Category: Design
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Master Study: IKEA Flower Pot
I’m slowly walking the halls of IKEA, inspecting the displays as if it were an art gallery. Full of coffee and kanelbulle, I’ve come not to shop, but to study. To me, IKEA is a masterwork of industrial design. What do you think of when you hear IKEA? Maybe Scandinavian minimalism, or cheap furniture (how…
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Designing a new system to Bike with my Dog
My dog Juniper has a lot of drive. She’s built to run, but me, not so much. We meet in the middle with a bike. Our setup is like a dog sled with wheels: paw to ground, foot to petal. Together we pound trail and eat miles. Our arrangement broke down when I moved to…
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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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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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