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These awesome  sculptures were created by artist Micah Ganske as part of collaboration with MakerBot for Art Star gallery.  The Wall Street Journal wrote about this fantastic union of art and technology on their Metropolis culture blog, calling MakerBot the “latest hit on the art fair circuit.” Check out the entire post here.

Micah’s limited-edition designs were sold at last week’s Affordable Art Fair. Visit Thingiverse if you want to print one of your own!

This week on MakerBot TV watch the head scans of Christopher Poole and Clay Shirky, hear about the coolest new way to go ‘vrooom‘ on Thingiverse and find out how Stepstruder MK7 was delivered to us from the future!

Special thanks to: Tony Buser for the use of Bobble Head Bob, 2ROBOTGUY for his alphabet design and Sirmakesalot for the engine models. Thanks to Charles Pax, Jonathan Monaghan and Yves Mervin-Leroy for getting in front of the camera. As well as Kevin MacLeod, Doctor Popular, and MakerBot’s very own Alan Bjorklund and Isaac Dietz for their musical contributions.

Here is one of the finest objects I have ever seen on Thingiverse: yes, it’s a toilet paper holder where the toilet paper comes out through the mouth.  Obviously, this is a tremendous win for functional, modern design.  At least in the sphere of functional, modern design that includes toilet paper holders and/or robot tongues.

Look at the face: is it smiling?  Is it frowning?  Is it screaming in fear?  No — it’s an robot face, which is emotionless, so you can’t tell exactly what’s going on.  Sort of like the Mona Lisa.

Thank you for advancing the state of the art, jag.  Much appreciated.  Um…would it be too much to ask for a tissue box holder?

Robot Head TP Holder by jag

I saw a ceramic version of this somewhere a while ago. This is based on what I remember of that design. This uses thingiverse.com/thing:8793 (syvwlch's awesome trapezoidal thread library)

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