New Screwdriver

This blog was not my first attempt at keeping an electronic diary of my adventures.

About ten years ago Ars Technica published a long article titled “OneCore to rule them all: How Windows Everywhere finally happened” chronicling a long and expensive push within Microsoft to consolidate operating system code across the company into a sing…

I tackled the Spent Spool Storage System (R2S4) project to answer a prompt/challenge “what can we do with spent spools”.

When I created my WordPress account and started writing, I thought odds were pretty good that I would write a handful of entries and stop.

Once I was satisfied my spent spool storage system design covered the basics and offered some neat features, it was time to tidy up my CadQuery code.

I’ve designed a 3D-printable storage system using spent 3D printing filament spools as its central structure.

I thought it would be fun to turn spent 3D printing filament spools into the core of a storage system, and my CadQuery script for generating individual elements can generat a base module matching a removable storage tray using the same parameters.

I thought it would be cool to reuse spent 3D printing filament spools as the core of a storage system.

Prompted by a fellow 3D printing user’s comment “I wish there’s something we could do with these spent spools” I decided to investigate a project idea that’s been sitting in the back of my head: a dynamically reconfigurable storage system which uses a spe…

While I was spending much of my free time playing MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, I still worked on my usual project ideas.