When you’re prototyping something and you use three year old PLA.
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Simplify3D is now my go to piece of software for creating really great toolpaths for my Makerbot. Worth every penny.
Still continue to use my Makerbot Replicator 2 often in my work. It’s been used many times in commercial projects as well as my own projects like this new version of my Plastic Player. One of t...
Failures can often be beautiful. Though personally I prefer success.
Organic data objects printed in wood pla made from environmental data for appearance in forthcoming publication
My Makerbot is still an invaluable piece of kit, like when I used it recently to make these twelve printers for an installation for Airbnb. It worked pretty much flat out for a week and they all ...
Loving the Lemon Drop PLA from Faberdashery.
Having a lot of fun learning Fusion 360 from Autodesk.
Digital to analogue. Currently printing a series of objects that were created by people using the States of Mind console currently on display as part of the Group Therapy exhibition at FACT in ...
When you run out of PLA half-way through a print on the #makerbot just improvise and create a two colour print.
Makerbot is working overtime this week to print a series of ten prints for an exhibition in September.
My brother-in-law – Philip Robbins – sketched out this idea for a coin holder to hold four pound coins and a fifty pence piece to go with his minimalist wallet by the (http://www.machine-era....
A few clicks using the He Mesh library + Processing and I have a very nice pencil holder for my desk.
When I was a kid, if they had shown me how amazing maths was with things like this, maybe I would have paid more attention. Created with a little thing I made in Processing, using sine waves to...
First 3D print of 2014 was a Wabbit for my niece. To her and her generation it’s just normal to choose a rabbit from Thingiverse, download it and then print it out.
I highly recommend Carla Diana’s great new book on 3D printing “Leo the Maker Prince”. Whether you’re 6 or 60 it’s a great intro to the world of 3D printing and of course tonnes of fun....
And here’s the data printed out.
My forthcoming iPhone app called Kennedy allows you to not only capture the now with surrounding context but also lets you export that data as either a CSV or JSON file. That means you can then ...
This is a physical representation of my Twitter activity from 2008 and 2012. Tweets, read in from a CSV file, are mapped across the grid for the entire year. The height simply represents the numb...
I knew this wouldn’t print, but I did it anyway. Still kind of like it. The form is created from Prince’s Kiss, after being generated and then exported as an stl in Processing.