How to Animate a Sloth Puppet
Kinetic artist Jim Polk created the mechanisms to animate a three-toed sloth puppet, giving it a head that can turn and eyes that blink.
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Easing into Fusion 360 CAM with Evan & Katelyn
Autodesk’s Fusion 360 software is pretty complicated, but these two YouTubers have made a video that should assist any novice maker.
Easel Pro Launches for Fast, Easy, Commercial CNC Project Making
Inventables is launching Easel Pro, an expanded paid service that adds new features to add speed and flexibility to professional projects.
Cheat Sheet: CNC and 3D Printing Software Terms
Make sense of all the fabrication terms and acronyms.
Top 3D Services: Part 2
Last week I introduced slicing and CAD software, two key ingredients in a custom 3D Print. This week I’m going to cover the actual use of your machine, how to view and find 3D models, and venture into the still-budding world of DIY 3D scanning. Just like last time, all services listed are free (at least to a certain extent).
Editor’s Choice Hangout on Air, Live and Online Dec. 13 at 2pm PST/5pm EST
Designing and machining things in 3D can be difficult to wrap your brain around, but there are a few great ways to learn. Tune in at 2pm PST/5pm EST on the +MAKE page so we can tell you all about them, or catch the show later on the MAKE YouTube page.
SliceModeler – fantasy to physical
Asteronimo writes about SliceModeler for Sketchup: Based on TIG‘s Slicer script I wrote a plugin that slices a solid 3d model along 2 axes, f.i. an X- and a Z-axis. You can enter separate parameters for each axis. After the slices have been created it calculates the slots for each intersection which allow the cross […]
