Diffuser Refinement
I’m super pleased with the diffusion panel as it stands right now, but there’s one thing I’d like to improve on.
I really don’t like the couplings as a means of joining two spars into one. It’s bulky and far less refined than I normally like. Sure, it works in this prototype, but I need a better solution, so I drew up a hub to be made from delrin or some other plastic. It’s out for quote right now, and if I can get it made inexpensively enough, I might just have a bunch extra made and sell them to anyone interested in making their own. The design includes a hole through the center face to allow for a post of some sort so that it can be mounted like an umbrella in a clamp like these. It also includes other holes on the face (at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o’clock) to allow for other accessory attachment points. It’s a pretty simple design, but I think it’ll make this project that much nicer.
I’d like to make another diffuser or two as well as a couple of reversible reflectors based on this design.
It’s LOG, LOG, LOG!
I just don’t get it.
Design Milk posted about a new product available from a company called Pfeifer Studio. Here’s the description:
Fun, vibrantly colored earth-friendly line of sophisticated, rough cut, solid Pine log tables inspired by traditional Southwestern architecture, American Colonial-era finishes and techniques, and colors from earth-bound pigments rooted in nature and once seen in interiors of the past. A Pfeifer Exclusive available directly through the design studio, the tables are made in New Mexico from locally-harvested Pine logs historically used in traditional Adobe homes as exposed ceiling beams called Vigas. Dried in a solar kiln, harnessing the energy of tomorrow, they have a 100% natural finish free of toxins. Hand-painted with a VOC-free milk paint
IT’S JUST A F&*$ING LOG! I’m clearly in the wrong business. Who in their right mind would pay upwards of $260 for a painted log? And never mind how ridiculous a proposition this thing is to begin with, consider how much it’ll cost to ship it from New Mexico?
Mr. Emperor, your new suit is ready.
