Files

tentacle-keyholder.scad

444 bytes. Updated May 22, 2011.

tentacle.stl

6118062 bytes. Updated May 22, 2011.

tentacle-keyholder.stl

4997589 bytes. Updated November 18, 2011.

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Description

Teennntacllles… coming out of the waaaaallll.

amyhurst was asking for a key hook by our front door and decided upon a tentacled theme.

guru’s awesome volumetric tentacle seemed like a great choice, so I pulled it into OpenSCAD and made space for a 1" roofing nail to slide-and-lock into the back of the tentacle.

(thanks to cibomahto for the tagline up top).

Instructions

1. [Optional] Adjust the SCAD file to match your nail measurements, with some room for slop, and re-export STL.
2. Print “tentacle-keyholder.stl”
3. Insert 1" roofing nail (or nail of your choice, if you customized) into the slot and work it back and forth several times to make sure it slides and locks into place reasonably well.
4. With the nail in place, make a mark on the nail so you know where to stop when hammering into the wall.
5. Remove the nail from the piece and hammer it into the wall, stopping just as your ink disappears.
6. Slot the tentacle into place.
7. Hang keys or your just creep out your guests/friends/roommates.

Files

bitheart.stl

11484 bytes. Updated February 13, 2011.

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Description

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’s an 8-bit heart from my favorite video game series.

From Nintendo to me to 3DTin to you!

Instructions

Print as many as you have containers for. Red plastic is recommended.

Files

starsta.stl

1133121 bytes. Updated February 11, 2011.

star.svg

3782 bytes. Updated February 11, 2011.

starsta.gcode

4162681 bytes. Updated February 11, 2011.

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Description

After seeing Allan’s “*sta” post on the Thingiverse blog[1], I couldn’t help but actually make the “star-sta” a reality.

This is technically a derivative of yzorg’s Gangsta[2], but since I haven’t actually printed it, I don’t feel right clicking “I Made One”.

Thanks to tbuser for his 2D to 3D tutorial[3] which has the right pstoedit voodoo required to export things sanely from Inkscape to OpenSCAD.

Thanks to Inkscape for having a Star tool.

Thanks to MCAD for the oval generation code.[4]

Thanks to OpenSCAD for making ridiculous things like this possible.

Thanks to cibomahto for creating this mash-up madness.

[1] *sta - http://blog.thingiverse.com/2011/02/10/sta/
[2] Gangsta by yzorg - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5367
[3] 2D to 3D - http://tonybuser.com/2d-to-3d
[4] MCAD - https://github.com/elmom/MCAD

Instructions

Want your own *sta?

1. Scale.
2. Skein.
3. ‘sta.

If you’d like to tweak the model, you’ll also need the gangsta.stl from yzorg’s Gangsta (linked above), then:

1. ‘SCAD.
2. Scale.
3. Skein.
4. ‘sta.