No seriously I mean it, toys. Not electronics gadgets or a new laptop but real toys. Albeit toys you probably don’t want to give to your children.
I give you MILITARISED BEER CADDIE!
This thing is AWESOME. Felt the joys of being a child again opening a cool present… but seriously with that turret it is not a toy for kids! It’ll also happily carry two cans of beer around the place for you (only had soft drink to test it with…oops out of beer…).
It was originally purchased to be taken apart… but I don’t think I’ll have the heart take this beautiful thing apart. Maybe just the turret can be dismantled…its probably too dangerous on anyway
PS : Not in anyway affiliated with the manufacturer or trying to sell any…
PPS : This is a 1 minute post just bragging about this wonderful toy…
PPPS : Somewhere a Roboraptor photo sneaked into the gallery below…oops…
Glorious model warships pounding at each another with cannons, and in the midst of all that is my ‘floating camera’ contraption that didn’t work too well but worked…it floated, it took photos…it lived up to its name…madox Floating Camera…
That's no battleship...
Nice sunny day, perfectly still water, a lunch box floats with one thruster on to skew it to the 'right'...
The results weren’t too bad from the onboard video recording, just a few issues with camera alignment and disconnections when using my friend’s laptop (mine ran out of juice). Here’s a sample clip of the captured footage :-
And one more super nice video courtesy of Andy (aka not me) :-
Read on for more photos and videos
EDIT : PHOTO GALLERY UPDATED, NEW VIDEOS ADDED! CAPS LOCK IS EVIL!
Just a teaser that all (most?) the parts for my ‘MFC’ is ready (It could be Madox’s F‘ed-up Contraption) has all arrived and ready for assembling when I find the time. Hopefully before the Australian Battle Group meet in June where I hope to use the contraption (…erm camera) to film the ships shooting each another to smithereens.
Shapeways had a little Halloween special last month where they offered 66% off on their new black detail material. Always wanting to try out some 3D printing for myself, this offer reeled me in!
So I set out to design something in the shortest amount of time and yet would still give me a good ‘feel’ of what 3D printing is capable of today. The time constraint was probably also due to the fact I read about the offer at midnight and wanted to send it to print before I sleep Result? Concept, Design, Upload, Ordered all within 2 hours!
Concept
The concept is a mechanical iris diaphragm, similar to those in cameras but on a much larger scale. If you’re a Stargate fan, you would have think this is a much SMALLER scale version of the Stargate iris, then I would say that only has 20 blades…mine has 24!
There’s not much design detail out on the web, or at least no design drawings to plagiarise but I’ve seen enough stargate to try design something up myself…