Pretty simple Thing this week – my wife and I got a copy of CLANK! Legacy for Christmas and it’s super fun. Also, super ridiculous at times. So I figured a ridiculous miniature would be just the thing for my character, Faultier the Swift. (German for sloth, for those who don’t …
We’re all stuck in our houses and can’t really go anywhere because COVID, and a friend of mine is really missing a chance to go to Italy. Specifically, a little rental villa outside of Sorrento with a great view of the sea. I’ve seen numerous laser-cut maps, especially of lakes, …
While shopping for Christmas presents some weeks back, I saw an ad for a company which would make little silver necklaces or whatever, showing the position of the planets in our solar system on any arbitrary date. I thought the idea was pretty great and would lend itself well to …
Yes, I made a Thing this week. No, you can’t see it yet. It’s a surprise.
This week’s Thing is of no practical value at all, but it looks dope, magnets are awesome, and it can sit on my desk and slowly spin. It’s a magnetic levitating thing I stumbled across on Instructables. Very simple to print and assemble. I printed the turbine in PETG and …
So we got off to a rough start here, as my printer began having really serious multi-filament issues right after the prototype was done. Anyway, this first Thing is a storage stand for a set of SAE hex drivers as I can never seem to find the ones I want. …
So it’s been years since I posted anything here – literal years! I’ve made a ton of rando stuff over that time but it seems to be a habit I move in and out of. In an attempt to keep myself honest and motivated, please allow me to introduce THING-A-WEEK …
And finally, we prepare Project Predator for a final finish. My eventual goal is a black-and-blue color scheme, with the grip, barrel, and attachments in black, and the body of the blaster in dark blue. Of course, the Predator is expected to have done hard service and been banged around, …
So I found a couple of Rapidstrikes on Craigslist and after a cash deal in a local park, I had some new material to work with. The Rapidstrike is a very popular blaster for modding due to its capacious frame and electronic pusher, rather than the manual pusher found …
People are always asking me “why the hell do you have a 3D printer? What do you use it for?” Well, mostly stuff like this, designing and printing cosmetic attachments to make Nerf blasters look as science fiction as possible. Some of the pieces were pulled off Thingiverse unmodified, while …
