I designed a very modular 19th-century-style lantern. You can print it in its simplest form as a simple candlelight to put on a table or a shelf. By printing additional elements, you create a wonderful LED lantern with a stand that looks slightly like a street lamp. In this post, I share details about my…
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Rail Grid Alternatives and More Interesting Updates
I published another large update to the storage boxes project in the last two weeks. All buyers who subscribed to update emails already got a summary of the changes. If you read the email, you can skip this post unless you are interested in even more detail. The new and updated models are downloadable from…
Large Update to the Circle Pattern Generator
Today I published a significant update to the circle pattern generator. Version 1.4.1 of the application is available for macOS and Windows for download. This new version adds various shapes, rotations, colours and a generator for circular or elliptical canvases. Shapes Circles are great, but different shapes may be better. The new version contains a…
Update to the Storage Boxes System
Last week I sent all subscribers a small update to my storage boxes system. There are new split boxes for the tall boxes (LR2052-300C-S) and a new extensive PDF catalogue with a great overview, but also all details of the models. I also added more models to the free set to provide better coverage of…
Get Blog Updates With the New Mailinglist
In a few days, I will stop using Twitter for project notifications. If you like to get notified about new projects and updates, please subscribe to the new mailing list: It is a low-frequency mailing list, with one mail per new blog post and occasionally an update about a running project. I aim to keep…
Build a Sustainable Refillable Active Coal Filter
If you ever used air filters to keep smells, fumes and dust at a low level in your workshop, you for sure came in contact with these expensive throwaway active coal filters. While throwing-away the used active coal seems to be unavoidable, all the thrown away plastic and packaging of the filter can easily be…
Extreme Integers – Doom from Below
As a beginner or immediate C++ programmer, you heard never mixing unsigned and signed integer types or avoiding unsigned integers at all. There was also this talk about undefined behaviour. Yet, in embedded software development, there is no way around unsigned integers – so what is behind all these warnings? Wonderful that you strive to…
How to Create a Large 3D Printed Artwork
I recently built a relatively large (100cm × 80cm) 3D printed artwork, which features a painted relief of mathematical functions. Read how I prepared the data, converted it into 3D printable tiles and converted them into printable gcode. All the images and previews are from the proof of concept I created. The final artwork is…
Huge Storage Boxes Update
Today I release a huge update of my storage boxes system for 3d-print. This update not only further improves the geometries of the models, but also extend the available sizes and variants. There are now 1000+ model files in the full set you can buy in the shop. As a buyer of one of the…
Round Corner Template Set for Woodworking
Sometimes I like to have rounded corners in my woodworking projects. It seems many people like to soften the spiky ends of their panels because there is a huge range of templates for routing. If you own a 3d printer, it is handy you can print just the template with the size you actually need….