Answer: It’s a lot more convenient than strapping a TARDIS to your wrist.
Ever since seeing the season 5 finale of Doctor Who I’ve wanted my own printed vortex manipulator. I have a feeling Nick Starno’s pocket watch case for the MakerBot Watch would be a good place to start.
Just another random thing in my list of stuff I want to make.
Dave Durant, Tony Buser – You’re welcome.
Since the revival1 of Doctor Who they’ve had a Christmas Special each year, but it airs at least a day later here in the States. Last year I totally missed the Christmas Special and had to wait several more months before BBC America re-aired it. This year BBC and BBC America will be airing the Christmas Special on December 25! Huzzah!
In case you enjoy this show too, above is the trailer for the upcoming special. :)
((Photo courtesy of gbrummett.))
This last season of Doctor Who has been really great. You have probably gleaned from this blog that I’m a big fan of the show.1
I just re-watched one of my favorite episodes from this season (there were many great episodes this season) – the one with Vincent Van Gogh.
A great bittersweet episode for a melancholy day. :)
Domonoky uploaded his “Glowing Logo Cube.” I’m loving this thing. The second I saw it, I thought of The Pandorica from the season finale of this last season of Doctor Who. Here’s a papercraft version of the Pandorica from AFT Downloads, a website devoted to Doctor Who papercraft:
That image below is from Peter McKinstry’s online gallery of amazing work he’s done for Doctor Who and other super cool things.
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All I would need to do in order to create a printable Pandorica would be to make a 3D printable version of the Pandorica faces, slot them into the glowing logo cube frame, and drop it into the base.
So, just ignore these links to awesome:
It’s really that I enjoyed these links and find this a more interesting place to bookmark them. :)
You must already know by now that I am a fan of Doctor Who. I really wanted to build one as a kid – and had even heard the BBC had long ago published and gave away designs on how to make your own. Then, about a week ago I saw this blog post showing a form letter kid received from the BBC in the mid-eighties after inquiring about the plans. The letter from the Doctor Who Production Office politely and patiently explains the plans, originally released in 1973, included cost projections that were out of date. There’s a short disclaimer saying the kid should not use it for commercial purposes, etc. And, they close with an apologetic not saying they are unable to assist with finding suppliers.
Yesterday morning another blog post went up linking to the actual plans themselves! There’s also a link to Project Dalek – a fan site for people who share information about the Daleks they are building.
Edit: Each page of the plans are scanned and online as separate GIFs, one set as black and white and the other set as grayscale. I’ve zipped the scans and turned each set into a separate PDF. I’ll upload them shortly.
In continuing with my Doctor Who fanboy prints, I’d like to create a Time Lord Seal coin. Coins are cool. The BBC put up the design file associated with the Time Lord Seal from The End of Time.
This morning I received an e-mail from Bre out of the blue introducing me to Travis Goodspeed. Apparently Travis has been working on building sonic screwdriver guts out of the GoodFET, a universal JTAG programmer, a “sonic screwdriver of hacking.” Travis suggested a GoodFET could be programmed to act as a TV-B-Gone, light show, or any number of other things. Given that his circuit board is about 3″ x 0.85″ x 0.2″1 , there shouldn’t be a problem finding space for it in the sonic screwdriver I’m in the middle of designing. 2
Freaking sweet.
So, here’s my real life sonic screwdriver wishlist:
