Crafty Season Reprise: The Incredible Legible Egg

Panoramic Egg (parametric too!) by MakerBlock

Basic Egg Cup, printed by Mark Cohen

I talked with Keith, MakerBot’s Marketing Manager, last week — he had a theory why so many great things went up on Thingiverse around Easter / Passover: ”This season is already really crafty, like Halloween. You are expected to create decorations while drawing families together — so this is a great Thingiverse season.”

So much awesome1 went up after my Stanford Bunny post last week that I wanted to highlight a few more favorites. A number are egg-focused, including MakerBlock’s incredible parametrical panoramic egg.2 So another reason must certainly have something to do with eggs, eggshells, egg-bots, and the things you can do with all of these things.

Easter and finishing Portal 2 inspired me to make this basic turret template for use with the Egg-Bot. The back of the design has one of the famous quotes by everyone's favorite, child-like home defense product. Watch it being printed here: youtube.com/watch?v=U4bl18mVOv4
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Diethyl Ether diagram to make "ether egg". Happy Ether!
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It is an TARDIS in egg form. A must have for any doctor who fan. This is in honor of the season preimer of Doctor Who April 23rd at 9 / 8 Central on BBC America.
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This Thing currently includes two derivatives of dnewman's monochrome geometric egg thing. The first file (cubses-5stripes) describes 5 rows of 16 cubes in 5 paths total (1 per row) for speedy egg drawing. The original script produces 4 paths per cube with can really slow down an eggbot with all the ups and downs. There are three layers for optional multi-color eggs. The cubes are larger for drawing with Ultra File Sharpie markers. The second file (cubses2) describes a 9x20 cubed egg decoration in one path. Drawing the whole thing in one path saves a lot of time. The thumbnails are deceiving because they only show the first row; the rest of the rows run off of the document. There's an artifact at the end of each row where it draws over the last cube to get to the next row. I might fix this eventually. This cubes are the small original size cubes, they are a little small to be drawn clearly by a UF Sharpie, but the pattern is still nice. Happy Easter
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Created to communicate the animal welfare benefits of genuine free range eggs using free range eggs as the print medium. 1 dozen individual designs allow a whole carton's worth of unique messages to be created. The idea was spawned as an alternative easter gift for someone who doesn't normally buy free range eggs.
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This is my "Chick inspired by marshmallow candy" thingiverse.com/thing:7913 with bites removed using my "Parametric Teeth Marks" thingiverse.com/thing:7937
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This is my "Chick inspired by marshmallow candy" thingiverse.com/thing:7913 inside the "Panoramic Egg (parametric too!)" by MakerBlock thingiverse.com/thing:7896
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A chick inspired by the famous Easter marshmallow candy.
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This is a J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (from the Church of the Subgenius) image that can be printed using the Eggbot or a clone like the Spherebot.
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That's right, it's a parametric panoramic egg, just in time for Easter! A panoramic egg is a festive egg-shaped sugar-based confection that has a little window in it with a small sugar-formed Easter scene inside. These are typically very labor and time intensive to create.
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"Just in time to deposit festive egg sacs around your yard for Easter." After I saw the Buntacle at laughingsquid.com/buntacles-a-cute-bunny-with-tentacle-ears/ I knew what I had to do. It was a moral imperative! Also a derivative of Stanford Bunny by phooky thingiverse.com/thing:3731 Made with meshmixer.com
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A line rendition of the Milwaukee Makerspace logo.
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An egg on an egg. I started with the original artwork from: openclipart.org/detail/18251 and made it Egg-Bot friendly. I'm not entirely sold on the cross hatching in the black outline, so I may make some edits to this in the future. (OK, see "Egg Egg 2" for a version with 2 solid black lines without hatching.)
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  1. Keith’s favorite word []
  2. Mashups are no longer just hijinks, they are becoming some of my favorite designs on Thingiverse. I cannot wait to have the time to try to print MakerBlock’s design, as well as Chick In Egg by nicholasclewis []
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3 Comments so far

  • mrbug
    April 27, 2011 at 6:06 pm
     

    Aww, you posted my JR “EggBob” Dobbs but not my panoramic eggception?

     
  • Matt
    April 28, 2011 at 12:36 pm
     

    mrbug: I love the panoramic eggception as well. :)

     
  • anonymous
    February 22, 2012 at 8:30 am
     

    Needs more Death Star egg…

     
 

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