Saturday, May 03, 2008
Economics (n. pl.: the management of a household)
Here's a reprapped coat-hook:
It took me 12 minutes to design in Art of Illusion, then I set it running in my home RepRap machine. The quality is a bit splodgy because, since I upgraded to the Arduino, I've been trying to maximize my build speed, and I have overcooked the outline printing rate a bit; I'll back it off for the next one.
Anyway. I went out for the afternoon, then I came back. Now I have a coat-hook that I didn't have before. Utterly trivial, except:
1. I have somewhere in my lab to hang my lab-coat, as opposed to draping it over my camera tripod:
and
2. An economist once told me that the world market for coat-hooks is bigger than the world market for gas turbines...
The design for the hook is in the RepRap repository here.
It took me 12 minutes to design in Art of Illusion, then I set it running in my home RepRap machine. The quality is a bit splodgy because, since I upgraded to the Arduino, I've been trying to maximize my build speed, and I have overcooked the outline printing rate a bit; I'll back it off for the next one.
Anyway. I went out for the afternoon, then I came back. Now I have a coat-hook that I didn't have before. Utterly trivial, except:
1. I have somewhere in my lab to hang my lab-coat, as opposed to draping it over my camera tripod:
and
2. An economist once told me that the world market for coat-hooks is bigger than the world market for gas turbines...
The design for the hook is in the RepRap repository here.
Labels: coat hook, products, utility items
