Category: Build
Laser cutter air assist upgrade – part 5
Update: I have taken my K40 apart and converted it to a whole new & improved machine: the LAYZOR! Read all about this project here. Want to do the same thing to yours? Check the LAYZOR website. On... Read More
House warming gift
I carved this bamboo tray to give to a friend for his housewarming party. The text says ‘There’s no place like home’ in dutch, and is also a wordplay on his name and a popular local ... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (2) – controller
Today I prepared a breadboard to see if I could configure the software to accept control via the GPIO pins of the RasPi. It looks daunting on the picture, but in fact the setup is really simple. Eac... Read More
Lightbox for my 360° rig
Today I made a lightbox out of mostly surplus materials that weren’t being used anyways. It is going to be used for my 360° rig. I still had a makeshift dust enclosure from back when my Shapeok... Read More
A bridge for my cat
Last year, I made this hole in my fence, so my cat can go and play in the field behind my house. There is a filthy ditch right behind the fence, so he usually hops over (as seen in the video I made b... Read More
Inlay – fourth try
When I V-carved the zebra a while ago, I always intended it to be an inlay test. Now that I am confident enough, I finally took the plunge. However, looking at the intricate detail and very tiny p... Read More
Pencil slingshot FINISHED
No words. Just Pics. No soap box politics! A decent 360° gallery coming soon!... Read More
360° product display
I’ve had this idea for a while now, and finally got around to trying it when I found an unused rotating cheese tray at my mom’s. We bought it at IKEA a long time ago, but never really... Read More
FEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (1)
Yeah I spelled that with a Z. Juzt becauze I can… I was browsing through DIY Youtube channels, and all of a sudden I saw this: I knew immediately I was going to build this thing sooner or later,... Read More
Inlay – third try with flat endmill
After yesterday’s success, I am going to assume I am now an inlay master. 🙂 Today I wanted to try something a bit different: inlaying with straight-walled pieces. I chose this simple paw-gr... Read More
Inlay – second try
Today I did the same inlay again, albeit with slightly modified parameters, because I now actually understand what is going on and how the pieces fit together exactly. For contrast I chose a piece of ... Read More
Inlay – first try
Today, I finally tried to do a Vcarved inlay. Inlays have been on my wishlist for a long time, but the idea somehow spooked me as I thought it would be a complicated process. Subject of this test ... Read More
Pencil slingshot cleanup
I got a lot of suggestions with respect to how to clean the slingshot up. I took my time to think about it, but in the end I went with the solution that may not be the easiest nor the fastest, but I t... Read More
Pencil slingshot worries
I did some sanding on the slingshot, but the more I handle it, the dirtier it becomes… This picture illustrates the difference between an unhandled piece and the one I’ve sanded. I may try... Read More
Making pencils into slingshots
I cut up the block of pencils and made it into a nice 1-inch board, as you can see in the image above. I had no idea how machinable it would be, so I decided to take all settings very conservative: 3... Read More
Colorful wood stock
Today I had an epiphany. Just watch the pictures. Can’t wait to carve things out of this stuff! So I bought a lot of pencils. 49 cents/pack. Sweet! For optimal results they need to be hexagon... Read More
Large trivets
Every year, me and some friends join a local youthwork group (similar to scouts) on their annual 10-day summer camp to cook for about a hundred children. This year, we’ll be joining them f... Read More
First photo engraving
Today I tried my first laser engrave. Up until now I have only been doing profile cutting with my lasercutter. It took me some tries to get it to work (turns out you can’t just import a graysc... Read More
Birthday card
Tomorrow we throw a birthday party for a friend, this is the card I made on the laser cutter. The difficulty was to get all the characters connect to at least one or two other ones to make sure it i... Read More
Electronics enclosure / control interface (14) – accessory holder
The following is a small addition I did today. I think the pictures speak for themselves. The remote switches on (or off) the LED-strip inside my dust enclosure. I did the hole on my drill press.... Read More
Electronics enclosure / control interface (13) – Testing
So here it is: my electronics enclosure in all its glory! Weighing in at just over 1.5 kilograms. The aim was to keep the amount of cabling going in and out to the absolute minimum. I like to think ... Read More
Electronics enclosure / control interface (12) – Assembly
Now that everything is sorted out, time to assemble the enclosure. I really needed to be sure everything was working the way I planned, because I will be glueing this thing completely shut. So I only ... Read More