Escurre cubiertos.

Impreso con Ultimaker Nylon transparente en la Ultimake 2+.

Para enganchar en el escurreplatos.

Riego solar.

Se necesitan 2 recipientes de vidrio o plástico transparentes de diferente tamaño.  En mi caso utilicé 2 vasos.

Se hace un hueco cerca de la planta, del tamaño del recipiente menor, para enterrarlo, dejando solo un borde de 1 o 2cm.   Este se llena de agua.

El más grande se coloca invertido, enterrándolo de modo que cubra el menor,  en la tierra.

De esta forma cuando le da el sol se forma una trampa solar, haciendo que el agua del más chico se evapore, suba, choque con las paredes del más grande, se condense y el  deslice a la tierra.

Según dicen, cuando la tierra está húmeda, el sol hace que el agua evapore de la tierra suba al recipiente mayor, se condense y caiga en el menor.  De esta manera sería una forma en que el agua se reciclaría permanentemente.

En mi caso hice la trampa hace un par de días. Lo que he observado, es que el vaso mayor siempre está lleno de gotitas y los malvones están floreciendo nuevamente.   Pero todavía no puedo sacar conclusiones porque ellos en esta época, según he leído, no necesitan demasiada agua.

Este lo hizo mi hijo, lo comparto porque me parece muy lindo!!

ANGEL: the body.

I am making the long bones with PLA.   In this case black to match the color of her skin.

The rotating joints, are balls joined by cilinders.  These I am making with nylon to allow flexibility.  Sometimes the thin cillinders made of PLA breaks while manipulating the Amigurumi.

Where the ball needs to rotate on its axis I use a 3.5mm cilinder to support the ball for 3 D printing.  But I cut the cilinder in postprocessing.

For joints that only bend in one direction, I add cilinders that will fit some holes in the long bones in order to have a better hold of the ball when manipulating the Amigurumi.

I added chamfer and I cut hexagon shape holes so the screw and nuts  will fit inside the bone to make the skeleton softer an less bulky.

After assembling the skeleton I add super glue to the screws and tighten them enough to allow rotation or bending in the joints but keep them tight enough that they can hold a pose.

Now the body is ready so I will put it inside the crochet skin

I knitted the whole body in order to see how much yarn I need but I undo it until before the hole for the arms and insert the body skeleton inside the crochet skin.  

The hips must go through the lower holes in the crocheted skin.  

Next step is to fill it with Poly fill.

ANGEL

Robotics came knocking to my door!!!

Not tired yet of getting a better skeleton, and starting new crochet characters and.... Robotics irrupted in my life!!!


Just trying to remain alive to be able to keep on learning and creating and eventually teaching what I learn, I bought myself a exercise bike.

Two beautiful young persons came to ensamble it, and as they saw my Ultimaker commented they also used 3 D printing.  But they use it for robotics!!!

They have done fantastic things already.  More so they do it as a hobby, because they need to work in other jobs!!!   This is incredible and I am sure they will soon be able to make their projects for a living and leave the boring job of assembling exercise bikes.

This is a proof that our actual Economic System is obsolete!!

But I wanted to share what they are doing:

You Tube channel:    Tempore Capta

Facebook page:         Facebook Tempore Capta

Elves at dawn

Maceta lista.

Tengo que decir que es un verdadero placer modelar con Fusion 360.  Lástima que lo voy aprendiendo a usar de a puchitos.

Pero por fin aprendí a usar los vertices, caras y edges parecido al Maya.  Entre el sistema de sketches y esto da infinidad de posibilidades.  Y lo que me falta por aprender!!

Maceta impresa con Ultimaker PLA negro.

Las melli...

Cuidando la plantita, regalo del Día de la Madre

Interesante...

Un poco de gimnasia...

Aja!  Estoy en forma!

Las melli filosofando...

Solo me falta la tabla de surf!!!!

Pero con este día...

Mejor.  .... Ommmmmmm

LUCIA

Alice is very happy!!

Her twin Lucía is almost finished.

Lucía, Alice´s twin sister.

Novedades en la vida de los elfos en Piriapolis.

Hortensia y Tito se comprometieron.

My first steps in Stop Motion with iMovie

Otro de Alice

Alice is ready.

Skeleton is getting better.
The neck and head joints need to be tightened a bit.  Right now they all have very loose heads.

But the other joints are working very well.

Adding superglue to the screws and nuts and tweaking a little bit the structures to avoid the PLA from bending, did the job.

And here is Alice

Sweet and shy Alice