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I headed to the US for the East Coast RepRap Festival, but it turns out there's another event just after that - Halloween! :) Yes, Halloween stuff is everywhere. Australia doesn't really have that same tradition, so it's been a lot of fun seeing random skeletons, pumpkins and ghosts all over the place. And it also inspired this box!
The Creepy Coffin Box is a hinged box of creepy character, and comes in both single- and multi-material ...
2023-10-18 07:02:23 +0000 UTC
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I love simplicity. But I also love gratuitous complexity! It's a fun thing to juggle, and there are definitely positives in both extremes. I set out to make a new, simple phone stand, and things went in two quite different directions.
Well, I should start by saying that I already had a nice, simple, robust design I could use, namely the Hex Sweep Phone Stan...
2023-09-21 17:12:05 +0000 UTC
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Not surprisingly, many people requested some kind of display stand for the Dice Dagger, which makes sense since it's not really a shape that lends itself to sitting nicely on display. And when you have those glorious hero dice gleaming triumphantly, you definitely want the thing sitting nicely on display!
So, presenting the cryptically-named Dice Dagger Stand! Fashioned from ancient ropes formed in such a way to cradle the precious blade ve...
2023-09-21 17:11:35 +0000 UTC
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Howdy, wonderful people!
It's always convenient when I have something lying around for scale! This little Lego fellow turned out to be just the right size for demonstration the spacious surrounds of this little storage capsule, though it does look a little like he's settling in for some kind of interstellar cryosleep.
This little box came to life just so I could make that little wavy connection on the side. I like those kinds of irregular joins, and it provides some us...
2023-09-21 17:11:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi hi, wonderful people!
It's almost Halloween already, and so let's pretend that that has something to do with me putting skulls on things! :D Yes, it's a tiny poison bottle, and it's a model to be printed in that most spooky of printing modes: vase mode!
This is a quick little print, and it comes complete with a vase mode lid to screw on top.
Now, the nice thing about screw tops is that they deal with scaling pretty well! So, you can scale this up a fair...
2023-09-21 17:10:27 +0000 UTC
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- Temporary note, August 2023: Printables reminder! If you were thinking of switching over to Printables, now's a good time before Patreon does the next billing cycle! Printables is working out nicely so far, and the team there has been really positive and responsive to feedback! Check it out here: Clockspring Printables. Okay onwards to the actual post!
2023-08-31 15:09:21 +0000 UTC
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More Tomes! For the uninitiated, the Skull Tome is a recent design that's a box in the style of an old book, adorned with an ominous skull on the cover. But not everyone's that into having skulls on their books, so now there's a compass version, cleverly named the Compass Tome! The only thing that's changed is the cover detail, so check out the original Skull Tome writeup for more details on the rest of it!
Both the Compass Tome and the Skull Tome now have... inserts! ...
2023-08-23 12:37:10 +0000 UTC
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The mini spools needed a home!
Display twenty-four of your favourite tiny filament spools in this stylish set of shelves complete with decorative awning for bonus style. Oh, and that awning is designed for filament swapping to get stripes - no multimaterial setup required!
The shelves have little insets for the spools to reside in both the shelf itself and the back of the unit, too, to keep things nice and neatly arranged.
2023-08-23 12:36:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello, hello, wonderful people!
It's a cylinder in which one can store things, but it's also an excuse for me to play with interesting shapes (as usual). By far the most time-consuming part of this design was exploring the form that the lid would end up taking.
Some versions were essentially a cylinder with interestingly-shaped holes, while others were sparse forms that happened to look vaguely rounded, but certainly weren't solid shapes. This end result is somewhere i...
2023-08-23 12:36:42 +0000 UTC
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What better way to bejewel a dagger than with dice! This die-holding weapon of antiquity has room for a six-sided die in the blade and a twenty-sided die in the pommel, and provides room enough in the handle itself to hold a full regular set of dice, too.
The pommel consists of two parts, actually - a cradle that holds a d20 and a screw-in retainer that hold...
2023-08-23 12:36:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello, wonderful people!
The whole Printables launch thing felt like it deserved something special, and this is a model I'd been working on for a long time: the Skull Tome! It's a book-shaped box! With skulls! What more could you ask?! It also has some very specific sizing both inside and outside - let's have a look...
Well, first, let's look at how this thing works! The cover/lid swings open by splitting the spine of the book in two, rather than just...
2023-08-03 09:23:22 +0000 UTC
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Hello, hello, most wonderful people!
Excitement abounds! Here's the TL;DR version:
* You can now subscribe on Printables as an alternative to Patreon!
* You can also stick with Patreon/Dropbox, but use Printables as a catalog to all the models! (the Printables posts include the Dropbox folder number)
* Tiers are exactly the same as always!
And...
2023-08-03 09:23:09 +0000 UTC
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A few updates!
Segmented Sugar Rush Doughnut Box
As you've undoubtedly seen in the picture above, there's now a version of the Sugar Rush Doughnut Box that has six individual compartments, for storing small things in some kind of controllable manner. The magnet spots and the lid haven't changed, so if you already have an existing icing lid, it'll fit here!
I did ponder dividing the thing into even more segments, but beyond a certain point it gets very ...
2023-08-02 14:33:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello, my favourite people!
Dodecahedra! Pentagons are basically honorary hexagons when formed into this most excellent of solid shapes. As you can probably tell, this is another expedition into texture land, and this time it's all about bubbles.
These two vase-mode vessels are the inverse of each other - one has inward-poking bubbles, and the other one has them poking outwards. Because this is vase mode, the interior of each print essentially has the texture of ...
2023-08-02 14:32:53 +0000 UTC
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Okay, these tubes are more cute than sinister, I must admit! These oversized, bubbly vials feature screw-top lids and also come in a single material version.
But let's talk about that storage rack! It's a relatively simple thing, just a shelf with holes in it and a base with indents. But I wanted it to print nice and neatly, which for big circular holes like that meant printing the holes horizontally. So, that top shelf hi...
2023-08-02 14:32:42 +0000 UTC
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It's a little flying saucer! And it's (mostly) an assembly, though there is one part that's set up for multimaterial printing if you should so choose - more on that below. Check out the saucer sitting on my hand, for scale:
Assembling models from parts is such a satisfying thing. There's a real sense of the whole being greater than the sum of the...
2023-08-02 14:32:31 +0000 UTC
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Hazard Label Crates
The Hazard Crates from a little while back now have a bunch of new sizes! Perhaps more importantly, though, they now include a panel for attaching the standard 12mm printed labels commonly used by label maker machines. The lid is exactly the same as before - it's only the main container bodies that are new. Here's a render of all the sizes, because I've only test printed the first two so far :)
2023-07-16 14:58:12 +0000 UTC
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That Fidget Skull was a fascinating thing to explore, but it made a terrible bracelet! These much more purpose-designed things work far better, even if they feature fewer skulls.
Now, the first thing you'll notice is that these are vase mode, but have no bottom layers. You could of course print with bottom layers and then tear that bottom part off, but just switching to vase mode, then setting bottom layer count to zero is much better, and you ...
2023-07-16 14:58:02 +0000 UTC
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Howdy, wonderful people!
I had one of these sitting nearby when I woke up this morning, and it took me a few sleepy moments to remember that this was printed and that I couldn't eat it. That's right, more questionable food choices in printed form!
These cookies are technically containers, but they don't have a huge amount of interior volume - around 40mm across and 5mm in height. But they do look like jam and cream cookies, so take that, larger containers! :D
2023-07-16 14:57:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello, wonderful people!
Someone asked on Discord recently if there was a box in the back catalogue that was relatively small, and that could be opened with one hand, and I really couldn't find anything that quite fit that description. So, here we are!
The Syllable Case is about palm-sized with a hinged lid that opens the entire top to give easy access to the contents without having to shake things out. The magnetic closure has two pairs of magnets and a recessed lid t...
2023-07-16 14:57:41 +0000 UTC
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Filament Stories Mini Spools
My good friends at Filament Stories needed a little token to give away at all the various printery festivals and gathering, and so this tiny spool was born! It's a four-part print: a bolt screws into one side, the filament screws on, and then the final side attaches after that. Now, it turns out people liked these little spools, so I figured I'd release them to the wild!
As well as the original Filament Stories branded sid...
2023-06-28 17:40:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello, hello, my favourite people!
Sometimes the results of a print can be somewhat unexpected. I'm not sure entirely what I thought would happen when I built up this skull shape with twisty back-and-forth lines, but I didn't expect it to be so springy and bendy!
Adding detail to vase mode prints can enhance rigidity, but when those details are large enough to become flexible we get the opposite result, and it's more like constructing things from springy hinges instea...
2023-06-28 17:40:07 +0000 UTC
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Have I mentioned how much I love that printers are so amazingly precise? I wondered whether that precision could be brought to bear on printing a screw-closed container that actually printed in a closed position, with the screw already done up! Of course, the screw couldn't be actually tight, as that would require contact between parts, and that's not a good idea, but just a little back from tight. Closed but relaxed. And while we're at it, we should have a drawer!
So,...
2023-06-28 17:39:56 +0000 UTC
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Howdy, wonderful people!
Here we have a little helicopter that's something of a balancing act to print!
Okay, so while this little thing is named Torture Copter it wasn't at all intended to be a torture test. However, it isn't a print to take too lightly, and can fail fairly easily if things aren't really dialled in, so prepare for some heavy sighs when things fall over (especially if you're printing the multimaterial version!)
2023-06-28 17:39:44 +0000 UTC
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Subatomic Dice Depository Updates
There are a couple of new variations on the Subatomic Dice Depository, including a small one intended for a single set of dice! I appreciate all the feedback and requests, though I do have a habit of being extremely slow to actually reply :)
Narrow Version
That's right, it's a narrow version, with just two segments. That means it'll hold a single set of standard dice. It has a few change...
2023-06-09 15:11:59 +0000 UTC
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Stacking and nesting prints are always fun, but I haven't designed a lot of vase mode prints that work that way!
The problem with vase mode prints that sit inside each other is making sure that the inner print won't inadvertently split the outer one by putting differing forces on adjacent layers. So, that was the aim with this one - robust stackability.
But lets first look at the shape! it's a classic tapered rectangular container, angled...
2023-06-09 15:11:22 +0000 UTC
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Skulls, skulls and more abstract geometric skulls!
This one was inspired by - as you've no doubt already noticed - the Neon Skullbox from a short while back. I really liked the way the four-sided skull form worked out, and felt it deserved an existence as a more conventional boxy box. Well, conventional in as much as four-sided skull boxes have a convention to which to conform.
While sketching out this hexagonal-eyed cranium I wondered how a spherical version mi...
2023-06-09 15:10:51 +0000 UTC
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Howdy, wonderful people!
It's not often that I revise an older model completely, but the original Chained Hatch Container was a fun one that held a certain place in my heart. The concept was that a cylindrical container with a screw-on lid connected via an articulated tether that looked kind of like a watch band.
I hadn't thought about that model in a long time, but someone recently alerted me that the newest crop of high-precision printers made things a bit too loose, so I ...
2023-06-09 15:10:21 +0000 UTC
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Updates and stories!
Firetrucks, Filament Stories and HotMakes!
Some time ago I guested on a YouTube channel called HotMakes, and that led to me agonising for months over a model that became the Torture Toaster. Good times!
Fast forward to the present. I had a message from my good friend Courtney, of Filament Stories fame, who was going to be a guest on that channel later that day, and she said "Hey, it's one hundred episodes since the torture t...
2023-05-23 16:29:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey there, wonderful people!
It's assembly time! Slide concentrically-ornamented, curved hexagons (and half-hexagons) down channels to form patterns, look stylish, and improve your standing in any social circle!
As you've no doubt noticed in the image above, there are three different sizes, but they're all sized in multiples of hexagons. The holes at the top are for our old friends 6x3mm magnets, and the half-hexagon tiles have a corresponding magnet hole so that they...
2023-05-23 16:29:06 +0000 UTC
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