Month: February 2019
Ins and Outs of Flexagons
I have always been fascinated by flexagons and have made several over the years, some more successful than others. My first crochet hexaflexagon was about twenty years ago and, amazingly, it is still surviving. It isn’t the most comfortable cushion in the world but it is great fun. I can absolutely predict what will happen …
TMRO puppet show
Ben made a short video of some of the puppet presenters. The soundtrack is from previous TMRO webcasts. The puppets are loosely based on Woolly Thoughts puppet patterns
Puppets become avatars
The presenters were all very excited and several of them immediately changed their Twitter avatars to the puppet version of themselves. They then asked for some close up pictures
New Glasses
Ben made another puppet that needed glasses. I know a little more about 3D printing than I did a month ago so I was able to adjust the settings to get a better print. These are puppet versions of the presenters of the TMRO Space webcast I doubt if anyone else would want to make …
To Bias Or Not To Bias
Reinventing the wheel
I printed a small toy with rotating wheels and was intrigued when I found it is possible to print something all in one go and for the wheels to be able to move. I didn’t need any wheels, and I didn’t want to use anyone else’s designs for wheels, so I experimented just to find …