Like the game itself, uploading this set to YouMagine has levels for me. See what I did there? But seriously, Meta Chess was designed for the same contest that won me a 3D printer. But in the two years since I never printed the whole set. Part of the reason is because when I printed half of it a while back …
3D Printing Tip Video – Hairspray and glass
Hairspray and glass is the best build surface I’ve used…. if you do it right. Today’s video is how to do it right. I’m still trying to overcome some technical limitations that are messing up this video. For one, the aspect ratio. For another, this video was, unbenownst to me, saved uncompressed. 15 gig for a 5 minute video. Unacceptable. …
3D Printed Pegboard hooks
You can download the 3D printable pegboard hooks and hangers on YouMagine. Whenever I start a new project I always start with the assumption that it’s already been done. After all, 3D printing has been around for a while now. Chances are someone has already solved the common problem you’re thinking of solving. When I put a pegboard on my …
Modeling for 3D Printing Tip 3 – CAD-like exactness Part 2
And to finish what I started with the example of an SD Card holder ring, which relies on exactly matching the size of a real life object, an SD card, and the size of your finger. And a special thanks to my new subscribers. I know I keep apologizing for this, but these one-take slap-dash crappy quality videos are really …
Modeling for 3D Printing Tip 3 – CAD-like exactness Part 1
Tip #3 is up, this time talking about the tricks and tools to make Blender create models with exact dimensions. My recording ran a little long so I cut it into two parts. In this part I respond to a comment on the last video. I go over Blender’s settings to make learning it easier. Then I introduce the the Properties …
Joe’s 3D Workbench is complete
Last week’s video update was late, so this week’s will be super early. And maybe there’ll be another before the end of the week. Maybe one day I’ll have a nice camera for doing this sort of thing with. And time to edit. And interesting thumbnails. Until then you guys get blury shaky cam with a frantic me narrating. This …
Modeling for 3D Printing Tip Video 2 – Decimate
Here’s the next video tip in my series of video tip vlogs. I’m still trying to figure this out. I’m still making mistakes. But hopefully people will enjoy it and someone will learn something that will help them. If you like this and it helped you please share and subscribe. And as usual, if there are questions you want answered …
3D printed wood backhoe
I’m wrapping up a huge project that’s kinda eating up all my spare cycles at the moment and that I hope to do a big reveal for. That’s why my posts lately have been more commentary. But while I’m pointing you to other cool places on the web here’s something awesome. http://www.chrisfinke.com/2014/10/23/3d-printing-construction-equipment-for-fun And there are so many angles I could …
Win a 3D printer in the 3D Printing Forum contest
I am remiss that I haven’t mentioned this before. 3D Printing Forum is having a contest, the first prize is a DaVinci 3D printer and all you have to do is participate in the forums. I mean they’re being pretty transparent about the whole thing. They want more people to use their forums so they are bribing you to use …
Candy pumpkin carve fail
A forum post on Board Game Geek point me to the idea of passing out a board game for Halloween that uses candies for pieces. But it involved 3 pieces being one way and 1 piece being another. I thought with 3D printing I could “carve” candy pumpkins quickly and easily. So I took some measurements and made an object …