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A cube that balances itself on one corner
Now paint a heart on one side and send it to Valve. Portal 3, anyone?
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Happy Birthday Dr Seuss?
One of our early adopters, EdmondsLibrarian, has just posted a great picture in our forums of a recent drawing he did with the Makelangelo. I like it so much I want to share it with all of you. If you like it, please let him know.
EdmondsLibrarian is also keen to talk to those of you with GIMP and Inkscape experience. Can you give him some tips to make more pictures?
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New Stewart Platform Forum
Alexander and Varun are unrelated people interested in Stewart Platforms. Since interest is up for these machines I’ve created a new forum for Stewart Platforms.
Edit 2015-12-15: Stewart Platform forums have been merged with our general support forums.
Also Alexander sends in this great picture of his machine. Look at those milled parts! So nice.
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Why Wikis Work for Me
I love my personal wiki. I use a WikiMedia wiki set to private and document all my procedures and equipment there. So far it’s really saved me a lot of personal headache. One such incident happened just now and inspired me to write about it.
Today I had to replace the filament in a 3D printer. If I had not checked the wiki for the how-to I would have forgotten a critical step (tightening the idler screws). It would have wasted material and cost me 30 minutes. So the 5 minutes I spent writing down the steps have already paid for themselves 6 times over.
I also started to link pages back and forth today for the first time. “3d printers” links to “how to change the filament” and now back. So much easier to navigate! I look forward to the first time an employee uses the documents instead of asking me for help. Heck, I look forward to creating jobs and having employees.
Also, because you love pictures as much as I do, here’s what I think will be the last version of the Rotary Stewart Platform. The code is already on Github. I spent the morning assembling it and making videos for the product launch. I still need to dot a few ‘I’s and cross a few ‘T’s before I’m ready to rock. Measure twice, cut once!
Also, here’s a gallery of sights from the Science World 3D Printer Village that happened this weekend hosted on Imgur.
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You know they have a machine for that, right?
On the way to the post office to deliver kits I saw a new driveway being made with paving stones.
It reminded me of this machine that lays whole streets.
Comment with your favorite example of a job that is now done (or made easier) with a machine.
