Archive for the ‘Finished Project’ Category

Turned Scepter

Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

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My students turned this amazing scepter. Everyone made a small bit and they all screwed together.

The Floor on The Floor, Framed

Friday, February 26th, 2016

The Floor on the Floor

Finally framed the laser etched ITP floor plan on reclaimed ITP floorboards. Malkovich Malkovich.

Wobble Bot on Make:

Friday, February 19th, 2016

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The newest Robot Recipe is up on Make:. And those are cinnamon roasted pineapples, not tater tots.

Wobble Bot was primarily made from a pineapple can, a spice container, and a half sphere food form.

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Robot Heart Surgery

Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

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Finally installed the vacuum formed heart, I made a few months back, into a robot.

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Why am I Such a Misfit

Friday, December 18th, 2015

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Doing a little holiday making at the moment and whipped up these CNC’d toy trucks. Very similar in style and technique to some cars I did a while back.

Santa's Workshop

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One truck, two truck, red truck, blue truck.

The weird thing, I was basically doing exactly what Hermey the dentist elf was doing in Rudolph.

Robot Recipes - Pumpkin Pi Bots

Thursday, November 26th, 2015

Pumpkin Pi Bot

MAKE Magazine ran a how-to on some Thanksgiving themed Robot Recipes, Pumpkin Pi Bots. Made from the cans of pumpkin pie ingredients.

Some parts are straight forward and some parts are so overly complicated, I’d recommend skipping them altogether. But it gave me a chance to use my new Othermill and slip roll. Happy Thanksgiving.

Pumpkin Pi Bot

Slip Roller

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Pumpkin Pi Bots

Pumpkin Pi Bots

Pumpkin Pi Bots

Utility Belt Buckle

Sunday, October 18th, 2015

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I’ve been working on this belt buckle design off and on for a little while. The goal was to have the whole thing be cut out on the Othermill. But it ended up being a better idea to create all of the Delrin parts on the Othermill and the aluminum parts on the Roland 4 axis mill. I ended up cleaning the front up on the metal lathe (clear back plate is laser cut acrylic).

Next one I’ll powder coat and maybe do a design on the front. I’m also experimenting with using a rock tumbler to finish the CNCd parts. More on this later.

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Buckle complete

CAD model of buckle

Test Fit Pieces

Old Pine Board Coffee Table

Friday, August 21st, 2015

Mocking up old pine coffee table

I was helping my parents build a coffee table this week. My mom has been holding on to these old rough sawn pine boards for over a decade. We cut them to length and screwed them down to an existing coffee table. After some sanding, it looked great.

About to sand coffee table, can't beat that view

Can’t beat the sanding station’s view.

Rolling Off the Lot

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

CNCd Toy Cars

Finally finished up some CNC’d toy cars for some nephews. 2.5D cut plywood with some off the shelf wheel assemblies and a couple of coats of shellac. These might look pretty good cut out of walnut.

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CNCd Toy Cars

CNCd Toy Cars

CNC’d Toy Car

Wednesday, July 8th, 2015

CNC'd Toy Car with Steel Wheels

Sanded and assembled. All it needs now is some paint.

CNC'd Toy Car with Steel Wheels