Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Nutcracker Mechanism

If you want a nutcracker that really cracks nuts, choose strong, resilient materials. For wooden nutcrackers, linden wood is the traditional choice, but maple and walnut are also good, sturdy choices. Use pine or fir only if your nutcracker is decorative because those woods aren't strong enough to hold up to actual nut-cracking duties.
Most cast metals, including aluminum, are strong enough. Precious metals, such as gold and silver, are too soft. They can be used in decorative accents, however, or as plating for nutcracker projects.
Fired porcelain and other clays are too brittle to withstand the force needed to crack a nut. So use metal components embedded in the clay to do the actual work, and use the clay to embellish and decorate instead. Cast resin, plaster, plastic and acrylic should be used only around a metal skeleton as well.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Things you eat off of... CC1 Images

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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Din-ink Cutlery Retools the Bic-Pen

what a eco-friendly!!!

Things you eat off of ~!!! CC1 (continued..) Shapeways new material!!

Those hyper-glossy white rabbits pictured above are among the first spawns of Glazed Ceramics, the newly minted food-safe material available from Shapeways. Glazed Ceramics are fired in an oven or kiln like traditional ceramics and are then coated with a lead-free non-toxic gloss — the result’s food-safe, recyclable, and warmth resistant as much as 1000 degrees Celsius.

Things you eat off of.... Creative Caffeine 1 ...

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Trash..bags?

Z-Brush Art Works

Laser cut measuring tool

I Could Eat A Horse by Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson

spaghetti measuring tool ~!!!!!

http://thefoxisblack.com/2012/01/18/i-could-eat-a-horse-by-stefan-petur-solveigarson/

Failure of 3D scanning .............

During last couple of weeks I tried to scan marchmellows, but it keeps failing.
All scanned images are broken or separated piece by pice.

Disaster!!!

Candy Fab - 3D Print Candy

In 3D printing, objects are built from the bottom up, cross section by cross section, the same way you’re supposed to envision the pieces when you calculate volumes by slicing. This article in the Christian Science Monitor last week likens it to building with legos, although my experience with legos is that separate sections are constructed and then put together (you build the walls, then add the furniture, then the roof); that concept might work with printing too, where you print separate components and then put them together. And what’s amazing is that you can print some pretty complicated things with moving parts.
So what is used for the printing? The article above describes a layer of powder being put down and the printing is actually done by spraying glue instead of ink. Wikipedia also describes printers that build with a liquid gel. But my favorite is printing done with candy.
That’s right: candy. Not surprisingly, the CandyFab 6000 and it’s earlier prototypes are made by the folk at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Here’s an example of 3D printing:

You can see it making some 3D Candy above. They keep making improvements, as you can see in the two dodecahedrons below (printed at different times):

eight pounds of sugar!!!!

Now that’s some pretty neat printing. You can even see the “slices” on the surface.

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