Andrew Mazzotta approached me with the possibility of creating a test object similar to, well, lots of test objects out there already, with a little indirect marketing towards his 3DHacker website. The thing about creating a test object, particularly a comprehensive one, is you have to decide who your audience is, what do they want to test and what can the …
Creating 3D objects… with your brain
So the project is pretty limited and hasn’t actually gotten very far yet, but its very promising: an evolutionary algorithm that uses a brain scanner to determine fitness. I suppose that’s the best we can expect since brain interfaces aren’t suited for running 123DCreature yet, not without a surgical implant anyways. The hard part is going to be developing a …
MakerWare vs RepG
For my book (yes, got it in early) I had to explore MakerWare for the first time, for the sake of completeness. Before I’ve never really had any incentive to switch over and I still don’t. I do like like that MakerWare allows you to plate multiple objects easily and I’m currently trying to see if it’s slicer does a better job …
Challenge Accepte..ugh.
DesignMakeTeach issued the challenge and I rose to answer it… sort of. To be fair, I already knew I was going to have problems with the overhangs. Overhang issue aside this, I think, is the best way to print this object. All overhangs become gradual slopes with few exceptions, and the majority doesn’t even need the supports. You don’t need …
I love it when people make cool pictures from my designs
On Thingiverse. Also, did you know I’m writing a book?
Andrew Mazotta’s interview with Shapeways
Andrew Mazotta recently visited Shapeways an had an interview with Bart Veldhuizen who, incidentally, was one of the people who bought Blender and released it free and open source. (By the way, I’m totally writing a book that’s all about Blender.) So an all around good guy and awesome to have Andrew interview him. I like Shapeways. I’m on Shapeways. I really …
Makerbot Project Blueprints on Preorder Now!
It is with great excitement that I can finally announce a project that I’ve been working on for months! I’ve written a book! Makerbot Project Blueprints will pass on my masterful knowledge of making things for 3D printing to you. 9 awesome projects give you the knowledge you need in an exciting and fun way at your pace, as opposed …
3D printers can do food… now
Scrambled eggs on a RepRap? Checkmate NASA. I guess I haven’t weighed in on the whole “3D printed food” thing. I thought I had. The machine that NASA has bankrolled is, to me, hardly a 3D printer. It’s a nozzle on a CNC machine, but that’s where the similarity ends because this can only really make one thing. It’s a …
No one is going to have a cabbage for you to… oh
Someone asks for a model of a cabbage on reddit and my initial reaction was that someone was going to have to let them down easy. Only thing is someone has beat me to it with an actual model of a cabbage! Granted it’ll take some editing to make it printable, but that’s much more than I expect anyone to …
Which 3D printer to buy right now
This guy has done excellent research and wrote an excellent article. He does a good run down of what 3D printers are available and what factors to consider. The only problem with this list is it’s good for right now, but in 3 months this list could be very different. In 6 months it will most assuredly. But for right …