Why is little weirdos? (3D printing)
And of course just explaining a thing is not sufficient. Where's the history? Where's the back story? How did it come to be? Over the course of the next couple of posts I hope to outline the various pieces that shaped this project and the questions that lead to the next part. By the end of it, I will have some sort of gattai mecha (megazord) that is little weirdos.
One lens to view this is via 3D printing. After about 7 years of 3D modeling for work and for fun, I decided in 2017 to buy my own 3D printer. How cool would it be to be able to make physical anything that I made on the computer?
Well it turns out it's a lot more work than I expected. In a way it's an entire factory rolled into a single object. Which means you need to be familiar with mechanical engineering, physics, material science (filament for FDM printers), in-between software and code(slicers and gcode), and how all of these things interrelate to a successful or failed print. Yet, this was a thrilling thing to experiment with and learn and continue to ask what can be done with a 3D printer?
A lot of cutting my teeth on learning how to print was printing other people's 3D models for various projects. After about 2 years of printing I started to feel confident trying my hand at making my own models. A lot of these projects were for other people making trinkets or prototyping a variety of objects.
Which is where my problem's actually started, what do I want to print and how do I go about 3d modeling those things?