The @glowforge has been amazing for making physical object development feel more like software development, up to and including me having a very strong urge to start inventing yaks to shave and write software libraries for designing laser cutterable objects.
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@sketchapp is pretty nice. Here's version 27 or so of the sundial layout.pic.twitter.com/xe1F4Rx33G
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Cardboard model, 2/5 scale with full scale rod.pic.twitter.com/T39IpsNBwp
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The S curves are spaced every 30 minutes and are 15 minutes wide, and shift over one 30 minute slot from top to bottom due to the equation of time diff between mid-Feb and late-Oct (which puts nearly the whole range in daylight savings time). Convenient how nicely it works out.
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I think I am going to have to up my sundial game!
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Spent more time on this today... quite happy with v2pic.twitter.com/MWY41WqzPY
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And folks can generate their own: http://sundial.sungleton.io
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ah, that’s lovely. It’s such a perfect use case for a parametric object. I may get around to producing a generator for my design but having started in a drawing app it’s a daunting amount of work.
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