In previous years I used my plotter to create my Christmas cards. After starting a new job the plotter is temporarily unavailable so I decided to get them printed professionally, it certainly made my life easier! After 7 years of…
My Christmas project this year was to make a hoody for myself. The pattern was from WardrobeByMe and was quite easy to follow, although the hoody caused me a lot of confusion. I used to make my own juggling balls…
I roughly followed the design for two connected universal joints described in Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood. It doesn’t serve any purpose at all except to amuse me for a few minutes if I’m bored! Further reading on universal joints…
The Christmas cards from 2021 went well so I thought I’d do a new design for 2022. This year the robot has a helper to pull his sleigh. I used the same machine as last time (a clone of AxisDraw).…
Spring was transistioning into summer and I thought it was time to start a “substantial” project. Making a giant wooden minifig took longer than expected even with this excellent tutorial by Simon Beggs. I’ll make another one someday because it’s…
It’s been a few years since I made my own Christmas cards and I must have forgotten how long it takes to do so! I assumed that using a machine to do the actual drawing would speed up the workflow.…
Everyone loves The Most Pointless Machine EVER so I thought I’d make the evil cousin. With none of the charm of the original, this bad-boy has already irritated a lot of people! Yes, there is a way of turning it…
I made these during the last years of high school. They were featured in MAKE 13, page 25.
