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Check out this book trailer for bestselling author and Internet pioneer Steven Johnson‘s The Innovator’s Cookbook (on sale October 4, 2011).  Helen Yentus, the designer of the book cover (featured in the video), worked with our team to 3D print the letters on a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic. This video documents her process from first sketch — to MakerBotting the letters — to photo shoot — to printed book. Cover photo and video are by YDESIGN.

Here are some details about the book from the video description.

The Innovator’s Cookbook is an essential book for anyone interested in innovation: the key texts on the topic from a wide range of fields as well as interviews with successful, real-world innovators, prefaced with a new essay by Johnson that draws upon his own experiences as an entrepreneur and author.

I Roll 20's by polymaker

This, my friends, THIS is why I freaking LOVE Thingiverse.  Turner’s Cubes too easy?  You want an the exact opposite of a Turner’s Cube?  No problem, br3ttb and Whosawhatsis have got your back.

Oh, what’s that?  You just have to have a 20-sided die that says “20″ on each side?  Pssh!  A trifle!  Polymaker has got you covered.  As the first uploader with an STL and OpenSCAD file, he is also the proud recipient of 9000 internet points, crazy mad bragging rights, and OpenSCAD kudos!

Seriously though, I’ve wanted one of these for the longest time.  I cannot wait to start churning these out.

Don’t forget – you can earn some awesome imaginary prizes by designing your own 20-sided all 20′s die if you can do it in fewer lines of code.  A point of clarification, it is not only acceptable to use an OpenSCAD library, it is encouraged.

I Roll 20's by polymaker

makerbot.com/blog/2011/09/29/openscad-challenge-regular-icosahedron/ It didn't take me too many lines of code, but I did use two libraries so make of it what you will. ;) BTW, just because it's OpenSCAD code, don't assume it's 100% parametric. It's pretty close though, someone just needs to come around and iron out the formulas. Uses: WilliamAAdams's Platonic Solids: thingiverse.com/thing:10725 Tony Buser's Bitmap module: thingiverse.com/thing:2054 Update ====== For extra geek factor, I've included some options with some fantasy fonts. There's even an elvish option! All the text, except for the blocky original, was created with my own text2surface.py (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10404) with commands like: ./text2surface.py -t 20 -f "Tengwar Annatar" -z 7 -rn -d 12 -o 20_tengwarannatar.stl Update2 ======= Positioned for printing.

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Here’s another aesthetically-pleasing parametric design from Thingiverse all-star MakeALot: the slotted bowl with lid. This is a truly exceptional Thingiverse page: not only are there several versions of the bowl (and lid) available in .stl format, but there are some great photos of printed examples, like the one shown above.  And if that’s not enough, grab the .scad file and tweak it to your own specifications.

Well done MakeALot!  We’re all looking forward to your next design.

Slotted bowl with lid by MakeALot

bowl for stuff that's small enough to fit inside and big enough to stay inside. Another trinket box... Probably look good printed by one of the people who use rainbow coloured filament.

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