Thing of the Week: Lend Me Your Ears

Another super-productive week on Thingiverse, with spider rings, a new skull, and a scary lasercut skeleton robot in time for halloween, mechanica interfaces and Makerbot upgrades too!

Also there was an awesome Beethoven bust.  This site is amazing.

But I picked out the Ear Cookie Cutter as this week’s winner mostly because of its story: the designer of this part was asked by his wife to make this for her, because she’s a graduating ear doctor.  That kind of story is really what Thingiverse is all about: bringing the making of things forward into the constantly-remixing, hyperconnected and ultra-fast adaptation world that we’re all getting used to in the 2D and 1D art worlds (formerly painting, drawing, music and literature, now an ever-expanding mishmash of ever-expanding possibilities and definitions).

The Ear Cookie Cutter is just the beginning– soon there’ll be many cookie cutters available.  Eventually they’ll be remixing and remashing faster than the holidays can come around.  And that’s just from one couple sharing the benefits of digital fabrication.  Digital sharing is an amplifier for creativity, if you’ll pardon an audio-related joke.