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 …
JoiTorii
Don’t know why, but when I saw the JoiTorii on Pinshape I just had to print one. Maybe it’s because I’m more otaku than I like to admit. Whatever the reason my showoff shelf. Printed laying down with supports. But it turns out it’s more subtly curved than I expected so the supports didn’t come off cleanly. So I ran …
21st century fix-it man.
We had a broken part in the dishwasher that kept the metal tracks from sliding out too far. Where would we got to find this part? I have no idea. Could we buy just the part we need? Who knows? Could I 3D print it instead? Oh yes. Broken, first iteration, final fix All it took was calipers, an hour …
Smoothing ABS video
So many obstacles got in the way of this video. First of all the recording software I used did not compress the video. Didn’t realize that until I tried to upload it. 7 hours later in VirtualDub and it was a more uploadable size. Then there was the uploading and the annotations. Oh, about that. there’s a hidden annotation that …
Beefing up the portfollio
To everyone in America, happy Thanksgiving. To outside America, don’t let that stop you from overindulging just a little today, if for no other reason that it’s Thursday. I’m just going to be beefing up my portfolio with pictures and renders of some projects I’ve been working on lately. So apologies to those following me on Google+ for the deluge …
Permission to SQWEEEE
I normally try to keep my commentary about 3d printing of this blog but this war just too cool and too momentus to leave unmentioned. You can read more direct from the source here: http://www.nasa.gov/content/open-for-business-3-d-printer-creates-first-object-in-space-on-international-space-station/index.html#.VHXVMGjn9oN Honestly, though, do I need to say anything? If your mind is not telling with the possibilities you need to get your imagination checked. Repacement …
Ugh, supports.
While designing the succubus for Just Game I discovered completely by random a similar winged female figure on myminifactory. Curious how the designer managed to acomplish what I couldn’t I decided to dig in and I found the following: His model is much larger. His model is in parts that you have to glue together The parts were oriented to …
Watch It Played 3D Printing Commentary
So here is Rodney’s impression of our joint adventure in distributed manufacturing, and his commentary is spot on. Yes, 3D printing is still a little too expensive, though what Rodney didn’t mention I was able to talk the 3d printer in Quebec down because I knew how much it should cost. Yes, 3D printing is very consistent if you design …