I received a puzzle box as a gift a few years ago, and I liked it so much that I’ve been trying to make my own. My word-working skills are fairly rudimentary but luckily my lasercutting skills are top-notch! This box is about as simple as they come; it’s a modified version of Bruce Viney’s Cubey [...]
I have a thing for contact paper. You might call it an obsession. My laptop speaks to my love of comics, robots, and fighting said robots. My roommate is nearly as much of a video game nerd as I am, and it’s starting to show in our apartment. My one regret: I haven’t even broken [...]
No, not THAT kind of anatomically correct. The double-whammy of not much sleep and a blood donation left me fairly loopy this afternoon. Once I determined I was incapable of completing any actual work, I decided to mess around with the etching capabilities of my lab’s laser cutter (as an alternative to the time-consuming but [...]
I’ve had these 3/8″ acrylic disks sitting in my cruft boxes for a few years now – they were the excess material from a waterjetted 2.670 robot part, and naturally my packrat nature kicked in when the professor offered them up for free. I immediately had the idea to etch patterns into the surface that would [...]
So rather than try to make a new static page for every completed project I do (which I never do because I’m obsessed with getting everything perfect) I’m going to do what all the young people are doing these days and start a blog. I’m not a terribly interesting person but I make interesting things, [...]
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