Building dungeons with typical purchased dungeon tiles can be an exercise in frustration – the tiles you have (or don’t have) end up dictating the layout and scope of the dungeon, rather than the story and setting. This curved tile served as a test print of the OpenForge series tile sets. View this post on Instagram A post…
Month: September 2017
Heart of TeFiti
Moana is kind of a big deal, especially around our house. We don’t sing songs from Frozen, we sing songs from Moana. Lo and behold a handful of Moana artifacts on Thingiverse: Maui, Pua and Hei-Hei, somehow not a single good Moana, a Kakamora Chief, and of particular interest a Heart of TeFiti. A Heart of TeFiti to…
Polyhedron – Truncated Icosidodecahedron
I have a mild obsession with polyhedra. The more complicated, intersecting, stellated, the better. I’ve got a stack of books on building polyhedra from paper, variations on polyhedra… it’s a bit much sometimes. And then I stumbled across two things on Thingiverse: Customizers A convex polyhedra customizer I may have lost a few hours to playing with…
dwyerdevices Name Plate
I’ve seen a few interesting text prints floating around, and have especially liked a few that play with angles and offsets that make the text pop out in unexpected ways – there somehow reminiscent of a late 1980’s, early 1990’s design aesthetic as desktop publishing became a Thing. As I’ve been posting print photos to Instagram under…
Expanded Poke-set
Pulling from the same Pokemon chess set I used for Pikachu, I print you!, I wanted to expand the set of Pokemon we have to play with. Pikachu has been popular around the house for all sorts of pretend play and games, so I went with a batch of six: Dratini, Eevee, Arcanine, Bulbasaur, Jigglypuff, and Charmander:…
Modeling Rule v1.0
The day before a long weekend trip to the midwest, I realized I didn’t have a good travel sized drafting ruler. I wasn’t bringing a laptop, and haven’t found good drafting quality stand alone apps on the iPad, but still wanted to get a few designs down on paper, with enough detail and strict enough measurements to…
That’s one big pile of ABS
<ian malcom voice>That’s one big pile of ABS</ian malcom voice> The first print of All the Filaments failed spectacularly, leaving a big ball of ABS wrapped around the hot end. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Not the best way to find the printer. I set the hot-end to…
Moon in the Palm of Your Hand
Space is a popular topic around the house. We build Lego spaceships, we create video games about space travel, the whole family crowds onto the couch to watch SpaceX launches (provided they happen before bed time), and inumerable conversations come back to the expanse, scale, and content of space. I’ve been scouring Thingiverse, Shapeways, and 3D modeling sites…