Gord over at Gord’s Garage has been busy with home-based anodizing. It’s some amazing stuff he is doing. I sent him one of the rubber band gun assemblies, and he did an amazing job on it. In an incredible amount of detail, Gord has written up and photographed the whole process: http://gordsgarage.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/the-full-monty-part-1/ http://gordsgarage.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/the-full-monty-part-2/ In summary, [...]
Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Plain to Pretty: Rubber Band Gun #6 Anodized
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Photography, Projects, Science, Technique, tagged Aluminum, Anodization, Anodized, Blue, Green, Machining, Mechanisms, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun #6 on December 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
New EZM500 (prototype)
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Projects, tagged EZM, EzMobile, Kids, Toys, Wooden Toys on September 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We put together another toy robot. Looking for a good design that we can quickly make a few of… Like it?
Designing a better Lime Squeezer
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Projects, Science, Technique, tagged Juicer, Lemon Juice, Lime, Lime Squeezer, Maple, Mechanisms, Party, Stainless Steel on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From time to time we host a get-together or party where we feature fresh squeezed limeade as the main beverage. We have universally heard 5-star feedback from people who have had this simple but good drink. The problem is, squeezing enough limes for a party of 60+ people takes a lot of time (and limes). [...]
(Ezra) making a wooden box
Posted in Fun, Interesting, Projects, tagged Box, Clamps, Drill, Goggles, Kids, Nails, Plywood, Wooden Box, Workshop on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ezra brought me a piece of plywood today with pencil marks drawn all over it. That is where he wanted it cut. So I ripped it on the table saw and cross cut it on the compound mitre saw… I gave him a little help laying this out, showed him how to clamp it, and then [...]
Macro photo of Tape Measure on Roof
Posted in Interesting, Photography, Projects, tagged Asphalt Roof, Boot, Macro Photography, Tape Measure on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A closeup of a tape measure on shingles.
HomeSchool Software: All 700 pages have arrived
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Photography, Projects, tagged Home School, Home School Portfolio, Homeschool, HomeSchool Software, Portfolio, Software on June 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I think my inkjet printer is about ready to die… Between printing GP-7 permit applications (fodder for another post), and a 700 page photo-intensive portfolio, it’s gone above and beyond the monthly duty cycle. Here is a photograph of the finished portfolio in a 5″ binder printed on 48lb double sided matte photo paper. It [...]
HomeSchool Software: Placing Images
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Projects, Software, tagged Home School, Homeschool, HomeSchool Software, Rendering on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The ability to add and remove images from a Book Page is now working. Next step is to make the alignment buttons work. Final step is to plug it into the rendering…
HomeSchool Software: Getting Close
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Projects, Software, tagged Activity Tracking, Home School, Homeschool, HomeSchool Software on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve recently been working against a deadline this month to get our Portfolio rendered, printed, and turned into the local Altoona Area School District. The software has many improvements from the last couple days alone. A background page renderer runs at all times, and will re-render a book’s page if anything on it changed. The [...]
PVC Pipe Bench?
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Projects, Technique, tagged Bench, CAD, Park Bench, Projects, PVC Pipe, SolidWorks, Structural Pipe, Youth Center on June 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Someone contacted me about ideas for building a bench for a youth center out of PVC pipe. Based on this information, I thought it should: Look cool Be inexpensive to build Be safe Comfortable! Fun Here is what I came up with as a rough draft. I’m not sure how to position the pipes so [...]
