Well since they’ve been delivered, it is now officially safe for me to post about these. For mothers day I made my mom a pair of gEarings, (stud earings that double as a functioning planetary gear when in their case)

I also put the design and instructions on Thingiverse where they have since been featured.

A couple really nice things in my mind: the entire thing is laser cut (including the dowels) There is very little glue (backs of the earrings only) and the earrings were thinned down using the laser on etch.

I am pleased.

For Mothers day I made my mom a set of earrings that double as a working planetary gear.

…sorry for the pun in the name.

The design and build instructions were simultaneously released on Thingiverse under a creative commons by-nc-sa license.

I decided to share the how to of the device in the last post with the world via Thingiverse.

Check it out.

Wow… last little while has been piss poor blogging performance for me, hasn’t it? I apologize, many things have been happening in my professional life, the majority of which I do not feel comfortable sharing online.

Anyway, onto the cool stuff.

I just finished building one of the … I believe three … components of my next piece. (Tentatively known as Cordislumen, hence forth not referred to by name). In function it’s like the system of pulleys in my last piece. But practically speaking…it works so much nicer. In part this is because I’m not having to deal with co-opting a piece of building infrastructure (though, I did really like that element of Tang

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

Since I first saw them on Saturday, Tweenbots seem to be making a serious buzz. This isn’t a surprise really, I mean who can resist a cute cardboard robot that navigates urban landscapes through human intervention?

This is exactly the type of project I want to create. It rehuminizes this inhuman technology. There’s something really sweet about it.

<3 [Tweenbots] [via NOTCOT]

My cool tool fetish aside: yes.

My Mom is awesome.

“Dude look at that dictionary. It’s HUGE! There’s a bunch of words in there.” – Lindsay