Earlier this year, I set out to learn mold making. I decided that I wanted to use my 3D printer and modeling skills as much as possible.
I figured that silicone would be an easy place to start as it was a forgiving material.

This is an outline of the technique that I developed. It will allow you to make rubber versions of any object that you want (within reason).
This is not a lesson in part or mold design. Im sure other people have covered that in more detail than I can.

This post will go through the process of making a squishy silicone toy Kia Soul.

There is nothing wrong with enjoying your job. There is nothing wrong with wanting to go to work. There is nothing wrong with finding meaning through the work that you do. Find a healthy balance and enjoy your time at work.

I am scared. That is a hard thing for me to say. I am sitting here in British Columbia mid January. It is raining outside and there is very little snow to be seen. I can feel the looming effects of climate change around me. I don’t know what to do.

When was the last time you completed a project? When was the last time you started a project? Have you every felt that you were trapped working on something that you don’t enjoy anymore? Size is something that I’m sure most developers with the drive to do side projects have felt. Recently I have been completing more projects with more success than ever before. This is my new process.

I like building 3D models with OpenSCAD. As a software developer, I find it the most intuitive and scalable way to build models. Sites like Thingiverse looked like the solution but I was looking for something that I could put on my website, that would have zero cost, and where I could fully customize the user experience. So, I got to work and after a few months of hard effort I created this: DSchroer/openscad-wasm. A WebAssembly port of OpenSCAD that can be run in any modern browser. With this port, anyone can package and share OpenSCAD projects on the internet.

In this post I will be going through an example of how to build a configurator where anyone can customize the 3D models that you design.