George And The Santa Claus Machine

My friend George Miller is the guy who hooked me on mechanical puzzles, lo those many years ago. When he retired, he set up a puzzle design workshop that was the envy of everyone in our little community. It even had a laser cutter.

Then he started working with Oskar van Deventer. Oskar, who is also my friend, is my favorite puzzle designer. The two of them — George with his workshop and his own substantial design skills and Oskar with his prodigious design capability — sparked off each other and flew into the stratosphere of puzzle concepts.

And when George bought a 3-D Printer, well, they were on the moon. I just learned that George’s story about his 3-D Printer, “The Santa Claus Machine,” has won a competition run by the company who makes the printer. It’s a cute video, though I think the audio is actually George’s son; he has many of the same speech patterns, but he’s clearly not George.