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October 31, 2026
Asking AI to design a plastic part nobody sells
My friend's car lost the end cap of its hood prop rod, a small plastic part nobody sells. This time I didn't measure or draw: I described it to an AI, attached a few photos, and about five minutes later had a file to print.
October 2026
A fold-flat MagSafe dock: four prototypes for three problems
MagSafe flat on a desk is barely better than a cable. Tilted docks exist by the hundred. What I needed was a dock that travels: folds flat, keeps its cable, and never gets left behind.
September 20, 2026
3D printing doesn't have to be a big deal
A 300 W charger too big and heavy for the desk, and nowhere to hang it underneath. Shopee has nothing that fits both this charger and my desk leg. So I printed one.
The shop
Maps & Terrain
A place you love, made into an object: provinces in relief, city streets, a run, a journey.
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Lessons
Guides
How I design and print, step by step.
Troubleshooting
When a print goes wrong: the fix first, then why.
Latest lessons
No guides published yet.
Product showcases & the story behind each project.
Each layer needs the one below it — so how do you print something that hangs in the air? Support. And why, for a furniture maker's floor tile, I printed every pin separately instead.
From an F1 circuit frame on Pinterest to a website: upload the GPX file from Strava and get a frame with the map of where you ran and your route, 3D-printed in relief.
“Why not print it in colour?” — because every 0.2 mm layer means a filament change. One four-colour dragon: 16 hours and 165 g of waste on a single-head printer, under 3 hours and no waste on the four-head Snapmaker U1.
An SSD case that sticks to the back of a MacBook using the magnets Apple already put there — through test prints, a switch to a sliding mechanism, and Snorlax, Gengar and Blastoise.
A bottle, a bit of pipe, a scrap of mesh tied over the hive mouth. A business that raises and supplies stingless bees wanted a real entrance: the same functions, matching colours, and their brand on it.
