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Designing robots in sketchup
My education in sketchup continues. 1. If you’re going to replicate a shape a hundred times, make sure that it has a low polygon count. Hence I redesigned the prong component from a cylinder to a rectangular profile and got … Continue reading
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Goose-ba in action
Why goose-ba? A riff on a certain robotic vacuum cleaner. Otherwise a clumsy name, I’ll have to think of something else to call it. In case you’re not familiar with how WordPress galleries work, click on the images to continue … Continue reading
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Call it a ‘goose-ba’ for now
I’m not sure how far I want to go with this idea in terms of graphic portrayal, but anyhow here’s a shrunken shovelbot picking up after the mess that Canadian Geese leave. The background photograph was taken on Saturday in … Continue reading
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Tracing Canadian Geese in Sketchup
Further adventures while climbing the Google Sketchup learning curve . . . . I’m thinking about a design for a little robot that will clean up lawns after Canadian Geese have made their messes. So I thought that in order … Continue reading
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MP3 earbud, earbud cord, and battery case
This case holds an AAA battery as well as the earbuds and the cord. And no worries, I have come up with an even better design!
MP3 earbud and cord case
I go out walking with my MP3 all the time, but then there comes a moment in the day when I have to take the dang earbuds off and put them in a pocket or on the car seat, and … Continue reading
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Shipping Container Home Kitchen Unit
As you can see here, I’ve filled out the kitchen unit: On the right we see a sink, cabinets, and a dishwasher. On the left is more cabinet space, a stove, oven, microwave, refrigerator and freezer. Note the central control … Continue reading
Shipping Container Home Layout (Work in Progress)
Google 3D Warehouse is an immense resource of free furnishings for your shipping container home layout. Here is where I ended up after playing for a couple of hours. It certainly looks nicer than my first feeble attempt at this, … Continue reading
Classics Illustrated Martian Tripod
Today’s Sketchup practice session was to make a Classics Illustrated Martian tripod. It’s not quite right, especially the tentacles, which are as yet a skill too far. But I exported this image, then loaded it into Paint to crop, and … Continue reading
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Beijing Egg versus Shipping Container
An architectural student in Beijing has built a ‘mini-house’ in the shape of an egg. The link is here. I wanted to compare it to a shipping container, so I did the following: Shipping containers, by the way, sell for … Continue reading
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Engineer Zero 