Agreed. I love it just the way it is!
I won’t change much, just fix some mistakes, center it a little better, add the year + YYBC, stuff like that.
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Yeah
I’ll try to work on it soon, I don’t have access to my laptop right now, it’s just a bit too loud. (6:40 AM on a Saturday, of course everybody else is trying to sleep!)
If I can’t work on it today, I’ll probably work on it Monday. (And don’t worry, you guys can give any input you’d like.)
I didn’t expect to be designing a logo… pretty neat I guess, it’ll give me something to do! 
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Now THAT is what I call ART
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Hello, I’m interested in becoming a part of the Boomer club.
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Welcome my young Padawan
Welcome!
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I just realized that I never officially made a request to join the elite ranks of the yoyo boomer club. That said, I hereby officially request membership.
Spent part of the day tinkering with more 3D printed responsive yoyo prototypes. Very close to something I’m ready to release the designs for. Thinking I’ll call it the Honeycomb, and there will be a fixed axle version, and a take apart version using a tiny MR85 bearing. Pretty sure the design is finally there after 11 iterations, so now it’s time to select a color scheme instead of random filaments I was trying to use up. I’m thinking yellow, natural/clear, and tan, to make it look like an actual honeycomb.
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That’s awesome! I was literally just thinking about threaded heat inserts for a take apart design! I don’t have a soldering iron and last time I used some inserts I just heated it with a blow torch and it went so poorly might be time to make the investment.
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I’ve used the heat set inserts a lot for other 3D printing projects, and a cheap low wattage soldering iron seems to work best, but even that can be finicky. I can imagine the blow torch method being way worse, lol! I’ve got a couple of old cheap ones laying around, and would be happy to send you one if you want.
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My pyrography tool is basically a repurposed soldering iron, and SO cheap that you’d question how safe it is.
No tool method is putting your insets knurled side up in a cast iron pan and into a hot oven. Then press your plastic part straight onto the inset, a bit trickier since you’re sort of going in blind but easy enough.
I think the blow torch method is for if you have a drill press or something similar. Put a threaded steel rod in the chuck, long enough for the heated section to be a good distance from the plastic part and the drill chuck, screw the inset onto the other end.
This seems like the most accurate method by a long way, but I have neither blow torch or drill press to actually test it.
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I liked your drill press idea, did some research and found a machine that’s basically a soldering iron on some linear rails so you can press inserts in steadily and ordered one. It’s definitely gonna be better than pliers and a blowtorch lol.
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Totally in to try one of those Honeycombs at some point, they look super fun! 
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Nice! Those things look really slick. Probably pushes much straighter than my wobbly hands…
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Welcome to the community. If you’re feeling brave you could tell us a little about yourself in the “Introduce Yourself” thread. 
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I can’t wait ‘til it looks like this outside again.
(Photo from a couple years ago; looks like that every spring)
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COWS. I want to hug them.
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You ever go Pod Racing down that canyon?
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