Yearly Archives: 2010

Isn’t it adorable? On the left, you have hammerbot creating a pile of ore chippings at the base of the cave wall. Then on the right is shovelbot, carrying the ore chippings to a wagon. Observant viewers will notice that … Continue reading →

You need a robot to pick up after hammerbot, and that’s shovelbot. The shovel is a bit small and the camera is a bit large, and also I’d like the camera mount to tilt down enough to see what gets … Continue reading →

1. I used MS Paint for the background, thus the jaggies. I think there might be a way to minimize them by changing the background in sketchup, we shall see. 2. I would like to show the lamp beam, but … Continue reading →

This sundial link is copied from makezine, it has to do with inputting a location and out comes a printout of a sundial for that location. I’m putting the link here because I have a project in mind for this. … Continue reading →

This one I call ‘Hammerbot.’ It uses a pneumatic-powered hammer to chisel into rock. Originally, I had the idea that the broken rock would then fall into the wagon that the robot is pushing in front. Then I realized that … Continue reading →

Toying with an idea to make a google sketchup set of furniture for interior decoration of shipping containers.

I was visiting the make magazine site and I saw a link to a blog called The Inventive Mind. Notice the D-shaft? I took that as a challenge for Sketchup and drew this: What I’d like to do is blur … Continue reading →

I hesitate to call this an ‘old fashioned’ TV set, because this is what I grew up with. This is, in fact, a rough approximation of what I watched the original Star Trek on when it was first broadcast. The … Continue reading →

Well, the previous cup was lame, so this one is even lamer. I’m not even sure how you drink out of this. The proportions seem such that in order to get your fingers into the handle, the cup itself would … Continue reading →