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And if you’re not sure how you get a 3D image off your cellphone, let me introduce you to 123D Catch. It’s a free(!) cellphone app from Autodesk, the 3D people.

You take pictures of a thing with your phone (they recommend a minimum of 20 pics) and their app will stitch it together into an editable 3D model. I’ve tried it. It works. The stitching process takes a while (I think it was about an hour for the quick test I did), but the resulting model was really pretty damn good.

Wondrous times.

Oh, um…the title of the post — Well, there’s one — is because Uncle B and I sat around brainstorming uses for a 3D printer the other day. Well, there’s one.

One, you seem obsessed with your feet. What’s wrong with them? Two, even if those wild ass guitars dont play, they are beautiful art pieces. You could make a bunch of them and sell them at the next village fete! Become a millionaire. 🙂

Really? Do I talk about my feet a lot?

Well, I dunno.

They’re kind of ugly. And they hurt sometimes.

*sits in the corner and stares at feet*

Saw this on twitter today: “a 3D-printed dress covered in a directional landscape of overlapping petals”

https://twitter.com/nervous_jessica/status/704363438974377984

The pace of technological development is happening so much faster than our ability to put it to its fullest use.

These new inventions can be mined and reconfigured to solve old and new problems for a long, long time.

All it takes is the imagination to recognize the opportunities.

Just incredible.

A couple of my comments from another computer went into the trash…

Yaas … we print heart valves

Can you print another 3-D printer?

Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 29, 2016, 11:55 pm

*sits in the corner and stares at feet*
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Human hind paws can be lovely — see Theron, Charlize, and Kidman, Nicole — or not. I’ll bet even Charlize and Nicole often think their feet are “kind of ugly,” and with no justification whatsoever.

And of course I scanned the picture rather lamely and read the post, thus gaining confusion about where that part goes on a banjo.

George “Takin’ it off, boss!” Kennedy died – yesterday, I think.

He won a (well-deserved) Academy Award (back when they meant something) for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Cool Hand Luke.

Great actor.

But … I always think of him as the guy who wisely asserted, “Use the other eye, Frank,” to Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun, who was looking into a lab microscope – with his “closed” eye.

So glad that turned out to be a custom insole. As a (twice)married man and the father of six (now-adult) daughters, my first thought on seeing that was, “Wait! How do they 3-D print with absorbent material?”

But … I always think of [George Kennedy] as the guy who wisely asserted, “Use the other eye, Frank,” to Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun, who was looking into a lab microscope – with his “closed” eye.
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I see him as Joe Patroni, the airlines’ answer to Scotty, in the Airport movies.

I always remember him as a TV actor, but he made a shit-load of good films. Uncredited extra in Spartacus? Not quite a “that guy”, but a talented character actor.

Ha! My foot doctor scanned my feet last visit! Which means no more mucking about with a) gloopy molds that take forever and b) plaster casts of feet that I have already lost somewhere in the alluvial depths of The Closet and will be found on my demise and cited as proof of a fetish of some kind. Now my substandard feets are a file that *he* gets to keep track of. Took two minutes tops to scan. I love technology!

Here’s a link, please don’t send me to the spam file! http://uk.pcmag.com/xyzprinting-da-vinci-jr-10/73348/feature/10-things-i-learned-from-my-3d-printer-an-early-ad