3d fabrication and robotic control
Thursday, 10 May 2007 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daI thought this was cool, if pricey: a service to make your sketchup, 2nd life, or wii avatar in coloured plaster.
But this is probably cooler: Build a Candyfab 4000 to fabricate your objects from sugar. DIY, $500 parts. (Link via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Indeed, it's based around a controller board kit which might even be useful for work. I'm tempted to inquire with a prof about using this board to assist with developing better servo-motor controls for one of the labs. *ponder ponder ponder*
But this is probably cooler: Build a Candyfab 4000 to fabricate your objects from sugar. DIY, $500 parts. (Link via
secretsoflife)Indeed, it's based around a controller board kit which might even be useful for work. I'm tempted to inquire with a prof about using this board to assist with developing better servo-motor controls for one of the labs. *ponder ponder ponder*
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Re: Fabjectory
Date: Friday, 11 May 2007 04:25 am (UTC)I promise you I wouldn't consider colour 3d fabrication from anywhere else. I spent a few days after I heard of your service, trying to figure out whether I had anything compact I needed instantiated.
What I think you guys should should do is come up with more non-avatar samples, for those of us who don't use 2nd life or Wii. :)
Still thinking. :)
Congrats on your recent media mentions.
Re: Fabjectory
Date: Friday, 11 May 2007 06:32 pm (UTC)Re: Fabjectory
Date: Friday, 11 May 2007 07:26 pm (UTC)It's funny, when I was a kid, faced with a bag of legos, I had no problem occupying myself for hours.
Now, with sketchup, I'm at a complete loss for choosing something to design. I ran it once, learned enough to build a spaceship, and haven't run it again.
I had an easier time learning to work with sculpey, but that was mostly technique, learning millifiori. ...and now it's sitting in my closet. :)
Inspiration. Hmm.
Re: Fabjectory
Date: Friday, 11 May 2007 07:37 pm (UTC)- translating a topo map of one's hometown, if it has any topography. complete with roads and little coloured-dot houses. I could make this for my parents, I bet they'd like it.
- maybe imprinting photos on the faces of an icosohedron? I don't remember if sketchup let you do that.
- ooh; 3-d version of maigrite's floating castle in the sky.