We had a broken part in the dishwasher that kept the metal tracks from sliding out too far. Where would we got to find this part? I have no idea. Could we buy just the part we need? Who knows? Could I 3D print it instead? Oh yes. Broken, first iteration, final fix All it took was calipers, an hour …
Beefing up the portfollio
To everyone in America, happy Thanksgiving. To outside America, don’t let that stop you from overindulging just a little today, if for no other reason that it’s Thursday. I’m just going to be beefing up my portfolio with pictures and renders of some projects I’ve been working on lately. So apologies to those following me on Google+ for the deluge …
How I ended up up actually dividing the robot model
My last video was admittedly a little misleading. While the techniques described in the video aren’t wrong when it came time to actually slice up the model I took advantage of the fact that Mr. Fluff’s Robot Factory doesn’t boolean union all the pieces together (the way the robot was presented in the video) to let me break out the arms …
Meta Chess set
Like the game itself, uploading this set to YouMagine has levels for me. See what I did there? But seriously, Meta Chess was designed for the same contest that won me a 3D printer. But in the two years since I never printed the whole set. Part of the reason is because when I printed half of it a while back …
3D Printed Pegboard hooks
You can download the 3D printable pegboard hooks and hangers on YouMagine. Whenever I start a new project I always start with the assumption that it’s already been done. After all, 3D printing has been around for a while now. Chances are someone has already solved the common problem you’re thinking of solving. When I put a pegboard on my …
Joe’s 3D Workbench is complete
Last week’s video update was late, so this week’s will be super early. And maybe there’ll be another before the end of the week. Maybe one day I’ll have a nice camera for doing this sort of thing with. And time to edit. And interesting thumbnails. Until then you guys get blury shaky cam with a frantic me narrating. This …
Candy pumpkin carve fail
A forum post on Board Game Geek point me to the idea of passing out a board game for Halloween that uses candies for pieces. But it involved 3 pieces being one way and 1 piece being another. I thought with 3D printing I could “carve” candy pumpkins quickly and easily. So I took some measurements and made an object …
Pocket Imperium Part 3 – How it plays
Part 1. Part 2. Where you can download the ships. I do tend to get the cart before the horse at times and I focus more on the silly things like tiny little ship tokens and tuck boxes to store them in, but how does Pocket Imperium play, and how has playing it effected the making of it? Not actual gameplay. This …
New Ship Tokens
Download the new ship tokens on PinShape. I had such a great time making tiny ship tokens that would fit inside a 1cm square, that I decided to make a bunch more and refine the ones I already made. I drew inspiration from classic sci-fi, video games, Japanese anime, any my own imagination. I’ve had other projects like this where …
Pocket Imperium Part 2 – Lessons from a failed tuck box
Do not spoonerize that title. For those not familiar with the terminology, like me 2 weeks ago, a tuck box is just one of those boxes that holds cards, so called because you “tuck” the top in to keep it closed. Last time I designed some tiny ship tokens with the intent of using these tokens to play an 18 …