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I think I spent longer turning this camera around in my hands and staring at it than I did actually implementing the housing. There was a lot of frowning an...
2020-07-26 15:31:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't stay away from geometric shapes!
You may recall the cube, dodecahedron, and others that went together with interior brackets and exterior bolts. Well, those weren't big e...
2020-07-20 07:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Who knew there were so many cameras for the Raspberry Pi! The Sentinel case included a mount for the classic RPi camera, but there are a few more that are worthy of supporting.
F...
2020-07-20 07:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there wonderful people!
By popular demand, the branch tube is now available in a different outer texture! This time it's a knurled finish, and being a relatively fine pattern it won...
2020-07-20 07:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Jupiter Box was inspired in a way by the Operator Box in that I really like the way the screw closure locks it securely. The screw part on that containe...
2020-07-14 15:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, amazing people! This is a long post! :D
The way ideas and designs develop is something that really intrigues me, even when I'm in the middle of it! Yep, it's another Raspbe...
2020-07-08 17:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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I can't deny it, I love assembling things! It's the reason we have designs such as the bolted polyhedra and the epicyclic kaleidocycle - I really like putting s...
2020-07-08 17:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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Another month zooms by! And in between the things that got posted, some other stuff veered off in other directions, evolved into other forms, or went crashi...
2020-07-02 14:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
"Why doesn't the Verticality Box stack? It looks like it would stack!"
And now it does!
I have to agree, that inset lid looks very nice and stable, and it seemed a shame that the box wo...
2020-07-01 14:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, always-wonderful people!
By popular demand, here's a version of the Pi4B with a hexagonal pattern! And, by popular demand, I mean someone suggested it and hexagons are the best, ...
2020-07-01 13:08:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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The compressor box is just the right size for game cards, and it seems like people have a lot of those, so here's a taller version!
This taller versio...
2020-06-27 16:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Apparently Pi4Bs are a popular thing right now! And one significant difference between it and the previous generations is that a cooling fan is no longer really op...
2020-06-27 15:40:25 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy, my favourite people in the world!
I have some actual printing stuff to post, but before we get to that, let's talk about taxes!
Sales tax! I'm not sure there's a more dry t...
2020-06-27 15:12:41 +0000 UTC View Post
A box with variable volume! This idea had been on my mind for ages, but I'd invariably ended up going in some other direction when sketching it out - but no longer! The concept was rela...
2020-06-21 14:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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3D printing never ceases to get me enthused. There really is an endless sea of possibilities out there to explore. This started off with thoughts of c...
2020-06-21 14:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was clearly channelling my favourite science fiction design tropes while I put this one together! It's all fins, slabs and mesh with oversized moving parts for a...
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I get a ton of great feedback on designs, especially along the lines of "hey, it would be really cool if..." And that's what the models in this post a...
2020-06-13 16:18:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The vertical slots just somehow said "radiator" to me, so Radiator Box it is.
Howdy, wonderful people! Somehow, there are still more approaches to hinged lids out there - like this one!...
2020-06-08 14:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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The pile of SD cards sitting under my monitor almost resembled some kind of order, in as much as the cards were at least in one place. But at some po...
2020-06-04 16:28:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, wonderful people! Yep, pliers, tremendously useful when developing designs, especially ones with moving parts. Test prints take time, so when I wonder "hey, what if I only had tw...
2020-06-01 08:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there wonderful people!
It's probably not a surprise that I made a hinged case for a Raspberry Pi Zero, but this was completely unplanned. The thing is, I had a Pi Zero W arrive tha...
2020-05-29 12:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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I think this might be my new favourite box, at least for a little while :) So fidgety!
As is fairly apparent, this is a variation on the Machine Ca...
2020-05-23 12:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, wonderful people! By popular demand, I've made a few variations to the Hinged Pi3B case to suit a few more use cases. The SD card access slot is also bigger now, too, includi...
2020-05-20 12:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there wonderful people!
I had a question recently as to whether my Pi Zero cases could be adjusted to fit a larger sized board, and that made me wonder why I'd never made such a thing any...
2020-05-17 14:55:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Single! Double! Triple!
Hello, hello, wonderful people! Well, a lot of people said yes to taller two-piece machine canisters, so taller canisters we have!
While...
2020-05-17 14:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there wonderful people! I stopped twirling cogs on the Machine Canister long enough to do up this two-piece version. And it does actually have some interesting design considerations...
2020-05-14 16:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, wonderful people! Welcome back to the land of gears!
Here we have a large hexagonal container, with a hinged lid latched closed by a trio of cogs driven by one central...
2020-05-12 12:11:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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I really like designs that invite filament switching mid-print for interesting colour effects, but generally speaking those tend to just result in a layered look....
2020-05-07 15:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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As always, scrolling back to the start of the month feels like looking back to a long time ago. The side-drive geared box was April? Crazy! I...
2020-05-01 14:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there wonderful people! The end of April already - crazy! Now, this isn't actually my end-of-month retrospective, it's a model! That said, the retrospective post will talk thr...
2020-04-30 16:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post