3D succulent home
K asked me to gin up a home for a homeless pair of succulents and lo, these little things were born.
3D-printed iPad stand
Decided to save the window by building my own iPad stand instead of defenestrating my old, barely stable one. Designed it in Tinkercad, printed it in The Shed. The window thanks me and yes, I’m beyond thrilled that I finally got to use “defenestrate” in a sentence.
metal_0031.1
Decided the original looked too unfinished (and not raw) so I went with black. Dig the contrast.
metal_0034
Started as one thing, became something else; in this case, a planter that K claimed straightaway.
metal_0030.1
Moved the original shade over to 0032 so I made this one to replace it.
metal_0033
Two tiny versions of the pot from metal_0031 filled with scrap in two (tiny) ways.
metal_0032
Decided to move what was the 3D-printed lampshade for metal_0030 over to this piece which itself began life as another project but metamorphosed into its current state after a scrap donation from one of K's colleagues.
metal_0031
Inspired in equal parts by my wife's garden, Zoetica Ebb's "Alien Botany" series (collected in her exquisite CHIMERIC HERBARIUM book), Lynda Barry's scribble monsters, and my own scrap metal / 3D printing explorations (especially the daylilies I made for my wife, niece, and sister-in-law), the first of my series of imaginary scrap metal plants accompanied by my own 3D-printed vase designs. A fun experiment - and what I hope is the first of many.
20250616 :: iterated to 0031.1: painted the raw metal black
new 3d printer / first tiny test pot
After metal_0030 killed my Creality Ender V3 and an attempt at installing a new extruder failed something miserable, I upgraded to a Creality K1 SE and I’m floored: 37 minutes from start to finish on this tiny test succulent pot. Going to try another large piece for a metal combo tomorrow so if I kill this printer, at least I won’t have had time to get too attached.
