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Cube Farm Playset: Make a Model of Where You Model?

Posted by on Monday, April 25, 2011 in Thingalert, Thingiverse

Cube Farm Playset by tc_fea

I have been enjoying MakerBot Operator tc_fea‘s models up on Thingiverse for a long while. We have featured Tony Cervantes’ pine tree and miniature castle projects here on the MakerBot blog — and his truss bridge kit, outhouse, flower, and his and hers toilets are among my favorite models up on Thingiverse. Tony brings humor and impressive modeling chops to the recreation of everyday elements of modern domestic life (well, in a wide range of centuries).

And now with his Cube Farm Playset he introduces a challenge — can you model the environment where you model and share it with everyone on Thingiverse?

Tony specifically requests that you create more cube farm stations to add to his kit (tag your model in Thingiverse with “cube farm“), but I’d bet he wouldn’t mind if you recreated (to his scale) the home office, backyard hutch, or the secret underground laboratory where you work so that your workstation can be printed out and arranged into Dilbertian cubicle labyrinths by the future middle manager of the world.

I think his challenge is a very good one — and might well be the solid CAD analog to the many self-portraits an apprentice visual artist makes on his or her way to mastering the tools and eyes to create later original work. Stop what you are doing right now and look around you — can you model where you are working and share it with us?

Cube Farm Playset by tc_fea
This is a cube farm playset project to honor all of us who toil on in the corporate rat maze and keep America going. If you decide to create something for this project, please add the tag: cube_farm so that we can find it and add it to our cube farm playset. I provided some dimensioned pictures for those who do not use Google Sketchup. I sorta plan to eventually add things like: computer monitor, keyboard, chair, wall clips etc. Or maybe I will add a laser cannon to zap noisy co-workers.
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His and Her Toilets by tc_fea
Just a bit of silliness and fun. For a bit more fun add a little chain to hold down the seat on "her" toilet. Yes, I took the picture backwards, his is on right. The .mac files create the geometry in ANSYS classic.
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More Pine Trees by tc_fea
These are nicer versions of the pine tree experiment first tested in thing:7018. Pine tree 2 has a more random look and has 5 mm vertical spacing between branches. Pine tree 4 has fuller look and has 2.5 mm vertical spacing between branches.
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Miniature Castle by tc_fea
A miniature castle.
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Truss Bridge Kit by tc_fea
3.2.2011 UPDATE. Added thin top truss parts for easier assembly. This is a modular kit of parts to create a truss bridge. The sample shown has two center sections. The bridge can be made longer by adding more center sections and more piers if needed. The parts list is shown for a two center section bridge. file: assembly_110227h.skp shows the assembled orientation of the bridge. file: bridge_4_110302.skp presents the parts in the printed orientation.
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Flower by tc_fea
This is a stylized rose. Most of the walls are only 1.5 mm thick, so this thing does not use much plastic for its size. The print was made with flourescent red plastic. p.s.: see Andr0id's modification of the flower to accept a flower stem and vase to go with this. see thing:6504.
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5 Comments so far

  • Jeff
    April 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm
     

    No, no, NO!

    You mustn’t model where you have your models!

    http://xkcd.com/878/

     
  • Matt
    Matt
    April 25, 2011 at 4:31 pm
     

    That XKCD is hilarious. Thank you so much for sharing that!

     
  • Matt
    Matt
    April 26, 2011 at 9:38 am
     

    Some great Cube Farm models popping up!

    Cube Farm Rack by mrbug http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8060
    cube farm – raised floor by hintss http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8070

     
  • mrbug
    April 26, 2011 at 11:02 am
     

    Hey, that’s my cube_farm rack! =-)

    I think this is pretty cool… I intend to make some more models!

     
  • hintss
    April 28, 2011 at 8:50 am
     

    and thats my raised floor!

    and I also intend to make more models. making the raised floor when I should’ve been doing my science project was fun. also, its 5AM and its due today. and the sun seems to be coming up. thing is, I’ll just end up comparing prices for reprap electronics, and the project will be finished at 7.

     
 

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