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Bicycle Spoke Beads by JonMonaghan

The bicycle spoke beads featured in this week’s MakerBot TV created by MakerBot artist-in-residence Jon Monaghan aren’t just retro, they’re futurist retro.  While bicycle spoke beads are clearly retro, being able to have spoke beads in any shape, color, or size created by your own MakerBot 3D printer is clearly futuristic ¹

Bicycle Spoke Beads by JonMonaghan

Go Retro.

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1. Okay, you got me.  Really, I just wanted a post with the title, “Bespoke Spoke Beads.” [↩]

MakerBot owner, John Biehler, explains the wonders of the  Thing-O-Matic on Get Connected, our new fave Canadian tech site! Check out the video to see John show off some cool things he’s printed including a money clip, Stephen Colbert’s head and even the Get Connected logo.

In this XtraSpecial episode of MakerBot TV grandiose guest host Xzibot shows you how to use your bot to deck out your bicycle (or tricycle for that matter)! Don’t miss out! Bot Your Bike!

Huge thanks to Jonathan Monaghan, Stef Shapira, Sam Gruen, Michael Curry and John Ditamos. Thank you also to devellison for the sprocket design, dreameredeemer for the light clamp design, gaarden for the tire lever, tamberg for the handlebar plug, jsadusk for the valve cap, aylr for the ipod case, and jonmonaghan for the cupholder and spoke beads. Music by Simon Stålenhag.

Cardboard Dragon with 3D-printed feet

I can honestly say I didn’t understand just how cool these simple 3D printed feet were until I saw this picture.  Drawing an animal for a kid is one great.  But being able to turn that drawing into a toy for them to play with is just so much cooler.  Thingiverse user and MakerBot dad guru has provided his method for creating quick and fun characters for use with these plastic feet.  In the true spirit of Thingiverse, he’s also shared his OpenSCAD designs for printing your own feet.

Also, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn’t mention SuperAmi‘s own game piece foot which serves a similar purpose. ¹

Feet for Cardboard-Figures by guru

I made some cardboard-figures from the delivery-boxes of a very famous book-seller and needed some feet. So i fired up my makerbot and printed some local-guru.net/blog/2011/10/12/Cardboard-Dragon-with-3D-printed-feet

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Game Piece Foot by SuperAmi

At the flee market this weekend I found a board game from my childhood, so of course, I bought it for my child. Unfortunately it was missing one of the plastic feet for the game pieces. So, I broke out the calipers and got scading. The piece is designed for the great game Mausefalle (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25097/mausefalle), but it should work with little or no modification with many a great board game with cardboard cutout game pieces. (ie: Candy Land) Now I just need to find the rules for Mausfalle, since I don't remember how to get out of the mouse holes...

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1. I suppose, SuperAmi’s foot is for monopods and guru’s feet are for bipedal and quadrupedal creatures? [↩]