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Just a week after I bemoaned its absence, here we are: a printable Fleur De Lis.  Once again, Thingiverse rises to the challenge.  Is there anything that Thingiverse users can’t do?

I’m going to go with a “no” until definitively proven wrong, with an irrefutable proof in formal logic.  Thanks for continuing not to disprove me, phibroptic!

Fleur De Lis by phibroptic

My wife, and her old sorority, are big fans of the Fleur De Lis. (A decorative lily.) Also used (in various forms) by scouts, sports teams, and many others. When I finished assembling, testing, and calibrating my Thing-O-Matic, This was my first print as a way to thank her for indulging my nerdy obsessions. I didn't design it, I pulled it off the Google Sketchup warehouse. It can be found here sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=4cf07fb6cf4105169eeaab05b21288d and design should be credited to user Frisky Dingo.

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Hey everybody!  I went looking on Thingiverse for some things that might help you celebrate le quatorze juillet and I must say…things are not looking so French right now.  We have the French Curve which actually does look vaguely French.  And then there are these French Fries…and that’s about it.  A search for France turns up some French Thingiverse users (formidable!) but not a lot of France-themed 3d models.  I don’t even see a fleur-de-lis.

I was really hoping for a small model of the Bastille itself which an enterprising printer might be able to print and then overrun with a number of mini-figs.  Let’s all get modeling so we can symbolically throw off the tiny plastic shackles of oppression next year, fellow-citizens!

Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort!

An awesome movie follow up to the earlier Dead Drops post — we had a reporter from France come investigating the dead drop outside so there is some pretty widespread interest in the Dead Drop phenomena –  the movie is really nicely done, too!

Dead Drops ‘How to’ – NYC from aram bartholl on Vimeo.