MakerBot Industries

Pick up this week’s issue of NY Mag to see MakerBot as one of the items featured in the Approval Matrix. Project Shellter’s 3D-printed hermit crab shells made it into the territory between highbrow and brilliant, alongside some other pretty awesome things!

Dueling Masters of Space-Time by smcameron

Thingiverse citizen smcameron has shared with everyone his family’s totally original game featuring a custom board and game pieces. ¹  As cool and fun as this game sounds from the description and instructions, my favorite part might just be the title, “Dueling Masters of Space Time.”  The pieces move in a vaguely chess-like fashion with a screen preventing the players’ view of one another’s board for an interesting amalgam of chess, battleship, and stratego.

With a quality 2D and 3D printer, you could probably make any kind of board game you could possibly imagine.

Dueling Masters of Space Time by smcameron

Here are game pieces and board artwork for a board game my Dad, my brother, and I invented back in 1980.

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1. In fairness to smcameron, the above picture features the entire game, although apparently without the 3D printed pieces.  It was such a good picture I just had to use it. [↩]

Chocolate Bunny Ear Mold by rweaving

Thingiverse citizen rweaving is now the proud winner of all the prizes and privileges that accompany a design challenge win!  There were four possible ways to win this challenge and rweaving has fulfilled three of them – first to design a plastic mold for chocolate bunny ears, print the plastic mold, and create chocolate bunny ears from such a mold!  (You can still win for “First to directly print bunny ears out of chocolate”))

I hereby confer upon rweaving all the powers and privileges that accompany such a design challenge victory – 27,000 internet points, mad blog nods and kudos, and three everlastings of fame on the internet.  Awesome work!

Chocolate Bunny Ear Mold by rweaving

This is a mold to make the most desirable part of a chocolate bunny. If you want to make an entire bunny make thingiverse.com/thing:17507 Enjoy...

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