A quickie today - over the weekend, I decided that my workshop at work needed a nameplate outside the door, to make it a little easier for folks to find me. Read more...

Yesterday I install a new closet door in our front entrance hall, and discovered a problem which I then solved with 3D Printing. Read more...

This weekend I've added the pinion gears to the seven-segment display, and performed the first test rotation of the mechanism. Read more...

The heart of the seven segment display is the seven drive gears with select teeth, which share a common shaft and all rotate together. Read more...

While time at home is scarce this week, I've stolen a couple moments late night to continue working on the design of the geared 7-segment display, including finishing the modelling of the 7 drive gears. Read more...

Over the weekend, I got started on a project I’ve been musing about for a few months – making a mechanical 7-segment display, using gears to move individual segments in and out of the display area via rotation of a central shaft or belt. Read more...

In our upcoming production of Macbeth at work, one of the many spooky ingredients that the Three Witches drop into their wondrous cauldron is " Read more...

In my experiments with Fusion360 recently and casting around for inspiration, I stumbled across my old copy of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which has a curious cover design consisting of two objects that cast shadows of three different letters along three different axes. Read more...

I've had a clear, "low poly" angular sculpture in clear PLA sitting on my self for awhile now. Read more...