Monthly Archives: November 2010

Hey, this time I slapped on some ‘resters’ which allow the candy grabber to rest against the box as shown. If you have a better term than rester, I’d like to hear it. You won’t get paid, however. I’m not … Continue reading →

I decided I needed more negative verticality.

I was in one of those there grab a bag o candy stores and wondered if the process could be improved. Because, you know, it works, which means it’s just asking to be fixed. Ask any engineer! The grabber on … Continue reading →

Finally, a tea cup that can keep the bag and string from hitting your nose. A gee-gaw to be 3D printed, except ABS plastic melts at 180 F so you can’t use Makerbot on this one. Gee-gaw, strange word. Gee-gaw. … Continue reading →

You might wonder what this thing is, if the title of this entry didn’t give it away. Anyhow, I went to the Google Warehouse and downloaded a spoon, then inserted it into the model. Like so: The basic idea is, … Continue reading →

I have a New Yorker cartoon calendar, and today’s cartoon features a doghouse that looks like a human house. Anyhow, I was inspired to duplicate the house in Sketchup, and this is what it looks like: The gables and roof … Continue reading →

I was watching a History Channel documentary on The Brain just now. Toward the end it mentioned a new technology being developed, which enables a human to spot objects in photographs many times faster than normal. It’s being developed by … Continue reading →

For some reason, or rather the reason of not thinking about it, I chose the cloudy-transparency option for the windows. So this morning I was looking at it and realized that I should have had just regular old transparent blue. … Continue reading →

Okay, the simple solution to the window-cut problem was to make a wall panel component with the window pre-cut into it. I made the window transparent, by the way. Then I deleted the old walls and replaced them with instances … Continue reading →