Author: Maker Block

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I’m 7 for 7 on the Thing-A-Day challenge.  I originally didn’t think I’d be able to do this – making something new each day.  However, I’m dusting off old things that I haven’t uploaded yet, designing new things in OpenSCAD as tests and proofs of concepts as part of my research for upcoming tutorials, and it now seems very manageable.  In fact, I’ve build up a small reserve of things I haven’t had to tap into yet.

Most stressful week evar, day 5

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.

Yet another cynical thought

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.

  1. It was really good. [↩]
  2. Well, I suppose it lasted 1.09 seasons if you don’t count the Christmas special as part of the 2010 fifth series. [↩]

MakerBlock Thing-A-Day

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.

Could I do this?

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.

Math guys

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.

With great power

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.

  1. I also scaled Disney’s head to an appropriate size, but it wasn’t compiled by OpenSCAD [↩]

Your argument is invalid.

A pink panther lady with Walt disney’s brainy-head bottle opener whistle!
A pink panther lady with Walt disney’s brainy-head bottle opener whistle!

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?

  1. Can I misuse OpenSCAD, or what??? [↩]