Category: 3D Printing
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Residental House Model
An interesting application for 3D printing is in the presentation of architectural models, either to show multiple proposed options, or as an intuitive way to present a design so the viewer can get a sense of scale and overall feel of the building. To show this I modeled the floors of a residental suburban house…
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Print-in-Place Hinge
The idea to design a print in place hinge is one I had in college. I wanted to create a protective case for an external hard drive that also has the mounting holes for my Raspberry Pi 3+. Figuring out the mounting holes for the PI was simple. The dimensions are clearly posted online so…
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Chess Set
I’ve always been interested in a very specific chess set. It is the set shown in the intro video to the game Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings. The set, known as Lewis chessmen, is a unique set of pieces. The main pieces (all but the pawns) are especially humanoid. image of Lewis chessmen…
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Barbell Collars
After finalizing my P-I-P hinge program in Grasshopper 3D, I had been looking for good projects to use it on. There never seem to be enough good barbell collars in the gym so I began wondering if I were able to prototype one. The design for my 3D printed barbell collar is nothing revolutionary. It…
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Möbius Strip
One of my favorite theoretical shapes is the möbius strip. Named after August Ferdinand Möbius who, concurrently with Johann Benedict Listing, discovered the shape. A continuous closed surface with only one side; formed from a rectangular strip by rotating one end 180 degrees and joining it with the other end. Princeton University I really like…