Creating With Code

A blog by Robert (Marty) McGuire

Thingiverse Embed Plugin for WordPress

August 5th, 2010 · 5 Comments

For a while now, I’ve wanted to embed an RSS feed of the latest stuff I’ve printed from Thingiverse on MakerBot 131′s page. To kick things off, I asked Zach to implement an RSS feed of the Thing’s I’ve Made page on Thingiverse. It’s been awhile, but I’ve finally gotten around to creating a WordPress [...]

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Tags: Software

Space filling with 3D objects using Processing

July 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments

While I know I should be finishing my MakerBot time-lapse camera series, I took some time for another project to play with some Processing. The above image was rendered in Processing, in real time in just couple of minutes! Basically, I wanted to take a simple shape, defined by an SVG path, and fill it [...]

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MakerBot #131 Makes a Mendel!

June 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Like many MakerBot owners, I feel compelled to help spread desktop 3D printing throughout the world.  So, for the past several months, MakerBot #131 has been hard at work printing parts in 3D to make another 3D printer! The Mendel is the second (and current) design for the RepRap project, whose goal is to create [...]

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