Part of him remains the Cooperstown tinkerer who took apart baseball gloves to see how they were made.

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The engineer and tinkerer first went about designing an accurate, miniature 3D representation of his summer house in a CAD program, with the help of his wife.

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So, while other youngins were going six shots deep, our enterprising tinkerer blacked out the windows, forgot about the bikinis and gently transformed this rare relic (of which there are only 6, 000) into a Mac accessory.

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Think about it: one makes 3D printers, the other sells Arduino boards and pretty much everything else a tinkerer could possibly want.

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The final tally of equipment, which included an industrial sewing machine and a plasma cutter, became the definitive inventory list for TechShop, a 15, 000 square-foot tinkerer Toyland.

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