No, really, I want to know. There is a short M3 bolt (that is the right name for the bolts that are all over the Makerbot, right) sitting at the bottom of my build area and… I have no idea where it came from. Everything I can see is still screwed in. Anyone know where this might have come from? …
Shogi is a cool game that I’ve always admired. If you capture an opponent piece you can add it to your army on your turn. How cool is that! However the fact that traditional sets are written with Japanese characters make it hard for new players to be willing to climb the learning curve. So I made this set with …
I knew that Bre Pettis (founder and CEO of Makerbot) got what I was doing with TARDIS Run. He’s the only one who commented on it when I finally posted it. But besides him and I it didn’t seem like anyone else got it. The Thingiverse PTB didn’t see fit to feature it and there’s no other comments. Thanks to …
A little while back I did a little experiment, live streaming on Justin.tv a modeling session so you can see me do my thing. . This one was a piece for Just Game. Find out more about them at https://www.facebook.com/justgamecompany or http://justgamehome.com/. I’ve held off sharing it here until I could offer a time-lapsed version in case you didn’t want to …
MetaChess was one of my entries into the Makerbot/Tinkercad Chess challenge that won me my Makerbot and changed my life. Even figured out rules how this chess-on-chess game would play. However until now I’ve never tried printing it. (Funny thing is I love chess pieces, but I don’t play the game very often. Well now I’ve printed it and… clearly …
New video for 3D Printing Blueprints. I’ll have a web site for the book soon and this’ll be a major fixture. Apparently the book is also getting some reviews on Amazon and GoodReads. It’s been a slow ball to get rolling, but hopefully this’ll help. Doing a video, even a really short one, isn’t easy. It’s actually a lot of …
TARDIS Run is complete, and what a journey it’s been. It started when I saw MakeALot’s foldable TARDIS. I didn’t like the way he decorated the outside so I decided to do my own. Only I wanted to do something a little more, and that’s when the idea of a board game came to mind. So I determined that I …
Hot of the heels of yesterday’s announcement, I’ve taken the Troke game that I uploaded to Thingiverse and added a board that you can buy on Ponoko. You don’t need it to play, but it is super cool and it comes apart for easy storage. I predict a number of these sorts of project populating Ponoko in the near future. …
My to-do list is rather long at the moment. I’m making a promotional video and website for the book, I’m going to create a web site for my 3D design work so I can take commissions, I’ve got some new materials to experiment with, an upgrade for the Makerbot, and a few other things. Lots of good things to look …
So last time I explored testing if 3D printed dice can be considered balanced and the result was a resounding… oh, there’s a proper way of doing this. It’s called the Pearson’s chi-square test. The basic idea is roll the dice 5 times the number of sides you have, tally up the number of times each side shows up, then …
