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Our first 3D printer!

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The first print of the cats failed. It had a flaw in the middle because the bed of the printer didn't move down smoothly. The second print looks good after we fixed the problem.

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These cubes are printed already entwined.

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Mr. Laczkowski says we should print a bobcat (our mascot). This is the closest we found. (It opens its mouth!) We're getting our models mostly from myminifactory.com.

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Feast your eyes on the CraftBot XL!

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The "Terminator Rex" printed in two parts. Just the upper skull took 8 hours!

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An organic looking egg-holder

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This strange sculpture has lots of twisted curves. In this pic, it's still on the printer bed, with Elmer's glue under it.

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Thanks to Mr. Pence for making plexiglass covers for the printers to keep little fingers away from the 420 degree F nozzles.

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Mr. Goodman designed these starfighters himself using TinkerCAD. The first one had blasters that were too small to print correctly.

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Uther creates a futuristic robot mech in TinkerCAD. It's printed in two halves and superglued together.

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This is Uther's same mech printed as one piece standing upright. You can see all the extra support plastic holding up the overhanging parts.

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This 3D model came pre-loaded on the printer's USB drive. The top even unscrews.

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Printed in serveral pieces in three colors, not eveything quite fit together properly. But with some parts trimmed, glued, or broken off, Mr. Goodman makes something resembling the original model. It turns, at least!

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Can you belive this thing prints--full of holes and hollow--with no supports at all?

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Now these gears work perfectly.

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This is the most popular print so far. Everyone wants to steal it. But it is painfully pokey.

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They all rotate together so you can compare them by number of teeth. Except the little one that broke off after jamming up the whole system!

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The PLA plastic is flexible when thin enough so that these stretch. Just don't stretch them too far!

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Mr. Goodman tries another custom print--based on a tank design from one of his video games. This white turret didn't fit on the peg, but this was fixed so the red tank's turret turns perfectly.

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A giant 20-sided dice with a hidden compartment! It doesn't get much cooler... I mean, geekier than that.

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What can I say. It's a giraffe. A blue, 3D printed giraffe.

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Our math teacher needed some "right pyramids" to prove that three of these can make a cube.

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Three right pyramids do make a cube!

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This wasn't supposed to be a display stand for the Dice of Holding, but it fits perfectly. Can you believe this curved object has this much overhang and required no supports?

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Mr. Goodman is encouraging the kids to make something "flat" for their first project. It's quick and easy to make and prints fast, so everyone can print something by the end of the year.

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More ideas for flat things to print. These are keychains.

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Another flat object--this time a guitar. Look real close and you can see the strings and knobs.

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Ever heard of M. C. Escher? He's Mr. Goodman's favorite artist. He created many tessellations while trying to express infinity in art. If we print more of these lizards, they would fit together like a puzzle.

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Trek or Wars--it's hard to decide which is more awesome!

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A tiny little ship, complete with billowing sails and gunports for the cannons. (And Mr. Goodman needs learn how to take pictures that are in focus!)

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A student printed this after school. He learned how to export from TinkerCAD, use the slicing software, and run the printer.

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No, his name is not Jordan. I think it has something to do with basketball...

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This student--who shall remain totally anonymous--adds a heart to her design.

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It honestly did not seem possible this cube would print without supports, but it did. It has a strange almost-fractal pattern inside each face. The first print failed because the base came loose halfway through and then the whole thing stuck to the nozzle.

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This artist was thinking outside the box with two gears in the shape of nautilus shells.

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This print needed some supports to hold up the overhanging head, but it cleaned up nicely.

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Green, really? Whoever head of a green kitten?

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Here is a student-made print designed to look like a cupcake character from a popular video game.

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Yep, the kids are hard at working making 3D prints for mom.

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This student was designing an Eiffel Tower image on the heart.

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Here's what happens if your print doesn't have a good, flat base. This batmobile only touched the bed of the printer at each of the four wheels. The slicer program tried to make a bunch of tiny supports under the body, but when the print was nearly finished, the connection to the bed was too weak and the whole print came loose and shifted sideways.

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A student wanted to make a fidgit spinner, so another student donated the bearings. We measured them with an electronic caliper to get the exact size and built a frame to fit them. Unfortunately, the frame has too much distance between the inner and outer bearings, so that it's a bit too big for a teenager's hand. Version 2 is in the works.

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This heart was made by a student to memorialize a young child who passed away. It's nice to see the printer used for something so caring.

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The student who printed this did it in 3 parts so there would be almost no overhangs. The top unscrews and the inside is hollow.

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This one has neat outline letters and is studded with jewels.

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This is a two-piece print made by a student for a miniatures board game.

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In TinkerCAD, this student learned to both cut holes and add objects on the surface of the heart.

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The N, I, and K did not quite connect on this print, so we had to use superglue to hold it together. Notice the K and E overlap a bit and do not have that problem.

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This is a Brain Slug. Very dangerous.

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Did you mean Log? Fog? Hog? Jog? Polywog?

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Did you mean Log? Fog? Hog? Jog? Polywog?

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No, it's a necklace for someone with the intials O. G.

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This heart was made to celebrate a birth in the family.

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This student decided to step up his 3D game with this present for his Dad. Not everything has to be flat.

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This student made a name plate for her mom, and spiced it up with a 3D butterfly. Very nice!

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Retro video games are still in style

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Our Math teacher suggested we print this one. It's a copy of a tool, designed on Earth, then 3D printed on the International Space Station for astronauts to use!

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This is one of my favorite student-made prints. A 7th grader designed an exact replica of our computer lab at Damon ISD.

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So we held a contest for who could create the best 3D printed hall pass for the computer lab. This one didn't win, but I love it.

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By popular student vote, this print was selected as the winner of the Hall Pass Contest.

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I asked the kids to print something scary for Halloween. This is what I got...

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Here is another Halloween themed print from a student. Why so small, I don't know.

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Our next project is to print a unique ID tag that each student can attach to their chromebook bag, in order to tell them apart. Here is an example...

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Why did they print it white, when it says "Pink"? Just plain confusing.

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Another tag for a bag.

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Could have used this one for Halloween!

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The tags the girls make are very different than te ones the boys make.

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I love this tag because it's two different parts in two colors.

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This tag commemorates an event the locals were excited about. Something sports related...

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Here is the best 3D design I've seen from a student so far. It's a model of a space ship from the Subnautica video game.

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It's printed in two pieces. The seam is just rearward of where the engine pods start.

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The superintendent asked us to print something for the school board. Here's our first design.

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After some adjustments, here's the final bobcat medals for the school board.

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In this print, a student is experimenting with intersecting shapes with a sphere to create holes. This is printed in 2 hemispheres.

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The student who created these learned how to draw freehand in TinkerCAD.

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One student is making a collection of 3D prints in the shapes of musical instruments. This is may favorite, since it is printed in two pieces that fit together.

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We decided to print this Voronoi style chess set for our UIL chess competition team. You can see that the pieces are hollow, and they printed pretty well without supports.

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With a class of kids new to 3D printing, I asked them to make something for Christmas. Here's the first snowflake made by a student.

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This one is apparently made by repeating a symbol from a popular anime cartoon.

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What could more Christmas than the most famous reindeer of them all?

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This paw print, and the next few prints, we made as gifts for School Board Appreciation week.

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Another variation on the paw print idea.

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Bobcats rule!

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When this student heard we needed gifts for the "school board," they thought clearly we need to make a bobcat on a surfboard.

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Here you can see how the two prints were made. The bobcat at the top of the wave slots into the surfboard. The bottom of the wave has an angled base so it stands upright after printing.

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A student made this based on some anime show he's into.

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This student is trying to make two flat tree prints that then combine together and stand up. The hard part is getting the slots in the trunk the right size.

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A nice little dragon picture made in a cut-out style.

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With a new crop of students, we decided to make some Halloween themed prints.

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We're thinking of making a miniature town. Here is our first building, the Bank.

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I challenged one of the students create a flat butterfly print, and she decided to go full 3D.

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Two students who are BFFs decided to make a matching key chain, then added paint in Art class.