By Brad Hart
Imagine you’re steaming across the Pacific Ocean on a container ship on a great circle course to the San Francisco sea buoy. The sea is confused and you’ve been running the ship’s slow speed diesel engine hard to meet your ETA. The vibration reverberating through the hull gently trembling you to sleep when, without warning, the sound stops. Minutes later, the Chief Engineer calls to inform you that the PLS Dosage Pump supply valve has failed and your ship is now dead in the water, a seriously overpriced pontoon, until you can get the part to fix it. As Captain, you don’t know what a PLS pump is but, from the grumpy tone of the chief’s voice, you are sure he doesn’t have a spare or any way of making the complicated part in the ship’s machine shop. …
Year of the Dragon inspired design features a Chinese wingless dragon climbing a tree or column. Animal wraps itself around the entire pen. The pen itself is a button-click. chrome and black and uses a Parker-style refill, as well as the widely available UNI-Ball® refill. This one has black ink. It has real heft to it and does not feel like a cheap ball-point. Available in white, black, grey, indigo and red - with one unique hand-painted version.
(Source: etsy.com)
—A long an interesting article on one man’s struggle to bring to market the world’s first 3D printer capable of building full-size houses…
Broken heart pendant created with polymer clay and 3D Printed stainless steel… a combination of modern technology with good old-fashioned hand-crafting.
Available on Etsy for $11.
Great article by Wired’s Chris Anderson for anyone thinking of starting a Maker business…
A 3D printed pendant for the entomolgists among us - or someone who just loves creepy things! At 5cms in length this spider, not based on any real-life specimen, will definately make a statement hanging around your neck (or your car mirror, for that matter).
I designed this to be printed in black acrylic but no doubt it would work in Stainless Steel also - $17.20. Also available in solid silver.
Pendant comes with a free black rubber-like necklace.
If you would like a smaller (or even larger!) version of this let me know.
(Source: shapeways.com)
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45 RPM Record Insert Pendant for the TRUE music lover. Anyone who saw the image without reading this and didn’t know what the heck it was just HAS to be under 30 years of age! If you STILL don’t know what it is back in the days of REAL music, when a SINGLE song release was just that - ONE song on a piece of vinyl there was a large hole in the middle which allowed you to play it alone on your RECORD PLAYER, but if you wanted to stack a number of records to play following each other, then they needed to be placed on a thin spindle and thus this little piece of plastic had to be inserted to close the large hole to make the small hole available for the spindle.
This ends your history lesson for the day!
Available in stainless steel for $21.70 (free shipping), and various other materials, from Shapeways.
Have you ever wanted a TARDIS earring (or small pendant)? Well, now you can have one! Printed in Frosted Ultra Detail material by Shapeways, this makes for quite a conversation piece. The TV show “Dr Who” had a huge impact on me as a child (yes, all the way from the original Doctor!) and I’m sure helped spawn my interest in Sci-Fi in general. I have a few Dr Who items in my Shapeways store including a pendant based on the latest series of shows; just click the link under the photo.
A Blog that primarily showcases my jewellery in pure silver and 3D printed materials.
