Designed/Printed a stand for my electric screwdriver, with a space for bits and a nice tray. - Lemmy.World

Was getting tired of searching around my toolbox for my electric screwdriver and its bits so I figured it was time to design a nice simple stand with space for my most used bits. I decided to give it a tray just to help with not losing screws. The project was modelled up in blender in an hour or so using a mix of sub-d and boolean workflow. The stand printed out nice on my old dependable ender-3 in about 6 hours. I did a number of test prints of just the holes so that I could get the fit right. Getting The bit holes right took time as my printers accuracy is just a bit off and different bits had extremely small differences in dimension. The bit holes actually taper slightly so that the gradually become .5 mm smaller. This saved me having to throw out a whole print if I got it wrong. So far it’s met my goals. I have some changes I’d like to do if I ever reprint: 1) add compartments or seperators to the tray so I can use them as “steps” to aid in re-assembly of projects. 2) add more space between the bits and the driver holder in the center. My finger can’t get between there and it makes it hard to pull out the bits. 3) make a base with a bearing so the whole thing spins. 4) make a notch on the top so the driver can rest horizontal. No real reason just a nice feature that would add to the utility.

August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. - Lemmy.World

Fan Short - Federation Cargo Corps - Lemmy.World

After seeing Corgana post the Dilithium and You video, I thought I’d share this fan short I found that feels like a public service/propaganda video. Its some fun stuff. Enjoy.

USS Poliakoff flyby render test. a WIP Star Trek styled ship with some anamorphic flares and good stuff. - Lemmy.World

Been playing with more space stuff. Trying to cook up a TOS style Miranda class ship. I dont have the panelling where I want it but I’m pretty happy so far. Next step is animating some of the ship details like the bussard collectors and anti-colission strobes, etc.

Please enjoy my tricorder meme. - Lemmy.World

This is Jasper, she is our chief of security. - Lemmy.World

Jasper (so named for her jasperite like patterning, my daughter likes minerals) adopted our family as a skinny little street cat. My daughter begged us for a cat for months and she just kinda showed up which was perfect. Shes got what we think are siblings that come by but shes the runt of the litter as she has remained small while the other kittens are now big bois. I kind of love that. Smol little cat thats tough as nails is the goods. Apparently she had a place to crash across the street but stopped going as they had too many cats (her previous staff told us all about her and gave us their blessing to take her in). They think she was born and abandoned by momma cat in the alley out back. But she persevered and now she’s got a forever home. Shes street smart, but now lives with us mostly in doors and doesn’t seem to mind. If she does go outside its just to hang on the back deck and take in the smells. I freaking love this cat. Lots of personality, always down for some pets, constantly wants to be with us but can handle her own and will let you know when you’re bugging her.

I try to pretend like I dont care. Who can compete with Adopt Me anyways? - Lemmy.World

Sam Spades Office - Maltese Falcon - WIP - Lemmy.World

I’ve been working on this scene off an on for about 4 years now. Its become a sort of log of my progress learning blender. From subsurface modelling to node texture creation, volumetric effects, etc. Its far from done. It’s missing some props (the falcon, some desk stuff) and a real narrative focus. Its not exactly the stuf that dreams are made of yet but I wanted to share as its getting close to a level I’m proud of. So long!

Starting to get the hang of exterior renderings - Lemmy.World

Got this design and was asked to produce an outdoor riverside rendering. Im not fully happy with it yet but I’m liking how its going. It needs more refinement and stochasm to help drive the realism, but for my first real blender archviz attempt with all assets and shaders my work I’m pretty happy with it so far.

Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing - Lemmy.World

I grabbed a beepy [https://beepy.sqfmi.com/] a little while back (if interested BE ADVISED: they’ve since gone dark and left a bunch of people holding out for one, I got really lucky and ordered super early) so I could work on some python stuff on the go. I didn’t like having all the parts exposed, and the cases available seemed too flimsy for my liking. I fired up blender and designed a unibody case [https://github.com/directive0/beepy-unibody] for it. Printed it out on my Ender 3 and its been pretty great. I use it with some software I’m writing [https://github.com/directive0/picorderOS] to turn a raspberry pi into a portable sensor data acquisition and visualization platform called a Picorder (Pi + Tricorder). Nice back view with my picorder logo [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e097fc32-081a-40f6-b526-b0f152c80ab4.png] It took a couple revisions to get here, mostly to get the feel in the hand right. I wanted some bulbousness to make it easier to hold. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4d59f13d-4940-44f2-aaea-04a0bdb724e0.png] It’s designed so the PCB slides into it and is affixed by two screws, and then a top cap is secured with four more screws to protect the top. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/89b7401e-4d52-4341-974c-b99a9b8a7186.png] I’ve been printing a couple years now and enclosures are still my favourite item to design and print. So satisfying to hold something in your hand that was once just a 3D model and is now a fully real object. I wanted to add some content here as I’ve enjoyed looking at the other posts! I wish you all easy first layers and good prints!