Modio is a cool app that is basically a library of home 3D print ready parts for robots that you pick from to assemble in software, then download to your computer for slicing and printing. It exports to STLs so it can work for any 3D printer. I played with it a little when it first came out on a …
Modeling for 3D Printing – Wood Wars Base Soldier Time Lapse
A little something different this week. Set up a time lapse as I modeled the generic pawn soldier pawn for the upcoming Wood Wars remake I mentioned in my Distributed Manufacturing response video then overlayed it with some royalty free music in YouTube. I’m going to be out of town for 2 weeks to be with family. I’ve been pretty regular …
Packt’s $5 bonanza
It’s time for another sale from Packt book. Get any eBook from them for $5 including my book, 3D Printing Blueprints, the beginners guide to modeling for home 3D printing. If my videos have convinced you that you need a copy of this book now is the time to get it.
Guiding the wise guys
We have a Nativity in our house that is kid safe. So naturally the star quickly went missing. Thank heavens it was the monochromatic part with the simple geometry. A little measuring of the peg with my calipers and it was off to Blender. Rotate the default cube 45 degrees, subdivide in the X and Y, pull the corners out …
Chris Fink: Fixing Cootie
Spotted on Reddit, Christopher Fink has used his 3D printer to fix the game Cootie. Cootie isn’t the sort of game I’m interested in playing or owning, particularly. Too luck based. But it is a perfect game to be adapted for 3D printing. In fact I think a whole 3D printed version of cootie would be trivial. I found it …
Video – Making it Manifold
So did anyone notice in my last video that I was reading from a script? Obviously not doing that this time. It took all day (literally) to craft that script the way I wanted it. It’s almost more time consuming than editing. But I think the result was good. What did you think? Was the last video markedly better than …
SLA Dragon ring
I recently, randomly, ran into a giveaway for a 3d printed dragon ring. All I had to do was guess the layer height and time to print and I could win. Based on what I know about DLP printing I guessed this ring was made by that process and made my guesses accordingly. And owing to the fact that practically …
Kid scans to game pawns
This week has been super busy with last minute Christmas etsy orders. But I got a little to talk about. Remember those Kinect scans I did of my kids? They had some ideas for some edits they wanted. So I spent some time and made some figures for them: I designed them to be printable (if only just) at 1″ …
3D Printing Video – Distributed Manufacturing and Board Games
The technical problems don’t end. I still haven’t solved the resolution issue (by the way, these are recorded at 800×450 because any more causes stutters) but I don’t think I can blame it on the compression this time. Thanks to Adahop for helping me through that. And as much as I would have loved to reserve this video against the time …
Download the birdcage chess set FTW
And here I thought I wouldn’t have anything to write about. I’ve entered my birdcage chess set and functional small engine pull handle replacement into MyMiniFactory’s support free 3D printing competition and if I may say so my birdcage chess set totally deserves to win this one because more than any other entry this one doesn’t look like it should print without …