{"id":3627,"date":"2014-05-23T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2015-06-09T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:11:56","slug":"3-d-printed-16-scale-crutches-measuring-angles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/05\/23\/3-d-printed-16-scale-crutches-measuring-angles\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D printed 1:6 scale crutches: measuring angles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to make forearm crutches for Brandeis because her cane ain&#8217;t the appropriate height. Also, as it&#8217;s very lightweight, it falls over and does not bear weight.<\/p>\n<p>First, I acquired a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protractor\">protractor<\/a> from Wikipedia. I then acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartech.com.au\/walkers.htm\">a representative photo of a forearm crutch<\/a> in profile. Then I overlaid the protractor on the picture of the crutch to determine the major angles involved in its construction.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/brandeisbjd\/crutches\/angles.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1646165.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1646165.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1646165.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to make forearm crutches for Brandeis because her cane ain&#8217;t the appropriate height. Also, as it&#8217;s very lightweight, it falls over and does not bear weight. First, I acquired a protractor from Wikipedia. I then acquired a representative photo of a forearm crutch in profile. Then I overlaid the protractor on the picture&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/05\/23\/3-d-printed-16-scale-crutches-measuring-angles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3-D printed 1:6 scale crutches: measuring angles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[694],"class_list":["post-3627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adaptive-aids-and-healing-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4567,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}