First off … I’m an old guy … sitting pretty.

I can buy a popsicle; whenever I want … and

Get almost any toy, I desire.

So the things in my room include many neat toys:

Several Sterling Engines

A Mendocino Solar Engine

A Memory Wire spinner

A META virtual reality headset

A little drone, speakers, ring camera, …

Computer, internet, and maker robot (Snapmaker)

(The robot does 3D printing, Laser Cutting / Etching, and Routing

We get along really well; since we know each other better now)

All in all, I have it All; at least, all I want.  (2 or more +’s = a -?)

The use and control of this stuff is a rewarding challenge …

I had to learn to communicate in different formats & concerns …

How to design / modify / include / … things (using Thingiverse & TinkerCAD)

And much – much more. (using Blender & …)

Patience is a must – every mistake is a learning – yea, yea, yea (2 or more +’s = a -!)

Next; I need to tell you that I have nothing but, time to play around …

What follows is a tribute to “open design”, geeks sharing and building upon the efforts of others …

The stuff that I’ve made, was mostly designed by others.  I LOVE tinkerCAD and Thingiverse.  TinkerCAD for designing new stuff and Thingiverse for using & enjoying other’s designs.  So take a look at the things that I’ve made with a 3D printer  …

We’ll scan the walls of my little room … – with 5 sets of shelves.

Hopefully you’ll find a way to zoom in on features and objects …

First set:

Lower Shelf: 

A globe showing the Yearly path of the Sun

A animated early version of “VisiTrig”, see Math/VisiTrig

A Gravity Map of Sun-Planet – distortions in space

A Cube of Binary Counting Trick, see Magic/Magic Cards Explained

A “Production Box” of my design using psychological illusions

A Lithographic of my Lovely Wife and me

The Little People are everywhere

Upper Shelf:

Normal Distribution curve with percentages up front

Key to the Universe with “do nothing” spinners

Final version of VisiTrig – I invented this rotating unit vector shadows gadget

A earth globe with exaggerated mountains

A earth globe with dried-up oceans

A ChatGPT logo

Second set:

This lower shelf is in appreciation of Quantum Physics & Albert Einstein

for Introducing us to a micro world, bubbling with Energy and Mass …

A small (young?) bust of Albert – how many Alberts are there?

Schrodinger’s cat mind flip

2 slit experiment producing interference and reinforcement

Albert’s bust is used to demonstrate the universal orthogonal co-ordinate system, including roll, pitch & yaw as well as the righthand rule. See Math/Geometry

The A-bomb Opens to The Micro world of Quantum Physics containing abundant energy

Above are sample gifts for traveling-ice-breakers

A complicated tent design

A Oaxacan design rabbit, peacefully eating a carrot

A hanging GPS constellation model

Third set:

Next to a Saturn V representation showing J-2 engine locations

The Lower shelf is a celebration of life:

A group of little people enjoying one another

A stretching Oaxacan deer & porcupine

A etching of our Garnet Lake house

A 3D map of Avalanche Pass NY – water drainage divide

Rope trick handouts

The Upper shelf is a tribute to our dog Fox who passed in 2025

More Oaxacan art with a new dog pissing on Fox’s monument

A shoutout for the near extinct Monarch butterfly – none this year

Lots of cemetery and day of the dead scenery

Fourth set:

Onward to a full lower shelf which admires gears.

Cheech and Chong drug mobile with planetary gear wheels,

Clitoral hood ornament and exhaust that soothes everyone

A prized Merle photo of a rope trick for Indian guides

The middle shelf contains Space objects:

Models of Earth, Moon with astronaut, Venus and Mars

Model showing that “Axial tilt” is “The reason for the Season”

Watch out for bats and appendages

The Top shelf is supports boxes and wheels:

A year at the lake clock

Wheels representing Binary, Octal, Decimal, and Hexadecimal counting

An empty box – or is it …

The Hex window is full of local critter representations:

Each critter has a Garnet Lake story association

Another Merle photo of the rope trick performed for Peruvian kids

Fifth set:

Lower shelf: – ignore the cluttered floor

Placques to identify satellites in LaGrange locations

UCR expansion explosion

Lots of baby bees

Garnet Lake with depth and landmarks

Assorted Amino Acid models

DNA model

Upper Shelf:

Folding box

Pole:

Mountain Bear

Zimmerman Images