Football Epilogue

Gimbal test print. All pieces printed nested simultaneously. I print, therefore I am...finding myself in an interesting mix of hobby and micro-business. Things started a few years ago and really had little to do with 3D printing and more to do with entrepreneurial curiosity and an easy point of entry. My dad, needing some somewhat consumable parts for a tool (pneumatic nailer) found that the only deal around was to buy a bulk pack of what he needed.  As a casual nailer he didn't need the remaining half dozen or so tips and asked if I was interested in trying to resell them on eBay. I forget if I had sold stuff on there by then or not, but had at least expressed interest on what's involved on the selling end. Amazingly, after putting the listing up the parts sold quickly and easily. This spurred curiosity to explore further. I found certain parts wholesaled easy enough to resell. Some did not, or at least access to distributor pricing was restricted to licensed tool dealers. The...

Drew saw a Lego Tensegrity online and thought he'd give making one a shot. Side view Top View

As with most of my activities, reading for enjoyment tends to ebb and flow. Lately I've been on something of a reading bender; admittedly largely in the form of audiobooks. I'm also literally doing some page turning, but that takes a little longer as I don't always have the patience to sit and read for long period of time. I just finished " The Undoing Project " by Michael Lewis. Also the author behind " Moneyball " ,which was adapted to the big screen, Lewis's style is to look at interface where human decision making based on experience and "rules of thumb" come to intersect with data and statistics driven decision making. He does this with grace that focuses on the relationships while making the statistics driven aspects colloquial and accessible to all.  While starting with discussing basketball and the Houston Rockets, "The Undoing Project" ultimately. tells the story of the deep friendship between psychologists D...