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Skull Double Deck Box

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It's a box for cards, and it has skulls on it! But what actually inspired this design was wondering if I could make a hinged-lidded box with lots of detail on the lid, which of course meant that the lid couldn't be slapped outside-down on the print bed as is the usual approach.

That's the...

Slimline Sleeved Card Box

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It's a card box, but it's for sleeved cards! And this is a very simple, no-frills, sensible box, unlike the other box for sleeved cards that's being posted at the same time :D

This is designed to hold single-sleeved "standard" cards, which is to say 63mm x 88mm cards (e.g. Magic: The Gat...

Pixel Coasters

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Remember those Fragment Coasters from a little while back? They were fun, but just lacking a little...resolution. Which is why there's now this dotty pixel version that has far more segments than those other designs!

There was a version of this that used a grid of squares (because we a...

Castellation Collapsing Cup

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This slightly-wobbly cup is formed from a set of concentric bands with inscribed tracks that drive the components up (or back down) when twisted! This one actually sprung from constructing puzzle boxes, or at least exploring ideas in that realm. However, while puzzle boxes use the interactions...

Curlicue Vase

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One of the fun challenges with vase mode is features and detail into a design that don't necessarily feel like they can be part of a model that needs to stick to having a single perimeter with no holes or islands.

Those twirly frond-y bits have been on my mind for a while, but each fe...

RPi 3, 4 and 5 Clamshell and Chonky Cases

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The clamshell case for the Raspberry Pi 5 had a great response, but the most common one was "are there versions for the Raspberry Pi 4B and Raspberry Pi 3B?" And now there are! And there are some bigger - chonkier - versions, too.

It's interesting how much the Raspberry Pi boards change ...

Raspberry Pi 5 Multiscreen Assembly

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I do love struts and giant bolts, and all electronics work better with giant bolts, right?

Before we get to all the details, let's clarify what this actually is, because you don't need to include a Raspberry Pi in this at all - it's a case and stand assembly for a specific touchscreen (tha...

Raspberry Pi 5 Clamshell Case (with stands!)

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Someone recently asked me if I was going to make a case for the new Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer.  I didn't even know there was one!  Fortunately, my local electronics supplier had just got stock, and so I got designing!

This case is designed to fit the Raspberry Pi 5 wit...

RotoMagno Containers

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I really liked the Dial Box from a little while ago, with its twist-lock magnetic closure, but I really wanted to see if the idea could be scaled down to a much smaller size for holding much smaller things.  And somehow I made a much larger one, too!

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Hyperboloid Cup

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I really like the idea of producing different inner and outer surfaces in vase mode prints!  The concept is reasonably simple, really - just manipulate the outer profile such that it wiggles its way into the interior and effectively draws a shape in there, then returns to the outside wo...

Battlement Dice Tower (and storage!)

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Is there a more soothing sound than dice clattering down a 3D printed tower?!  Maybe the sound of many dice clattering down together?  One of the things I really do enjoy with this tower is that you can line up a set of dice and swoosh them down together and watch them rattle and cl...

Vase Mode Steampunk Lighthouse

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How complicated can we get, and still have a valid vase mode design that can be printed with one single unbroken perimeter?  Well, evidently we can go nuts and get quite complicated indeed!  This design was sparked by wondering if I could put a staircase with handrail on the outsid...

Kinematic Case

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I love mechanical linkages and things that move things that move other things!  Push that bar at the front and the lid flips open, driven by two-piece lever arms and a bunch of swivel points!

Sometimes things do roughly work out as planned, and I did embark on this intending to ma...

Lodestone Latch Box

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Well, this was a complicated one!  It's a snap closure box that uses magnets as a spring to keep the lid securely shut until released via a sliding switch!  

There were two main problems to solve in getting this one to come together: how would the slidey switch actually be a...

Waffle Stack Box

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Another entry in the Questionable Food Choices collection - waffles!  No longer is the kitchen waffle maker the only machine in the house that can make waffles.  These ones will last longer, too!

This tasty stack of waffly goodness is comprised of three main parts: a bottom, an a...

Fragment Coasters - no multimaterial needed!

Hi there, my favourite people!

I have a bunch of printed coasters that I use every day. I tend to accrue mugs and glasses on my desk, each sitting neatly on a printed coaster from the stack in the corner. They're one of those things that turn out to be unexpectedly practical!

A while back, I designed some patterne...

Dial Box

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The way mechanical things interact is always a source of fascination for me, and that's really what brought this little box into existence!  The Dial Box is a small-ish round container with retro stylings that uses magnets as part of what keeps it securely closed.

You might rememb...

Peculiarity Box (with festive holly option!)

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Oh textures, where would we be without them!  As you've probably guessed, I got caught up with the deep buttoning texture used in upholstery, and somehow that ended up as the primary feature of this model.  The pattern here is of course fairly abstracted from the real thing, made up of...

Convolution Vase

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The Convolution Vase is a sweepy, twisty organic vessel that nonetheless has a definite precision to it!  The twisty tendrils merge, split and merge again as they make their way upwards, and most of the time in designing this one went into making agonising decisions about where exactly thos...

Myriad Vessel

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Are you tired of containers that don't have ridiculously over-complicated mechanisms to open the lid?  Me too!  Fortunately, the Myriad Vessel comes to the rescue, with layers of rotating bits, gears both large and small and lots of angles and protrusions!

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Modular Festive Foliage - Adventures in Scaling!

I like the idea of models that are built up by successively larger parts.  In fact, I've made models like that before - the Fractal Tree comes to mind!  But in that model there were a series of models involved, each at a particular scale.  What I wondered, though, was: could I construct a model that could be at...

Gothic Deco Flask

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The world is full of inspiration!  Sometimes that inspiration comes from looking at interesting venue ceilings when you're supposed to be paying attention to the band you went to see.  The ceiling in question had ventilation ducts with mesh over them, and I really liked the depth th...

Multibaubles!

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It's vase mode bauble time again!  There's something really satisfying about coming up with ways to make shiny, baubly things that print with a single wall, but I really wondered if there was a good way to make them a little more varied in colour.  So, here we have baubles that print i...

Transposition Tank (and a big thanks to Alex at Protopasta!)

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Well, look at this complicated bunch of gears and threads!  It will not surprise you that I set out to make a mechanical design that was intentionally convoluted just for the sake of it!  You see, I had a spool of filament that was just demanding such a design, and who am I to resist s...

Popsicle Box (single-material print!)

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Yes, it's another entry in the questionable food choices boxes collection!  Someone seems to have taken a bite out of one of them, though :)  

The Popsicle Box opens from the bottom with a rotation of the handle, which is in turn engaged with a captive bolt that will open things ...

Stair Jumble Vase

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Vase mode printing, as we know, has a particular constraint in that angles just can't be too far from vertical, and that's in both the angling-up and angling-down directions.  There just isn't enough overlap between lines past a certain point, and the results are a mess!  I'm pretty...

Mechanical Coffin Box (single- and multimaterial)

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I got this one done with just a few days to spare before Halloween! 🎃

I had a few requests for a larger, more secure take on a Halloween-style coffin box, and I like cogs and mechanical things, so here we are!  It's a Halloween container that securely closes with a threaded handle,...

Triplicity Tub

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You might remember the Japanese Weave Tiles from a little while back.  I really love that style of weave and I wanted to work that into a vase mode print.  Now, there are complications in doing that, because we need to consider 'overhang' angles both upwards and downwards.

My favour...

Anonymous Tome and Taller Sea Meadow Jars

Anonymous Tome

It's another version of the Skull Tome, but this time slightly simpler!  We already have the aforementioned skull decoration as well as the Compass Tome version, but this version omits the decoration entirely (unless you count a few little bits of texture) and makes the cover much mo...

Normal Mode Poison Bottle

My little cat is a fearsome creature!  Okay, so maybe I just caught her mid-yawn :P

Vase mode is great, the robustness of vase mode prints suffers as things scale up (unless of course you can bring a nice big nozzle to bear on the situation).  The tiny poison bottle is a quick print, but also a tiny print, and...