Category Archives: Beautiful Objects

Shared On YouMagine – PIX-E Gif Camera by nickrbrewer

PIX E Gif Camera by nickrbrewer

Here’s a great Raspberry Pi GIF camera project created by Shayna and Nick Brewer. I’m a huge fan of this project and brought a couple of Nick’s units with me for World Maker Faire New York this year — check back for more animated gifs and experiments printing and assembling more rigs….

Shared On YouMagine — PIX-E Gif Camera by by PIX-E Gif Camera by nickrbrewer:

A fully customizable 3D printed camera that takes short gifs using a Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi Camera.

This is the PIX-E Gif Camera! My thought process was that I wanted to create a camera that recalled those days when disposable cameras were a thing. Anyone with intermediate making/printing/coding skills should be able to put this together pretty easily.

Print out the three pieces and follow the instructions on Make Community Projects! I’ve included the 123D Design file so feel free to modify the design to fit your needs.

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Shared on YouMagine – 3D printed RC truck V3 by MrCrankyface

3D printed RC truck V3 by MrCrankyface

MrCrankyface shared a 3D-printed RC truck that has been 12 months in the making!

Shared On YouMagine — 3D printed RC truck V3 by MrCrankyface:

After roughly 12 months development, this is what has come of it!

It’s an almost fully printable RC truck with gearbox and AWD drivetrain.

  • Each differential works as a real one but you can replace the internals with
    “truckv3_axle_difflock” to have a locked diff with more grip.
  • It has two axles in the files, select the one you want.
    Axle1 has dual rear tyres, Axle2 has single rear tyres.
    Axle2 also has 2 choices in rims.
  • The frame can be printed in 2 or 4 pieces, depending on how big your print surface is.
  • Use the “split” files if you have a small printbed.

All you need to build this, besides a lot of filament, is screws/nuts, bearings and electronics.

This was a huge project to develop and upload so please let me know if anything is missing or unclear!

Assembly videos of most parts to aid you in building can be found on my youtube channel….

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Shared on YouMagine – Penrose P2 tiles by Juan Gonzalez-Gomez

Penrose P2 tiles by Juan Gonzalez Gomez

Modular robotics researcher Juan Gonzalez-Gomez shared a parametric set of Penrose P2 tilings he created in FreeCAD. Check out the video of his research assistant, six year old daughter Alicia, testing the accuracy of his project below. 😉

Shared On YouMagine — Penrose P2 tiles by Juan Gonzalez-Gomez:

Only two Penrose tiles are needed for creating a non-periodic tiling. The tiles have been designed in Freecad, and they are parametric. Just open the Parameters spreadsheet (in freecad), change the parameters, generate the STL and print them. Examples of tiles with 30mm and 40mm side have been already generated and ready for printing and testing

The source code (Freecad) is available at this github repo.
Find more documentation (in Spanish) in this github wiki.
Have fun tiling the plane!

Tessellate the plane

Building tile in freecad

Tesselation example


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Shared on YouMagine – MEI BLUSTER and SYMMETRA (overwatch) by Oleg Osipov

MEI BLUSTER by Oleg Osipov

These two Overwatch projects recently shared by Oleg Osipov are not just satisfying cosplay prop builds — bonus points for excellent use of incorporated electronics! — but this approach to stacking and part insertion is a master class for how to make impressive colorful pieces, one color at a time. Benefits from contrasting colors up against each other, and also a wider pool of community members can run these files on their equipment.

Shared On YouMagine — MEI BLUSTER and SYMMETRA by Oleg Osipov.

SYMMETRA by Oleg Osipov

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Shared on YouMagine – Vertical Axis Ugrinsky Wind Turbine VAWT by Robotobi

Vertical Axis Ugrinsky Wind Turbine VAWT by Robotobi

Here’s an excellent vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) project that caught our eye. The assembly video below helps to see how the piece is structured and how it functions. Created by Robotobi to interface with a work-in-progress low RPM Generator (at bottom).

Shared On YouMagine — Vertical Axis Ugrinsky Wind Turbine VAWT by Robotobi:

A beautiful, modified Ugrinsky wind turbine. Intended for balcony and low windspeed use. Designed for Ultimaker 2 with Olsson block or UM2+ (max build volume, big nozzle, high printspeed).

Low RPM Generator

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Shared on YouMagine – Wireframe Skull Pencil Holder (For The Love of Dog) by philnelson

Wireframe Skull Pencil Holder For The Love of Dog by philnelson

This hollow skull model has passed through so many iterations, designers, and purposes, but this version caught our eye from philnelson, who renders this historic archeological skull model in a pleasing gridded mesh — as a pencil holder.

What particularly stood out was how well the gridded cage presents the contours of the form, the pattern and density of the mesh suggesting finer details than those actually present in the source model from garygeo, remixed from macouno, derived from… scanned by … dug up by … you get the picture. 😉

Whether a well-tuned transformation process, or just luck with a well-ordered underlying geometry, the results here beats out “default settings” Voronoi exports you see frequently in desktop 3D printing. And soon, a print of this model will be on my desk!

Shared On YouMagine — Wireframe Skull Pencil Holder (For The Love of Dog) by philnelson:

A remix of the excellent little skull vase by garygeo. Made by @philnelson of extrafuture.com.

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Shared on YouMagine – Set of 8 Drawer Handles by Arjan

Drawer Handles - set of 8

This simple sequence of drawer pulls from UltiArjan make excellent accessories or replacement knobs for cabinetry for a workshop parts storage solution. (Or a child’s bedroom!)

Shared On YouMagine — set of 8 handles by Arjan:

“Hole spacing is 128mm, like on some Ikea models. Use M4 x 30 bolts & nuts to mount. The nuts are a tight fit. I used a 0.6 nozzle and 0.2 layers. Ultimaker Orange PLA”

TABS Sequence set of 8 handles by Arjan YouMagine

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3D Printing News – DUS Architects print micro home

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Pasted Image 9 4 16 3 50 PMDUS Architects in Amsterdam has created a tiny gabled urban cabin that is a mere 25 cubic metres (882.87 cubic feet) using FDM technology. They are allowing guests to spend the night to experience what life in a micro 3d printed home might be like. There is no toilet but you can take a bath outside au natural. Concrete set into the infill gives it strength and forms a seat on certain locations while pebbles in the infill outside form a path.
(Bathtub photo by Sophia van den Hoek)

A window punctures one end, while the other integrates both an entrance and a stepped porch seating area. Its walls are patterned with angular protrusions that create a three-dimensional surface, giving the building extra structural stability.

It really is further insight into the groups design sensibility that is part of major project that launched in 2013, to be complete next year, a four story 3D printed canal house. They use the KamerMaker (Dutch for “room maker”) and KamerMaker2, a “XXL 3D Printer” 3.5 meters high and housed in an up-ended shipping container to produce the large pieces. They use bio-plastics on all pieces and say it is a part of a future ecosystem that allows full recycling of the material.

This micro home isn’t the first time DUS has exposed their designs to the public, they also unveiled a beautifully printed facade for a European Union meeting building, as seen below.

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(via de zeen magazine)

3D Printing News – Facebook Group Contest: Nerf!

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A contest is running now until September 23 October 21st on Facebook in the 3D Printing group, which currently has over 17,000 worldwide members! They are using the YouMagine platform to host the files.

The theme centers on your most creative way to launch a Nerf-compatible dart so the world in your oyster, keep it simple or make it crazy complicated!

You can read below the detailed rules and many opportunities to win something great from an amazing prize pool from some of the best 3d printing companies in the community.

So join the Facebook group and get designing!

Contest Theme:
Nerf Dart Compatible – Launchers & Guns
This means it can be handheld, robotic, rubber band powered, air powered. Anything! As long as it can launch a dart!

Contest Duration:
4 weeks! Starts 8/26/2016 and ends at 11:59pm (GMT -7hrs) on 9/23/2016

Contest Grading:

  • Feasibility to Print
  • How well the design functions
  • Percentage of the design that is 3D printed vs off the shelf parts.
  • Entries will be judged by David Gaylord from MatterHackers as well as the group’s Administrative Team!

How to enter:

  • Design & 3D Print a Nerf Dart Compatible Launcher or Gun
  • Upload design STL & Picture’s (or Video) to www.youmagine.com
  • Set Design Category to “Contest”
  • Tag Design with “#3dpgnerf4um2”
  • Choose your preferred license but make sure you check mark “Wiki Mode”
  • Post your design to 3D Printing Group on Facebook (optional but recommended)

Rules:

  • You MUST be a Member of 3D Printing Group on Facebook, so be sure to join if you have not already!
If we are unable to verify your Facebook account is a Group Member, you will forfeit your prize.
  • Your entry MUST be on youmagine.com to qualify
  • Please do not enter existing designs (we will check)
  • You may enter more than one design, but you can’t win more than one prize
  • Design MUST include pictures or video of actual 3D Printed Design. Renderings do not count, entries lacking pictures or video of the 3D Printed Design will not be qualified.
  • Live on Planet Earth, This contest is World Wide!
  • Have fun!

Prizes! 9 Chances to win!

Grand Prize:

Second Prize:

Third Prize:

  • PrintItIndustries – Caldum Series Heated Bed & E3D Lite6 Hotend
  • 3DPrintNerd.com – 4 Spools of PLA/ABS filaments
  • All Professional 3D – 3 Spools of PETG filaments

There will also be runner-up category prizes!

Most Over Engineered Design:

  • 1x Spool each of the following filaments.
    (FiberForce Nylon, PolyMaker PolyCarbonate PC Plus, Proto-Pasta Silver Smoke HTPLA From Hawk3D Proto)

Best Theme Design (This can be from a Movie or Game!):

  • Two (2) Lucky winners will get 2x 1kg Spools of filaments (each winner) from MakerSome!

Most Difficult to Print and/or Assemble:

  • 2x Spools of Pro Series Filament from MatterHackers

Most Creative Design:

  • Sample of every filament made by Proto-Pasta (even some unreleased ones!)
  • A Plated Nozzle From Proto-Pasta!
  • A Afinibot3D Printing Pen & Modified3D Finishing Tool from NWA3D!

Most Minimalistic Design:
5x .5kg Spools of PLA or ABS from 3Dprinteruniverse.com

Contest Sponsors List

Grand Prize
Ultimaker
CowTech Engineering

Second Prize
FilaFarm

Third Prize
PrintIt Industries
3DPrintNerd
All Professional 3D

Category Sponsors
Hawk3D Proto
MakerSome
MatterHackers
NWA3D
3DPrinter Universe
Proto-Pasta

 

3D Printing News – 3D Printed Hair

(video via Futurism)

The amazing folks in the Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab have shared their research with creating the software to produce small hairs or Cilia from 150 to 50 micrometers to do things such as move, sense, adhere, or be aesthetically pleasing.

Looking into the Nature, hair has numerous functions such as to provide warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, a sense of touch, as well as it’s well known aesthetic qualities. This work presents a computational method of 3D printing hair structures. It allows us to design and generate hair geometry at 50 micrometer resolution and assign various functionalities to the hair. The ability to fabricate customized hair structures enables us to create super fine surface texture; mechanical adhesion property; new passive actuators and touch sensors on a 3D printed artifact. We also present several applications to show how the 3D-printed hair can be used for designing everyday interactive objects.

Read the entire paper here and visit the project page for more fascinating images of this work.

Printing Your Own Hair
If you want to use your FDM printer to try out some hair-powered prints see the below projects.

Droolopp Tutorial
Drooloop flowers are produced by purposefully printing out in the air and taking advantage of sagging filament as an aesthetic feature versus the normal dreaded print failure. Read the tutorial and try out some flowers for your loved one that will never die, create fascinating Jellyfish and in a little different technique create a bottle brush!