Category: Build
LAYZOR (3) – Final design and preparation
Update: This project is now finished. Final post is here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 After countless hours of adding to and... Read More
LAYZOR (2) – Scavenging the K40
Update: This project is now finished. Final post is here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. Previous article: part 1 First things first. Let’s rip this thing apart! ... Read More
LAYZOR (1) – badass lasercutter
Update: This project is now finished. Final post is here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. My K40 laser cutter has been out of commission for a while now. There was visib... Read More
Trio dessert plates
Every year for NYE, I am responsible for the dessert. The last couple of years I always reverted back to the same recipe: ‘moeilleux au chocolat’. (No idea what it is called in EnglishR... Read More
Recurve bow (2) – Limb forms
Previous articles: part 1. After a lot of research, I finally decided on how to make the limbs for my recurve bow. I think I managed to find a good curve shape and length, so it is time to make the fo... Read More
3D model cat
I found this cardboard 3D puzzle while browsing the web for ideas. As I own a pet cat, there really wasn’t a doubt in my mind I would eventually be making something similar. I thought about down... Read More
Ouija board (2) – The eye
Part 1 here An Ouija board is not complete without an eye planchette, so I needed to make one. As a design I found this really cool image on Google: I really like the style of it, but it is a very rou... Read More
Recurve bow (1) – Hand grip
Since I seem to like making ‘weapons’ (see here and here), why not add a bow to the list? I’ll do this one in 2 parts; First the hand grip (riser) and later on the 2 limbs, which I ... Read More
Garden remodeling
Well since I haven’t been doing a lot of cnc related projects lately, I figured I’d just show off some of the things that have been eating away all my spare time. I’ll let the pictur... Read More
Custom tool making
It has been slow on the blog. There are a variety of reasons for that, the main ones being that my control PC broke down and I had to source another one that still had a parallel port on it, and also ... Read More
Ouija board (1)
I have been keeping a Ouija board image in my ‘to-do projects’ folder for some time now. There are lots of pictures of these boards on the web, but I had a hard time finding one at a reall... Read More
Birth Gift – Ottomobile
The babyboom is real. Yet another friend of mine had his first baby boy last month, and as usual I made him a fitting one-off birth gift. Finding inspiration was easy with a name like Otto. The design... Read More
Bicycle tags
When I was a kid, bikes used to have tags. They were small and colorful, and were made out of stamped sheet metal. Much like a car’s license plate nowadays. I don’t know for sure what they... Read More
Wedding gift – inlay cutting board
A colleague of mine had her wedding last week. I always try to make a personalised gift instead of just buying them something or giving money. I decided to try out an inlayed cutting board. It has pro... Read More
House number
Since forever, I’ve had this old cutting board leftover I didn’t have any use for, until now. I bought a new mail box recently, and I needed a nice house number for it, so obviously I mad... Read More
Birthday card.
Nothing to say, really… Simple V-carve. But people do appreciate this kind of gesture a lot more that store-bought cards. Score!... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (9) – It’s Alive!
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – part 6 – part 7 – part 8 So I started all over again. Firstly I milled a new back cover, including a nice... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (8) – Assembly
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – part 6 – part 7 DAY 1 Now that everything works, let’s try and assemble the handheld. I took my time ... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (7) – Electronics
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – part 6 Last but certainly not least, let’s tackle the electronics. I drew up 2 PCB designs... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (6) – Front cover
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 Last week, I finished the front cover. First, I did a test cut on some scrap acrylic to test feeds & ... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (5) – Back cover
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 Progress! I’ve done a ton of work on the handheld over the past few days. I actually did mock something up in In... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (4) – handheld test
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 It’s been a while since I worked on this, but now I have some time to spare, so i’ll try and get a prototype working. It’s go... Read More
Semi-automatic rubberband gun
I’ve been toying with a rubberband gun design I got from an Inventables forum member. The files needed some slight tweaking in order for the gun to work properly, but after a few iterations I... Read More