{"id":99,"date":"2016-11-08T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/?p=99"},"modified":"2016-11-08T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:05:21","slug":"nasa-puts-its-3d-models-up-on-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"NASA PUTS ITS 3D MODELS UP ON GITHUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Voyager_Probe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"http:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Voyager_Probe-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"voyager probe\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Voyager_Probe-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Voyager_Probe.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">voyager probe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA has a bunch of its <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nasa\/NASA-3D-Resources\" target=\"_blank\">3D models up on GitHub<\/a>, and if you didn\u2019t know about it before, you do now. It\u2019s a ridiculously large download, at over one and a half jiggabytes, but it\u2019s full of textures and high-resolution models of spacecraft, landing sites, and other random NASA ephemera.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of the models are in formats that we can read \u2014 maybe some of you can? \u2014 but there are STL files galore in the \u201c3D Printing\u201d folder. These include a printable Curiosity rover, the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/news\/3Dratchet_wrench\/\" target=\"_blank\">3D-printed ratchet wrench<\/a>, and more. That said, this is a collection of random tidbits rather than a complete catalog, so some things that you\u2019d like may just not be there. In other folders, you\u2019ll find textures that\u2019ll be useful if computer modeling is more your thing than printing.<\/p>\n<p>There are also terrain maps of the various Apollo landing sites, so if you want to fake your own 3D-printed moon landing, you\u2019ve now got what it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NASA has a bunch of its 3D models up on GitHub, and if you didn\u2019t know about it before, you do now. It\u2019s a ridiculously large download, at over one and a half jiggabytes, but it\u2019s full of textures and high-resolution models of spacecraft, landing sites, and other random NASA ephemera. Not all of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/?p=99\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA PUTS ITS 3D MODELS UP ON GITHUB<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82,44,33,59,43],"tags":[85,86,83,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinelectronics.co.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}