A while back I tried my hand at making a storage solution/playing surface for the micro game Province. My goal was to make something travel size but that you could play the game on and what I game up with was only marginally successful on both counts. The resultant board was too big to carry in any pocket but a …
Pocket Imperium Part 1. Huh, that worked
Sorry for the relative silence the past few weeks. I’ve had things I’m working on, but nothing in a finished, reportable state. I’ve also been having troubles with my printer (as usual) and I’m waiting until I fix them to report on that. However I’m getting a cascade of projects finishing up all at once, so this week expect at …
Hard Case for Coin Age
I may have an unhealthy obsession with Adam P. McIver’s Coin Age. First I came up with some 3D printed coins, because using quarters, nickles, pennies and dimes was too confusing for me, and the paper ones weren’t available. of course those coins needed a chest to carry them in..And now… I had the bright idea to make a little …
Black gear skull on a big-boy 3D printer
A while back I printed gear skull and it’s been sitting on my desk at work for a while. At work they decided to use the same print to show off their fancy Stratasys 3D printer, only they made theirs in black. And wouldn’t you know it, the parts are interchangeable. It shouldn’t be a surprise considering they used the …
Printin’ and Playin’ Livestock Uprising Part 1
Livestock Uprising was one of the games at GenCon that really caught my attention. After all, escalation of resource gathering with an endgame where your forces Voltron together to for a giant super unit, how does that not appeal? However it’s not available just yet unless you want to do it yourself a bit, which I’m okay with. But I …
All made of hinges
The thing about the board/case for TARDIS Run is it relies on embedded hinges that have a mere half millimeter of space between them. If your 3d printer is putting out to much plastic, perhaps because you upgraded to makerware and haven’t adjusted the feedstockmultiplier setting in the configuration files yet, you end up filing those gaps so that your hinges …
Looks like I’m going to be printing TARDIS Run for a little while
I got a flurry or orders on Etsy for TARDIS Run, my Doctor Who themed board game. So I asked the people ordering from me where they all heard about it at once. Turns out it was featured on CNet. So there you go. (I also found it featured elsewhere on the net, but CNet gets the credit for the …
Scanning with a Kinect part 2
Link to part 1. In my continued effort to scan with the Kinect I got a spinning chair at a second hand store so I could mount the Kinect stationary while I spin my kids around to perform the scan. How did it work? Pretty good for the kids who can hold still while I spin them around slowly. For …
Third and Fourth segments on 3D Printing Today
Episode 47 of 3D Printing Today podcast features not 1 but 2 segments featuring me. http://threedprintingtoday.libsyn.com/ The segments are about precisely modeling using tricks like typing in the amount you want to move and using the Properties panel (N) and modeling without supports which I more or less covered before.
GenCon report
GenCon was a… singular experience. I’ve never been to a convention of any kind before. But when Just Game offered to let me man their booth for part of the con I decided “Why not? Maybe I could hand out some business cards and maybe drum up some side business.” I didn’t really know how huge GenCon was when I …