#thingiverse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thingiverse, aggregated by home.social.
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Wow, u/DeeZett made a 3D version of my "We do not test on animals, we test in production" sticker. I love it!
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1s6r5tc/we_do_not_test_on_animals_we_test_in_production/
Model on Makerworld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2587482-we-do-not-test-on-animals-we-test-in-production#profileId-2854614
Thing on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7323159#3dprint #makerworld #thingiverse #devops #infosec #sticker #wedonottestonanimalswetestinproduction
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Wow, u/DeeZett made a 3D version of my "We do not test on animals, we test in production" sticker. I love it!
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1s6r5tc/we_do_not_test_on_animals_we_test_in_production/
Model on Makerworld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2587482-we-do-not-test-on-animals-we-test-in-production#profileId-2854614
Thing on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7323159#3dprint #makerworld #thingiverse #devops #infosec #sticker #wedonottestonanimalswetestinproduction
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Wow, u/DeeZett made a 3D version of my "We do not test on animals, we test in production" sticker. I love it!
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1s6r5tc/we_do_not_test_on_animals_we_test_in_production/
Model on Makerworld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2587482-we-do-not-test-on-animals-we-test-in-production#profileId-2854614
Thing on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7323159#3dprint #makerworld #thingiverse #devops #infosec #sticker #wedonottestonanimalswetestinproduction
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Wow, u/DeeZett made a 3D version of my "We do not test on animals, we test in production" sticker. I love it!
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1s6r5tc/we_do_not_test_on_animals_we_test_in_production/
Model on Makerworld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2587482-we-do-not-test-on-animals-we-test-in-production#profileId-2854614
Thing on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7323159#3dprint #makerworld #thingiverse #devops #infosec #sticker #wedonottestonanimalswetestinproduction
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Wow, u/DeeZett made a 3D version of my "We do not test on animals, we test in production" sticker. I love it!
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1s6r5tc/we_do_not_test_on_animals_we_test_in_production/
Model on Makerworld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2587482-we-do-not-test-on-animals-we-test-in-production#profileId-2854614
Thing on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7323159#3dprint #makerworld #thingiverse #devops #infosec #sticker #wedonottestonanimalswetestinproduction
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3D printing people! There is a Fediverse platform just for you which lets you upload and share 3D print models:
You can follow the official account at:
➡️ @manyfold
There's a public server you can join at:
➡️ https://3dprint.social (Click "Sign In" and then "Create Account" to sign up)
If you just want to try it, there's a demo server at:
#Fediverse #3DPrinting #Thingiverse #Printables #Makerworld #Alternatives
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3D printing people! There is a Fediverse platform just for you which lets you upload and share 3D print models:
You can follow the official account at:
➡️ @manyfold
There's a public server you can join at:
➡️ https://3dprint.social (Click "Sign In" and then "Create Account" to sign up)
If you just want to try it, there's a demo server at:
#Fediverse #3DPrinting #Thingiverse #Printables #Makerworld #Alternatives
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3D printing people! There is a Fediverse platform just for you which lets you upload and share 3D print models:
You can follow the official account at:
➡️ @manyfold
There's a public server you can join at:
➡️ https://3dprint.social (Click "Sign In" and then "Create Account" to sign up)
If you just want to try it, there's a demo server at:
#Fediverse #3DPrinting #Thingiverse #Printables #Makerworld #Alternatives
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3D printing people! There is a Fediverse platform just for you which lets you upload and share 3D print models:
You can follow the official account at:
➡️ @manyfold
There's a public server you can join at:
➡️ https://3dprint.social (Click "Sign In" and then "Create Account" to sign up)
If you just want to try it, there's a demo server at:
#Fediverse #3DPrinting #Thingiverse #Printables #Makerworld #Alternatives
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3D printing people! There is a Fediverse platform just for you which lets you upload and share 3D print models:
You can follow the official account at:
➡️ @manyfold
There's a public server you can join at:
➡️ https://3dprint.social (Click "Sign In" and then "Create Account" to sign up)
If you just want to try it, there's a demo server at:
#Fediverse #3DPrinting #Thingiverse #Printables #Makerworld #Alternatives
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Durch #thingiverse scrollen ist auch irgendwie befriedigend. So viele Lösungen für Probleme, die ich gar nicht habe!
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Vire: Modélisation 3D avec OpenSCAD, Le samedi 28 février 2026 de 17h00 à 19h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/34624 #atelier #libre #atelierDuLibre #atelierLibre #atelierNumérique #openscad #cao #modélisation3d #thingiverse #viregul
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The Enshittification of 3D Printing STL Sites: How Maker Repositories Became Content Platforms
2,834 words, 15 minutes read time.
There was a time when STL repositories felt like infrastructure. They were messy, imperfect, sometimes unstable, but they served a clear purpose. You went there to retrieve functional designs created by people who understood that tolerances matter, mounting points matter, airflow direction matters, and documentation matters. The mission was simple: share useful objects so others could build on them. That mission was grounded in the open hardware ethos shaped by projects like RepRap and reinforced by licensing systems such as Creative Commons. It wasn’t polished, but it was honest.
Then the incentives changed.
The growth of consumer 3D printing brought scale, and scale brought platform economics. Sites like Thingiverse, Printables, Cults3D, and MyMiniFactory evolved from archives into ecosystems. At first, that seemed like maturation. Better interfaces, better hosting, better visibility for creators. But over time, something more subtle happened. Utility stopped being the organizing principle. Engagement replaced it.
When a repository begins optimizing for clicks, retention, and growth instead of engineering clarity, decay sets in. The interface starts resembling a social feed instead of a technical archive. Thumbnails become louder. Titles become bloated with keywords. Contests and reward systems appear. Download counts become currency. Visibility becomes gamified. None of this is inherently evil, but it fundamentally shifts behavior.
This is enshittification in slow motion. First, the platform serves the user. Then it serves the uploader. Finally, it serves itself. Somewhere in that transition, the serious maker — the person trying to solve a mechanical problem or improve a machine — becomes collateral damage.
From Engineering Repositories to Engagement Engines
Originally, STL sites functioned like decentralized workshops. A model page typically included design intent, dimensions, print settings, and assembly notes. Comments focused on fitment, improvements, or mechanical feedback. The culture leaned technical because the barrier to entry was higher. Early adopters were often building or modifying their own printers. The audience expected competence.
As adoption widened, the demographic broadened. That expansion was healthy in many ways. More accessibility meant more creativity. However, platforms responded to growth with mechanisms designed for scale, not engineering discipline. Search algorithms began prioritizing popularity signals. Trending sections surfaced based on interaction velocity. Reward systems incentivized uploads. Creator spotlights and contests encouraged constant content generation.
The result was predictable. Content volume exploded. Signal-to-noise ratio dropped.
A repository optimized for engagement behaves differently from one optimized for retrieval. Engagement systems reward what generates reaction. Engineering systems reward what functions reliably. Those are not the same thing. A flashy model with dramatic renders and broad compatibility claims generates attention quickly. A precisely dimensioned structural bracket that solves a narrow but real problem generates fewer clicks. When the algorithm decides what most users see, it doesn’t measure mechanical integrity. It measures interaction.
That distortion shows up everywhere. Titles increasingly read like search-engine bait instead of design documentation. Descriptions stretch compatibility claims beyond reason. Remix chains grow without clear lineage tracking. Files are uploaded without test prints across common material types. Documentation shrinks while promotional language grows. The presentation improves while the engineering substance thins.
Even when platforms attempt curation, the underlying incentive structure remains engagement-driven. Downloads, likes, and shares influence visibility. Visibility influences behavior. Behavior shapes culture. Over time, culture shifts from solving problems to producing content.
This transformation doesn’t require malicious actors. It is structural. Platforms must grow to survive. Growth requires participation. Participation is easiest to stimulate with gamification and visibility rewards. But the more a repository behaves like a social network, the less it behaves like technical infrastructure.
And infrastructure is what serious makers actually need.
Incentives, Monetization, and the Collapse of Signal-to-Noise
The introduction of monetization accelerated the drift. When creators can sell files directly, attention becomes revenue. That changes the psychological landscape immediately. The incentive is no longer just to share a useful design. The incentive is to attract buyers. That favors broader appeal over specialized utility. It favors aesthetic novelty over structural refinement. It favors marketing language over restrained documentation.
Even in platforms that emphasize free sharing, reward systems distort priorities. Point systems, badges, and contests reward upload frequency and download counts. A creator who publishes five minor variations receives more visibility than someone who spends weeks refining one robust design. Rational actors respond to reward structures. The outcome is proliferation of incremental uploads with minimal differentiation.
Documentation quality declines because it is not directly rewarded. Few platforms require structured metadata for tolerances, material testing, or mechanical validation. There is rarely a standardized field for recommended infill density under load or notes about heat creep in enclosed environments. Those details matter in real-world application, yet they are optional and often absent. The algorithm does not penalize missing rigor, so rigor becomes rare.
Meanwhile, remix culture compounds fragmentation. Open licenses allow modification, which is essential to collaborative engineering. However, without disciplined version control and clear deprecation practices, remix trees become tangled. Users encounter multiple forks of the same design without clarity on which is current, tested, or abandoned. In software development, version control systems enforce traceability. In STL repositories, that discipline is largely cultural rather than structural. As culture shifts toward content velocity, traceability erodes.
Centralization magnifies risk. When a handful of platforms dominate hosting, policy changes ripple across the ecosystem. Licensing enforcement varies. Terms of service evolve. API access can be restricted. Files can disappear if moderation policies change or accounts are removed. For a community built on open-source principles championed by organizations like the Open Source Hardware Association, that level of platform dependency introduces fragility. What began as decentralized collaboration increasingly relies on centralized infrastructure with commercial priorities.
The consequence is not just inconvenience. It is cumulative inefficiency. Time spent filtering noise is time not spent designing, iterating, or printing. Trust erodes when files lack documentation or fail unexpectedly. Newcomers struggle to distinguish quality from hype. Veterans compensate by curating private libraries or retreating to smaller communities where engineering still dominates conversation.
One personal example illustrates the friction without defining the whole problem. When I sit down looking for a specific printer upgrade, not browsing but targeting a known need, the retrieval process often feels like excavating through content layers designed for engagement rather than precision. That experience is not unique to upgrades. It reflects a broader structural shift in how these platforms function.
The enshittification of STL sites is not about one bad search result. It is about the slow replacement of engineering-first infrastructure with content-first ecosystems. Until incentives realign around utility, documentation, and traceable iteration, the signal-to-noise ratio will continue to degrade.
The Hidden Costs: Engineering Decay, Time Erosion, and Cultural Drift
The most obvious cost of STL platform decay is wasted time, but time loss is only the surface symptom. Beneath that friction sits something more serious: the quiet erosion of engineering standards inside the maker ecosystem. When repositories stop functioning as reliable technical archives, they stop reinforcing good design habits. What fills that vacuum is “good enough,” and “good enough” spreads faster than rigor ever did.
In a healthy engineering environment, documentation carries weight. You expect dimensional callouts. You expect notes about material choice. You expect disclaimers about stress concentration or thermal expansion when relevant. In the early days of open hardware communities shaped by the RepRap movement, designs were often shared alongside context because the people using them were builders. They were assembling printers from parts, tuning firmware, and troubleshooting mechanical tolerances. That culture naturally demanded explanation. The file was not the whole story. The reasoning behind the file mattered.
As STL sites scaled into broader audiences, that expectation weakened. Many users now approach models as consumable objects rather than engineering artifacts. That shift is understandable. Consumer printers lowered the barrier to entry, and accessibility is a good thing. However, platforms did not compensate by raising documentation standards. Instead, they lowered friction for uploads. It became easier to post quickly than to explain thoroughly. When publication is frictionless and validation is optional, rigor declines.
The technical consequences show up in subtle but consistent ways. Models are uploaded without real-world print verification across common materials. Clearances are tuned for one printer configuration and presented as universally compatible. Mounting interfaces lack tolerance guidance. Structural components omit orientation recommendations, leading to predictable layer adhesion failures. None of these flaws are catastrophic on their own. Collectively, they create a culture where mechanical nuance is secondary to file availability.
That degradation compounds over time. New makers often learn by imitation. If the models they encounter lack documentation discipline, they replicate that behavior when they upload their own work. The repository becomes an echo chamber of partial information. What began as a collaborative engineering commons shifts toward a loosely organized content warehouse.
There is also the issue of version instability. In software development, version control systems enforce traceability and changelogs. In many STL repositories, revision history is informal or nonexistent. Files are replaced silently. Remixes fork without structured lineage. A design that worked six months ago might be buried under newer uploads with minor cosmetic changes but no mechanical improvement. Without consistent version tagging or deprecation markers, users must reverse-engineer the project history through comments and timestamps. That is not efficient engineering practice. It is guesswork layered on top of guesswork.
Licensing adds another layer of ambiguity. Creative Commons and GPL-style licenses were designed to enable sharing while preserving attribution and modification rights. However, as monetization enters the ecosystem, license interpretation becomes murkier. Some platforms mix paid models with open-licensed derivatives. Some creators misunderstand the scope of non-commercial clauses. Enforcement varies. The average user navigating this landscape must interpret licensing terms without legal clarity. For a community built on open-source principles, inconsistent license literacy undermines trust.
Centralization intensifies fragility. When major repositories dominate discovery and hosting, they become single points of failure. Policy changes can alter visibility overnight. Search algorithms can deprioritize older content without warning. API restrictions can limit third-party archiving tools. Even if a platform does not collapse outright, its commercial priorities inevitably influence design decisions. That dynamic creates tension between community stewardship and corporate sustainability.
The cultural drift is perhaps the most corrosive effect. When a repository feels like a content feed, creators start thinking like content producers. Aesthetic novelty becomes a differentiator. Iteration speed becomes a metric of relevance. The slower, methodical process of engineering refinement struggles to compete with visual spectacle. This does not mean creative or artistic models lack value. They absolutely have a place. The problem arises when the platform structure makes no distinction between decorative novelty and functional hardware. Without structural differentiation, serious engineering competes in the same ranking pool as viral trinkets.
Over time, that flattening of categories shapes perception. New entrants may not recognize the difference between a mechanically validated component and an untested remix. Veterans compensate through experience, but the ecosystem as a whole becomes noisier and less trustworthy. The friction is cumulative. Every failed print due to missing tolerances, every incompatible mount mislabeled as universal, every abandoned remix chain chips away at confidence.
This is how enshittification works. It is not a dramatic collapse. It is incremental degradation normalized through scale. Each compromise seems minor. Each engagement feature seems harmless. Each upload without documentation seems tolerable. Collectively, they alter the character of the ecosystem.
The maker movement was built on iterative improvement grounded in transparency. When transparency declines and iteration becomes performative rather than analytical, the foundation weakens. The tragedy is not that platforms grew. Growth was inevitable and, in many ways, positive. The tragedy is that growth was not matched with structural reinforcement of engineering standards.
Reclaiming Signal in a Noisy STL Ecosystem
If the structural incentives of major platforms are unlikely to revert entirely, serious makers must adapt without surrendering standards. The solution is not nostalgia or withdrawal. It is disciplined navigation.
First, it requires shifting mindset from passive consumption to active curation. Treat STL repositories as raw data pools rather than authoritative archives. That means verifying claims independently. It means reading comment threads critically instead of scanning download counts. It means examining geometry for obvious mechanical weaknesses before committing filament and time. In other words, it requires reintroducing engineering skepticism into the process.
Second, it means diversifying sources beyond algorithm-driven discovery. Technical communities, open hardware forums, and repositories like GitHub often provide richer context than standalone STL platforms. Projects hosted in code-centric environments tend to maintain clearer version histories and documentation standards because those ecosystems were built around traceability. While not every hardware design lives there, the cultural norms encourage explicit change logs and structured updates.
Third, it demands building a personal archive. When you identify a well-documented, mechanically sound design, store it locally with version notes. Archive supporting documentation. Preserve license information. Relying exclusively on platform availability is risky in a centralized ecosystem. Maintaining a curated library restores a degree of autonomy. It also reduces repeated exposure to algorithmic noise when revisiting trusted components.
Finally, it requires cultural reinforcement. When uploading your own designs, model the standards you wish were universal. Provide tolerances. Document material assumptions. Explain orientation rationale. Clarify compatibility boundaries. Reference license terms explicitly. Even if the platform does not reward that rigor directly, the community benefits incrementally. Cultural shifts begin with consistent practice, not platform mandates.
None of these steps reverse enshittification at the structural level. Platforms will continue to optimize for growth and engagement because that is how they sustain themselves. However, individual and community-level discipline can counterbalance some of the decay. Engineering ecosystems survive when practitioners insist on standards regardless of interface design.
The future of STL hosting does not have to be bleak. There is room for curated repositories that differentiate functional engineering from decorative content. There is room for structured metadata requirements that elevate documentation quality. There is room for decentralized archiving that reduces single-point dependency. But those improvements require pressure from users who value utility over novelty.
The enshittification of STL sites is not an irreversible fate. It is the predictable outcome of incentives misaligned with engineering purpose. Realignment will not happen accidentally. It will happen only if serious makers demand that repositories function as infrastructure again rather than infinite scroll feeds for printable plastic.
Conclusion: If STL Platforms Don’t Realign, Makers Lose
The enshittification of STL repositories is a slow-motion crisis. It is neither flashy nor catastrophic in the moment. It is incremental, structural, and insidious. When platforms prioritize engagement over engineering, when gamification and monetization distort incentives, when documentation becomes optional and remix chains chaotic, the ecosystem quietly shifts from utility-driven to attention-driven. Serious makers feel the friction in wasted hours, failed prints, and fractured trust. New entrants absorb sloppy habits as the norm. The open hardware ethos erodes, one low-effort upload at a time.
That decay is not inevitable. It is the predictable outcome of misaligned incentives. Platforms exist to serve users and creators, but currently they serve metrics first. Unless that calculus changes, repositories will continue to favor clicks over precision, aesthetics over tolerances, virality over validation. As long as the architecture rewards performance in an engagement economy, the signal-to-noise ratio will remain unacceptable for anyone who cares about functional 3D printing.
The solution begins with individual and community action. Curate your own libraries. Rely on technical communities where versioning and documentation are enforced culturally or structurally. Verify designs independently. Push for platforms to implement metadata standards, documentation requirements, and version traceability. Distinguish functional engineering from decorative novelty, and reward the former consistently.
Growth and engagement will continue. Platforms will not vanish. But serious makers can reclaim control by refusing to normalize decay, by treating STL repositories as technical infrastructure rather than social feeds. If the maker community enforces standards, enforces rigor, and preserves institutional knowledge, STL sites can evolve beyond content-first ecosystems back into the engineering-first archives they were meant to be. That is the only path toward a 3D printing ecosystem that respects both time and craft, instead of turning precision into noise.
The lesson is simple: stop letting platforms define value through clicks. Stop equating visibility with correctness. Engage critically, archive wisely, and insist on documentation. If we don’t, the culture of enshittification will become permanent, and serious 3D printing will be nothing more than a scroll past digital junk — endless novelty without engineering integrity.
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Sources
- Thingiverse
- Printables
- Cults3D
- MyMiniFactory
- RepRap Project Documentation
- Open Source Hardware Association
- GNU General Public License v3.0
- Creative Commons Licenses Overview
- 3D Printing Industry
- All3DP
- Hubs 3D Printing Knowledge Base
- Prusa Research
- GitHub
- Internet Archive
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#Thingiverse has created labels to tag #GenerativeAI made models (as #Printables did months ago) and has adopted a quite anti AI slogan if you ask me.
Hope they enforce these labels better than Printables, where you can see tons of clearly AI generated slop (that not even the creator has bothered to print) not labeled as such.
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Ich weiß nicht mehr, wer diesen Link hier vor kurzem vorgestellt hat, aber wenn Ihr eine wirklich laute Signalpfeife sucht, solltet Ihr Euch diese 3D-Druck-Dateien ansehen: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2933021
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#Cyberpunk Go Board project update: Finished 3D printing #futuristic bowls. Twisting the bowl causes the "petals" to rotate open. Found it on #thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7204987
Now to fix the dead zone issue and I'll be done!
#gogame #baduk #weiqi #cyberpunk2077 #boardgame #3dprinting #3dmodeling #boardgames #game #maker #imadethis #creative #diy #doityourself #scifi #sciencefiction #technology #electronic #electronics #games #3dmodel #cad #autocad #tinkercad #science #physics #solarpunk
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I uploaded the STL file to Thingiverse just in case anyone else wants a 40 oz Stanley Cup Halloween topper.
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https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7143951
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I uploaded the STL file to Thingiverse just in case anyone else wants a 40 oz Stanley Cup Halloween topper.
Happy Halloween!
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7143951
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The middle kid wanted a Halloween topper for her Stanley Cup, she showed me a 3D printed one that had a spider web on it. I couldn't find the one she wanted - but found a coffin topper, & a spider web on #thingiverse
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6536948
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2616229
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Hey 3D printing people!
Did you know there is a Fediverse alternative to Printables, Makerworld and Thingiverse?
It's called Manyfold, you can find out more on its website:
You can follow the official account at:
➡️ @manyfold
There's an official demo at https://try.manyfold.app and a public server to join at https://3dprint.social
#Fediverse #3DPrinting #3DPrinters #3DPrints #Printables #Makerworld #Thingiverse #Alternatives
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The two-page-spread and single-page #MonthlyCalendar #stencils for 3.5"x5.5" #pocketNotebooks are up on #Thingiverse
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7064740
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#Modular #Stencil System For 3.5"x5.5" #PocketNotebooks (#FieldNotes, #Moleskine, & Others)
This is an extension to my full-sized stencils for 3.5x5.5-inch #pocketJournals. This lets you add regular/wide #ruledLines, #dots, #grids, #tables, etc as you like in blank notebooks.
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Also on #TinkerCAD: https://www.tinkercad.com/users/gEfJm2CRHZS
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Considering how absolutely pointless funkopops are, I'm kind of surprised Fisher-Price hasn't jumped on the bandwagon with their classic little people series version of franchise characters. They could make a fortune and you could actually play with them along with the nostalgia factor. They are leaving money on the table here. That said #thingiverse has a ton of fisher price toy designs so I could print my own though I'd be double sued if I tried to sell them. If I get the time I might design a last #airbender set lol. Can make appa with saddle with round holds for the gang to sit in.
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Mal eine sehr naive Frage an die #3dDruck-Bubble: Ich bin in dem Bereich absoluter Laie und hatte bisher keinen wirklichen use case für die Technik
Jetzt könnte ich einen Standfuß gebrauchen, für den es eine Vorlage im #Thingiverse gibt - und würde gerne dabei auch ein bisschen was lernen.
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Typically I don't modify my 3D printers, in this case thou, a simple mod will probably keep the filament from getting into the Z axis screw.
One of the few things I questioned when I put together the Creality Ender 3 v2 - I was sure I had put it together wrong, when of course my first prints had the filament running into the screw. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one, and that I did put it together right. -
It lives!
#amstrad #pcw 9256 resurrected!
Having got it working then shorted the psu on the floppy housing (🤬), converted to USB-C PD.Lots of capacitors replaced and the image is almost stable (a few ~100v caps still need doing as I don't have anything above 50v in stock).
Pleased :)
Now just need to make a #cp/m boot disk!
(Back connector on #thingiverse if anyone ever needs)
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I got my #3DPrinter (#Ender3Pro) working and printed this game Balance from #Thingiverse. Fun for the whole family.
I also tuned the printer with this #Kenji (also from Thingiverse) robot figure. It is "print-in-place" but has joints on legs and feet. if the calibration is off the joints get stuck. So I printed it repeatedly, stopping and restarting when something didn't look right. It ended up almost perfect, could move as I removed it from the printbed.
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@jamie I bought my #P1P two weeks ago. Without asking wife first. #badass
I was ready for thunder and lightning. Turns out she LOVES #3dprinting and #thingiverse. "You should have gotten the printer sooner", she said.
If I only knew...
Now I am printing solutions for odds and ends done in blender. I was not aware I am getting a new #hobby, but there I go!
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#creality-ender-3-pro #devils-fork-state-park #fully-charged-show #irish-and-celtic-music-podcast #ockhams-razor #octoprint #podcast #thingiverse #volvo-ex30
https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/b/32V
In this episode, I play a song by Ockhams Razor; I have been in radio since age 15 yet I can’t work a mike; summer continues to be good; driving across the state twice back to back is a mistake; bring tarps camping; bring can openers camping; bring channel locks for your inflatable kayak; I need to get better at camping; the kid wants to be an entrepreneur; I fired up the Ender 3 Pro for the first time in this house; it has been fun to revive the 3D printer; I love having robots do stacks of work for me; don’t be scared of the machine; electric cars are not more expensive to run than gasoline; I am coining the term “boxes in the alley argument”; I discuss how I am planning my decumulation strategies
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@thinkyhead @layers @marlinfirmware
I agree, but one thing to note is, #Marlin is big, and you are big. You have a say and some power behind your voice, but smaller #FOSS developers still suffer.
One thing that disgusts me is 3D printing companies just actually doing this.
In the popular series "Blue Bloods", Frank Regan said that it is so disgusting when a cop commits a crime, because cops should not be kept at the same standard as other people, but at a higher standard.
Now we have companies coming in here. Like #SnapMaker, saying they love #opensource and they want you to create what you want at home and I would put money on it that would attempt a rip-off of #Printables or #Thingiverse in the future for "open-source", but then they do stuff like this.
I honestly didn't know this about them. I was actually interested in buying their #IDEX printer.
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This catbot is a kitbot for the local makerspace. Modified a thingiverse design to work for this purpose and I'm pretty pleased with the result!
#combatrobotics #3dprinting #Battlebots #makers #combatrobot #antweight #robot #catbot #thingiverse
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Nochmals Danke an @zucker für den Tipp! 🤓👍
🖨️ Ich konnte gestern eine 3D-Druck-Lizenz ergattern und darf nun den #Makerbot in der Stadtbibliothek #Köln nutzen \o/
Im Workshop wurde für Druckvorlagen #Thingiverse empfohlen. Ist das empfehlenswert und/oder habt Ihr noch andere Empfehlungen?#3DDruck
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Thingiverse Data Leaked — Check Your Passwords - Every week seems to bring another set of high-profile data leaks, and this time it... - https://hackaday.com/2021/10/14/thingiverse-data-leaked-check-your-passwords/ #securityhacks #thingiverse #databreach #makerbot #bcrypt #sha-1 #news