Posts Tagged ‘digital fabrication’

CNC’d Plywood Experiments

Monday, January 11th, 2016

Also been doing some experiments with some milled plywood. More to come.

CNC'd Plywood Parts

Glue Up

Glue Up

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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

Primer Added

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.

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.

CNCd Toy Cars

CNCd Toy Cars

CNCd Toy Cars

Lego Experiment: Studs on both sides, Double Lego

Tuesday, July 14th, 2015

Lego experiment: studs on both sides.  Double Lego

This may not be Kosher with the Lego purists out there, but I milled up a Lego brick with studs on both surfaces. Basically, it has two male ends instead of the traditional one male, one female.

Lego experiment: studs on both sides.  Double Lego

Lego Experiment: studs on both sides

Lego Experiment: double studs

Lego Experiment: double studs

Side note, I used old floorboards as the stock material (maple I think). This may be the perfect material for small desktop CNCs. Flat, milled hard wood that is essentially free. Just watch out for nails.

Milled Lego from old floorboard

Wooden Lego Experiment

Tuesday, July 14th, 2015

Wooden Lego Experiment

Milled a quick wooden Lego experiment. I can’t believe it fit the first try. Heavily influenced by Notcot.

More to come.

Wooden Lego Experiment

Wooden Lego Experiment

Wooden Lego Experiment

Double-sided CNC’d Walnut Piece

Saturday, July 11th, 2015

CNCd walnut piece

Running some tests for a very small, very detailed walnut piece.

CNCd walnut piece

CNCd walnut piece

Weezie’s Enclosures - Finished

Thursday, July 9th, 2015

Enclosure for Weezie

CNCd some walnut enclosures for Weezie. She did a great job with the control panels and circuitry.

Enclosure for Weezie

Enclosure for Weezie

Enclosure for Weezie

Toy Cars

Friday, June 19th, 2015

Cars

I’ve been playing with different ideas for wheels recently (more on that soon), and so I obviously needed some toy cars to attach them to. Here are some of the first passes. 2D CNC’d plywood pieces glued together. Needs sanding, finshing, and wheels obviously.

Car A

Car C

Car B

Weezie’s Enclosure

Friday, May 29th, 2015

CNCing Done

Working on a walnut and aluminum enclosure for the fantastic Weezie. So far, glued up some walnut and did some initial CNC work. More to come.

Walnut Glue-ups

Before and After

Before and After

Milling Time: Testing the Roland MDX-540 4-Axis CNC

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Mid Cut

My latest Milling Time article is up on Tested. I reviewed the Roland MDX-540 4 axis we have at ITP.