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 …
Watch me model 1
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 …