PacMan Tic Tac Toe #3DPrinting #3DThursday

asgeyer shared this project on Thingiverse! Tic Tac Toe game featuring Pac Man and those crazy ghosts! Looks great and my kids love it! Best part is when they lose a piece I can just print a new one for them! Printed with PLA. Supports used for the game board and did a color change for the grid mid-print. Print the board with a color change...

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3D Hangouts – #198 PVA Supports & Halloween Projects

Hang out with Noe & Pedro Ruiz and discover 3D printing! Get your 3D news, projects, design tutorials and more each week on Google+ Hangouts On Air. Subscribe to the Adafruit and follow us on Google+ to catch future broadcasts. We’re warming up our printers, come hang out with us this Wednesday! This weeks 3D Printing Project: Crickit...

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Researchers Embedding ‘Exploded’ QR Codes Inside 3D-Printed Parts to Verify Authentic Prints | #3DPrinting #3DThursday @nyutandon

Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and collaborators exploited the layer-by-layer AM printing process to “explode” QR codes within computer-assisted design (CAD) files so that they present several false faces — dummy QR tags — to a micro-CT scanner or other scanning device. Credit: NYU Tandon School of Engineering This...

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New Make: 3D Printed Hilbert Cube @tbuser

Back in 2012, Tony Buser created a Hilbert Cube for 3D printing with PVA water soluble support material. While looking for new interesting things to print using water soluble PVA support, I decided I want to try to make a Hilbert Cube: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_cube After trying and failing to do it in openscad, I worked around...

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From the mail bag…

From the mail bag! We read @adafruit blog post about election day and we love the idea! So we are going to do the same and giving our employees a paid day off on Tuesday. November 6th, 2018. https://t.co/dmsofAAUJC #adafruit #MakeTheVote — Printed Solid (@PrintedSolid) August 29, 2018 Check out our full announcement here! from Adafruit...

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NEW GUIDE: Crickit Lab Shaker #3DPrinting

Build a lab shaker to agitate parts with PVA supports! Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/crickit-lab-shaker/ This DIY shaker uses an Adafruit Crickit, Circuit Playground Express and DC motor. The speed is adjustable with a potentiometer. MicroUSB port is accessible for programming. The unit is powered by a power supply for constant...

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New Timelapse Video! #3DPrinting Immortan Joe Mask by Filip

Every week we’ll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! Immortan Joe Mask Remix By: Filip Turzyński https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3043478 Ultimaker 2+ Steel Cheetah NinjaFlex 6hrs 30min X:158 Y:102 Z:119mm 0.2 layer / .6mm nozzle 20% infil / 6.5mm retract 220c / 60c 40g 50...

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Buckyball or C60 or Football or Truncated icosahedron

Cl Marshall shared on thingiverse: Buckyball or C60 or Football or Truncated icosahedron Kit for building the football shape thinggy : 2 STL files, essentially a pentagon to print 12 times and a Hexagon to print 20 times. Needs assembly and gluing. Check the section how I designed this and the Sketchup file if you want to see how it was...

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Piano Sustain Pedal

Patrick Nijkamp shared on thingiverse: Piano Sustain Pedal An easy to print and make sustain pedal for your piano and keyboard. All you need to do is add a simple jack cable the makes contact when pressed (or keeps contact and looses it on press). Enough holes in there to make some different configurations. I just used a simple ballpoint...

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Industrial Worm Gearbox / Gear Reducer

LarsRb shared on thingiverse: Industrial Worm Gearbox / Gear Reducer (Cutaway version) PART OF MY INDUSTRIAL GEARBOX COLLECTION This is a fully 3D printable version of an industrial worm gearbox / gear reducer. This cutaway version can be used for training purposes, and has a gear ratio of 1:30 Worm gears A worm gear consists of a “worm”...

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Problematic Women: Why Are Women Freezing Their Eggs at Such Young Ages?

Brown University takes down a study because the transgender community didn’t like it, actress Alyssa Milano “lends” her voice to protest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, women are freezing their eggs at younger ages than ever, Twitter (once again) shows its bias by declining to take down threats against the lives of National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch’s children, and Kelsey is getting married! All that and...

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Congress Should Ensure VA Health Care Funding, but Only Within Budget Caps

The appropriations process in Congress came to an unexpected halt July 19 as heated debates over funding the Department of Veterans Affairs could not be resolved. That hurdle was preceded by a summer of controversy regarding the reform of veterans’ health care funding. The outcome of those negotiations will affect not only our nation’s finest, but also the broader spending process. The discussion began in early June, when President...

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California Shows Why Congress Needs to Eliminate Food Stamp Work Requirement Loophole

Despite a booming economy and a record-low unemployment rate nationally, at least one state has been working overtime to ensure its work-capable food stamp recipients don’t have to work. Current law requires non-elderly, able-bodied adults without dependent children to work or participate in work-related activities, such as education and job training programs, for at least 20 hours per week in exchange for food stamp benefits. Yet...

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Paraguay’s Economic, Political Transformation Deserves Recognition

South America is not at the center of global affairs, but few countries in the region may go as unnoticed as Paraguay. At first glance, Paraguay appears an unlikely prospect to stand out as an emerging-market democracy. In the shadow of the large and populous economies of Brazil and Argentina, the small landlocked country was long one of...

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How Louisiana Stood Up to the Anti-Gun Corporate Elite

The state of Louisiana recently held some members of the corporate social police accountable for discriminating against law-abiding Americans. By a vote of 7-6, the State Bond Commission excluded Citigroup and Bank of America from the running for a lucrative state contract. Our reason for doing so: these corporations had introduced bank policies that restrict legal access to firearms and bank misrepresentations on those policies. While...

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Left Ramps Up Calls for Impeaching Trump After Cohen, Manafort Convictions

Liberal activists—some of whom have called for President Donald Trump’s impeachment for more than a year— have grown louder after the convictions of two Trump associates last week. Billionaire Tom Steyer, who already has spent millions on TV ads and runs the Need to Impeach petition campaign that has collected 5.6 million signatures, released a new ad Tuesday. “How much more does Congress need to see? Donald Trump has now been...

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3 Reforms Conservatives Should Fight For in the Farm Bill

The House and Senate have passed their own farms bills and are currently working out differences to come up with a final bill. At a minimum, there are three reforms that conservatives should expect in any farm bill. 1. Stronger Food Stamp Work Requirements For conservatives to support any farm bill, Congress should adopt the House’s reforms to require more work-capable recipients of food stamps to work or prepare for work as a...

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In Key Post at State, Kiron Skinner Will Advance Trump Security Strategy

The State Department is about to get a big brain. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo named scholar and national security expert Kiron Skinner as director of policy planning, the official who heads the department’s in-house think tank. It’s a signal that Pompeo is moving back to regular order in how State does business, but also that he is serious about implementing President Donald Trump’s “America First” national security strategy. Skinner...

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The Daily Signal Podcast: Thursday, Aug. 30

A hundred Facebook employees have joined an online group for ideological diversity at the social media giant—and of course, it’s generating controversy. We discuss with Rob Bluey, our editor-in-chief. Plus: In the age of Tinder, more young people are rediscovering the value of so-called slow dating. We also cover these stories: White House counsel Don McGahn will leave after Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Google won’t...

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What 2 Women Who Actually Clerked for Kavanaugh Really Think of Him

When Sarah Pitlyk went to clerk for Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court, she found herself in a unique situation: Between the time she interviewed for the job, and went to begin the clerkship, Pitlyk had given birth. “At the time,” Pitlyk told The Daily Signal, “it was unprecedented.” “I was the first of his clerks who had ever had that kind of familial obligation to balance with the clerkship, which is a tremendously...

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Christian Cake Baker Turns the Tables, Sues Colorado for Anti-Religious Bias

Jack Phillips owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, and is himself a master baker. He’s in trouble with the state of Colorado for declining to create a custom cake for an event because doing so would violate his religious beliefs. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Phillips has already taken a similar case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor on June 4. Here’s the background. In 2012, Phillips...

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