Oh, grandpa!
Why is everyone laughing at me?
Last week I had dinner with my in-laws. My father-in-law was talking about making a trip to the hardware store because he was hoping to find a specialized bracket just so he could hang a new mirror on the wall.
At this point my wife, my daughter, and I all erupt with laughter. 1 My in-laws looked at us like we’ve lost our minds. When we finally regained our composure he asked us what’s so funny.
“Um, Jerry, you know that that room over there, the one we call the ‘robot room,’ has not one but two robots capable of creating any kind of bracket you can imagine? Why in the world would you go to a hardware store where they *might* have something that would kinda work when we can just make you exactly what you need?” 2
Oh, grandpa!
- Photo courtesy of Alex-s [↩]
- I kid you not. We re-named our living room the ‘robot room.’ It contains at least four honest-to-goodness robots. A Cupcake CNC named Bender, a Thing-O-Matic named Flexo, a yet unnamed Egg-bot, and a kitty litter robot. [↩]
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4 Comments so far
whosawhatsis
Nice story, but Neil’s was better.
Charles Shapiro
Heh! Just printed off some brackets this very weekend. Soon to be on Thingiverse when I get the thing fully made..
Jay Dugger
Please tell more about the kitty litter robot.
coasterman
Same thing happened to me! My mom went to the hardware store trying to find a shop-vac adapter to attach our tiny shop vac hose to a table saw’s dust chute, and we found nothing at the hardware store.
I opened up Sketchup, whipped up a 1024-sided adapter just so it would be perfectly round, waited 20 minutes for a slice&dice, and out pops a PLA adapter! It works *perfect*.
Many times, MakerBots can make better things than Chinese injection molds can. Well, that’s because you actually get to tell it what you want, not look what they have on the shelf.