Archive for the ‘Finished Project’ Category

What Not To Do Clock

Sunday, December 6th, 2020

what not to do clock
Image by Tom Igoe

I worked on a clock project with Tom Igoe a few months ago. It was an example for a class we were teaching — he worked on the insides, I worked on the outsides. We ended up calling the project the What Not To Do Clock because of all of the missteps we made, but in the end it didn’t turn out too bad. I’m particularly happy that we made a button that “turned on/off” Daylight Savings Time.

“This project is a tabletop clock, designed as a production example for our Tangible Interaction class. We made it to demonstrate how to make a housing for an electronic device with tangible controls from a single block of wood. There are a number of mistakes we made along the way, so we’ve been lovingly referring to it as the “what not to do” clock.”

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Day Light Savings and Flexures

Tuesday, May 12th, 2020

I’ve been working on a analog clock that can easily change the hour during daylight savings time. The clock face can rotate one hour ahead or one hour back. I’m using a flexure mechanism based on a design by AmyMakesStuff. The click is very satisfying.

Unfortunately, it falls back 55 minutes and springs forward 65 minutes. I guess this is why I haven’t seen this design before. I recently talked about the project (among other things) with Zach Dunham on the Bantam Tools Livestream.

What Not To Do Clock

Saturday, February 15th, 2020

Pulled together a quick clock project with Tom Igoe. Tom works on the insides, I work on the outsides. We made so many bad choices along the way, we decided to call it the “What Not To Do” Clock.

CNC’d Cheese Board

Monday, February 25th, 2019
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Board with walnut oil added

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I CNC’d a simple cheese board out of some mystery scrap, then routed the edges round. I don’t even like cheese all that much.

Iron Man Totem Pole

Monday, February 25th, 2019

Iron Man Totem Pole

Messing Around with some designs.

Acrylic Inlay

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

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Been experimenting with milled acrylic inlay. I CNC the acrylic parts, use acrylic weld to attach the parts (I used a lot), let it dry then sand up to 400 grit, and finally polish with wax on a buffing wheel. The parts came out pretty seamless and the waxing wheel knocks all of the hard edges off. I really like the look and feel of this process.

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Caster Car

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018

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A toy car experiment, borrowed heavily from Tai Geng’s otto and Playsam’s Streamliner.

Two pieces of milled plywood and some modified caster wheels made for a pretty fast little racer.

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Iceberg End Table

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

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The home improvements continue. I recently finished an end table, CNC’d plywood with a nice hardwood top. You’ll only see the front and top, but there is a lot going on that you can’t see. Hence the Iceberg.

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Home Improvements

Monday, June 18th, 2018

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I made a couple of home improvements. I turned a wooden doorknob and a wooden toilet paper holder. They are small things, but really spruce up the place.

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Art Stands

Sunday, June 17th, 2018

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I recently built a couple of custom stands for some great pieces of art.

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The first one is by Christ Bathgate, Slider sculpture (S1). I wanted to present it, so I turned a piece of walnut that fit a glass dome. I also soldered some brass rod to display the piece properly. Everything looks better on sticks.

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The second piece is the Gemini figure from Outer Space Men. This little guy had a balancing problem, so I turned a piece of aluminum and added two small rods so the feet would be fixed. There is a hole in the back to store the extra pieces.

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