MakerBot glow-in-the-dark Space Invaders earrings

I made some glow-in-the-dark Space Invaders earrings on the MakerBot yesterday!

First I created cylinders in Google SketchUp that conformed to my ear size. Then I modified an existing Space Invaders design to be thinner and smaller using MeshLab. Finally, I printed out the designs using black ABS for the posts and glow-in-the-dark ABS for the invaders and glued them together with plastic model glue.

No luck photographing them glowing in the dark, I’m afraid. Here we go, I used the tips on this site to photograph the glowing effect:

Comments

[Parker]

Ha! I went to submit these to BoingBoing and saw on the submitterator that you beat me to it.
Nice plugs, brah!

How are things?

[techknight]

@Parker
Haha, thanks - I'm doing well. Was actually just out for Christmas lunch with the CNW guys. What are you up to these days?