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Phantom Cavalcade Vase

This ghostly vase mode print ends up surprisingly rigid and robust as far as these things go! Presumably, that's because all that detail ends up adding plenty of extra material, and because all tho...

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The Little Mummy

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This little mummy can conveniently store any number of things in its capacious noggin, and also has a choice of stylish hats with which to accessorise!

What rea...

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Mechano-Bat Box

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Bats usually hang upside-down, rather than standing up, but maybe they would stand more if they had big, chunky boots like this bat does!

Another significant di...

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Pocket Radio Box

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While multimaterial printers are getting more accessible all the time it's still very satisfying to work out how to achieve a multi-colour print with just a regular ...

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Magnetic Frame Pods

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Sometimes when ideas spring to mind they aren't so much visual as tactile. And this one is an excellent example of that! What I had pictured (figuratively speaki...

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Flexionoid Articulated Lamp

Ah, hinges! This model may be a lamp, but it's secretly an excuse to explore elaborate hinges with in-built locking and adjustment mechanisms!

Yep, those vertically-printing hinges include...

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Cinnamon Secrets

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Yes, it's time for more questionable food choices in printed form! Depending on where you are in the world, these might be cinnamon rolls or cinnamon scrolls, but ei...

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Ribbon Basket

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Is it still papercraft if it's made of printed plastic? Probably not :P But I do love taking those papercraft ideas and bringing them into the printing space. ...

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Surface Orb (vase and regular modes!)

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I'm a sucker for making colourful prints with basic techniques like filament swaps! But this model uses a somewhat different approach to taking advantage of that -...

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Counterfold Case

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Why have one hinge on a lid when you can have six, right?!

Some years ago I played around with different approaches to a geometric mechanical model known broa...

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The Scanline Classic (for EL wire!)

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Yes, it's an old-timey TV that incorporates EL wire to give that classic cathode ray scan line feel! And it's another print made up of a multitude of parts :D View Post

Echoform Vase

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Some concepts just refuse to let go until they turn into some kind of reality, and this is one of those. I was contemplating some kind of classic vase design, but...

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Quilted Case

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Yes, it's a padded, fabric-covered, 3D printed box! I had modelled hard plastic versions of upholstered things before, so it's a logical progression to actually add ...

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Resistor Boxes

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As you well know, I love closure and latching mechanisms! I've been exploring what are effectively printed springs lately, and it occurred to me that I could use ...

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Blacksmith's Pail (no multimaterial required!)

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Multimaterial printing is great, but it really does have some downsides. Excessive extra print time and unreasonable material waste are realities that make us questio...

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Hex Tile Tub for Ikea Pegboards

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Pegboards are such useful things, but I noticed a distinct lack of hexagonal tubs that could be tiled across them and had to set out to fix that!

As you probab...

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Videotape Vault (and fancy slip cases!)

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Some might say that VHS tapes are distant enough in the past now to be cool again, but I say they never stopped being cool to begin with! While those magnetic tapes m...

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Scrollform Cylinder

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Well, where do I start on this one?! As you've no doubt already noticed, it's a busy, detailed looking thing, and that was ultimately the point of it. I wanted a desi...

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Spiral Sovereign Crown

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Crown yourself monarch of wherever you happen to be with this convenient vase mode print! Yep, this was another challenge to myself to see if I could strictly abide b...

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Secret Spray Stash

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I've mentioned many times how much I love finding the little things that give something its identity, and make it immediately recognisable as itself. And this time th...

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Extraplanetary Geared Stand

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Planetary gears are just the best! As a fan of making things overly complicated, it's hard to find a mechanism that looks more cool and mechanical than that. And ...

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Springlatch Box

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I do love a nice latching mechanism! I could never get tired of exploring different ways to keep lids closed! But a big part of the appeal isn't so much the effective...

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Disengagement Canister

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There's something so satisfying about twist-locking containers, whether it's a fancy magnetic latch setup or a traditional screw thread. However, there's also somethi...

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Pennant Column Vase

The elements of a design that give something it's something-ness... it's identity that makes it recognisable as the thing that it is... is something that is a constant point of interest when puttin...

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Articulated Bucket Loader

Chunky print-in-place wheels are fun! But that's not what drove (har har) this model - it was, as you probably guessed, the bucket. The wheel part is trivial in the scheme of things, but keeping th...

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Scaffold Tub

Ah, I do love a nice industrial motif, and what is more industrial than big, exposed threads? This oversized tub rests on three hinged tripodian struts, and the aforementioned screw threads serve t...

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Triple Axis Augmented Crate

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Yay, complicated motion! Why have one hinge point for a lid when you can have three, right?! But seriously, this ridiculously complicated motion structure does achieve s...

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Skull Tessellation Box

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I do love a good tessellation! Here we have a set of expressive skull boxes that neatly fit into each other to efficiently tile two-dimensional space!

It won't sur...

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Hidey-Hole Doorstop (for TPU or similar)

Sometimes 3D printing can actually be quite practical! I needed a couple of door stops, the rubbery sort that you often find on doors that open into a tiled wall. I could perhaps have gone to a loc...

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Torus Weave Tub (vase mode!)

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I was, of course, trying to design something entirely different when I got the inspiration for this one. That is often how it goes, but it's invariably a good idea t...

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