It was time for our annual pilgrimage to Palm Springs to visit my aunt and Uncle and put their trailer to sleep for the summer. But it was too hot in Palm Springs and my aunt and uncle wanted to go home early, so they weren’t going to be there. We had meant to go […]
It was a slow month. Here’s a barbell holder (https://makerworld.com/en/models/178157-barbell-wall-mount?from=search#profileId-196039) I printed with ABS that should have been included in the last post: I was having trouble cutting miters for some frames and decided to check my blade alignments. You can buy commercial holders for some measuring tools, but I printed these instead. It turns
Here’s another multi-year project. I probably bought the fabric for these tire covers in 2020 or 2021, but never got around to it in 2025 and just now in 2026. It turns out I didn’t buy enough fabric for two and I realized that I needed three. So I asked our friend, Jill (who is
When Tequila became a solo dog, she refused to sleep on the floor while we were in the bed; so I made a dog bed that would fit on top of a Lane chest (I was supposed to refinish) so she could be at our level but not in our bed. I was pretty cocky
Here are some of the 3D projects we printed over the last month or so: Our fraternity has an event called the Feast of the Glowing Blowfish, so I found this model (https://makerworld.com/en/models/539713-cute-puffer-fish?from=search#profileId-457050) and modified it to be a hat: I searched for “Makita Tool & Battery Mounts” project and found these (https://makerworld.com/en/models/50026-makita-18v-tool-battery-mount, https://makerworld.com/en/models/752574-battery-holders-bosch-makita-dewalt-milwaukee-einh, https://makerworld.com/en/models/1504055-festool-10-8v-battery-holder):
It was circa 2018 and our friends came to our house for one of our first Tiki parties and told us that we should check out this bar they saw the day before, We were in the store at 10am on Sunday, They weren’t officially open when we arrived, but they opened the doors wide
We’ve 3D printed a lot of stuff that people have already modeled, but I decided we should keep track of how much energy we’re using with all of these toys. The 120V stuff was easy, but I also wanted to monitor the kiln and electric car charging, so I bought a couple of 240V meters.
The hype about how easy it is to print with a Bambu 3D printer is 100% accurate. We’ve been printing like crazy since I unboxed it. It started with a poop chute to catch filament waste (https://makerworld.com/en/models/2109962-hkr-p2s-x1c-p1-poop-chute-no-extra-hardware). Then filament rollers/dryers for storing and using filament. We printed some bamboo for a secret project from Lina
We bought this toilet paper dispenser when Sam took us to Galveston when we visited The Lava Lagoon and The Moai Ice House for the FOM Christmas party. We didn’t want to make more holes in the wall, so I built the “frame” around it so we could use the old dispenser’s mounting holes and
Lina’s new passion is mug making, so she got a kiln for her birthday: The garage is too cold in the winter and the basement rooms are mostly carpet, so we decided to turn the laundry/utility room into her Clay cave. Every space needs a workbench, so I built her a benchtop with a sandwich