Google tells me that John Wheeler said, “Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”
Apparently at some point on Sunday afternoon Time got all huffy, picked up its toys, and went home since just about anything that could have happened since that time has.
Hopefully cheerfully ridiculous posts will resume shortly. As in, whenever the heck it is Time returns.
As I’m re-watching the Doctor Who 2010 Christmas special1 I suddenly caught myself thinking… Wait a second, he just broke his sonic screwdriver. Again.
The last sonic screwdriver was good for two doctors and four seasons. This last screwdriver lasted only a single season. 2 There was a reference to his screwdriver trying to regenerate itself, but who knows.
The cynic in my wonders if it was all a ploy to sell yet another sonic screwdriver.
Let’s see if I can upload a new thing to Thingiverse for each day in February. This post will be my updated list of Things as I upload them.
Thirty days of things? I wonder if I could do it. I’ve got less than 3 hours to post something for today. Every single day? Man. That’s a serious time commitment. Day job, blogging, a number of other various and sundry endeavors and obligations…
Well, let’s take this just one day at a time.
I know I can upload something for today, no problem.
Update: Well, it’s really on 28 days of things.
My profession isn’t one that involves a lot of math. In my small little niche, I’m considered a “techie” or “computer guy” or “math guy.”
What’s funny is that being a “math guy” is a relative term. I’m more of a math guy than my co-workers, but oh-so much less so than the people who are involved in the MakeBot/RepRap community.
Comes abuse. I’ve come to realize that OpenSCAD can indeed be abused. It’s so easy to import several objects and manipulate them that I wish I had gotten around to learning OpenSCAD a long time ago. You can do some pretty amazing (and scary) things with just the import and translate functions. 1
And, in retrospect, I probably could have whipped up that Voltron remix in a fraction of the time if I had OpenSCAD at my disposal…
Oh well, that just means the next time I’ll be that much better.
Okay, Erik, my excuse is that I can’t help myself. If someone asks me to do something ridiculous, I just can’t not do it. 1
But, man, who actually wants a pink panther lady Walt Disney’s brainy-head bottle opener whistle? That’s just crazy, dude. You can print out Pink Panther ladies all day long, but how the hell do you explain printing one of these to your wife?
Any blog post that has a subject of “SOMETHING TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE!”
With a blog post that starts, “Well, not really…”
Apparently 100% of respondents believe that a bottle opener is the ultimate printed sample give away.
Remarkable!
Srlsy, tho, what do you think? Poll to the right –>
They’ll continue, but I think the next one will come out on Friday. So far I’ve covered the interface of OpenSCAD, 2D forms, and 3D forms.
My goal is to show people how to use OpenSCAD in a way that is intuitive and builds quickly on what was taught earlier, with a secondary goal of getting the reader to be able to make something useful as quickly as possible. Here’s the rough outline/idea of where I’m going:
I know I’m leaving a lot out of that outline. What would you like to see?
