The plinth forms the center of the room and the first puzzle in the escape room. The purpose of the plinth is to house the amplifier and USB sound-card for the room, but also house a concealed switch and two mysterious press buttons. I mitered the corners of the plywood, because I’m not an end…
I had wanted to build a corner shelf for a little while and nothing that I had seen had been just quite right in my eyes. For me the design is all about balancing the dimensions of the timber to the height and depth of the shelves and the thickness of the steel. I made…
It was winter and I was held up in the workshop with the pot belly stove going, a lot of steel bar and a pile of reclaimed western red cedar. So I started designing and making a very simple wine rack based on the Arthur Umanoff wine racks. However unlike the Arthur Umanoff racks I…
When I got this book it was in pretty bad shape. It’s actually an old photo album full of tin-type photographs. and is used as a puzzle in the escape room. Some cloth webbing, acid free glue, leather filler/dye and many many many hours later. I think it came up pretty nicely.
A friend of mine is trying to find ways of turning e-waste into education devices, one source of e-waste that is ridiculously common while also yielding heaps of parts are desktop printer/scanner combos. You see them thrown out virtually everywhere. The neat thing about them is that they use optical encoders to drive DC servo…
Just a tiny post about how fun it can be burning wood with electricity!!! This is however ridiculously dangerous as the transformer outputs about 2800 VAC and is mains isolated… which means that your household safety switches will not trip if you touch the wires! Now that all of that boring safety stuff is out…
I had some spare industrial lamp shades which were in rough shape and missing their insulators… they were practically begging to be turned into chicken food shelters! This should all be very self-explanatory! Obviously we need a groove in the bottom eye so that we can hook the feeder into something. Then just tighten the…
I’m currently incubating some bantam chicken eggs and wanted a candler so that I can see how the chicks are progressing. It’s dead simple to build, all you need is a miniature Osram LED globe, an old power cord, and a miniature on/off switch. I scrounged all of my bits from throw-outs, with the exception…
I decided to print myself a unique Halloween costume this year after being inspired by pictures of deep sea angler fish. I wanted to make something quirky yet still a little bit terrifying in a good way. What I ended up with was an angler fish helmet painted in fluro UV paints with very scary…
This is the long awaited 6×6 120 version of my tiny pinhole camera. This is the long awaited 6×6 120 version of my tiny pinhole camera. The assembly instructions are exactly the same as the tiny pinhole camera except for the added film number viewer at the back. This film viewer is just a simple blade…