A project journal.
Elroy is a table lamp with a unique feature — the shade can dynamically change, at the swipe of a finger, to a new style or pattern to complement your mood, the time of day, or an event, all from your phone or web browser. Elroy is a concept and personal DIY project. I’ll share …
A few weeks back, I saw a great video from Maker’s Muse on YouTube, describing how to make custom 3×3 puzzles (eg. a Rubik’s cube) out of any 3 dimensional model. I’ve always been curious about how these puzzles work, so what better way to learn than to make my own? Yup. It’s a brain. …
Build process: Modeling. Build process: Silicone molds. Build process: Concrete. Build process: Mounting and framing.
Idea: My cat has a “bristle-bot” style toy, but it’s not a favorite. He’ll watch it as it wanders randomly around the floor, but he doesn’t really engage with a toy unless it “hides” — goes behind other objects so he can strategize about where it’s going to show up next. The style of motion …
Chocolate making is messy business. One of the steps in nib-to-bar chocolate making is to extract the liquor from the nibs. We use a Champion Juicer. Inevitably, when you add nibs to the chute … a lot of them fly back up the chute and land all over the kitchen. So I built this hopper …
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Mecanum wheels are cool. Each wheel is composed of a series of rollers, pitched at 45 or -45 degrees. When moving forwards and backwards, the rollers do not engage, but when the front and back wheels rotate in opposite directions, the rollers engage to move the vehicle left or right. These wheels are 3d printed, …
The Xaar 128 is a piezoelectric inkjet printhead used in large format vinyl sign-making. It *might* be useful in 3d printing, conductive ink, or masking applications. Why piezo? TLDR: Most inkjet printheads are “thermal”: They work by superheating a fraction of the ink in a chamber, turning it into gas, which expands to force the …
Macro photo printed as a large format bitmap made up of 3d boxes in PLA Plastic, printed with Makerbot Replicator 2. Size: 6.5 feet X 2 feet. Each “pixel” is a 3 dimensional box that tapers into a quadrilateral opening. The corners of the quadrilateral are determined by sampling the grayscale intensity of a grid …
Medium: PLA Plastic, printed on Makerbot Replicator 2 in 8 parts. Modeled in Rhino3d with Grasshopper. Size of the veronoi part is 20″x20″. This was a super-challenging project to do with an FDM 3d printer, due to the large number of overhangs and small cavities. Each part took 10+ hours to print, but perhaps even …