Thursday, May 22, 2008
Then there were two...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Shoe

I lost count of how much I spent on shoes when my daughter was growing up.
I just reprapped a left shoe. It cost me 30 pence...
And, should your child be as financially inconsiderate as mine, and also grow, a quick click on the scale transform in Art of Illusion solves that problem. And scaling by -1 in any single dimension turns left into right...
Here are the parts as they came off my RepRap machine; I used PCL:

I simply welded them together using a coffee cup full of hot water to melt the edges a bit. I'll post the design in the repository shortly when I've made a few final tweaks.
Now for the right foot...
Labels: shoes, utility items