shell.
The wax was then melted away and molten aluminium poured in the hollow ceramic mould to produce the final part.
This prototype casing demonstrates another potential advantage of using 3D printing to create very complex space parts in a single piece.
Extremely complicated shapes can be manufactured without the need for joins or welds, using less raw material and energy than traditional manufacturing, and with a reduced number of steps.
ESA’s Product Assurance & Safety Department is looking at how 3D printing can be applied to space missions, including the development of common industrial standards for manufacturing and testing of products.
Credit: ESA–Anneke Le Floc'h
My latest design..
The name comes from the device's earliest application in mechanical watches made in Geneva, which began in the 17th century.
Unlike previously-seen 3D-printed parts, these actually saw release as 3D prints, demonstrating play functions that couldn't be achieved through injection molding — at least not as simply.
The drafting arm (not pictured) was released inside set 4000034, given to LEGO Inside Tour attendees in 2019. It can be moved back and forth within its holder, but returns to center.
The pogo stick was teased as a pledge reward for the book "The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks" in 2020. Blue and red were distributed randomly when the book was finally released in 2022. The campaign was limited to 500 of these rewards, but more may exist. The shape of the plastic functions as a spring, with a center rod keeping it straight.
The classic duck was first given out to Skærbæk Fan Weekend attendees in September 2022, then available for purchase at the LEGO House for 3 weekends in November 2022. Several colors were shown, but only dark red has been released so far.
The gear keychains were given out only to LEGO employees in Billund, in late 2022, to celebrate the Production and Qualifying development departments that are creating these new products. The gears spin freely, though they are trapped within the one-piece casing. These came with a standard 2x4 brick keychain attached.
Marshall engineers installed the injector in a subscale RS-25 engine model, and the engine was hot-fired exposing the part to temperatures of nearly 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit while burning liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen. A series of tests was completed in Test Stand 115 in the East Test Area at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Read more:
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More about SLS:
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Space Launch System Flickr photoset:
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Recently I had the opportunity to use some 3D printers, and I decided to use them to make the Nuva Cube. The cube is made of PLS, has a length/width/height of 2 inches, and is composed of four 1 7/8" x 1/8" x 2" and two 2" x 1/8" x 2" faces each glued onto one of the sides of a 1 3/4" cube (rather, that's the dimensions of the computer model… as you can tell, the technology is still pretty finicky, and the measurements don't always come out right). I designed it in Tinkercad and glued all the pieces save one together, but the actual printing was done by someone who actually knew what he was doing. :P (The piece I didn't glue was the one on the bottom of Lewa's face since I wasn't there when it finished printing and it was the last piece not yet glued on.) I also have to give credit to fearmaker782 of deviantArt as I frequently referred back to his own System Nuva Cube during the design process since each face is set up on a clear 8 x 8 grid.
From thesis crit at NYU ITP: Installation by the talented Peiqi Su, visualizing stock prices using rather well-designed robotic penises.
View behind the scenes information on my 3D Printing Blog at www.tgaw.com
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View behind the scenes information on my 3D Printing Blog at www.tgaw.com
These items will be available on my Etsy site at:
View behind the scenes information on my 3D Printing Blog at www.tgaw.com
These items will be available on my Etsy site at:
So interesting to see how different they are unpainted and after a bit of care!
Two classic-version 3D-printed Makies, they underwent an #orchidmakeover to transform into their new selves!
My client gave me full reign over their features, such a nice thing to have such trust put in me as a customizer.
On the left is a broken pot metal lever from an Ilford Advocate. The same part breaks in all of them, so you can't find a spare, and machining a new one was going to be a real chore resulting in a large pile of brass chips and many hours expended.
On the right is a new part, 3D printed in stainless steel by www.shapeways.com from a computer model that I uploaded to their website. They charged $11 plus $6 postage to send me this part in 14 days. This was done in the spring of 2013; since then, they have added brass to their materials offerings, which would make the part easier to finish and also solderable. I highly recommend this service, the capabilities and low cost are a better alternative in my book than investing in your own 3D printer which would be limited to plastic materials. You need to be able to create the computer model for the part, of course - for this I use Alibre software, which I think cost about $300 and works similarly to the much more expensive SolidWorks program that I use at work.