Because I couldn’t just have a straight up cylindrical arm bracer, – that would be too easy – I decided I wanted to design the bracer for maximum coverage with the wrist and elbow joints perpendicular to each other (The…
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How to make a pattern for an arm bracer- Part 2; Enter the nerdery
I do a lot of 3-D modeling, but I never was a clothing designer. I sewed a shirt once in home ec from a pattern, it was horrible. The breakthrough I had in my design was that a forearm could…
How to make a pattern for an arm bracer- Part 1; The life of a hooker
The first question you may have is “what is a bracer?” It is a piece of armor worn around your forearm. The second question you may be asking is “why would Joe write about this?” I’m not into cos Play…
Making and People Watching
As a designer I enjoy figuring out how things work. You can learn a lot from wear marks, grime, squeaks. grease stains, and vibrations. An object without these things are not used, have no story and are therefore dead. A…
Making in the great north woods; Part 2- The making
And we are back! Computers, the technology they made possible including 3d printing and the internet has and will continue to make those distances smaller. Making is more than being a tinker or an inventor. It allows us to combine…
Making in the great north woods; Part 1- A dedication
Monoday at 5:30 in the Marquette Senior High School library there will be a ceremony to dedicate some 3d printers donated by my AP physics teacher in my name. For me it is both flattering and awkward. Would this have happened…