I've been designing these Skadis panels for a bit and wanted to start branching into more midcentury design to match other rooms in my place. The circles were fun and make it feel very 60s/70s to me. You can see that there's half holes on the edges of the panels so that you can have multiple panels next to each other and continue the pattern.
Let me know what you think!
The Skadis is such a great system but I could never find panels that felt intentional design-wise. Most of what's out there already in the 3D printing world just tiles a pattern without aligning to the peg holes.
So I designed and 3D printed my own! This one is based on the kakuasa kumiko pattern, adapted to work on a square grid so the geometry actually makes sense with the Skadis hole layout. It comes in multiple sizes with edge options so you can build out large seamless installs where the hole pattern stays continuous across panels. All my panels are cross-compatible too so you can mix and match patterns.
One of my favorite parts about the 3D printing community is the culture of sharing, so these models are free for anyone who wants to download and print them. Link in the comments.
I started making kumiko Skadis panel designs because most existing options I found just plopped hexagon patterns onto the board without any thought for how the pattern lined up with the holes. So I set out to fix that!
Now I'm really having fun figuring out how to adapt more traditional kumiko patterns to a square grid. This one is based on the kakuasa kumiko pattern. Like my other panels, it comes in different sizes with lots of edge options so you can build seamless large installs with a continuous hole pattern. All my panels are cross-compatible too, so you can mix and match patterns across your whole setup.
My poor apartment is getting covered in kumiko Skadis panels, haha.
This is my third time designing a tank and I decided to go for something a little less conventional. The bowl is 15 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep, giving around 3 gallons of volume. I just planted it a couple days ago, so everything still needs to grow in for the next few months. I tried to arrange everything so that each of the three main seating areas in my living room all got an interesting angle, which the pictures show. The stones are volcanic, and the primary stone has a small trickle of water flowing down it that, with the porosity of the stone, keeps 90% of the rock face damp. Plants include christmas and mood moss on the above water rocks, plus sweet flag ogon and hydrocotyle tripartita growing emersed out of the water. Fully submerged plants include anubias nana petite, bucephalandra kedegang, and dwarf hairgrass. The only tech in the tank is a small pump for the tiny waterfall and the light, which is a cheap full spectrum LED 6in ringlight from Amazon.
I intend to keep the hairgrass pretty sparse so lots of the sand stays exposed, kinda like a coastline vibe. The hydrocotyle will eventually grow up the sides of the rocks. The tank is still cycling, but once it's stabilized I'll add some red cherry shrimp so they pop against the green plants and dark lava rocks. I left lots of little shrimp caves under the rocks, so as long as I can keep the water parameters stable, they should be pretty happy. Hopefully happy enough that they don't try to escape.
This is my third time aquascaping a tank and I decided to go for something a little less conventional. The bowl is 15 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep, giving around 3 gallons of volume. I just planted it a couple days ago, so everything still needs to grow in for the next few months. I tried to arrange everything so that each of the three main seating areas in my living room all got an interesting angle, which the pictures show. The stones are volcanic, and the primary stone has a small trickle of water flowing down it that, with the porosity of the stone, keeps 90% of the rock face damp. Plants include christmas and mood moss on the above water rocks, plus sweet flag ogon and hydrocotyle tripartita growing emersed out of the water. Fully submerged plants include anubias nana petite, bucephalandra kedegang, and dwarf hairgrass. The only tech in the tank is a small pump for the tiny waterfall and the light, which is a cheap full spectrum LED 6in ringlight from Amazon.
I intend to keep the hairgrass pretty sparse so lots of the sand stays exposed, kinda like a coastline vibe. The hydrocotyle will eventually grow up the sides of the rocks. The tank is still cycling, but once it's stabilized I'll add some red cherry shrimp so they pop against the green plants and dark lava rocks. I left lots of little shrimp caves under the rocks, so as long as I can keep the water parameters stable, they should be pretty happy.
These are kinda fun to model, so I made another one that is a bit simpler and uses less material to 3D print. This one is based off of the sanjyubishi pattern in traditional kumiko woodworking. Let me know what you think!
This one's a bit simpler, but I wanted to apply a pattern that would use less material. These are really fun to design and so useful, so I'm already thinking about other patterns I can make, too. My Let me know what you think!
I'm a renter and couldn't be bothered to clean up drywall dust and shove a drywall anchor in there, so I made a no-damage, press-fit curtain rod bracket that uses removable command strip. It's dovetailed onto the adhered wall mount, so it's removable if you ever want to switch it out or anything. Plus, I don't hate the way that it looks compared to the original sheet metal brackets!
The tank I'm starting to build is a little unique, kind of inspired by the moss biotopes made by muchikusa on YouTube. The tank itself is a 15in diameter, 4 in deep glass cylinder vase, around 3.5 gallons total. The vision is to have a lava rock outcropping covered in moss, emersed plants, and a small trickle "waterfall", plus some immersed plants like small bucelphilandra and some kind of tiny grass in patches. All on a white sand substrate. I haven't decided if I'll add livestock, but if I do it'll just be cherry shrimp and snails.
I have around 15 pounds of lava rock, with 2 big chunks and the rest being ~3in pieces. Eventually, I'll use a rock dust/silicone paste to fill in gaps between the smaller rocks. Until then, I'm trying to find a layout that feels cohesive in a mocked up cardboard tank, but I'm struggling to find something I like. Pictured is my best attempt so far. One of the large chunks has a recess that I think could make a cool "pool" at the top of the waterfall, but that's about the only idea I have right now.
Anyone have any suggestions for how to lay out this hardscape better? Or I guess more generally, I'd be interested in better learning guidelines for creating flow with hardscape in a round tank like this.
I wasn't satisfied with the aesthetics already out there for store bought or 3D printed Skadis panels, so I designed my own with a kumiko pattern! The panels are 200 x 240mm and are sized so that the hole patterns will be continuous if tiled together. I also made versions with all combos of holes-on-edges so large panel hole patterns are uninterrupted. I'm super pumped about how it turned out! MakerWorld link in the comments.