One feature request that we commonly see at the Thingiverse help desk is to build an improved search engine into Thingiverse. Our first search feature was powered by Google and – while this was easy to implement, and could turn up all kinds of content on Thingiverse – it was very clunky to use.

Our new and improved search will help you find any Thing on Thingiverse! We take your search terms and scour the names, descriptions, instructions, tags, and even creator names for every Thing, and serve up the Things that best match.

Looking for “upgrades“? Or maybe you only want “Thing-O-Matic upgrades“? Our search is designed to help you narrow in on the thing you want, fast.

We’re pretty excited about this new feature, so please give it a try!

Okay, okay, PLA is an amorphous solid polymer, but zoomed in (and with the really boss photography here) it looks very crystaline.  Printer operators the world over are diving towards the tiny, and we’ve seen miniaturization do amazing things before.  There is, after all, plenty of room at the bottom…

The distance between awesome animatronics projects is shrinking, and the quality is improving.  Soon, I suspect, they’ll be just another one of the streams of stunning work in Thingiverse.  But I think this one is from some time in the future, because it’s more amazing than I was really expecting.

Vogal the Dragon is a shoulder-mounted animatronic dragon with wings that fold and a head that moves.  Eventually he will be autonomous, riding his owner through the conventions, etcetera… and not long after, I think, sights like him will be common.  Wow.