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 …
Troke Update
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. …
Adventures in Selling Designs part 3, Ponoko and CGTrader
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 …
Testing 3D printed dice fairness – Chi-Square Data
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 …
3DHacker Round Up 3
In case you’re not following me on 3D Hacker: I break down how to get something 3D printed Andrew unboxes a 3D printer and tries out a Type-A I rip on the Makerbot Digitizer for being overpriced Andrew visits those changing the world for good in Albania There’s yet another kickstarter for making things no one needs There’s a $200 …
3D Printing Tidbit – Hairspray, Glass, and HBP
Hairspray on glass with a heated build platform is a brilliant solution to sticking prints to the build platform with surprising effecency if it’s done right. Hairspray has some properties that at heat will hold a print on the build platform. I don’t remember who on the google groups recommended this procedure but I’ve been doing it for a while …
Extending a child rifel
My brother teaches shooting to his local scout troop. The problem is the Remington 514 youth that he uses are too short for anyone but the younger scouts to use. So he proposed I extend the rifle with a 3D printed part.Nothing much exciting to report, really. Took a stamp of the stock to get the shape and proportions right, …
Testing 3D printed dice fairness
It’s been a question on my mind for a while whether a 3D printed die can be fair and balanced? The reality is that the dice you buy aren’t necessarily fair, so making a 3D printed dice fair could actually be an advantage. For a while I wanted to build a clever machine to automatically test dice, but that’s been …
Dual Printing dice
So playing with the new MakerWare dual print option (for a project I’ll update on when it’s done) I learned a few things. First of all, the sacrificial walls work great. I mean look at those. Catches tons of drool. Love ’em. However, if you position your objects so that the other nozzle spends a considerable time over part of …
New Makerware first impression
Big news, there’s a new version of Makerware out. When I decided to adopt Makerware as much as possible I’ve only found a few little issues. Just last week I found another one, a model that sliced really strange even tho it looked fine in the software. So I’ve got a lot of tests to run. The first thing I …