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 …
Finally Printing MetaChess
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 …
Finished a video for the book.
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 Complete
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, …