A few years ago I was asked to build an escape room van for the Melbourne University French language department, this was just as the world was about to go fully retarded and into COVID mode, so for most of the fuckery I was designing and building puzzles. The purpose of the escape room was…
The client wanted a box that would open, play a sound and give the guests a bottle of wine for their efforts in playing. The tokens would be unlocked and given to guests for solving various puzzle, and once they had 5, they would search for this box, slip their tokens in, and get loaded…
This puzzle was a lot of fun, which is probably why I didn’t take a huge amount of photos during its construction, I was too immersed in making it. But essentially this puzzle relies on the ambient noise level in a room dropping below a certain threshold for 15 second. In practice this would mean…
This was an interesting puzzle, it used a feather duster with magnets inside to activate magnetic reed switches hidden inside the plaster lion statue. People are given clues as to how to dust the old lion statue in order to activate it. Upon activation a laser shines out from its mouth and points to the…
So most of the pre-made battery boxes that you can buy are complete shit, but they are a good starting point for making an awesome battery box! What you will want is: A DC to DC charger, preferably with solar input, so the C-Tek D250S or if you want to go lithium the D250SE. A…
Because of current world circumstances I’ve been forced to spend much more time tinkering in my workshop with far less income than is required for building kickass projects. However I’m relatively resourceful, hoard lots of materials and am rather good at scrounging, so I managed to keep myself occupied. I had previously been given a…
A friend of mine asked if I could help convert a vintage, bakelite, rotary dial phone into a table lamp. Obviously I couldn’t say no to such an absurd challenge, but found her expectation for the project to be somewhat unremarkable, all she wanted was a white LED bulb and an on/off switch… this simply…
I found a Nerf Barricade and a Buzz Bee Tommy Gun at the local op shop for a few dollars and obviously didn’t have the maturity not to buy them. The reason I liked them is because unlike a lot of nerf guns these use two electric motors to feed counter-rotating flywheels which grip and…
I decided to modify one of my old hoodies with some 5 volt USB heating pads to see just how well they worked. I stitched the panels to the inside of the hoodie, and used doubled over cotton webbing to cover and protect the wire… and stop it stretching too. There were two pads either…
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…