00706, Moco turntable

And as well as the slider, there's a new turntable adapter.

C4D design, Shapeways printed in strong and flexible plastic, it's a two-part construction, allowing the turntable to be taken off the motor for storage and transport.

Fits like a glove:

00704, Spinners

Recently I've been obsessing.

Within reason, obsessing can be a good thing. Sometimes it ends up improving things, helping people, moving things forward.

This is not one of those things.

But without exception, anyone who sees them and certainly anyone who touches them, is captivated - for at least five minutes.

Spinning tops, eh?

 

Sculpted in C4D, 3D printed by Shapeways.

Epic.

00702, Dandelion Trophy

So we met with Mark and Jock of the Dandelion Project and I was playing with spinning tops and Mark said he'd like a trophy for the upcoming Ted Talks. He wanted to give Ollie Guillou an award to highlight his contributions to positive journalism - which is lovely.

I said the printing and shipping of something nice would take ages and he said, "Oh." I said that it'd be really pricey for anything largish and he said, "Oh."

So I said I'd make something.

I told Mark that the main thrust of the trophy would be light. I liked the idea that you could present someone with a "piece of light" and I really liked the idea that it would light up when they handled it. It was supposed to be indicative of the light you shed when you spend your time presenting things in, for want of better words, a positive light. I said that I'd give him some plans and keep him in touch with the process and let him know when I'd be done.

He said, "Just bring it along on the day, do whatever you like." so I did.

Basically, it lights up when you touch it.

Turned out nice:

I'm meeting with Ollie later this week, at which point, I'll mention the fact that it's all a bit prototype.

He received it a couple of weeks back, so I'm interested to see if it still works - things like this usually tend to pleasantly surprise me with their longevity. Until they break.

00698 KAP rig

Here's the new KAP rig, 3D printed and working very well indeed. The hangups are nice and light and really easy to use.

And here's the whole kit together:

The only down side is that, as I could have predicted, I'm going to have to do another version with the sticks poking out the top, rather than the bottom, at it tends to twist up the picavet lines when it's packed away.

Did the house as a test the other day and it came out ok. Just need to get back in to the swing of angling the camera right.

    

00693 3D printed KAP rig

We're going on holiday soon and it seemed like a good idea to revamp the collapsible KAP rig I've been toting round for years.

There's a simple model that the poles go in and, first in the video, there's a slightly more elaborate one, with which you can store the poles when transporting the rig. I'll do pictures when it arrives.
There's also new hangups - ditto with the images.

00684 3D Jewellery

Following the awesome of the rockets, I drew up some images of our house, seen from the top (some people call that a plan view - whatever)

Then extruded them in Cinema4D and output them as a 3D model for Shapeways to print up in wax and cast in silver:

Jonah also did a design and I made that up in 3D as well:

Pretty sweet.

00682 Rockets from the nether

And as if by magic I have brought the Instarockets in to the real world (via Shapeways) so they can be put in a box.

This is what they look like right now.

So imagine that king of thing ... but in a box.

With lights in.

Inside the rockets.

And the planet.

You get the idea.