3d fabrication and robotic control

[da]

I 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 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

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

wow, they will make sketchup options. too cool!

Re: Fabjectory

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

It is very cool- but what to make?!

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

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Funny: just as I submitted that, I had a series of "well there's always..."

- 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.