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Preview of Stackable Storage Box – 3 Compartments (Customisable Size)
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Sort and stack everyday items in three compartments
A roomy, stackable storage box with three compartments: one large section and two smaller ones side by side. It suits tools, craft supplies, chargers and cables, toiletries, snacks or toys. As it comes it's 210 × 210 × 63 mm with 2 mm walls and softly rounded corners. The dividers sit a little lower than the walls, so things are easy to reach. Every dimension can be changed in the editor: width, depth, height, wall thickness, corner radius, and the number, position and height of the dividers. That way you can size it for your own drawer, shelf or cupboard. The Raised grip base lets one box stack firmly on another, so you can build a neat tower without anything sliding off. It prints as one solid piece with no supports.
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Preview of Blank round projecting sign with wall flange
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: A customizable sign that sticks out from a wall or door frame, readable from the side
A blank round sign (120 mm) on a small square flange, so it sticks out from the wall like a shop sign and can be read from down the hall or along the aisle. Add your own words or icon on both faces in Text & Design. Mount the flange with double-sided tape, or screw it on through the two ready-made holes. Prints in one piece, no supports.
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Preview of Bowerbird forced-perspective display court
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Display a collection in rows that deepen front to back so every piece looks the same size
Male great bowerbirds lay out pebbles, bones and shells in front of their bower sorted by size: small ones near the entrance, large ones further away. From where the female stands, the court looks evenly paved and the male looks bigger than he is. It is the only known forced-perspective illusion made by an animal. This display court copies the trick: five rows that grow deeper towards the back. Sort sea glass, shells, minerals or dice by size, smallest at the front, and from the front edge the whole collection seems to be one even size.
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Preview of Pocket gold sluice
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Pan for gold, garnets and gemstones in a stream with riffles that trap the heavy grains
A miniature version of the sluice boxes of the gold rushes. Water runs straight through the open-ended channel and carries the light sand away, while anything dense, such as black sand, garnets and gold, drops behind the six riffle bars and stays there. After ten minutes, lift it out level and wash what is trapped behind the riffles into a pan. It also works at home in a tub of water with a bag of gem-mining paydirt.
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Preview of Cat-magnet desk square
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Lure a cat off the keyboard into a square beside the laptop
Cats cannot resist a square: in a 2021 citizen-science study, pet cats sat inside squares that were only an illusion, made of four notched circles, about as often as in real ones. This low tray uses that instinct to save your keyboard. Put it beside the laptop, and the cat that would have stretched across the keys settles into the square instead, still close to you and still in the warm. The textured floor stops it sliding.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Marble Braille cell
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Learn the Braille alphabet by setting marbles in the six dot positions
Every Braille letter is a pattern of raised dots in a cell two dots wide and three high. This is that cell made big enough for small hands: place a marble in each bay that should be raised and feel the letter. A is dot 1, B is dots 1 and 2, C is dots 1 and 4. The dot numbers are engraved in the floors, so sighted children, parents and teachers can learn alongside blind and partially sighted friends, and play guess-the-letter with their eyes closed.
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Preview of Archaeology dig grid box
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Excavate buried finds square by square on a string grid, like a real dig
Real archaeologists never just dig: they lay a grid of strings over the site and record every find by its square and layer. Bury small treasures in layers of sand and soil, tie string through the eight holes to make a 3 x 3 grid, and dig one square at a time with a spoon and a paintbrush. Columns A to C and rows 1 to 3 are marked on the sides, so a find goes in the notebook as "B2, layer 1, a bone button". It teaches patience and why the position of a find matters as much as the find.
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Preview of Harmonograph sand pendulum
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Draw looping Lissajous patterns with a swinging cup of sand
Hang this cup from a Y-shaped string: two strings tied to two hooks that join into one about halfway down. The Y lets it swing at one rate side to side and a different rate front to back, so as it swings and slowly dies down the thin stream of sand traces loops, figure-eights and spirograph flowers on the card underneath. Move the knot higher or lower to change the ratio and the drawing. It is the Victorian harmonograph, made with a cup, a string and a bag of sand.
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Preview of Do-I-water planter
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Grow herbs in a planter whose own rain gauge tells you whether to water
Should I water today? This planter answers by itself. A straight-sided rain gauge is built into its side: because the tube is the same width all the way down, every millimetre of water in it is a millimetre of rain. Check it when you pass. Less than 10 mm since you last emptied it, and the pot needs a drink; over 25 mm, the rain has done the job. It stops the most common way of killing outdoor herbs, which is watering after it has already rained.
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Preview of Stop-motion animation stage
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Animate clay figures frame by frame with a phone locked in front of a mini stage
The secret of smooth stop-motion is a camera that never moves. The phone slots upright at the front of this three-walled stage and stays perfectly still while you move a clay figure a hair at a time between frames. Twelve photos make one second of animation. Tape a printed background to the back wall, add a desk lamp from the side, and you have a little film studio for clay, toy figures or paper cut-outs.
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