A token to celebrate 1km of printed filament. Granted, I’m a few hundred meters beyond 1km at this point, but still. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) Simple design in TinkerCad compositing a shape generator (for shapes arrayed in a circle) and a few negative spaces superimposed upon a flat…
Category: original design
Ada Lovelace Game Token
As part of a school project highlighting non-white male scientists, the 10 year old decided to make a board game about Ada Lovelace. While the board was made with foam core, markers, glue, and printed text, the game tokens were an opportunity to flex some creative muscle. The 10 year old went through an iterative process to design a…
Surface Infill Testing
One of the options you can play with in Slic3r changes the infill pattern used on the bottom and top visible surfaces of a print. Different from the interior infill pattern, the surface pattern changes the look and texture of horizontal planes. By default Slic3r will use a rectilinear surface pattern; simple parallel lines at a 45°…
dwyerdevices Name Plate
I’ve seen a few interesting text prints floating around, and have especially liked a few that play with angles and offsets that make the text pop out in unexpected ways – there somehow reminiscent of a late 1980’s, early 1990’s design aesthetic as desktop publishing became a Thing. As I’ve been posting print photos to Instagram under…
Modeling Rule v1.0
The day before a long weekend trip to the midwest, I realized I didn’t have a good travel sized drafting ruler. I wasn’t bringing a laptop, and haven’t found good drafting quality stand alone apps on the iPad, but still wanted to get a few designs down on paper, with enough detail and strict enough measurements to…