I bought a Wanhao Duplicator i3 Mini from ebay for about $40 broken, figuring that it would be an easy repair. The screen was apparently not working, so i figured that it was probably a faulty LCD panel. After replacing the panel I soon discovered that the problem was somewhere else, and with a bit…
This is a bench based loosely on one that was in the front garden of the Copenhagen cottage that I grew up in. The cottage was from the 1920’s and most of the furniture was a mismatch of things from the 20’s right up until the 70’s, but I imagine the bench to be from…
A little while ago I was asked to construct and design a few escape room puzzles for a new room at Escape Room Melbourne. It started out as just a few rudimentary puzzles… but it quickly escalated and I ended up constructing and installing all of the puzzles for the room. This also included designing…
After making all the ball puzzles, we realised that we needed an interesting way to sort them in such a way as to give a combination for a lock. The original idea of using buoyancy failed, so I quickly came up with this prop taking heavy inspiration from carnival clown games. The mechanism for this…
This is a puzzle that I quite enjoyed coming up with, it has a nice old world feel to it. It’s simply a channel behind a dart board, with a magnetic plunger that releases a key when the magnetised medal is placed on it. The channel and plunger are 3D printed, there is a magnet…
This is a simple swap the object puzzle using RFID and Arduino. Each RFID reader is connected to an Arduino Nano, and the two puzzle modules communicate via a high/low logic state single wire connection. This way the two modules only need a light gauge 3 core wire in order to power and communicate with…
This is one of my favorite puzzles, it’s a simple ball maze, that hangs from the ceiling, and requires two or more people to attach magnetised objects to each corner of the maze in order to manipulate the ball out. The maze layout was designed at 3am on some scrap paper while watching the original…
This is a rather simple, match-the-words switchboard style of puzzle. It has 6 vacuum tubes…. the old ones from the Cosmos rebuild actually… which light up every time you get a combination correct. The puzzle is made out of Batu timber, with an MDF switchboard plate and a piece of poly-carbonate in front of the…
One of the larger puzzles in the escape room is the bed puzzle. The premise of this puzzle is that there are two balls inside the bed, that must be nudged around an obstacle course and out of an exit hole using a remote controlled car… The catch is that the controls for the car…
This is another one of my cedar and steel creations. Like with the corner shelf, I was balancing proportions and spacings to make a piece that just feels and looks right. The constant use of a square was absolutely essential in keeping the frame true when welding. The little corner cutouts worked really nicely 🙂…