Author Archives: JediCharles
Google SketchUp 3D Challenge #105 – Cars
My entry for this challenge (F1 Inspired 3-Wheeled Roadster) is a 3-wheeled lightweight roadster designed for high performance yet economical. It would be powered by an Inline 4 cylinder gasoline engine (likely a large motorcycle engine with a lot of … Continue reading
Google SketchUp 3D Challenge #104 – Stereo
For this challenge I created a concept for a compact stereo system. It is a combination of a full 7.1 surround sound AV receiver, a BluRay player and a biometric iPod safe. As far as I know there are no … Continue reading
Google SketchUp 3D Challenge #103 – 2D Components
This challenge seemed very unconventional to me so I decided to do something unconventional for SketchUp. SketchUp is a great program for 3D modeling but not so much for flat 2 dimensional images. For this challenge I decided to created … Continue reading
Google SketchUp 3D Challenge #102 – Public Transportation
After taking a long break from competing in the Google SketchUp 3D Challenge I decided to give it a go with Challenge #102 – Public Transportation. I just looked to see how much time has gone by since the last … Continue reading
Starship Project Update 15
In my last update I said that I was going to work on 4 things this time. Well, that didn’t happen but for good reason. I didn’t create Hyperdrive motivators because I found out that a Hyperdrive motivator is the … Continue reading
New theme
I decided to give the new default theme for WordPress a try. It is much simpler than the other one but it will let me try out some new features in WordPress 3.0. So far so good but it still … Continue reading
Starship Project Update 14
Once again I have broken my record (like a broken record) of snapshots for these starship updates with 40 pictures. This time I worked on the rest of door controls, the elevator controls, but most importantly I created the new … Continue reading
Starship Project Update 13
Drum roll… This time I have taken 38 snapshots for this update beating the last update’s record of 33. There would have been a lot more pictures to show except I kept neglecting to capture every change. Since the last … Continue reading
Starship Project Update 12
This update is very big this time. There are 33 images in the update gallery and the most so far. I created all of the weapons, the rest of the propulsion system and the main antenna. In addition to those … Continue reading
