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A print of a new iteration from my Descendants digital robot series, created from a 2D image and then processed using Meshy.ai
Everything I Make With My Makerbot
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? In December 2010 I bought and built a Makerbot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer. In 2012 I bought the Replicator 2. This blog is an on-going diary of everything I make with this wonderful machine; a machine sent from the future.
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When you’re prototyping something and you use three year old PLA.
When you’re prototyping something and you use three year old PLA.
Simplify3D is now my go to piece of software for creating really...
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....
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 the best things I have in my studio. I’ve also recently started to use Simplify3D to generate the toolpaths for the Makerbot as Makerbot themselves have pretty much abandoned support for this machine. Really…
Failures can often be beautiful. Though personally I prefer...
Failures can often be beautiful. Though personally I prefer success.
Organic data objects printed in wood pla made from environmental...
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...
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 looked great in Faberdashery filament.
Loving the Lemon Drop PLA from Faberdashery.
Loving the Lemon Drop PLA from Faberdashery.
Having a lot of fun learning Fusion 360 from Autodesk.
Having a lot of fun learning Fusion 360 from Autodesk.
Digital to analogue. Currently printing a series of objects that...
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 Liverpool. These objects will be used in workshops during mental health week. https://vimeo.com/122330273
When you run out of PLA half-way through a print on the...
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...
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...
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 [Machine Era Co]( http://www.machine-era.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-machine-era-wallet-gunmetal-edition]. After a few prints to get the size of the holes just right the final thing rolled off the Makerbot printed in…
A few clicks using the He Mesh library + Processing and I have a...
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...
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 manipulate a sphere to create some pleasing shapes. Printed in Robot Silver PLA from Faberdashery.
First 3D print of 2014 was a Wabbit for my niece. To her and her...
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...
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. #makerbot Get it from Amazon
And here’s the data printed out.
And here’s the data printed out.
My forthcoming iPhone app called Kennedy allows you to not only...
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 use it to create data visualisations or even 3D models from your data! The video shows the exported CSV data used to create a sphere that maps the weather conditions - spiky bits are when it was raining and…
This is a physical representation of my Twitter activity from...
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 number of characters in the text which is pretty stupid but served fine for a test. #makerbot