Up until now we have been exclusively dealing with 3D objects, and putting them together, normally this is enough, but some objetcs are easier to create in 2D first. In 2D we have 3 main primative objects, circles, squares and text. Lets first discuss text as this is the least useful of the primative objects … [Read more…]
So in the last update we had a program that listened to twitter and then displayed all the tweets that matched the search terms. Now at that point it want much better than going to twitter and searching for all of your search terms and reading, and I dont know about you but I don’t … [Read more…]
I admit that I didn’t know about these transformations until today, but i now think they are really useful. Lets start with minkowski(){…}, this transformation takes two objects, and the result is to create the shape formed when you role one object around the other. This is probably best shown with an example, lets say … [Read more…]
On to the biggest and most ambitious project so far, a double bed. The idea I had in mind for this bed was fairly chunky and rustic, and to match the storage ottomon in colour and style – I guess the next thing for the bedroom suite will probably need to be side tables… Tooling … [Read more…]
There is still a way to go but so far in my attempt to write a twitter monitoring program I have managed to get a program to listen to the twitter feed for a list of keywords, and summarise them after the program exits. So lets walk through this section by section (my apologies for … [Read more…]
We are a little short on storage space in our house so the solution I decided on is a storage ottomon (or chest – however you want to refer to them) for the bedroom, they’re very handy for storing sheets/towels/jumpers/etc. really any large volume items. At this point I’m also planning a double bed to match … [Read more…]
In our current house we have no spare space for a desk so I thought a laptop tray would be a pretty hand alternative – and as it turns it was a good call since I’m using it right now. By this point I also have a few off cuts of wood lying around leftover … [Read more…]
After getting my hands on a farmhouse table that needed re-finishing I decided to knock up a pair of benches to go with it, thinking of the two-tone farmhouse style that’s pretty popular at the moment. So this project was to design and fabricate some benches. Tooling After some enthusiastic talk about DIY I’ve picked … [Read more…]
So my first post – ooh exciting! This also gives me an opportunity to demonstrate some larger modelling projects in OpenSCAD – but since I learnt to use OpenSCAD from Simon I will be leaving those tutorials to him. Right let’s get too it. This was actually my first woodworking project, a fairly simple TV … [Read more…]
The Idea behind TwitterMonitor will be access the public twitter feed, and listen for key words, these words will then be added to a list and at the end of a specified time frame hopefully then email a summary of the matching tweets to the user. So lets say you are interested in following updates … [Read more…]