Star Wars in 3D! - Using a Dremel 3D Printer

We got a new Dremel 3D printer and it has been amazing! There are a million designs you can find online that you can download and print at home. Or you can create your own. We decided to print a dabbing stormtrooper for today. You can find just about any design at Thingiverse.com.

We downloaded the design and then sent it to our Dremel 3D 20 and started printing!

And here is the final product. Dab!

This Dremel 3D printer has been so much fun. We've printed lots of items, both for fun and even a few useful items!

Ever since we got the 3D printer it has been running nearly nonstop, churning item items from online and things we designed ourselves! Highly recommended!

Giant Lego Yoda

The new Lego Store in Glendale, Arizona hosted a build event for their grand opening. Each kid got to participate in building a giant Yoda model.

Here is how it works: The kids make scaled up verzions of the classic 2 x 4 Lego brick and turn that in to the professional builder who assembles them into the model. The model stays on display for a while and then they take the whole thing apart and move it to the next venue.

Star Wars Valentine's Day Coloring Contest

Here are my kids' entries to Cyn Narcisi's Valentine's Day Coloring Contest!

My Little Pony-Trooper

Have you ever wondered what My Little Pony toys would look like if they were transformed into Star Wars action figures? Me neither. But now you don't have to wonder. Check out the photos at Coolbuzz. (Found via Slashgear.)

Cut and Paste

On May 25th, 2007, I was on vacation in Hyannis, Massachusetts with my family and we were surprised to see Darth Vader and a stormtrooper outside the post office on the main street. It was, of course, the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars and the release date for the Star Wars postage stamps. (The photo in my profile was taken that day!) We went in and bought some that day.

Now that a year has gone by and postage has gone up, we're going to see less and less of the Star Wars stamps, which is a little sad. I just used the last stamp on the sheet a few weeks ago and it seemed a shame to throw away the background image sheet. So, I cut out the few pictures that remained and gave the DIY stickers to my three and a half year old daughter to make a Star Wars collage and the results are below.

The black ink shape in the lower left is Darth Vader. She also put the letter D close to Vader. I asked her if the D was for Darth Vader and she said it was a D for Dada because she was making the picture for me. I'm the red ink figure just below Darth Vader. She put me in there because I, as she said, "love Star Wars". The little red guy in the extreme lower left is Obi-Wan Kenobi holding a lightsaber and the green crayon figure on the left side about halfway up is a stormtrooper. I asker her what the red ink lines were in the center and she said they were "crazy squiggles". I should have known! She also put a red circle sticker in the center to finish it off. The circle is now complete. Or, the circle now completes it, or something like that... Anyway, my kid made a Star Wars picture! I'm so proud!