Posts Tagged ‘toy’

Fidgety Clicky Button Box

Monday, January 4th, 2021

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Small button box, milled wooden housing, acrylic control panel, and 10 “clicky” buttons. It doesn’t actually do too much, but is surprisingly fun to play with.

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Wooden Car

Monday, January 4th, 2021

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Another CNC’d wooden car with some pink acrylic sides.

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Canlactus

Sunday, December 6th, 2020

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Canlactus, devourer of worlds.

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CNC Jig for Slots

Sunday, December 6th, 2020

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My latest tin can toy is based on Galactus. The main feature are the antennas on the side of the helmet. And the parts that connect the antenna fins to the head turned out to be the trickiest pieces. I made a jig for the mill so I could slot the aluminum. Then I turned them to the correct size on the lathe.

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Walnut Caster Car

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

Made a fun little walnut Caster Car. Everything was CNC’d on the Bantam mill then sandwiched together.

Deceptively Difficult Part

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

This walnut part was deceptively difficult to wrap my head around. Perfect part for the 4-axis though.

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Iron Man Totem Pole

Monday, February 25th, 2019

Iron Man Totem Pole

Messing Around with some designs.

Wooden Doll Peg Experiments

Monday, January 21st, 2019

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I recently taught an art toy design class where I used off the shelf wooden doll pegs as a blank canvas for my students. I liked the idea of using a humble craft material as a starting point. Below are a bunch of experiments I did in color, form, and texture.

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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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Octopus Toy Prototype

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

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Octopus Walk. Maple and spring door stops. Kind of a first pass at an octopus toy. The proportions are way off, but I wanted to see if there is anything in the movement that I liked.

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