Category Archives: Beautiful Objects

Shared On YouMagine – Stirling Engine by Alain Ducros

Stirling Engine by Alain Ducro

Alain Ducros has been sharing a couple of approaches to 3D printed Stirling Engines (check out his “Kit 1” version here) and this one is handy in that it can easily be dimensioned to suit the food containers that you select for the boiler cylinder.

Shared On YouMagine – Stirling Engine by Alain Ducros:

“Engine Stirling Gamma – KIT2 – The presented kit allows one to create a playful Stirling Engine in the spirit of a Lego construction set — working from printed parts, recycling classic food boxes, and a few off-the-shelf components….”

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Shared On YouMagine – Conservation of energy / Circular motion by Keller Andre

Conservation of energy Circular motion by Keller Andre

Keller Andre from Switzerland has been sharing a series of interesting 3D printed physics experiments for students. The way they are produced and how they can be presented make them tangible, physical “infographics” as well, each constituent part clearly enough to also inspire ways to adapt the components to explore other fundamental principles of physics.

Shared On YouMagine – Conservation of energy / Circular motion by Keller Andre:

Task: Calculate the angle Phi, wherein the mass m2 just raises the mass m1. 1.) m1 = 200 g, m2 = 100g 2.) m1 = 300 g, m2 = 100g Solution: At a ratio of 2: 1 it is at 60 °, at 3: 1, it is at 90 ° The calculation is quite demanding for the students and can be checked on the model….

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Shared On YouMagine – 3D Printed Loom by XYZWorkshop

3D Printed Loom by XYZWorkshop

An excellent print-to-learn project from the XYZWorkshop team, exploring how traditional wooden looms function. And while it is a work in progress, it appears to be going really well!

3D Printed Loom by XYZWorkshop:

…inspired by our recent visit to RMIT Fashion and Textiles University in Melbourne and seeing all those wooden looms we made a 3dprinted, modular, expandable loom.

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Shared On YouMagine – Lampshade by Rudy Hermus

Lampshade by Rudy Hermus

Simple, elegant lampshade project takes full advantage of the layering process of additive manufacturing. Print in CPE or PLA translucent colors (for a LED or compact fluorescent bulb, don’t use a hot bulb!), and experiment with nozzle widths to change behavior of diffusion and hardiness of the lampshade.

The designer Rudy Hermus included the Blender design file should you want to tweak or repeat this project with another 2D base polygon.

Lampshade by Rudy Hermus:

“A twisted square design lampshade for a lamp socket of up to 30 mm.”

Also check out another simple lamp created in Cinema 4D below: 3D-printable lampshade for standard light fixture by CreativeTools

3D-printable lampshade for standard light fixture

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Shared On YouMagine – Cube Puzzle Quartet by mathgrrl

Cube Puzzle Quartet by mathgrrl YouMagine ?

mathgrrl will be sharing a series of classic cube puzzles with the Ultimaker team at Maker Faire Bay Area in the San Francisco area this weekend — and check out her description on YouMagine for a few points of inspiration for why you might want to tackle this sort of design challenge yourself or with a class of students. (We shared a few of them below.)

Cube Puzzle Quartet by mathgrrl:

Have students use their favorite 3D design software to create their own Cube Puzzles. This project can be adapted for many different educational subject areas and at a variety of levels:

Beginner: Use Tinkercad or Morphi to place boxes together to construct puzzle pieces that fit together into a 3x3x3 cube. How do you know they will all fit together into the cube? Print out your puzzle and have fellow students try it out to rate its difficulty.

Intermediate: Use Blender, Fusion 360, or AutoCAD to create puzzle pieces, and use fillets and offsets so that the pieces are pleasant to hold and fit together nicely. Create a container box that will hold the assembled Cube Puzzle. Who can make the most difficult puzzle? …

Advanced: Use the software BurrTools to construct a Cube Puzzle, analyze it for constructability, and test how many solutions it has. Can you find a new 3x3x3 Cube puzzles that has only one solution? You can also try your hand at more advanced puzzles like interlocking Burr Puzzles or puzzles with unit shapes other than cubes….

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Shared On YouMagine – PiGRRL Zero Raspberry Pi Gameboy by Noe + Pedro Ruiz

If you are lucky enough to get your hands on a Raspberry Pi Zero, then here’s a 3D printed enclosure + electronics project for you!

Shared On YouMagine – PiGRRL Zero Raspberry Pi Gameboy by Noe + Pedro Ruiz:

You’ve seen PiGRRL, Super Game Pi, PiGRRL Pocket, PiGRRL 2 and now… it’s time for PiGRRL Zero! In this project, we’ll turn the elusive $5 Raspberry Pi Zero into portable game console! Features -Retropie 3.7 Emulation Station: SNES, NES, SEGA, N64, and many many more! -14 Buttons, including D-Pad, L & R shoulder, Start/Select, A, B, X, Y and two extras.

…Check out our full step-by-step tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/pigrrl-zero

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PiGrrlZero Printed

PiGrrlZero

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Shared on YouMagine – Geeky 8-Bit Character Rubber Stamps by Carlos Velez Barreto

Geeky 8bit character Rubber Stamps

Combine hard plastic printed handle and platen, and slip on a flexible TPU printed stamp plate to produce your own custom rubber stamps. Use the set of fun 8-bit art shared by this Etsy design store from San Juan, Puerto Rico, or follow their instructions how to design your own!

Shared on YouMagine: Geeky 8bit character Rubber Stamps by Carlos Velez Barreto:

I bring you the 3D printed, 8bit character, rubber stamps! With included 3D printed handle. These stamps are quite big at 55.7mmx55.7mm (2.2inx2.2in). We have designed the stamps in such a way that you can have one stamp handle and change the rubber stamp design to the one you like. Great for scrapbooking, letters, personal messages or just for fun! Let me know in the comments section if you like the designs and want to see more stamps of different characters and or symbols.

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Handle and Stamp Plate

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Winner Announced of YouMagine Useful 3D Prints Contest

A ColorFabb Value Pack!

A ColorFabb Value Pack!

After long and careful deliberation we’ve selected a winner for the Useful 3D Prints Contest. The winner is….Martijn de Winter for his Bird Food Dispenser. Martijn will win a Colorfabb Value Pack with 16 rolls of filament in it! We can’t wait to see what he’ll print with it!  We chose Martijn’s design because it was a useful object that was very well documented. Martijn included screenshots of settings & Cura in his upload. He also made a movie showing how to fill the bird feeder. He had photos of the object from different views as well as showing the 3D print and the final object. We also liked that he upcycled a Coke bottle to use it as a bird feeder. Its a lovely object and a useful one and just the kind of thing we like to see on YouMagine. We would like to congratulate Martijn on winning and would like to thank the other Community Members for participating.

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We had lots of other very inspiring designs uploaded for the contest, in no particular order below you can see them. Such as an Ultimaker feeder by iRoberti, a lovely toilet roll holder by UltiArjen, a Honda key housing, a portable fishing rod & pocket ratchet by Cleven, a GoPro extender, the awesome eSherpa, micro mesh pad holder by Marcus Wolschon, Ikea lamps for your 3D printer, a personalized scuba tank gift, a customizable Xbox controller holder, an Ultimaker front panel, an Ultimaker enclosure by Flowalistik, a spool holder for loose filament by Kristoffer Joergenson,  a spool holder by Protpartoia, a a replacement switch for an Ultrasound machine, a stand for shooting off fireworks, Ulticontroller case, a Christmas star by iMake3D, a modular lighting system the Mo(o)dlight, a quick fill and pour attachment by Protosphere, a Japanese style rice paper lamp, a gripper for garden waste by Branez & a photo holder. Thank you all so much for participating!

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YouMagine Useful 3D Prints Contest

  • Win a ColorFabb value pack with 16 rolls of ColorFabb 3D printing filament in it!
  • Add the tag “Useful 3D prints Contest” to your uploads to participate.
  • Enter before the 31st of December.

We really want YouMagine to be a place where people work together to build the future of things. Due to this we want to stimulate you to work with other people and help each other. Especially where some people have skills that others do not. Any way we can stimulate this would be great. And any ideas on this that you have would be very much appreciated! In order to show how useful 3D printing can be we will be holding Useful 3D printing  contest from now until the 31st of December. Just add the tag “Useful 3D prints Contest” to your uploads to participate. The winner will receive a ColorFabb value pack with 16 rolls of ColorFabb 3D printing filament in it! This usually sells for €484 ($604). Thank you ColorFabb for providing this prize!

A ColorFabb Value Pack!

A ColorFabb Value Pack!

The contest will be judged by the YouMagine team.

Criteria

We will look at the originality and quality of the photographs but most of all the utility of the 3D printed object.

  • The contest will be judged by the YouMagine team.
  • We will look at how the photo illustrates the scale of the 3D printed object in an interesting way. This is important in order to get viewers to understand how large the objects on the site are.
  • We will look at how the photo illustrates the utility and purpose of the YouMagine file or project to other community members.
  • We will look at if you’ve made the 3D printed thing look beautiful.
  • We will look at if you’ve shown how a person is using or uses the 3D printed thing.
  • Above all we will look at how useful is the object? How does it add value to people’s lives?
  • How well is it made, designed and printed?

By using these criteria we hope to get a lot of you guys to start thinking about ways through which we can make the photography on the site more useful to the community. As well as thinking about more practical applications for 3D printing. Compared to other sites we do have much better photography, more complex items and higher quality 3D prints. But we think we can as a community improve even more by finding out how to convey more information to the community through each photograph. That way people browsing the site can much quicker find what they want or need. So how can photos be used to convey more information and make the 3D printed designs on YouMagine look nice at the same time? We want to convey scale, utility & beauty in a simple way. We can’t as a team figure out how to do this. Is every model going to be a shot of someone holding it in her hand? Does there always have to be a Coke can in the picture? How to get a good photo of something using an Iphone? How to quickly take a great picture that gives the rest of the Community an instant idea of what this thing is? Since we couldn’t come up with an answer to these questions, we have turned to our extended team, the YouMagine community for answers. Additionally many people now make tchotchkes, small fun things that have no real value. What we think is different about YouMagine is that we are seeing you make things that are useful, interesting and do add value to people’s lives. We hope to encourage more of this and this is why we’re having the contest. Happy 3D printing!