My wife started a blog about knitting. :)
If you showed up for Botacon, you actually got to see some of our work during my presentation. She’s designed some napkin holders and knited bangles. 1
- I designed and printed the PLA inserts. [↩]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
My baby? My baby, she likes Firefly
… and that’s how I knew I found true love. 1
Okay, I get the girl in the video doesn’t like Firefly. But, why did she tear up a picture of Tony Buser @ 1:57?
- We both cried when Wash died. [↩]
A friend of mine was talking about homeopathy…
… the other day and how he liked natural solutions and remedies. I asked him if he knew what homeopathy is. He thought about it and said, “You know, natural stuff.” I told him that homeopathy is the belief that exposing yourself to very small doses, parts per million, of a harmful or toxic substance will in some way provide you with a resistance against such compounds.
Astonishingly to me, this did not appear to phase him at all.
I just don’t get it. How in the world is a small shark bite supposed to protect you from a big shark bite?
@giseburt, if you hated the circus…
…then don’t go to Disney On Ice.
It’s hard to say which would be worse. I’m not sure if I hate clowns because I fear them so, or because I fear them because of my deep and abiding hatred for them. 1 On the other hand, Disney On Ice is miserable, miserable, miserable.
- That said, I like balloon animals. And red noses. Face paint? Not so much. [↩]
Internet Famous!
Woot! My post over at MakerBot entitled “Clockwork Variations” was picked up by both Make: Online and BoingBoing!
This little project has been a ton of fun and I’m really glad others seem to enjoy it as well.
Don’t think I’ve given up…
Just because I didn’t label the Clockwork Spider on Thingiverse as a “work in progress,” don’t think I’ve given up on it. It exists now as an actual physically printed object and I’m very happy about that. However, the legs are just a stand-in1 for nice spidery looking legs I’ve already designed. There’s no point in printing the real legs up until I’ve gotten a mechanism that will make them work.
- As it were [↩]
URLHunter? Heck yes I will
http://probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter#%20%20You%20killed%204%20animals%20in%2021%20seconds!%20%28Press%20ESC%20to%20play%20again%29
Clockwork spiders
I’m so freaking happy with the design, print, and assembly.
You can assemble the entire thing by hand in just a minute or two with no tools or hardware. Turn the center wheel to make it walk. Right now the gears are a little rough – but I have an idea on how to fix that in the next revision. But, if the gears turned even slightly better, I think this design is almost ready for the big time.
I cannot wait to have a printed wind up rubber band powered clockwork spider skittering across my desk at work.
*skritch* *skritch* *skritch* “Oh, don’t mind leggy. She can smell fear.”
Flobots?!! Heck yes!
Pandora just suggested this band and I heard their song “Handlebars.” It sounds like CAKE making sweet sweet love to Beck.
Oh, and the name of the band is Flobots?! I love robots!
I’m sold.
Update: They also are reminiscent of Maroon 5, Fugees… but mostly CAKE. Seriously, it’s like accidentally finding a CAKE album I didn’t know existed. Yay for horns!
SpiderBot – once more into the breach!
So, I’m about to begin a completely new design on my little spider bot using what I’ve learned from the last try.
Failure is fun!