Rice Cup - Modern Cube Style

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This is a sleek design take on a standard rice cooker measuring cup. Rice cookers are fantastic, but they come with a small plastic cup for measuring rice that's actually calibrated in an outdated Japanese unit of measurement called a Gō. This unit doesn't match any other measuring cup in your kitchen, so if you lose the cup, you're kind of stuck. It's really the ratio of rice and water that matters, but my rice cooker has marks inside the bowl for quantities indicating numbers of little rice cups. So the small cup is super convenient, but I didn't want to pay too much for a new cup or buy a whole new rice cooker. So I researched the right size (it's approximately 180 ml, or about three-quarters of a cup) and designed it in OpenSCAD. And because I could, I made it all modern and minimalist looking so that you could leave it on the counter without it looking like you didn't put away the rice cooker measuring cup. You can adjust the base size, angle of the sides, thickness of the walls, and volume (if, say, you wanted to make a shot glass).