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Hacking and Casting a Universal Air Marker

In nearly three decades as an industrial designer, Eric Strebel has amassed a good amount of prototyping tools and skills. Here he employs those tools and shows you his design process, from start to finish, as he retrofits a Letrajet Air Marker to accept markers from other major brands. (And no, he doesn’t just 3D print a new shell and stop there; he goes the extra mile to create a silicone mold and cast the part in resin.)

Next up, he uses the air marker to help him render what appears to be a Bluetooth speaker and lamp that can wirelessly charge your phone:

Strebel is the founder of Detroit-based Botzen Design.