{"id":2159,"date":"2015-05-15T16:10:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2015-07-23T18:19:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:19:58","slug":"coffee-any-5-4-3-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Any-5-4-3-2-1?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at Starbucks<\/strong> recently. With my hands, I can’t hold a hot coffee easily. Sensitive skin. So I use one of those cardboard sleeves. Every time. What a waste.<\/p>\n

So I thought “Hey, I have a 3D printer. I should print a solution to this waste problem. I should make a sleeve that fits a standard coffee paper cup.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And so I did. I realized, hey, I have just finished this amazing model of the new Thunderbird 1 from the new TV series Thunderbirds Are Go<\/strong><\/a>, and part of that model would work really well as a coffee holder:<\/p>\n

\"tag-tb1-3dprint-fully-assembled-on-display-topside\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So I took just one small portion of this model and adapted it to fit a standard coffee cup by basically tapering it to the exact angle of the cup. (This took a few test prints and iterations.) The great thing is that inside the surface, a 3D printer prints a hollow lattice work, which is a natural insulation from the hot cup.<\/p>\n

\"tag-coffee-cuff-01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I posted the result on facebook<\/a><\/strong> on the Fanderson<\/a><\/strong> page. The response was more than I expected. I expected<\/em> a few “Oh, that’s kinda cool”, and even a few “Doesn’t belong here.”<\/p>\n

What I got instead were people trying to buy it, and someone even said “This is exactly why I come here.”<\/p>\n

Then one guy said “Hey, let me know when you do Thunderbird 4.”<\/p>\n

That gave me an idea. I could do all 5 new Thunderbirds! I already had Thunderbird 3 modeled:<\/p>\n

\"newtb3-done\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So I made a cup based on 3, then did 2, 4 and 5 based on images of each ship as taken from the intro to the new show:<\/p>\n

\"tag-opening-all-portrait\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here they all are:<\/p>\n

\"tag-coffee-sleeves-all-cropped\"<\/a><\/p>\n

TB5 takes the elements of the golden cylinder, broken up by superstructure lattice, with a horizontal 5 inside a black element:\"tag-coffee-sleeves-tb5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thunderbird 4 uses the prominent red stripes, with a bit of body plating, and engine cowl:\"tag-coffee-sleeves-tb4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thunderbird 3 uses the black ring at the top, and the engine flanges at bottom, and a black inlay seen on the original:\"tag-coffee-sleeves-tb3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thunderbird 2 uses the distinct yellow striping, and obvious engines, but also the circular shoulder hinges that lower the retro jets on the ship:\"tag-coffee-sleeves-tb2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thunderbird 1 uses the honeycombing (even on the number) seen in the original:\"tag-coffee-sleeves-tb1\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at Starbucks recently. With my hands, I can’t hold a hot coffee easily. Sensitive skin. So I use one of those cardboard sleeves. Every time. What a waste. So I thought “Hey, I have a 3D printer. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}