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, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Aluminum’
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 »
Using Solidworks to design Stepper Motor Assembly (1)
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Perspective, Photography, Projects, Technique, tagged Aluminum, Bearings, Bushings, CAD, Design, Engineering, Macro Photography, Mechanical Engineering, Shafts, SolidWorks, Stepper Motors on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Have recently acquiried a nice stepper motor from Jameco Electronics. It is a small motor, less than 2″x2″x2″, but still has substantial torque. I will get into more Arduino + Circuits + Electro-Mechanical detail soon, but for the moment, I wished to share a couple of screen-shots of the 3D model and the actual parts [...]
Making a “working” toy shotgun
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Projects, Technique, tagged Aluminum, Bolt, Fun, Shotgun, Spring, Toy, Toy Shotgun on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some time ago, Eli asked me to build a toy shotgun. We wanted something that would give a real “bang”, but be simple and safe. Provided that a large mass of metal was collided into another at sufficient speed, the user would experience both a “bang” and a “kick” (although inverse). We milled, drilled, and [...]
