Rocket designed by Brooks Protzmann, printed on loaner Replicator.
Today was packing day. The packers called at 8am and said they were downstairs; we had not gotten the pre-pack call from the central office to warn us of their arrival time. Springing to action, we labelled some last minute areas as “pack” / “don’t pack”, herded cats, and made breakfast using up as much of the frozen breakfast items as possible. By 2pm the packers were walking out the door, leaving a trail of full boxes in their wake.
Thus marks the end of my 3D printing, and blogging, for a few weeks; next week is driving 2300 miles with a wife and four cats, and the delivery of all of our stuff is sometime the week after.
In the past several weeks of downtime:
- I’ve been able to evaluate options in 3D modeling software with an eye towards 3D printing (Bonzai 3D is quite good, Cheetah 3D is a “no”);
- design and 3D print a few versions of objects I needed to help gel some of my thoughts related to my new job;
- work out that making hexagonal tubes that lock together while keeping constant thickness to all walls is near impossible with a 3D printer;
- and make some minor repairs to my Thing-o-Matic.
Once I’m back up and running, I have a few concepts I’m going to 3D printing and writing about, and talk about options for my next 3D printer 😉
my plastic future 