New meaning to the term “you sunk my battleship!”
Combine a favourite childhood boardgame with shot glasses, scale the game pieces up with a 3D printer and what do you get? 3D printed battleshots drinking game. For non-drinkers and minors 3D files for pegs are also provided so you can play a scaled up version of the traditional game. Thingiverse user xaqfu has created the full set of ships based on the classic game to download and 3D print, although as the files are .stl they are also suitable for CNC milling. (more…)
Posted in 3D Printing, David McGahan, Inventions by David McGahan |
Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing
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Making the not-so-ergonomic, ergonomic again…
Apple is usually revered as an shining example in the design world. There is the ocassional exception, however. They seem unwilling to design a mouse that takes into account biomechanics and ergonomic factors of the human hand since at least the early 90’s. The iPod earbud style headphones are another instance – where Apple has a priority of designing a geometric neo-minimalist form, rather than ensuring comfort and performance. Cupped headphones are also much better at isolating your ears away from the ambient noise of the world.
These issues led Paris based Chilean industrial designer JC Karich to develop a 3D printable ear enclosed headphone adapter that houses a pair of iPod earbuds. (more…)
Posted in 3D Printing, David McGahan, Design, Open Source, Ponoko News by David McGahan |
Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing
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Want your own open source CNC mill?
If you’ve so far missed out getting your hands on the opensource kickstarted Shapeoko CNC mill there is some hope – Inventables who’re now the distributors are accepting pre orders for their next batch of 100 units. Demand for the ShapeOko has been high since their Kickstarter campaign. Depending on how keen you are to source some of your own components – there are several prices ranging from the basic mechanical kitset at $199 to the fully featured premium option at $999 that also comes with router cutters and materials. (more…)
Posted in CNC Routing, David McGahan, Hardware by David McGahan |
Make your own stuff using: CNC Routing
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Google sells SketchUp 3D modeling software to Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Trimble Navigation who is a leading provider of advanced positioning solutions has bought SketchUp from Google for an undisclosed sum. Google originally purchased SketchUp from @Last Software who developed the software from a start up in 2006. Google has spun it into one of the most popular 3D modeling applications – fostering a community of whom there are millions of users worldwide, through selling it as a freemium product. (more…)
Posted in David McGahan, Interviews, Thoughts + Opinions, Software by David McGahan |
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Mini wind turbine light
Architect Margot Krasojevic has created a beautiful shell like 3D printed lamp powered by the force of the wind spinning around it’s vertical axis.
The lamp is functional a propeller that uses the wind’s kinetic energy to turn it. The light is generated by the spinning of wire coils past magnets generating electrical current to power the LED bulbs. Appropriate to its shell form the design has been printed in a ceramic material that is lightweight and durable enough to spin in the wind.
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Posted in 3D Printing, Art, David McGahan, Functional Art + Objects by David McGahan |
Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing
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Video on the assembly of an industrial grade metal laser cutter!
If you’re interested in the workings and principles of how energy is focused to create a fine cutting beam, you should definitely check out this video by How its Made. It shows the mirrors used to bounce light around and describes the process of generating photons from electrical energy inside a chamber of pressurised mixture of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and Helium gas. The principles are similar to the laser cutters used by Ponoko to cut plastics, timber and metals.
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Posted in David McGahan, Hardware, Laser Cutting by David McGahan | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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New high resolution kitset 3D printer in the works!
MiiCraft are a group of 3D printing enthusiasts who’re building a new high resolution 3D printer. They’re aiming for a price point of USD$2000 and hope to release their evaluation kitset by about June of this year.
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Make your own stuff using: 3D Printing
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An experiment in interactive generative design
Inspired by the likes of Nervous System, Alan Rorie of Hero Design has created a generative software bookshelf application with Processing based on the voronoi pattern algorithm. The software allows users to determine variables such as overall size, shape and depth and then automatically generates the appropriate 3D geometry which can also be flattened and saved as a PDF in 2D for cutting out via the selected production process i.e. laser/waterjet cutting or CNC routing.
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Posted in CNC Routing, David McGahan, Design, Downloadable, Furniture + Lighting, Laser Cutting, Software by David McGahan | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting, CNC Routing
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Cafe in Tokyo serving up coffee and laser cutting!
Japan is the source of all that is weird, wacky and wonderful in integrating culture and technology. Since opening on the 7th of March, FabCafe in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo brings the world lattes with laser cutting! (more…)
Posted in Architecture, David McGahan, Laser Cutting, Maker Movement, Mass Customization by David McGahan | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting
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Software for cutting images into materials with CNC… 
Software developer Jason Dorie has created a couple of Windows applications – Halftoner and Reactor that allow people to create halftones images for CNC routing from ordinary image files. They both require the Microsoft .NET framework, V3.5 (more…)
Posted in CNC Routing, David McGahan, Laser Cutting, Ponoko News, Software by David McGahan | Comments are off for this post
Make your own stuff using: Laser Cutting, CNC Routing
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