{"id":28935,"date":"2017-05-31T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=28935"},"modified":"2017-10-06T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T19:38:11","slug":"maker-update-plastic-center-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/maker-update-plastic-center-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Update: Plastic Center Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_24151\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJX_iOJbAX0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This week: Bluetooth controlled lights for your skateboard, tracking your hamster health, a classy Kaleidoscope, a tool for finding the center of a circle, beautiful circuit diagrams and Maker Faires. Our featured Cool Tool is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000CD1T0A\/ctmakerupdate-20\">Robert Larson 800-2875 Plastic Center Finder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I learned about this tool from maker <a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/projects\/upcycle-food-cans-as-adorable-robot-toys\/\">Ben Light<\/a>, who uses it to drill out the center in the tin can robots he builds. Online, I see a lot of videos of jewelry designers using these. Woodworkers use them on finding centers on dowels or centering up work to chuck into a lathe.<\/p>\n<p>They also work for finding the center of squares. Using the side with the 90-degree angle you can mark out the center of a square. This is especially useful on smaller material (like small tiles where a speed square isn\u2019t as helpful.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller, 60-degree angle on one side of the tool is intended for use finding the center of hexagon shaped material. I&#8217;ve yet to come across any hexagons I need centered, but I can imagine it being useful around a geodesic dome build.<\/p>\n<p>I also have to just say that this is one of those tools that I simply find aesthetically satisfying. I probably only break it out every couple months, but every time it catches my eye it makes me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s look at the latest maker projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19,2333],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29762,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935\/revisions\/29762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}