This is a really cool showcase of some pretty stellar workmanship. You can even see a number of video showcases as well. The designs as you’ll see are pretty extensive, so she embedded the Tinkercad designs directly into it. In the Instructable, she shares her sons’ designs along with instructions to recreate the models. But rather, gave them the liberty to creatively design whatever scene they imagined. In the spirit of openness and cultivating freethinking, she did not give them very many constraints. One of the activities she designed for her boys has them creating 3D models using Tinkercad. has been homeschooling her kids even before the pandemic, so she’s pretty well-versed on being a learning coach and a teacher. Posted in Misc Hacks Tagged cad, helicopter, r/c helicopter, radio control, tinkercad If you’ve got your own tiny flying hacks, be sure to drop us a line. We’ve seen other toy helicopters hacked too, like the famous Syma S107G. It’s very much the essence of hacking, right there. was instead able to leverage the good parts of the original design, and build something better from that. It also served to correct some of the problems which stated made the original toy difficult to fly.Īssembling your own tiny helicopter motors and mechanisms would be quite difficult, and time consuming. The end result is far lighter and less cumbersome than the original design, while also managing to look a lot more like an actual helicopter. The entire frame of the original helicopter was discarded, replaced with one made out of CAD-designed and 3D printed components. found that with a cheap RC helicopter, and set about re-engineering the design in Tinkercad. However, at the bottom end of the market, sometimes you find you’ve bought something that just doesn’t work quite right. Radio control toys can be great fun to play with. Thanks for the tip, ! Posted in Tool Hacks Tagged cam, sewing machine, sewing machine hack, tinkercad, treadle Got an old machine you don’t know what to do with? Try converting it to a computerized embroidery machine. Although they aren’t giving away the files for free, all of these parts are available quite cheaply in their Shapeways store. decided to make a few more parts before their Tinkercad knowledge faded: a needle adapter with an improved design, some tension stud sprockets for a different machine, and a couple of buttonhole templates for making different sizes with a buttonholer. The 3-step zig-zag cam was just the beginning. While most machines still have exchangeable feet for different needs and special parts for sewing things like buttonholes, most domestics now have decorative stitches and their cams built in. They needed an array of plastic cams to do different stitches, kind of like trading out the element or disk in a typewriter to print in italics. So once upon a time, sewing machines didn’t just do a bunch of things out of the box. Having heard it was possible to hack them into doing a 3-step, set out to learn Tinkercad and grow their own sewing machine parts. The only problem is that its multi-step zig-zag stitch is a 4-stepper and not a 3-step, which is what prefers. This is a well-respected workhorse of a machine, and if you see one in a secondhand store, you might want to grab it. After checking the “ Multicolor ” box, the color indicator in the Inspector panel will show all the colors that are in the group as stripes.Had finally found their ideal sewing machine for doing zig-zag stitches (/\/\/\) and converting to a treadle drive (mechanically foot-fed) - a Singer 411G. Check this box to maintain the original shape colors within the new group. At the bottom of that panel you will see a checkbox called " Multicolor ". To keep the original shape colors within the new group, select the new shape and expand the color panel from the Shape Inspector window by pressing the “ Solid ” button.ģ.
Here is another blog post on some basic techniques on using color.
Depending on the order the parts were selected, your design will change to the color of the first shape you selected. Note: Grouping the shapes should make them all the same color.