Author: Guenther Shepherd
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Closing A Chapter
For the last year I lived with my wife in Sweden while she finished her master’s degree. With her graduation behind us, our little family has finally moved back to The States. As I close this chapter, I reflect on my time abroad. While I lived there, I practiced design. In-between looking for work, sightseeing…
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My Latest Design Article is Live on Tenkara Angler + Extra Content Here
Head over to the Tenkara Angler website to see my latest article, Design Study: 3D Printed Tenkara Line Winding System. In it, I recount how I designed a novel device for winding Tenkara line. Here in this blog, you can find extras that didn’t make it into the main article. (Cover Photo) Final design of…
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Teaching Sailing with a Boat That Sails Itself.
A few years ago, I was training to become a sailing instructor. After I completed my formal instructor training, I spent some time as an assistant teacher, helping out my friend and sailing mentor Mike Jarvis. In-between lectures we talked about the curriculum, and he would share his personal thoughts on the topics. During one…
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“What’s the WIFI” + Alarm Clock
My friend runs a little vacation rental and is always forgetting the password for the guest WIFI. It seems that sticky notes are just too easy to lose, so I set out to make something a more permanent to keep the login info on. Since I was going to the trouble of designing, I tried…
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Tessellating Art and the Einstein Problem
I set out to blend the mathematics that solved the Einstein Problem with the artistic style of M.C. Escher. Follow along as I recount my creative process and display my art. The Einstein Problem The Einstein Problem is solved by a tile. The shape of that tile, or if it even existed, was a longstanding…
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3D Printing Merch For Sailors
This last spring I set out to develop a piece of merchandise for the Renton Sailing Center (RSC). To make things fun, I self-imposed a constraint to use my 3D printer. The final product found its way into classes, races, and outreach, connecting with sailors new and old. The product is just a branded whistle…
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