Yearly Archives: 2010

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 →

As I wallow through Google Sketchup 7 for Dummies, I have tried to apply my knowledge. Here is an attempt to emulate the drawing of a restarant in the book, by using components. I learned that I didn’t know how … Continue reading →

I got this design from the Phineas and Ferb episode, “Brain Drain.” The control pad is seen after 2:00. My number one goal with Phineas and Ferb, however, is to do their house. But that’s going to take some work.

Or, as the case may be, lack thereof:

Here’s a design for a remote-controlled robot to perform tasks in space. I’m proud of the level of detail although the proportions, as usual, are a bit off. Hey, it’s called sketchup, not formalpresentationup or productiondrawingup. I think the arms … Continue reading →