Thing of the Week: Glowstick Joints!

Once again, an amazing week on Thingiverse!  There’s a pen holder and a vase, the desk clamp parented a superb PCB clamp, the experimental front saw work on an electromagnet project, and the printable compass marks yet another everyday tool that can be printed.  There was also a healthy pile of objects copied from reality!  Go 3D archives!

But for sheer photogenic cool factor, it’s hard to go wrong with an accessory that turns a tube of glowrods from a bundle of  bracelets  into an arc-bent polyhedron factory!  This is a great example of 3D printing working in harmony with commodified infrastructure to produce things neither would likely do alone.  Adding to the cool factor is that the photo of this design actually working doesn’t come from the designer, but from another maker on Thingiverse.  Increasingly, fabricators and designers are using Thingiverse to collaborate across any distance at all to reshape reality!