Building a Better Sink Strainer

Well, after changing the little metal kitchen sink strainer for the zillionth time, I decided that maybe I should try to make a better one myself...

This is what I wanted to replace:

This is what I was aiming at:

And this is what I got: 

After a few attempts, this is what I got: 

It worked!

Some cool things:

• I made it in 2 parts that snapped together! No supports needed during printing and no glue needed to assemble!
• It actually works!

But, the inner wall of the rim was very very thin, and the bridging during the printing of the basket seemed fragile.

So, I came up with a new design:

But that didn't fix the bridging... So one more design with round holes in the basket walls:

This is what the printer printed!

Here's the photo album!

Microwave Repair

The handle was ripped out, so I 3D printed some parts and it's a good as new - maybe even better!

A long road to an F-104

I've been building an RC F-104, here are some pictures.  A full log will soon be posted as well!

RepRap Huxley Duo 3D Printer

And it works!

This printer came from RepRapPro, and I would recommend them! 

Here is the link to the build-log.

Rabid Models F-104

This is work in progress...

Mollecular Modelling and 3D Printing

This can be 3D-printed to get a cool something....

The process used:

1. Open the .pdb file in Pymol (opensource, free if you install yourself).
2. The molecule will appear.
3. To the right of the molecule, click on the "S" then the "As" then "surface" (this calls the "show as surface" command, which hides everything but the surface; it's important to hide everything else since unwanted artifacts may be present and screw up the 3D printing later on...)
4. Again, to the right of the molecule, click on the "C" then the "by element" then the 3rd "CHNOS...." from the end. This sets the color scheme.
   
5. Use the menu bar to set maximum display quality:
   Display / Quality / Maximum Quality
6. Finally, from the main menu, save as VRML2:
   File / Save Image as / VRML 2...
7. Optionally, in case of slow Internet upload speeds, zip compress the resulting .wrl file before uploading to Shapeways.

If you need other formats, e.g. STL :

1. Open the previously generated .wrl file in MeshLab using the menu:
   File / Import Mesh
2. Save a copy in the format of your choice using the menu:
   File / Export Mesh
3. Again, optionally compress to save space and upload time.

3D Printing

Yep, I've been doing some 3D printing lately...

Check out some 3D printed Spinners on my new Rabid Models P38!

The full Build-log photo album is also available!

And then came proteins and the PTHR1 GPCR Model!

Which can be downloaded and/or printed from Shapeways or Thingiverse !

It's cool to be alive in the 21st century!

Rabid Models P38

Some views of my Rabid Models P38 !