Vegas or Silicon Valley?
Hidden in Las Vegas - the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The building makes your brain pump iron. I may like it here – but Silicon Valley is in…
Simplicity One Chair Legs – too Whimpy
Ha – the two wood-gods that monitor here will chuckle (or cringe) when they see this photo. Modeling in Autodesk Inventor has its limits – a real prototype has its…
Back to Basics – Calibrating the BCN 3D Printer & Basic R&D on the VARTM Process
My client’s Chinese investors decided on a clean slate simplified M10 aircraft for the emerging Chinese market, and fired the CEO for his grandiose vision of a super sports plane.…
Machining MIC-6 Aluminum on the X-Carve – Fail
I had hope for a cheap method to machine the matched die molds we need to process the braided triangular carbon fiber tubing for our Series 1 Chair prototype legs…
Dress Rehearsal
Perhaps it is a minor obsession of mine, but I love triangles – at least in structural elements. Take the cross section of a square, a circle and a triangle…
The Poor Man’s Autoclave
The first product we will be introducing to the world is something that 99.99% of the population has no need for: a carbon fiber bracket that securely holds two cameras…
Enter the X-Carve
The X-Carve Assembled and Working after a Two-Week Learning Curve A few months ago we purchased a 2D CNC Die Cutter called the Silver Bullet. Our intended use was to…