Design one yourself

This project is open for collaboration,

Here I make available the source files (as .3dm & .3ds files) of a template basic cup,

please, feel free to play around and modify it.

3D Print it yourself

The OctoCup is shared at Thingiverse, feel free to grab the files, experiment with it and share the results.

I printed one with a RepRap and it looks nice, (useless, but nice).

Learnings

done! I made it; Design 30 cups in 30 days,

They are all at the store, ready to be 3DPrinted on demand.

Surprisingly, the idea generation has been the easiest part of the project,

I still have tons of cup ideas on my head that were not designed: (Banana Handle cup / Toilet cup / Matrioska cup / Melted cup / Mustache cup…)

The hardest part of the project has been preparing the 3D geometries and files for 3DPrinting.

The 30 designs can be grouped into 3 categories

Morpho-jokes = cups adopting shapes from other contexts with a funny result.

Uselessly nice = cups whose striking uselessness makes them interesting.

Texture Analogies = cups wrapped by textures.

I really enjoyed the project format, the challenge and the results.

3D Model vs. 3D Print:

The first 3DPrinted Cup in Ceramics just arrived,

and it looks fantastic!