I'm taking a course about 3D printing which is being offered by the Make folks via Udemy. Learning a lot about finer points of 3D printing and the capabilities of the MakerBot.
In my final project for the course I designed a little flexible ball-joint connector to facilitate attaching things to the TIN TOY rods/spokes. The images below tell most of the tale.
The part in 123D Make. The file for this is available here.
Some iterations of the design.
The connectors in place on the plastic rods.
I have a couple more rounds of building on the big model before it gets deconstructed and the parts sent out to backers. The next few posts will be about those steps.