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Shredded Paper Mache 19 Aug 2013 | 02:02 am
Shredder Means Business A few days ago I realized that I might have an actual use for all of the shredded paper I’ve accumulated at home and at work.1 Basically, my thought is that I may be able to c...
Mechanical Movements and Design Inspirations 7 Jul 2013 | 09:41 am
Mechanical Movement #36 I’ve been working on a few different mechanical projects for a while now. On the one hand, I’m severely limited by my complete and utter lack of mechanical engineering knowle...
Catching up 1 Jul 2013 | 06:47 am
Sit down! Stay a while! It’s time we talked Hey! It’s been a while since we’ve talked! ((Photo courtesy of Scott Beale)) Hopefully you’ll excuse the rambling nature of this post. :) A fair bit ha...
New Google Groups to Discusss 3D Design Marketplaces 26 May 2013 | 10:53 pm
Looking towards the 3D future… If you read this blog, I think you would be interested in joining a new Google Group for discussing emerging 3D design marketplaces.1 It was started a few days ago by t...
PlotterBot.com – a new site dedicated to drawing robots 23 May 2013 | 05:26 am
Moving time! I’ve been working on and blogging about my PlotterBot, through several incarnations, for a little over a year now.1 The posts on this site have always tended to be a mixture of near-inco...
PlotterBot at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013! 21 May 2013 | 12:30 am
Did you miss my booth at Maker Faire this year? No problem! Sign up for my PlotterBot newsletter and I’ll send you the entire PDF all of my booth materials and the binder I had on display. Posts in...
Spacexula to the rescue! 1 May 2013 | 01:21 am
One of only two photos on Flickr that came up with the search term “Spacexula” My friend Spacexula just sent in this AWESOME suggestion on how to display 1000 origami cranes in a durable pleasing way...
Folding Cranes, Errata 30 Apr 2013 | 09:32 pm
Er, rat, aye? I’ve been folding some cranes.1 Well, a lot of origami cranes. I’m shooting for 1000 in 365 days. I’m folding more than 10 cranes a day and at this rate I’ll finish in a little over 8...
The 1000 Cranes Project 27 Apr 2013 | 11:06 pm
The ones I’m folding are just a bit more simplistic/traditional I recently mentioned one of my New Year’s Ambitions is fold 1000 origami paper cranes.1 As an ancient Japanese legend goes, a person wh...
More than you ever wanted to know 25 Apr 2013 | 02:51 am
Don’t we all I’m a big believer that small changes over time can have a huge impact.1 This year I made some commitments to bring about changes in my life. These aren’t resolutions – I’ve had and bro...
