Chess Sets
Chess sets were some of the first 3D printing design projects that I made when I first bought a 3D printer. Chess pieces are relatively simple and designing a set of several different pieces within a theme was a good first design challenge.
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Space Telescope Chess
Pawn: Radio Telescope
Rook: Arecibo
Knight: Planck Space Telescope
Bishop: Kepler Space Telescope
Queen: Hubble Space Telescope
King: James Webb Space Telescope
Spacecraft Chess
Pawn: Mercury Capsule
Rook: Dragon Cargo Capsule
Knight: Lunar Lander
Bishop: Soyuz Spacecraft
Queen: Space Shuttle
King: Apollo Command and Service Module
Biochemistry Chess
My first 3D printable design. This chess set is a remix of several other models that I found on Thingiverse. Original sources can be found on this model’s download page.
Pawn: ATP
Rook: Phospholipid Bilayer
Knight: tRNA
Bishop: Maltose
Queen: DNA Polymerase
King: DNA