Plumeria Whirligig Spinner I wanted a to make a garden spinner that looks like a real flower instead of a plastic toy, so I made these plumeria flowers with organic curves, angled just right to catch wind and still give off actual flower vibes. Ease of printing is always a huge plus so the main flower prints in one piece, with a small underside adapter for a standard skateboard bearing and a (semi) universal garden stake pole mount. There's a version sized for 256x256mm build plates and a bigger one for H2 printers, I really like having one of each! I printed these in white ASA, painted the petal gradients by hand with acrylic craft paint, then added a gloss clear coat for outdoor use. Several people have printed them in various colors and they all look great! https://makerworld.com/en/models/2780101-tropical-flower-wind-spinner #Windspinner #Contests

Chopped & Twisted Glitched Wind Spinner #Windspinner #Contests Model link: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2797665 This wind spinner started as a funky little experiment: what would happen if I treated 3D geometry like chopping and rebuilding samples in music? The original idea was inspired by chopped & screwed hip hop: slow it down, break it apart, shift it around, and rebuild it into something woozy but still rhythmic. I started with a simple triple helix, intentionally over-simplified the geometry until it broke, then rotated and recombined until the spinner started to feel alive. Then I decided this is weird already plus I need some lightweight spinners, so lets go with vase mode to force it to stay raw. As soon as I started to spin the first one I was blown away. The glitchy angular facets give a sense of shimmering motion that moves with the twist that looks almost digital, and the warped helix shape makes the outline feel almost stepwise and smooth at the same time. Since the main body prints in vase mode, the spinner stays lightweight, and embracing the glitchiness and imperfection introduced by the design philosophy means the lines are sometimes bridging, which lets light shimmer through the body at certain angles. After making a few variants, I came to realize that I could analyze the spiraling geometry the same way as you would any waveform, including those seen in music. It turns out that the geometry edits resulted in what looks like a hard clip with a funky plateau only distortion effect, and fourier analysis showed a strong contribution from the third harmonic which tends to come from distortion pushing it towards a square wave! Ultimately, simplifying is somewhat akin to bitcrushing at least in my mind, and the result wound up somewhere in the middle of a number of common music production techniques. All this talk about the helix waveform as though it's music, well... what does it sound like??? This is that waveform applied to a 100Hz sound, with some of the buzzy high frequencies reduced a little bit to avoid killing your speakers: - https://jumpshare.com/share/sSHEjA4LIISXo2nlJNyA - Here's a more pleasant edit that biases the frequencies a little more: https://jumpshare.com/share/IpgQqtOe1VbYynruRd2L - And a robot voice breaking down the frequencies that make up the sound: https://jumpshare.com/share/lIftn4FIiJi3KSjA2Llx I wasn't quite done yet, because next I layered one helix inside the other, arranging them in a way I thought looked just right. Doing an analysis on those two helices, I realized the smaller one was completing 3 rotations when the bigger one completed 2, which in music theory is known as a perfect fifth! You have probably sung it before in "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"! It's well-known as one of the most consonant or pleasant intervals between notes, and that also turned out to be true when constructing it visually. So it went from a general chopped up beats concept to a crazy looking decoration, came back towards music with a vengeance, and really drove it home with the 3:2 relationship having beautiful coherence visually, just like it does in music! I actually work in a lab and have been researching using an electrical stimulation technique, and I managed to connect the concepts well enough that I showed my spinner graphs and played the tones in a lab meeting! It actually worked pretty well as a point about phases and cycles. This design has been so much fun, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

I spent way too much time dialing in these Christmas bows for dual-extrusion Silk PLA! They are assembled from ribbons made of single lines stacked vertically. This presents some real challenges but also some amazing results!

I've been using versions of this minimal ITX case for a couple years and finally got around to cleaning it up and sharing the profile. I think it's the simplest design around, it just sits on top of your PSU with standoffs to raise the motherboard. The footprint is essentially the size of the board so it's great for conserving space. With some simple management of the PSU cables it's well-contained, it's even easy to unplug the PSU and move the whole thing to a new location.

Got a little carried away with a theme for a small squeegee design, lol. I wanted it to be all TPU so you can just pick it up and use it immediately. Works great and has plenty of swag.

A member of my lab asked if I could make some 384-well plate holders, and I thought no problem! However it turned out that there are no models out there... there's plenty for 96-well plates, but none for these. So I did what any good designer would do and made my own! It works extremely well, plates fit tightly and securely, and the side indents make it easy to take the plate out. This just so happened to coincide with the lab supplies contest so I threw my hat in the ring.

I turned my H2D box into a fancy-looking cat house! I call this iteration the H2D hotel. My boy can't get enough of it!

I've really been liking the non-silk coextrusion filaments that have been coming out lately, so I designed a vase that highlights the two-color effect with sharp angles and lots of implied motion. The filament is Creality Soyelin Rosestone, which has an almost ethereal glowing effect.

I originally designed these to give out to kids at science outreach events and they've been wildly popular, with lots of people requesting I share the file. So here it is up on Makerworld!

I wanted some modern super lightweight shelves that match the square white ones we got from Amazon, so I designed and then over-engineered these push-pin secured shelves to make sure they work well even with matte PLA. It's nice to have shelves anywhere without having to deal with anchors.

This is probably the cheapest possible way to add wall filament storage, print these brackets and use furring strips. They're typically $1.60 for an 8 foot strip, so we're talking 20 cents a foot which is an order of magnitude cheaper than a comparable dowel. A bit of sanding and they're good to go!

I nominate this filament storage design for the best combination of strength, space efficiency, and aesthetics! If you have 3D printers and aren't maximizing your wall space what are you even doing?

I know it's out of favor nowadays, but I was surprised nobody had uploaded any GPU mining brackets to Makerworld. Threw together this little design to make it easier to add s̶p̶a̶c̶e̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ GPUs to existing rigs.

Somehow the options for pegboard shelves are all pretty terrible, so working with what's available I put together these designs which work wonderfully. They're shaped to counteract the tilt that's designed into the available brackets, which naturally uses the layer lines for texture.

Hey everyone! I put a lot of effort into this model for a contest where it was one of the top downloads but didn't win, so I thought it'd be worth trying out the community feature to show it off! I have plants all over my house and it's fun to have some 3d printed ones mixed in.