Sylph

The 10 year old has a project to come up with a 3D representation of a specific vocabulary word: sylph. Scouring various model sites, and this resampled version of a statue scan from the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository seemed like a good fit. We’re using a modified, and much simplified, version of Lucy that’s been pre-processed…

Space Ship Tokens

It’s unsurprising that the 10 year old’s open ended school projects often result in building a new board game. This round, the game called for a series of Space Ship tokens: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The old-school/1960’s futurist vibe of the original model fit perfectly, and is captured surprisingly…

Chinese Bo – Warring States Period

High quality bell making started in China somewhere around 400-300 BCE, more than a thousand years before bellfounding became well understood in western Europe. As an example of ancient Chinese technologies, it fits well into the 10 year old’s group project at school. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) This bell…

Terracotta Army – Horse

The Warrior 4 from the Terracotta Army has a companion: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) The Warrior and Horse we’re well received when the 10 year old brought them to class for a group project working session. Also printed in Red Copper PLA, the horse took significantly longer, particularly…

Wordmasters

The 10 year old is building a vault full of gems, coins, and gold bars as part of a project to come up with a 3D representation of the word skinflint. An hour or so in TinkerCad, and he was ready to print. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dwyer Devices (@dwyerdevices) After about…