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Finally, the new version of the cupkace light is here. The minimalistic design is much easier to 3D-print.

Get your favorite filament and print it in vase mode.

You can download the files directly (have a look under the post) or over at Thingiverse. Also check out my other social media channels and choose your favorite format like Twitter, Instagram, Youtube etc. to follow. 

Cheers, RobotMama.

Finally it is here, my long awaited package !!!!!!!!!!! I had my first 4 designs

from my Shapeways shop printed and sent to me for the first time. Here you

see a small bowl in low-poly design. It was printed in foodsafe, oven and

dishwasher safe porcelain and glazed in Gloss Celadon Green.

I had to redesign the bowl several times to make it printable with the

technique. It has a nice heavy and robust weight so it won't fall over.

Finally it is here, my long awaited package !!!!!!!!!!! I had my first 4 designs

from my Shapeways shop printed and sent to me for the first time. Here you

see a small vase that I designed with a turned and transformed gear form. It

was printed in foodsafe, oven and dishwasher safe porcelain and glazed in

Gloss Celadon Green.

I had to redesign the vase several times to make it printable with the

technique. It has a nice heavy and robust weight so it won't fall over.

The download gives you 3 different items, the holder for the toothbrush in its charging

station (i.e. with a slid for the cable), the holder for only the toothbrush (i.e. with a shaft

to hold the brush in place) and a copy of the charging station (if you want to fix your

brush to the wall without the smiley).

Print Settings

3D Printer: Ultimaker2+

Rafts: No

Supports: Yes

Resolution: 0.1

Infill: 25%

Material: Orange Easyfill PLA

Cheers, RobotMama.

This is another decor in form of a cupcake, this time its for an underwater LED I ordered

at Amazon. I use it for relaxation and night light (as it comes with a remote), but it could

also be used in a kids room.

 Download the design at Thingiverse.

3D Printer: Ultimaker2+

Rafts: No

Supports: No

Resolution: 0.1

Infill: 0%

Notes

Print without Bottom, but leave Top on. I used the standard settings in Cura for a 0.4mm nozzle and normal quality and only changed infill and removed the bottom. Make sure that you reduce the speed when the tip of the cupcake is printed so it has enough time to cool down and lay out the small circles slowly enough.

Post-Printing

I printed the cupcake with translucent PLA and then spray painted it with rose color and white for the tip, only slightly so the light could still shine through.

How I Designed This

I used Cinema4D to model this, see the image for the setup:

The bottom part is a Loft Nurbs with two different sized star splines, with the upper end cap set as a fillet cap. In the end cap settings activate "Create single object".

The top part (Icing) is the same star spline and a helix spline added to a sweep object. Make sure that the star is the first object under the sweep and adjust the helix as you like. Again make sure to activate "Create single object".

Now put bottom and top part into a bool object, which is set to type "A union B", activate "High Quality" and again "Create single object".

Now for the last step, activating "Create Single Object" for all the items is needed to get one single polygon object when you click "Current State to Object".

"Current State to Object" will now create a poly object you can then export to stl without destroying the original setup, so you can tweak it later to change the design.

Cheers, RobotMama.